Pamela Anderson has apologised for wearing dead sheep on her feet.

The former Baywatch star says she has thrown away her favourite Ugg boots, because she didn't know they were made from shaved sheep skin.
She wrote on her personal website: "I'm getting rid of my Uggs - I feel so guilty for that craze being started around my Baywatch days. I used to wear them with my red swim suit to keep warm never realising that they were skin! I thought they were shaved kindly."
Good grief.
And just for the record Missy … my Penrith sisters were stepping out in their Uggies for Thursday night shopping at Penrith Plaza well before you “discovered” this fashion accessory.

Steven Levy’s Newsweek interview with Bill Gates offers a fascinating read.
At one point Levy questions the origin of many of the new features of Windows Vista … are they not strangely similar to features already in Mac OS X … ?
Gates’s response is surreal:
I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn’t have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done.
Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise.
Let me get this straight Bill … you guys invented this stuff, Apple copied, and ended up shipping first because your guys were doing an awesome yet time consuming job at improving Vista’s security.
Right. Uh-huh.
Thanks to Louie for this one as well!
Merry Christmas to you and your neuroses, no matter how pathological!
Thanks to Tarin for pointing out this story from news.com …
AN American Airlines flight has made an emergency landing after a passenger with severe gas problems struck matches to mask the odour of flatulence.
The flight from Washington to Texas landed at Nashville airport, in the southeastern state of Tennessee, after passengers alerted the crew to the smell of burning sulphur.
Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville International Airport Authority said all 99 passengers and their luggage were taken off the plane and searched.
An unlucky canine team was also brought in to sniff the aircraft for explosives.

After intense questioning by the FBI, a woman passenger admitted to lighting matches on board the aircraft to conceal her gas, Ms Lowrance said.
“For a long time she did not admit to striking matches and I think that was just out of embarrassment,” she said.
“She did finally admit to it saying she had a medical problem about excessive gas.”
The unidentified woman was not charged, but “American did ban her from flying on their airline for a very long time,” Ms Lowrance said.

what follows is an actual question given on a university of washington engineering mid term exam.
the professor claimed that the answer was so profound that he was driven to share it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it too.
thanks to rob gilbert for connecting us with the story …
so this is how hollywood's best are going to look in 2037 … shit … how bad am I gonna look in 2037 ? ... so depressing, pass me the ratsac now …
anyhoo, can you tell whose chooky neckline this is … ? click through and let me know if you got it right …
and comments on this site are always most welcome … in fact, encouraged … is there anyone out there looking … ? … anyone … ? … bueller … ?