With my pending marriage, this seems particularly relevant. Secret of longest marriage is saying "sorry".

LONDON (Reuters) – A British couple who hold the world record for the
longest marriage said on Wednesday their success was down to a
glass of whisky, a glass of sherry and the word "sorry".

Percy and Florence Arrowsmith married on June 1, 1925 and will celebrate their 80th anniversary on Wednesday.

 My
hats off to Percy and Florence (ages 100 and 105). 80 years together
and the most telling thing is that they are both living past the
century mark.  That tells me that they are good for each other in
a way that we should all aspire to.

They should write a book on relationships. 

So I already mentioned the Nokia 770 but it seems that I missed a piece of gadgetry that takes the concept a little further.  The HTC Universal.  How I missed it is a mystery but now that I know its out there I may go into gadget shock.

Windows Mobile 5.0, built-in QWERTY
keyboard, UMTS/WCDMA, a large, rotating VGA touch screen, 1.3 megapixel digital camera, 96MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM,
520MHz Intel XScale processor, SD memory card slot, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

And
the silly thing is a phone to boot?  Granted its a bit bulky for a
phone but the specs make it closer to a laptop than a PDA.  Let
the drooling commence. Many more photos available at ePrice.

Highest functions of brain produce lowest form of wit

Seems
that someone with a PhD finally decided to figure out where sarcasm
ranks on the cognitive food chain.  Turns out that its close to
the top.

An investigation by
Simone Shamay-Tsoory and colleagues shows that the ability to
understand sarcasm depends on a carefully orchestrated sequence of
complex cognitive skills in specific parts of the brain.

….

First the language centre
in the brain’s left hemisphere interprets the literal meaning of words.
Next, the frontal lobes and right hemisphere process the speaker’s
intention and check for contradictions between the literal meaning and
the social and emotional context. Finally, the right ventromedial
prefrontal cortex – our sarcasm meter – makes a decision based on our
social and emotional knowledge of the situation.

Now the question is, how do knock knock jokes rate? 

Cell Phone Ring Becomes Hit U.K. Single

"Crazy Frog Axel F," a ring tone based on the sound of a revving
Swedish mo-ped, is the first tune being used on mobile phones to cross
into mainstream music charts, said Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for
HMV, the British music retailing chain.

For all those of you who thought that the marketing people were
going a bit overboard with the many ringtones and customizations aimed
at a younger cell phone user, take heed!  The power of
techno-youth is served.  This ringtone beat out the previous #1
song by Oasis and a new release by Coldplay.   In other words
it was not a slow music week that allowed this to happen.  Kids
went out and decided to spend their hard earned pounds on a
ringtone. 

Sure it won’t stay at the top long, but this is an omen of things to
come.  Media is changing.  First it was songs being turned
into ringtones.  Now ringtones are songs.  Soon TV and
streaming feeds on the Inet will start to blur.  The question I
have is whether the media distribution establishment can come to grips
with the changes in time to avoid being buried by their own ignorance.

Mom Indicted for Hiring Stripper for Teen

 So
Moms decided that what her son and his friends really needed was some
quality time with Crystal, or Cinnamon, or whoever.  I suppose I
can almost follow along with that logic.  But to think
that the rest of the world would share your view?  Not so
bright.  How was all this discovered by the authorities you ask?

Anette Pharris [the mom] took photos at the party and tried to have them
developed at a nearby drug store. Drug store employees notified
authorities, police said.

Duh. 

How Late is Late?

Researchers have finally decided how late is late – 10 minutes, 17 seconds.

Good, now we can finally settle that argument.

I have decided to do away with the "Blog Image" image gallery. 
If you are uploading pictures to be used in blog posts of other types
of content just leave them uncategorized.

Thanks 

I am normally not one to get to riled about politics.  I have
some struggles with the current administration but as a rule, I am of
the opinion that the American system doesn’t allow for empires to be
built since there is a max of 8 years for one administration. 

But this one just flat scares me. The U.S. Removes Nuclear Brakes.

In the era of a single, ruthless superpower, whose
leadership intends to shape the world according to its own forceful
world view, nuclear weapons have become a attractive instrument for
waging wars, even against enemies that do not possess nuclear arms.

In short, the Bush administration has been working towards low yeild
tactical nukes that can, in theory, be used with minimal impact. Folks,
there is no such thing as minimal impact from a nuclear weapon. 
If the world didn’t hate us before, they surely will now. 

I don’t even know what I would do with it. Except that there would
be some horrifically realistic Pole Position crashes. Apparently
Siemens uses it for other things.

It makes me feel good to know that this is in the world somewhere. 

What is this?