Her insurance company probably sold the information once she was diagnosed, All insurance companies sell mailing list type information. When I was diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease several years ago I was suddenly deluged with emails and snail mail spam for prepaid funeral services. I eventually found that my friendly HMO had sold me out. I don't want to mention any names but the initial are KP.

Sears grasps at new business schemes like a drowning man might grasp at straws. One story is that they will discard everything but their insurance business. Remember Sharp electronics? Outsourced EVERYTHING. Today nothing is left but a strawberry farm.

Comodo Dragon is another chrome clone with most of the google spyware cut out. It has some other interesting tools (cookie blockers etc.) built in. If you set it up to use comodo DNS service you will be out of the google ecosystem altogether. It also warns about sites that the Comodo webcrawler has found to contain malware altho it generates a lot of false alarms. And its free....

More people die in falls than from firearms. The figures aren't even close. That's why we need ladders which are impossible to climb. It would save literally dozens of lives every year. A computer controlled chip attached to pressure switches in the base would automatically call the BATFLNHT (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms Ladders and Nose Hair Trimmers) who would immediately arrest the culprit under the Use a Ladder Go to Prison Law. To paraphrase Obama, if it saves only one life its worth it.

The main predators of lobsters are moray ells and the Wolffish, both of which are adapted to feed on crustaceans and have the jaws to crack lobster shells. The type of fish mentioned in the article couldn't eat a lobster to save their lives. The inference that greater lobster populations are the result of lower cod and halibut populations is as as silly as the inference that it is all because of global warming.

(the first) "object to cross the heliosphere". I think they mean the first object to LEAVE the heliosphere, or the first object to cross the heliopause. I can remember reading articles over 20 years ago about how Voyager was about to cross the heliopause. It never seems to get there. The heliopause is a lot further out than anyone ever thought when Voyager was launched.

Some people say that scientists aren't smart enough to tell the difference between a democracy and a republic.

Actually the tomato is technically a berry. The EU once determined after years of study that the carrot is a fruit, but only if it is made into carrot jam in Portugal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFruit#Carrots_as_Fruit

I for one welcome our new Taliban Monkey soldier overlords....

Babylon-x is still around. http://www.babylon-x.com/main.php