Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.

NBA games appear to be dramatically biased towards ties, with a tie twice as likely as either team winning by one point. Details and speculation at the link. Via Kottke, who notes a similar phenomenon in golf.

How (and how not) to cheat in in online poker. Related: confessions of a golf hustler. At MetaFilter.