Belgian Birthday

Before getting on with this week's news roundup, time for some birthday wishes. Today they go to Jordi, who is presently residing in Belgium (for the biere blanche, I presume). So send him flowers, SMSs, or old copies of "el jueves".

Some children nowadays do have the imagination still. For instance, the suffolk teenager who decided to make napalm and bring it into his chemistry class. According to bomb-disposal experts, it wasn't actually napalm, but something else, but they were not willing to specify (found the US's Homosexual Biological weapon maybe?).

Now one for those lonely men out there (you know who you are) the next thing in virtual girlfriends is here. Yes, you can start chatting up Vivienne, going out with her and play with her emotions, but that's all. No hanky panky is allowed (that is, until someone hacks the program and allows everything people really want her to do).

Next barmy science research award is given to the italian, who claims that by measuring the size and shape of a woman's breasts, he can tell what type of personality she has. No prizes for using a similar "study" to guess what type of car this guy drives (or for wondering quite what he has with his fruit fetish)...

For those in the US using breast milk (ok, not a huge percentage of my readers, I admit) a worrying discovery, that the main ingredient of rocket fuel has been found in said product. Maybe this is the start of the baby-on-mars space program...

The Simpsons has been translated into many languages, allowing as many viewers as possible to understand the series, but the latest episodes in Mexico might be a bit difficult to understand, as the speakers have gone on strike. Apparently, they wanted to use a non-certified "doh!" speaker...

At last, some of the German red-tape has been lifted, and this time in the theme of beer. Yes, at last a german beer doesn't have to taste the same as all the others to be called a "beer". Just wait til the chocolate and orange beers come...

Well, celebrate and be happy, I'm off to taste the new law...