Some days, Boing Boing makes my day.
Some teenagers in spain launched a big helium baloon with a digital camera attached for a science class... here are the pictures
Did you know Detroit's in a bit of trouble real estate-wise? Artists are moving in. $100 homes, $500 homes... stripped bare, and being bought by optimists with a vision. This is the sort of true grassroots sort of thing that can change a city. Seems more magnanimous than my plan to start the Ontario Co-operation Project (or OCP for short) where I buy up all of Detroit and create a cyborg police force...
Then there's the clips of Bill O'Reilly reading from his bad porn novel. How this blowhard, or good ol' Rush can be taken seriously by anyone is beyond me.
Of course, there needs to be some slack-jawed disbelief.
Live in Colorado? You can't collect rainwater from your own property. Someone else owns it. Gotta love moronic laws. The reasoning? By holding that water, you're keeping it from reaching the waterways. Nevermind that most rainwater doesn't reach them anyway (absorbed by plants or soil, or evaporated), or that the reason people store grey water is to WATER things, which would have the same effect of it raining.
And then there's the mother who dared to let her 10-year old son walk 1/3 of a mile to soccer through their neighbourhood... alone! Police came, picked up the boy, and chastised the mother for endangering him. "Hundreds" of people called 911 apparently. That is one densely-packed neighbourhood. Ten... that would be grade 5 or 6? I'd been walking to and from school by myself for at least 3 years by that point, and that was a solid 1/2 mile! This careless, unloving "mother" even gave her son her cell phone so he could call if needed, was going to be 15 minutes behind him, and had walked and driven the route a bunch of times with him beforehand... and let him do this in BROAD DAYLIGHT! IN A SAFE NEIGHBOURHOOD! The nerve! At least the police chief apologized for his idiotic officer.
Maybe next time I should start with the aggravating items...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wonderful Things
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3 comments:
Love the story of the kid walking thru the neighborhood. Crack up when I go to work in the am. People live in all these developments with the sidewalks and cookie cuter houses yet there is a traffic jam at the entrances in the morning with all the parents driving Dick and Jane there to get the school bus. Cripes, the places are supposedly sterile safe havens and their kids can't even walk to the bus stop. I too was walking to school by second grade, around a half mile, and while it wasn't hard core inner city ghetto I had to traverse it was bad enough to drive all these development dwellers out of town.
Yeah I suggest that for you, you may want to start with the aggravation bits instead. But for us loyal readers, I ALWAYS think it works out betterer this way!
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How do they know?
"This is the sort of true grassroots sort of thing that can change a city. Seems more magnanimous than my plan to start the Ontario Co-operation Project (or OCP for short) where I buy up all of Detroit and create cyborg police force..."
Refernces like that are why you are in my Top Ten.
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