Stay the buzzphrase, lottery odds, regifting, elemental

Odds and ends today:

Bush says we've never said 'stay the course' in Iraq, but this blog article lists six other times when he's said exactly that.
I don't care what politician it is, but they all seem to have a very short memory and a completely oblivious attitude to what they've said in the past, even if it has been recorded.

It pays to work for the lottery as Ontario lottery insiders have a unusually high proportion of wins. From the article:

The odds that the 214 insiders who claimed major prizes — $50,000 or more — since 1999 won as a result of pure luck, is one in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, said University of Toronto professor Jeffrey Rosenthal, who conducted the analysis.

The City of Chesapeake asks for chesapeake.com domain name for almost ten years. The tech company that owns the domain eventually decides to give it to the city for free. So what does the city do? Sell it to a company for $120,000, of course! That just seems a little inconsiderate, like selling your Christmas gifts for a profit.

For the science fans out there (and who isn't?): the Periodic Table gets a makeover into a new "spiral" design. Gee, I know it will change my life.

Site of the day:

Mrs. Dewey - a prototype search engine/avatar. Not all that practical yet, but I thought this was a neat glimpse at maybe some future search engine possabilities.