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Just last night I was talking with friends about the fact that burning our oil in internal combustion engines isn't the best use of it, and when we run out of oil we're going to regret that we can't make plastic anymore. But, now I read Best Life Magazine: Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?

Here's a really sad story: TwinCities.com - Mugging victim leaves jail with nowhere to go . I'm as "law and order" as the next guy and don't think vigilante justice is a good thing... but people should be entitled to not think 100% clearly when they've just been beaten and mugged by some punk kids. Why haven't the suspects been arrested yet? Sounds like the police know who they are -- especially the one who was shot, right?

An interesting blog, and I'm having trouble posting it to del.icio.us, so here it is, just so I can keep track of it: Cool Cat Teacher Blog - powered by FeedBurner

Checkbox News (Scripting News) What a great idea! What I don't know is how you'd handle competing tags, but we'd eventually figure that out. (For instance, the example is un-checking news about Anna Nicole. Which I would do. But the problem is that if Anna Nicole's partner's gardener's father says something insulting about Billy Graham, I might want to know about that, even though I'd never go out and check "Billy Graham" news as something I'd like to know about. So the automated system would drop that article out because it would see the Anna Nicole tag, even though it's not about Anna Nicole. It gets complicated.)

Thanks to a memory-jog on Twitter by " Ariel Waldman ", a friend of Jon Gordon , I got to thinking... Did you ever compare Saint Etienne's cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" with White Town's "Your Woman"? Maybe everything in the early 90's sounded the same? Seriously, don't those two songs sound a lot a like?!?

Just watched an episode of Mythbusters where they busted the myth that flying birds in a truck weigh less than resting ones. Tested with birds, and confirmed with a model helicopter on a scale. So? Some of us are old enough to remember that Newton's Apple, produced by our very own KTCA-TV and hosted by Ira Flatow, did this exact same experiment in the 1980s. Down to the model helicopter on the scale. Anyone else remember this? (The result was the same back then, by the way; it's a myth.)