News tidbits

(I spied this on Webster.
All that remains is the facade,
and I loved the non sequitur.)

Besides the Slate article, these articles have rather tickled my fancy of late:

• Gecko glue. My question: how do they know that a gecko remains sticky after pulling it off the wall 1000 times? What poor lab rat assistant got that assignment?
• Hummer vandalism. Dude, if you can afford a tricked out Hummer and all the gas it consumes, why can't you afford to repair it. And then there is the nasty sense of delight I take.
• New solution to the Darfur crisis. How exciting to not only realistically see the root of the problem, but also a viable solution.

on the iPod: "Blow Out" - Radiohead feat. Portishead (Technically, it's on shuffle, but I guess iPod is in a Thom Yorke kinda mood.)