It's good that the Japanese have learned to always mount scratch monkeys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey

15 years ago it probably crossed the mind of phone users that a telephone land line should be an inalienable right. Right now, that would seem kind of silly, and another 15 years from now people would be scratching their heads wondering why anyone would have ever made that a law in the first place. So consider how young the Internet is as a specific technology that enables communication, and ask yourself if this proposal really makes any sense or not.

Nuke it from Orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.

Gravity! It's working on a small scale, but that's why it would do that. As a casual observer, i'm pretty sure i've noticed this type of behavior in sand before, it's surprising to me that others haven't. I'm pretty sure that's the same reason why the last few cheerios stick together in the bowl of milk.

...that all it takes is a lame comment here to get an achievement.

I'm lame...

It would have been better on Valentine's day, when it could have saved me $5 at Hallmark.