The end: Call it the domino effect. When one nation launches its nuclear weapons, the rest will too. The U.S., China, India, Pakistan, Israel, France - one false step and we're all dead, except the Australians. They'll just get nuclear winter. This incredibly funny Flash animation, which seems to be from the guys behind Super Mario Twins, explains it all, including how California will break off from the U.S. to hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come too at http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf.

Return to sender: Ever looked at, say, a hammer and said to yourself, "If I slap a stamp on this bad boy, can I mail it to my Uncle Ed in Cincinnati?" What? No? Then you're going to find this Web site, where a group of "scientists" test the mail with objects like a bottle of spring water and a helium balloon, fascinating. Mess with the man at www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html.

Comments? Michael Citrome