Did you ever look for the star on a Tootsie Roll Wrapper? I was always told that if you found one, you could send it in for a prize (or make a wish on it or something). Turns out it’s just another urban legend.

“The World of the Laid-Off Techie.” Oh god. Sometimes stuff like this comes along, and it just makes me so scared that we made the wrong decision in leaving our jobs in London. It wasn’t, right?

“Jedi Knight” is NOT an official religion. The whole story was wrong. Check it out. (Sorry, Martin.)

Forget that whole robot quiz… What enquiring minds want to know is, how good in bed are you? This site purports to tell you what somebody’s like in bed based on what they’re like out of it. It’s sorta like those quizzes that guess whether you’re gay/straight or male/female. The more people that take it, the better they get. You’re supposed to feed it details of somebody you’re interested in, but instead I pretended to be a guy appraising myself. My rating was a disappointing 3 out of 5 balls. But maybe I was being too harsh on myself… (P.S. Hi Dad!)

Edited 09/04/2025: Sadly, the link is dead and not archived.

“Four held in Dublin over international terrorism.” EEK!

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Tony Blair kicks ass. I’d vote for ‘im. 🙂

And who else thinks it’s ridiculous that a third of Americans can’t identify the leader of our nation’s biggest ally??

Steve calls out all the companies using the “Osama Excuse” to explain bad performance and profits. They actually trotted that one out to us last week during the whole redundancy crisis. After the meeting (where it was mentioned twice), I asked someone else who’d been there what effect the tragedy could possibly have had on our business. We couldn’t come up with anything.

Damn The Onion. I actually feel sad for the Yoplait billboard!