It's Restaurant Wars, people! - and there was a pretty interesting Quickfire Challenge.

Men who voted for Republican John McCain in last year's US presidential election saw their testosterone levels fall significantly when they learned he had lost to Barack Obama, a study showed Thursday.

Saliva samples collected from 163 men on the evening of the election showed that voters for both McCain and Obama had similar testosterone levels when polling stations closed on the east coast, but the levels in McCain backers fell when Obama was announced as the winner.

Did you know that you can get Word 5.5 for DOS for free?  Here's a link to the page that talks about it.

Link

It will run in a DOS window on Windows XP, or in a DosBox on Linux.  What I want to know is will it run under a Virtual Windows XP session on Windows 7?

The Minnesota Supreme Court says bong water can qualify as a controlled substance.

Curly Howard (1903)
Jerome Lester Horwitz, a man best known as "Curly Howard" or simply "Curly," was arguably the most popular member of the legendary comedy trio the Three Stooges. He appeared in nearly 100 Three Stooges short subject films before suffering a career-ending stroke. According to brother and fellow Stooge Moe Howard, Curly often struggled with his lines and instead improvised the visual and vocal nonsense that became hallmarks of his character.

Fogh Rasmussen also plans to propose to the 28 ministers a sweeping reform of NATO's military structure which would enable more of the of the alliance's 2.5 million service members to be used in operations, a spokesman said. Currently, less than half of those forces are deployable, and only about 10 percent are sustainable on missions for any length of time.

And I found my next read this morning too, Rick Hillier's autobiography

When Hillier took command of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) years later, "It was crystal clear from the start that there was no strategy for the mission in Afghanistan," he wrote.

"NATO had started down a road that destroyed much of its credibility and in the end eroded support for the mission in every nation in the alliance.

"Sadly years later, that situation remains unchanged."

Hillier lamented "pie-in-the-sky ideas for Afghanistan" that were not backed by firm strategies, clear articulation of goals, political guidance or combat forces. "It was abysmal," he said.

At the start of the conflict, European countries rebuffed Canada's joining ISAF. "We were shunned," said Hillier. "They did not want us as part of their alliance."

The British in particular believed Canada had "lost its ability to be a war-fighting nation." They had "no faith that Canada would pull its weight, especially if things got tough."

Eventually, Canada was offered a chance to join a US division in southern Afghanistan, deploying in early 2002 and earning the respect of US commanders as they helped rout Al-Qaeda militants.

Amazon has just announced that they will offer free Kindle software for your PC.  And one of the great features is that they'll keep track of where you were reading on your PC Kindle software, so that you can pick up your place on your Kindle hardware if you happen to switch.

Ooooh, spooky.  I have enough software companies keeping track of my keystrokes.  Do I want Amazon in the PC equivalent of my underwear drawer too?  They're already spying on me via their web site but I only go there once in awhile.  No thanks to the 24 x 7 spying via PC-based Kindle software.