We were watching Futurama -- Bender's Big Score -- this morning and Trinity-Anne asked me "Is there really an Al Gore?". Answer: "Nobody knows, Trinity, nobody knows".

This one's for you Joey:

CBC reports:

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected as France's new president in a runoff election Sunday, according to partial results that led his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal, to concede defeat.

Defeated challenger and Canadian-politics-interferer Royal issued the following statement:

I've now exactly quantified how rich and famous I want to be.

We'd probably see Elizabeth May giving a speech like this in a few years, if she become leader of a combined Liberal, NDP and Green party:

Is it that they have too much time on my hands, or that I do?

Having recently watched Star Wars III, including the incredibly boring special features about how they did everything (green screen + cash + Australians), this video "interviewing" George Lucas and pals about how they would do Lord of the Rings is priceless:

Interestingly enough, the most interesting part ... hell, maybe the only interesting part ... of Star Wars I-III, the fight on the volcano planet, had a lot of consulting with Steven Speilberg.

Sheryl Crow wants toilet paper rationing (via London Fog). You can't make this stuff up. What is it, that the little gears in celebrity big thinkers keep spinning and spinning churning out non-solutions to problems no one is having.

Not last night. There must have been a giant baseball magnet up in the left field stands.

My grandparents always dreamed of the day their grandchildren would live in the dark.

The government estimates that replacing the 87 million incandescent bulbs in use across Ontario with more efficient bulbs would save six million megawatt hours every year — enough to power 600,000 homes.

Changing to more efficient bulbs is also the equivalent — in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions — of taking 250,000 cars off the road, said Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten, who announced the move along with Energy Minister Dwight Duncan on Wednesday morning.

We'll see -- they'll have to provide a lot more light than the 40 watt ones I'm using around the house, or people will just start doubling and tripling them up.

Update: given the timeframe for implementation, that many people have started making the transition and that the price should fall significantly over the next 5 years, this looks like a very clever way of taking credit for something that was already happening.

Jim Treacher (via it comes in pints?):

According to MSNBC: "South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed its condolences, saying that there was no known motive for the shootings and that South Korea hoped the tragedy would not 'stir up racial prejudice or confrontation.'" You know what? How about just expressing your condolences? If a white American guy shot a bunch of people in South Korea, would we tell the grieving families that we hoped it wouldn't stir up racial prejudice?

"Flood Day"?

Germans are demanding reparations and return of lands lost during WWII in return for "peace". No further negotations can take place until these demands are met as-is. Bizarrely, CBC is reporting this as if it's serious news.

It's a little bit funny, but let's face it, the situation is a little bit funny:

Try it yourself (via London Fog)! President Hitler's plans of subsidize airplanes, burning coal, cutting takes, building nukes and telling the foreign-types to go to hell didn't work out so well in the simulation (see end comments though)

And that's where the simulation falls of the rails -- Europe never voted against any Hitlers.

My RLS is really acting up today. My uncle is suffering from RLS. Java? In my day, we used to program in RLS. It looks like there's a problem with the RLS. His batting record is poor but you should see his RLS.

• "who represents" -> www.whorepresents.com
• "pen island" -> http://www.penisland.net
• "mole station nursery" -> www.molestationnursery.com

Read them all at Mungowit's End.

The US should encourage the UN to state its cash demands in Euros.