I've worked in the Mexican news business for the past five years.

Last week was easter, so most people were on vacation.

People on vacation = less news.

Ridiculous overexagerated news stories = SLOW NEWS DAY.

I can just hear the debates going on all over the country last week:

"Is there anything interesting today?"

"Well there are these kids... called Emus or something... some of them got into a fight with some Punks... remember punks? from when we were young in the 70s?"

"Oh yeah... we can sell that..."

I for one welcome our new scorpion overlords.

The obvious quote from Woody Allen's Sleeper, which takes place 200 years in the future:

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

1. Very nice, very nice. One suggestion. The old comments system had this very nice feature where you could flag a comment thread, so that it would send you an email, whenever somebody made a new comment. That would be nice in the future.

2. Can we oficially call the eye thing on top of each comment "the eye of sauron". Gak, it's looking at me! It's following me wherever I go! You could even animate it so that the eyeball travels from one side to the other...