Who's Next? by Tom Lehrer.

Funnily enough, that reminds me of some CSS Zen Garden entries. This one, for example, which requires the user stylesheet not to set any font sizes.

Or in other words: in an example of /. editing at its finest, it's not even necessary to read the article to see that the headline is plain wrong.

Excel has so many features tagged on that some even use it as a mini database

This is true, but it's not something to be encouraged.

Your browser appears to have a misfunctioning spellchecker which has "corrected" HL7 into XML.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike? Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir were also PMs before Thatcher (and Eva Perón was President).

Sharia courts aren't a "legal system" as such in the UK: they're a form of binding arbitration which is an alternative to an actual trial if both parties agree to it, whereas the impression your post appears to give is that a non-Muslim could be helpless to avoid being tried under Sharia law.

The UK isn't the US. It doesn't do unrelated riders. That's a part of US legislative culture that we Brits have a hard time understanding.

It hasn't finished going through the Commons yet. That was only second reading.

What does that have to do with the price of fish?

You're making the mistake of taking the summary at face value. If you follow the link, the actual motion was "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time." It's rare for anything not to get a second reading: it's only the second stage of 11 (not counting royal assent).

Surely everyone who voted Lib Dem did? They certainly didn't expect the Lib Dems to win.

Hawking is a former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The chair is currently held by Michael Green.

You do realise that the practice of naming a chair after the sponsor goes back at least 400 years?

Are you excluding the popes who were actually from Spain from your definition of "Hispanic"?