Thus is the free and wacky world we call the Internet.

Or even in the Swiss office of Google, which perhaps has the most wacky ideas of all.

So Bhutan has this really wacky thing where they base most of their high level governmental decisions around the concept of gross national happiness instead of gross domestic product, and they've been doing this since the '70s.

I got a call 30 minutes ago, on a poor phone line, saying that Arafat is dead, killed while working by Israeli fire. He was one of the emergency medics I met two nights ago, compassionate, emotionally strong, and with an unabashedly wacky sense of humour. I m more saddened by his death than I can express.