News – Straight from Lynch (2/2)

The Simpsons as the mother of invention?

General

Remember the Simpsons episode that featured tomacco(crossbred tomato and tobacco)? Well, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon has done it in real life and the two grow well as one. Being from the same family of plants, it seems.

Microsoft forgets to renew their hotmail.co.uk domain. Fortunately the domain was snapped up by a good samaritan who immediately contacted MS to give it back. After some stonewalling on it, the domain will soon be given back to it’s unworthy owners. The same happened in 1999 with passpoert.com, the good samaritan that day being a Linux programmer. And you know what, I bet MS didn’t even give a nice reward to these selfless folks, despite the positive PR effects it would have had.

Traffic Court follies. Sometimes the system is just plain stupid.

Today’s Papers has Dean with labor union support, notes on Bush’s speech yesterday and more.

Amusements

Whack-a-Pol – Pick your political candidate through the process ofelimination.

If I find a place making these, I’ll let you know 😉

Yosemite George

I think he needs brains more than courage

Endless war in 2004