hmmmm
[www.primepuzzle.com]

A young husband called up the DJ, asking him to play this prank on his wife for fun. The couple had just bought a new house and had a new baby. This is a recording of the radio DJ pretending to be the husband’s boss, calling to apologize to the wife for firing the husband at this bad time. Be sure to pay special attention to the last line spoken by the wife.

vidblogs
[vidblogs.com]

Vidblogs are films. They usually are between one and six minutes and contain lots of “real” footage from someone’s life. Vidblogging is the ultimate public voyer experiment.

high-earth-orbital junkyard
[news.bbc.co.uk]

Since Sputnik first orbited Earth, mankind has shot into space thousands of tons of hi-tech gubbins. Much still streaks through the firmament as so-called “space junk”. Now a US rocket company is offering the highest bidder the chance to lob a package onto the Moon. Are we guilty of interplanetary littering?

Society won’t let us skin our knees
[seattlepi.nwsource.com]

resonating with things i have written/blogged elsewhere…

I was recently in an animated discussion with a friend regarding a handful of government mandates that affected a project I was working on. In the midst of our discussion, she quipped: “Julia, those laws represent the government hard at work, spending your tax dollars for your benefit.” And I realized, again, that really, I just want the government to let me be.

Square trees at HQ turning heads
[news.bbc.co.uk]

Nature, reformed as telegraph poles (see the picture at the URL)

The new Scottish Gas headquarters in Edinburgh is cultivating some eye-catching trees – of the square variety.

The trees, which have trunks, branches, leaves and are planted in the ground, were designed by Hyland Edgar Driver.

Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11
[www.wired.com]

Oops.

The article in the Beijing Evening News told a shocking story of American hubris: Congress was behaving like a petulant baseball team and threatening to bolt Washington, D.C., unless it got a new, modern Capitol building, complete with retractable roof.

There was a problem with the story. Rather than do his own original reporting, Evening News writer Huang Ke had cribbed, nearly word for word, his text from an American publication. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Ke hadn’t bothered to vet the source he had plagiarized: The Onion. [www.theonion.com]