About The Hollywood Tabloid Industry

Fox News has a hot story: Speedometer top speed often exceeds reality !

(To be fair, the article itself does explain why speedometers exceed what the car can really do.)

Old house is SOLD !

It's like a 1500 pound weight has been lifted.

Dollars, not pounds, I guess.

Pope Benedict and the Grand Vizier Problem

What I learned from online comments...

If you love Metallica, you're more likely to be lazy.
Classical, jazz, and heavy metal music lovers are all generally creative and at ease, but metal-heads are more likely to also be lazy and introverted, finds a study of 36,000 people from Scottish researchers. Blues fans tend to have high self-esteem, rap fans are pretty outgoing, and country lovers are generally hardworking, the study shows. Indie rock snobs tend to be harsh and lack self-esteem, the study found.

Men's Health via MSNBC.

But what if you like indie, country, blues, jazz and metal?

iStomp

today it is being announced at last.
something I've been wanted to tell you for a month now:
I've been asked to be the guitarist for nine inch nails!
we are going on an extensive world tour,
reaching places even I have never been!

via Belew's elephant blog.

One benefit of living in a new development is that there are always huge piles of scrap lumber lying around.

A saw, some screws, a hammer to bang out the odd nail or twelve, a couple of hours, and...

New workbench. For free!

Mostly free. I bought the particle board for the bottom shelf. $7.

Sometime in the last few years, we reached a point where there are, by weight, more ships in the ocean than fish.

xkcd