Caffeine

He's the king of couch potatoes.

A Manhattan man has won his second couch potato contest. Stan Friedman, a 47-year-old research librarian, needed 18 hours 48 minutes 17 seconds of sports-watching time to outlast the competition at the second annual ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch Potato Competition.

The participants, sitting in recliners in front of dozens of televisions, weren't allowed to sleep or leave their recliners except for restroom breaks once every eight hours.

Friedman, like any good athlete, improved on his time. Last year, he needed 29 hours to win.

I'm up and awake and doing the usual morning stuff - like reading the paper and I've got to share this one with you.

Being the last day of the year, there are always stories, videos and highlights of the past events. Sorry to be saying - but here comes a low point from the scientific community.

This little article comes from the department of blatantly obvious and yet - tax payer dollars funded these studies.

For example according to a recent study: "Women don’t like to be told they look fat" Okay, so I learned something from this study, any idiot can get a grant from the government.

A national survey found 68% of men have lied when asked by a woman: “Do I look fat in this?” The other 32% of respondents were said to have recently been dumped by their girlfriends or wives.

If you are up for a laugh, then be sure to check out The National Post for more of the truly obvious.

Just one of those things where the attempted coverup proved much worse than the original crime.

Prosecutors in Germany say two couriers working at a package distribution centre swiped a Stollen - a German-style Christmas cake - that was destined for a newspaper in Frankfurt.

In an attempt to hide the theft, they mailed the newspaper another package instead.

The second package contained microfilm with detailed credit card data on an undisclosed number of bank customers, triggering a major kafuffle over the loss of important personal information.


The thieves didn't open the microfilm package and personal information was not compromised.

No information is available on the fate of the stolen Stollen.