Udderly Smooth Udder Cream is a “water-based moisturizer that is greaseless, stainless, with a light, fresh fragrance.” Originally formulated for dairy farmers to help relieve dry, cracked udders, it’s now available to the general public for use on dry skin in general. Their website has plenty of pictures of cows, an animation of three cows singing the Udder Cream jingle, testimonials with other uses (the non-grease formula is a big hit with cross-stichers), and of course details on how you can get some. One tub of Udder Cream took a vacation to China and posed on the Great Wall.

More chicken strangeness. The BBC is reporting on the death of a chicken that was insured for £1M after receiving death threats from neighbors. Apparantly, the chicken was accused of defacing a local war memorial, but the owner says the chicken was framed by a group of unruly ducks. It’s unclear if the owner will be able to collect the money, as the insurance reportedly covers the chicken only if it was killed and then eaten by a parish councillor. The local police are not investigating. I can’t make this stuff up, folks.

Thanks to APBNews, you can view the rap sheets for NFL players in the Super Bowl. Crime in the NFL is APB’s current focus.

I just received an email from MP3.com. They are being sued by virtually every mainstream record label over their neat-o My.MP3.com service that lets you register the CDs you own on their servers and then listen to the music from any computer. Anyway, the subject line of the email read “MP3.Communicator: Defend Your CDs, Women…” I briefly thought that maybe the lawsuit had far more reaching effects than just music, but no. There’s also an article in there about “The Women of MP3.com”, and the subject line just got truncated.

RetroPsychoKinesis - use your brain to influence the past. This page includes on-line experiments and plenty of related links. Myself, I’m already working hard to fix that losing lottery ticket from last year.

[This legal document](http://www.wrdsnpix.com/evaporation/archives/big warning.htm), found folded up and packaged with a small toy, may well be the Rosetta stone for some future civilization. Learn how to say “Warning, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3 years. Small parts might be swallowed or inhaled.” in many languages. All of them, I think.

When you use your Peace Fleece to make a wonderful sweater for yourself, you of course have to be careful of shrinkage. Wool shrinks when you get it wet and hot, and once shrunk, your garment’s ruined. Right? Jason Kottke, in his Jan 27th entry, expains how to recover your shrunken sweater.

Leonard Grossman (of Reflections of a ModemJunkie) sent me an email alerting me to Kestrel’s Eye (NY Times, free registration required), a new Swedish documentary film showing a family of European Kestrels from their literal point of view. The film sounds beautiful, and is playing this week only in one theater in New York City. The odds of this film coming to Athens are slim-to-none, but I must see it somehow.

Usually, the BBC front page has some cute little Doctor Who game. Today, though, they had this gem:

Enter other worlds
Uncover the Next Generation, then get your Star Trek article online. But watch out for the Buffy monsters.

I’m amused by the mental picture of Troi advising Picard on how to fight the Buffy Monsters.

Peace Fleece is a yarn company dedicated to helping historic enemies cooperate and prosper through trade. They started during the cold war and have moved on to Israeli/Palestinian relations and the quagmire in Kosovo. Their goods are of very high quality. Anyone who does any sort of knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving, etc. should be aware of these folks. Actually, everyone should be aware of these folks – they give us a model to emulate.