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Let me introduce myself. I am a long time friend of Andrew (Driko), and I will be guest posting here every so often. Here is a picture of Driko and I in Rocky Mountain National Park a few years ago.

That’s me on the left. With the intro out of the way it is now time for some blogging.

CNN reported today that “American bans aggressive dogs after chomping rampage”. It seems our little Cujo got a little excited and decided to find out how the avionics in the cargo hold tasted. NOT THE RED WIRE FLUFFY! Kind of scary actually. The airline hopes to elicit the same action in humans by using small planes, reducing leg room, increasing layover times, and laying off employees. See this CNN story for the details: “American Air to fly leaner”

I’m glad that the LMDC is soliciting more bids for a design commemorating the World Trade Center site, because the original six designs were pretty uninspiring. CNN has a feature allowing people to submit their own design ideas; some of them are pretty cool, but others should have stayed on the refrigerator door.

In addition to some awesome pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, this page discusses some interesting theories on the creation (and possible end) of our universe.

Mötley Crüe will soon be on the silver screen, as a deal to turn their autobiography The Dirt into a screenplay has apparently been signed. Somehow I don’t think it will be as good as Rock Star.

Wired Magazine has a very interesting story of how MIT students pooling their intellects beat the odds at casinos, until their painstakingly-thought out team strategy was discovered. Another engaging series of stories entitled “A Casino Odyssey” is featured on kuro5hin.org.

SkyscraperPage.com is a really nicely-done site that lists all of the world’s largest buildings, graphically comparing them by location, architect, and year and includes a large amount of statistics to boot. Searching by city yields illustrations of other buildings as well; pretty cool!

Check out this graphical family tree/flow chart depicting the relationships between Arthur Andersen, Enron, WorldCom, Imclone, and other corporations recently caught in financial scandals. I had no idea that there were so many ties between them…

USA Today reports that “Professional athletes, rap artists and urban youths are installing TVs throughout their luxury cars — including in the middle of steering wheels.” As one would expect, 38 states have laws making it illegal for TV monitors to be visible to the driver, to say nothing of the idiocy of removing an airbag just to show off. However, “Rap singer Kaleidaskope says removing the air bag to install a TV in the steering wheel of his Mercedes-Benz CL 55… ‘makes a statement. It says you’re either a ballplayer, a rapper or making some serious cheddar [money].’” Oh, then I guess I’ve been looking at this all wrong. NOT. What morons…

“Steady” Ed Headrick, the the inventor that perfected Frisbee flight, died at the age of 78. While a somewhat sad story for a Frisbee afficianado like myself, the story turns a little unusual. Apparently his “ashes will be molded into a limited number of ‘memorial flying discs’ which will be distributed to family and friends, and sold to help fund a future Frisbee/disc golf history and memorabilia museum.” I guess that’s an, um, interesting way to immortalize yourself, but I just find the thought a little morbid for some reason. Anyway, I also found a nice page with the history of the Frisbee, including some original patent drawings.

Just for fun, here’s an online bar code generator.