I've tried a few queries via the new Google Scholar, and it looks pretty cool. Also bizarre to hear that Bill Gates gets over four million spam messages per day. Ouch.

In an odd bit of irony, Linux users without a firewall are safer than those with one.

Watched "Glitter" (2001; Mariah Carey) last night on VHS, and "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967; Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn) last night on DVD.

For the record, here is the longest word in the English language (310 letters):
Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithonpessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac.

It was apparently used by medieval scribes to refer to someone who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts, or other manifestations related to animate or inanimate objects and appearances such as various animal behaviors, dreams, palmistry, wands, ring suspension and a number of other methods.

The sad thing about it is that none of the online dictionaries contain the word. In fact, their search form boxes typically truncate something that long. Sad. I also find it lame that most of the news sources that have reported on the 9-year-old boy story have expressed an inability to print the word because it's too long. C'mon, it's not THAT long...

Well, sadly, I wasn't able to spend more than a few minutes in front of or on the throne today during World Toilet Day. Maybe next year I'll be able to devote a few hours. =(