Puzzling

This page is dedicated to
some of the things I wonder about:

Why so many people believe urban legends: These are tales about something that happened to a friend of a friend but could happen to YOU. They are cautionary tales, ranging from stories of alligators in sewers to e-mails about kidney thieves to news reports about temporary tattoos saturated with LSD. They are all around us, so here are a couple links to help you sort them out:
- The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams
- The Museum of Hoaxes
Why some people do really stupid things that often mean they won't do any more... the Darwin Awards
Why we have Daylight Saving Time: I think that DST doesn't save time, but wastes it
Why so many people don't see anything wrong with Microsoft's domination of the software industry
Why so many people think the World Wide Web is the entire Internet and why the World Wide Web is growing so fast
Why people are so concerned with being politically correct
Why so many people think that the start of the millennium occurs a year before the correct year: The only good thing about this is that you can enjoy two great New Year's celebration, the popularly proclaimed one and the real one.