This story should surprise no one. Kids universally don't like clowns, [1] a study found. Good. I don't like clowns either. I've never had a negative experience but it strikes me all as a bit too ... I don't know, vaudeville. I don't find them frightening, just kind of creepy. Mimes, on the other hand? I have no problem with mimes.

There's a debate right now about the Facebook application "Scrabulous" and the board game "Scrabble." The Facebook app is blatantly a rip-off. But this article [2]raises some good points on how Hasbro could play the situation to their benefit.

We've all been to apartments where seemingly everything is from IKEA. This guy actually lived in an IKEA. [3]