A "Happy Meal" is a meal specially tailored for children, sold at the fast-food chain McDonald's since June 1979. A toy is typically included with the food, both of which are usually contained in a small box or paper bag with the McDonald's logo.

ORKUT is celebrating its 4th birthday by placing a birthday celebration image on the login page. An online community Orkut was launched in January 2004 by search company Google, the brainchild of Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, who developed it as an independent project while working at Google.

From the article: "Dick Clark must be undead. He was born in November 30, 1929 as a human being, but now: he is transformed into a living zomgee. On December 8, 2004, Mr. Clark mysteriously suffers from a stroke; unbeknownst to us, he is taking on his new form as a reanimated corpse."

As part of a program to help surivors of the 2004 tsunami cope with their memories, the American Red Cross distributed disposable cameras to 80 children, aged from 6 to 14, in Indonesia and Sri Lanka and told them to focus on what is happy in their lives. These are a few pictures culled from the 3,500 taken and some of their thoughts.

According to a lawsuit filed by an Aussie production company, Adam Sandler's film outfit Happy Madison ripped off the plot of 2004 local hit Strange Bedfellows to make their 2007 movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.The plots from both Bedfellows and Chuck and Larry are about two firemen who pretend to be gay for legal benefits.

Political games are preventing an accurate assessment of the Iranian nuclear threat. The Democrats are happy to have a mushroom cloud over Israel if it means the Whitehouse.