Happy New Year's Eve day

Sorry for the absence folks. Work comes first. (Gotta pay the bills) First off, Happy New Year's Eve day. Try to get out of work early. Have fun, but be careful tonight - remember, it's amateur night.

Let's see what's going on...

Security will be extra tight at this year's New Year's celebrations around the country, with military helicopters patrolling over the Rose Parade, Times Square and the Las Vegas Strip.

Grab a piece of Uranus before someone else gets a hold of it.

The Food and Drug Administration is banning the sale of ephedra early next year, and urged consumers Tuesday to immediately stop using the herbal stimulant that has been linked to 155 deaths and dozens of heart attacks and strokes.

The 10 Dumbest Quotes of 2003.

Introducing the world's first fully automatic domestic assistant. No it's not real. It's an ad for a movie. The domain is registered to 20th Century Fox Film Corp., and the site is an ad for I, Robot, Fox's new movie based on the Isaac Asimov novel.

The Top 20 Movie Nude Scenes of 2003.

A recreation park in Indonesia is displaying a 49-foot python -- making it the longest snake ever captured. It has a diameter of 2.8 feet and weighs 984 pounds!

Ladies: Here are all the answers to the most frequent questions about vibrators.

Actor Earl Hindman, best known for playing a neighbor whose face was forever obscured by a fence on the television show "Home Improvement," died of lung cancer Monday. He was 61. Here's what he looked like without the fence.

Business note: FedEx agreed to buy Kinko's for $2.4 billion in cash.

A federal appeals court has upheld a Utah artist's right to make nude photos of Barbie dolls being menaced by kitchen appliances.

Finally, in England, Tim Berners-Lee, the publicity-shy physicist who invented the world wide web, has been awarded a knighthood.

Remember, be careful tonight.