Ricepaddyville

Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia. Its first order of business is to set up a new game called Ricepaddyville.

This week is the 25th anniversary of the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com. Before that, Dot Com was the nickname of a woman named Dorothy who was the wife of a Soviet leader.

A 22-year-old American named Katie Spotz became the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. It took her over two months to complete the trip, about half the time it will take to get the song “Row, row, row your boat” out of her head.

A Dutch political party made up of pedophiles has voted to disband itself after failing for the second time to get a candidate on the ballot. They blamed the Catholic Church for giving them a bad name.

An exotic dancer in Washington has filed a lawsuit alleging she should be paid wages in addition to tips at the strip club where she works. She may change her mind when the IRS starts demanding a 1099 for every dollar bill deposited in her G-string.

Suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arena said in an interview that he deserves to be punished for bringing guns to the locker room and used to have as many as 500 firearms in his home. He got rid of them when he didn’t look while picking up his remote and blew a hole in his TV.

NASA scientists lowed a video camera underneath an ice sheet in Antarctica and were shocked to find that the freezing waters contained shrimp. Apparently they’ve discovered the secret spot where shrimp hide out until Lent is over.