Weird Queries: You might know snopes.com for their grade-A debunking of urban legends. But where do you think they get their ideas from? Some are sent in by loyal readers and get answered, but others end up in the dreaded "Unanswerables" file. Can a spider bite erupt into hundreds of baby spiders? Can chewing gum and orange peels be combined to make LSD? Must a tongue stuck to an icy flagpole be amputated? No answers, just questions at www.snopes.com/humor/question/urgent.asp.

End times: Like it or not, one day, it's all going to be over. Of course, it'll probably be long after your great-great-great-grandchildren are distant cosmic memories, but it could be sooner, so don't let that stop you from buying insurance against the dozens of eerily plausible doomsday scenarios at Welcome to Exit Mundi, helpfully divided into human, religious, environment and extraterrestrial sources of total annihilation of human life. Things could always be worse at www.exitmundi.nl.

Comments? Michael Citrome