Called Starfish in the States, too. Never heard Sea Stars in casual conversation.

There it is again, that feeling that someday, sometime, we'll be in a post-apocalyptic wasteland caught up over some squabble for oil.

Good, but doesn't Mom (Futurama) technically have a family?

She does have three sons after all.

I flew around the world in Google Earth's flight simulator, from Los Angeles to New York, on to London, then Cairo, then St. Petersburg, then across Asia to Hong Kong, and down to Cairns, finally to Hawai'i and back to L.A. Oh, in real time -- no stops in flight.

Special thanks to my coworkers.

Humor has gone the way of God.

"You have no intrinsic value."