From CNN.COM:
Drivers run out of gas to save money
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Some California drivers are resorting to desperate measures to beat the surge in gas prices at the pump — deliberately running dry on the state’s freeways and simply waiting for rescue.
“Every time fuel goes up, we start noticing it. But right now […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Mars rovers are in good shape for winter
Spirit settles down in refuge; Opportunity rolls toward huge crater
By Leonard David
Those long-lived NASA Mars rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — remain in fairly good shape, with one robot in survival mode as Martian winter arrives while its twin snakes its way across a taxing terrain […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Scientists find secret to gas-free beans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two strains of bacteria are the key to making beans flatulence-free, Venezuelan researchers reported on Tuesday.
They identified two bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, which can be added to beans so they cause minimal distress to those who eat them, and to those around the bean-lovers, […]

Hey Kids… I decided to add a Forum/BBS function to the Blog. 
You should now see a FORUMS Option in the Tab Area on the top of this form…
 
If you click on that link, it will take you to the Forum/BBS area.  I created 3 initial discussion areas, but would be happy to add more if […]

 
From The Medicine Hat News:
Shelter over Ukraine’s Chornobyl crumbling, radiation leaking
By: The Canadian Press
CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine (AP) - Chornobyl’s coffin is cracking. Birds and rainwater are inside the steel-concrete shelter hastily built over the reactor that blew up in 1986, and officials worry about what is getting out.
The “sarcophagus” over reactor No. 4 […]

Wow! If only they had these when I was a kid!  For $60 you can get the “Shocking Arm Wrestling” mits that you wear when you arm wrestle.  The Loser gets zapped with a nice little shock.  A little extra incentive to win, although it doesn’t say how strong the charge is.   I imagine its […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
Iowa Deputies Seek Serial Vomit Dumper
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Sheriff’s deputies in Henry County are stuck in the middle of a less than appetizing investigation. Investigators are trying to find the person who has dumped bags of what appears to be human vomit in ditches in a 1 1/2-mile area northeast of the city.
Deputy […]

 
So far, Howard Kunstlers predictions are right on.  He said the early stages of the “Long Emergency” would be half-measures, denial, and other attempts at perserving our oil-dependent life-style.   Having real leadership on this issue would be next to impossible with a truely competent President,  with the complete idiot that sits in the white house now…   not […]

Now you can create your very own Tornado with this Tornado Simulator Kit, its kind of like a “Tornado in a Box”.
It would be cool if they also sold stuff to put in the box to see what happens when you turn on the tornado, like little farm houses, double-wide trailers, or maybe a 1930’s era farm girl […]

 From SuburbanChicagoNews.COM:
Close call for canine ‘counter surfer’
By Bill Bird
Attention, David Letterman: if you’re interested, Skylar the golden doodle has learned the stupid pet trick to end all stupid pet tricks.
Unwittingly abetted by her master, Fred L. Chip Haines IV, the golden retriever/poodle mixed breed recently figured out a way to reheat frozen pizza.
The props she […]

From TampaBays10.COM: 
Dad shoots at computer, saying son spends too much time playing games
Dunedin, Florida - A Dunedin dad probably made his point about his son spending too much time on the computer. Pinellas Sheriff’s deputies say he shot at the monitor as his son sat near-by. Forty-four-year-old Joseph Langenderfer was arrested Monday afternoon at his […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Man, son, neighbor swallowed by cesspool
Trip to get Sunday paper from lawn turns into scene ‘like a horror picture’
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. - A 71-year-old man who went outside in the rain to pick up the Sunday newspaper plunged into a cesspool in his front yard, and his son and neighbor were sucked in when they […]

       
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From ESPN.COM: 
Manning Jr. arrested on night he signed offer sheet
LOS ANGELES — NFL defensive back Ricky Manning Jr. was arrested on suspicion of assault Sunday after a fight at a restaurant near the UCLA campus.
Manning, a 25-year-old restricted free agent who signed a five-year, $21 million offer sheet […]

From TampaBays10.Com:
Cops: Teen hacks into school computers, changes grades
A high school student has been charged with fraud for allegedly hacking into Palm Beach County school computers and changing grades.
Officials say Jeff Yorston turned himself in yesterday to face the felony computer fraud charges.
(more here)