Watched a DVD last night, accompanied by beer and popcorn.

Crunched away on the popcorn, and then, hit a kernel and cr-a-a-a-c-c-k-k-k!!!

Using my tongue, I could feel a jagged edge on the inside of an upper back molar.

Cost of repair: $171.10

Rising incomes in Asia will mean changing transportation patterns. And that means greenhouse gas emissions there could treble over the next 25 years.

Actually, a report commissioned for the Asian Business Development Bank thinks that could even be an underestimate.

The British authorities are saying that Princess Diana died in an accident, and that there was no conspiracy to kill her.

But they would say that, wouldn't they? Why can't they just come out and say it was the Royal family in cahoots with the freemasons. Or the Illuminati? Or al Qaeda? Or somebody?!?!

People demand a conspiracy explanation! It's the authorities' responsibility to provide one!!!

From AP via Yahoo! News:

SAN'A, Yemen - A court Wednesday sentenced an editor and journalist from a weekly newspaper to four months in prison for reprinting the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
 
It was the third sentence against journalists handed down in recent weeks over the controversy. The cartoons were first printed in Denmark, then in several European papers, raising outrage in the Muslim world because they satirized Islam's prophet as violent and backward.

Several Yemeni newspapers also printed the cartoons, apparently to show what the controversy was about.

The court sentenced editor Abdel Karim Sabra and journalist Abdel Rahman Al-Abed, both from the weekly Al-Hurriyah, to four months in prison for "defaming the prophet" and forbade them from writing for two months.

Earlier this month, Mohammed al-Asaadi, editor of the English-language Yemen Observer, was fined $2,500 for printing the cartoons and ordered detained until he paid the sum.

On Nov. 24, Kamal al-Aalafi, editor of the Al-Ra'i al-Am weekly, was sentenced to a year in prison and closed the paper for six months. He was later released on bail.

At least 100 journalists in Yemen have faced various forms of harassment in the past year, ranging from beatings and arrests to kidnappings and a letter-bombing that wounded a newspaper editor, according to Yemen's Center of Training and Press Freedoms Protection, a non-governmental watchdog.