Reus, a town of 100,000 people outside Barcelona has voted in a new mayor who’s promises are to plant marijuana in the parks, turn the town square into a nudist pool, dress as Elvis, and paint the town hall pink. Reus has officially earned The Nerd’s thumbs up! Here’s more

Durex surveyed 300,000 people around the globe as to whether they’ve ever had an affair. It may be the Turks are the most scandalous or perhaps just the most honest

George Bush has nominated Robert Zoellick to replace Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank. Zoellick’s qualifications… paid consultant to Enron… who better to take over where Wolfowitz left off! Here’s the BBC’s profile on this goon.

Here’s a brilliant idea to increase the storage in your house… drawers built into the stairs!

This is an old article by Scientific American from 2002, but it’s a very worthwhile read. It goes through all of the arguments creationists make, and invalidates them one by one. Check it out

These were all suprises to me, #1 is Charles Manson who reportedly took over 150 hours of Scientology courses and then disaffiliated, calling it “too crazy”. He then went on to become one of the most prolific serial killers of our time. Check it out

Director, Mike Figgis, 2x Oscar Nominee, was detained at LAX for 5 hours. When he was being grilled by Customs as to the purpose of his visit, he said without thinking, “I’m here to shoot a pilot”. Now I don’t blame security officials for being overly cautious in this case, but 5 hours seems excessive. Here’s more

UPDATE: This story is completely bogus. I just received this message from Figgis’ publicist:

The story is a complete exageration of something I said in an interview, namely…I was being questioned in toronto airport by the US immigration officer who said “purpose of your visit?” and I was about to reply “I’m here to shoot a pilot” when I thought better of it and said

“I’m here to film the 1st episode of a potential series for Fox/Sony”

This was exactly as I said it to the journalist and the next I knew of it was phone calls wishing me deepest sympathies etc and the venue had moved to LAX and I had been arrested etc etc.

I’ve had distortion before in interviews but never fiction. If it had been true it would have been a good story – sorry to dissappoint All the best – mike figgis

This lady is out of her gord…

The new Grand Theft Auto will take place in New York City. It’s about time the set their sites on the prize and set the game here. From a look at the screenshots this is going to be really well done.

Pat Buchanan wrote a very inciteful piece for antiwar.com, discussing why the Democrats caved to Bush and fully funded the war bill without a timeline for withdrawl. At the end of the day, there’s not much difference between our two parties. Check it out