Blair mulls banninq liquor on public transportation in Britain, and a Beeb corro goes drunk-spotting in Helsinki.

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This is very, very funny! (H/T to Zerby)

I went from the outdoors into a slightly steamy indoor environ earlier today.

My glasses fogged.

While I know that on one level, it's perfectly natural, this hasn't happened in a long, long time.

And it has me afraid of what is to come.

A study in the journal Nature (reported by the Beeb) finds that captive chimpanzees don't help others in their social group, even when it causes them no inconvenience.

CTV News Toronto reported  that some retailers have already had their Christmas displays up for a week.

Do we really need a two-month Christmas shopping season? I say no.

I managed to avoid the temptation of peeing away two bucks on a Lotto 6/49 ticket -- a decision that became all the more justified when I heard the winning $54M ticket was sold in western Canada.

That being said, here's hoping my dear sweet mother succumbed to greed, won big-time -- and feels inspired to do something really, really nice for her son. :)

Update

Unless mom had some reason to be in Camrose and buy a lottery ticket, my faint hope of her winning big bucks is pretty much zero. Damn. :^)

If you buy beansprouts, don't forget to refrigerate them. If you don't, they decay quite quickly into a putrid, liquified mess.

I guess the question we all have to ask is this: If Pittsburgh is unprepared, can any city say it is truly ready?

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Sometimes complete strangers exhibit admirably -- not to mention unexpectedly -- generous behaviour in an environment that, at its best, produces strained politeness.

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Six years ago, NATO bombers were pounding Belgrade. Now the main pounding of Belgrade is done by the sound systems of the Balkan city's thriving nightclubs.

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