Crap and Crapability

A fitting name for the boat:

The new Prodi government has been discussing fighting about their finance policy for months. After months of fighting, the looser is… you and me. Viva la finanizaria covers the situation pretty well (make sure your audio is on): Viva la finanziariaviva la finanziaria per mi per mi ti do il colpo di graziaè il colpo di grazia agli italianiarriva e arriva quando arriva e arriva colpisce tecolpisce te non colpisce me sono io l'uomo neroporto via per davvero i tuoi capitali tuoi capital i tuoi capital paga paga paga paga paga pà la finanziariaè tutta qua! I already face 100+ euro extra in taxes per month. It will probably be twice that much after ...

Google uses this doodle today in honor of Valentine's day: Eh? Googe? Or is the strawberry supposed to make a small green L?

Iditarod I can understand, but only in America do they practice the sport(?) of idiotarods:

Only the Swedes could think of something like this… Moving the town piece by piece: Some buildings will be torn down and rebuilt. Others -- including a historic wooden church once voted Sweden's most beautiful building -- will be taken down piece by piece and reassembled in their new locale. Why? To get more iron out of the ground: The Arctic town of Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost municipality, is under threat as cracks caused by decades of iron ore mining slowly erode its foundations. So two years ago the municipal council decided to move more than half of the town from the shadow of Kiirunavaara mountain, site of the world's largest underground mine. This ...