News You Can Bruise for 2005 June 11

I came up with an idea today which is not particularly clever, but which I think I could get a patent on if it's not already patented. It's the same caliber of ridiculous stuff that gets software patents put on it, and I was idly kicking around the meta-idea of actually trying to get a patent on it to use an example of ridiculousness. Does this make any kind of sense or is it all a sucker's game?