Random links
- Barbara Kay: First, kill the husband. Second, claim sympathy as a widow
- Per Glenn Sacks's comments, the woman in question was awarded half her former husband's pension after attempting to hire a hitman to kill him. This issue seems to be symptomatic of the letter vs. spirit of the law question. But that said, judges these days can also be quite "innovative" when it comes to determining the spirit of laws previously passed.
- Children's Vegetable Intake Linked to Popeye Cartoons
- I'm guessing that it wasn't Darren's favourite show.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: American Time Use Survey Summary
- Another thing that any arguments arguing that women working outside the home are underpaid need to take into account: "On the days that they worked, employed men worked 56 minutes more than employed women. This difference partly reflects women's greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women--8.3 hours compared with 7.5 hours."
- Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you.
- Some Google engineers attempt to guesstimate the total number of books on the planet. Someone needs to teach them about significant figures.