Think the Unthinkable: Partition Iraq - interesting column; I heard the author interviewed on the radio, he seemed quite intelligent. I'm not sure how viable his ideas are, but there they are nonetheless.

"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity upside-down on almost any surface including glass and at below freezing to over 300C.

The Russians used a pencil." (via my dad)

-roller disco is funktacular

-ojingogo - a comic about a girl and a...um...squid...thing