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Despite criticism for adjourning last week without acting on several major legislative initiatives, members of Congress can boast significant achievements in at least one area of federal lawmaking — naming post offices. Of the 383 pieces of legislation that were signed into law during the two-year 109th Congress, more than one-quarter dealt with naming or renaming federal buildings and structures — primarily post offices — after various Americans.

So I can buy myself a Mac. What? You want the soul of my firstborn? Ah, what the hell!

A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

It’s a potential humour goldmine, but for fear of offending I’ll let you come up with your own…

This is truly spectacular… A circular table that can be expanded from seating 6 to seating 12 and remains circular simply by being rotated about 60 degrees. Seriously - you have to watch the video to see how jawdropping it is. I imagine they are rather expensive, however.

The Heart Attack Grill, home of the famous Quadruple bypass burger and Flatliner Fries (deep fried in pure lard, no less), and where you can get wheeled out to your car in a wheelchair should you manage to eat such monstrosities, is getting in trouble for insulting the nursing profession with its nurses’ waitresses’ skimpy outfits. So much so, the Arizona State Board of Nursing has threatened legal action.

Are they not grateful for being kept in work?

A good headline will make you read anything:

My Humps, My Humps, My Feral Population Jumps

Ah look lads, I just can’t be bothered any more.

You’re just about to get your hands on the Ashes again, after being partly responsible for losing them last time. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Big freeloading ligger that I am I went to the Webby’s night at the ICA on Wednesday. Free Vodka. Free beer. Free hangover as well. Particularly nice to bump in to some really interesting people there, some that I knew and some I didn’t. Particularly weird was to be dragged off to a table by Rob Manuel of b3ta who insisted that he knew me. Lovely man, but I have a feeling he mistook me for Mick Hucknall or something.

That said, it had a few problems. Firstly, it was very dark and very loud. We all decamped to the bar to get away from the noise and the DJ followed us out and wired himself up to the speakers in the bar too. Being chased by hard acid techno is like /so/ last century. Secondly, there were a set of talks. The first on were the people from Shooting People (old friends of Doug’s, so I won’t be too nasty) who were a) pissed out of their minds, b) painfully self congratulatory, c) hideously long winded and d) not that interesting. They kind of blew it for everyone after them, which was a shame - I’d been dying to hear Regine from We Make Money Not Art for ages. Some people seem to have taken particular offense.

Still - all said and done it was a great night. Much props to Nik of Poke for sorting it out. Just keep Cath and Jess under control next time.

I’ve seen a few white papers discussing your selection policy for a new Content Management System recently. This one has an unusual, but effective, strategy. (Check the URL before visiting if in a narrow minded office)

That’s torn it. Well. At least we had hold of them for a year and a half.