We're all for tolerance of other people's beliefs here at Kontraband, but it's always cheering to hear about Scientology taking a beating because it seems to rest on manipulation, the promise of life-improvements and lots of other batsh#t. Using pseudo-psychological processes like "returning" to erase painful memories called "engrams" (a term Mr Hubbard stole from neuropsychology), they seek to enlighten, but are in fact doing the opposite by closing people's reality tunnels.

All Hubbard's theorizing is just the raping and pillaging of modern science for his own means, warping, bending and reshaping to fit his personal philosophy. Which is fine, but to turn that into a cult which claims legitimacy, well, it doesn't strike me as a trustworthy organisation.

Which is why it's good to hear this, that they've been convicted of fraud because that's what they are: fraudsters.

Here's a site dedicated to awesome things, to be precise a 1000 awesome things. It's a countdown of things in life that are just out and out awesome. They're currently on #661 as I type this and counting, and it's updated every week. The entries are varied but many hit the right notes by being both wonderfully nostalgic and universal.

So no matter what part of the world you're from, what your beliefs, what sort of beer you like or car you drive or job you have, you'll find something here that will make you smile. There are things like running for the bus and actually catching it, fat baseball players, wearing underwear just out of the dryer and rain hair.

The site itself should be on their because it is truly awesome. It's like eating a whole pack of candy to yourself and lying their happily bloated and fat.