Apparently our water bottles are killing us..

Next they’re going to tell us that hats are causing polio..

GORD PETERAN’S “ARK”
LBMA sends us an advance look into Gord Peteran’s upcoming exhibit “Furniture Meets Its Maker”:
It is furniture unlike any other. A table that doesn’t hold objects, chairs not made for sitting, objects that appear to function as torture devices or for the sexually experimental. Despite the dubious functionality of many of the pieces [...]

Browsing Internet this morning I came across something highly disturbing via BoingBoing:
Apparently there is a faction of crazies enthusiasts who wish to spend eternity drying out the eyes and sinuses of bright-eyed young park-goers by having their remains scattered in Disneyland rides. Taking into account my family’s love for the park and my love of [...]

Counting the cost in Iraq and Afghanistan
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that 2007 has been the deadliest year for American troops in Iraq. Today, the Associated Press reports that 2007 has also become the deadliest year for American troops in Afghanistan.
Of course, it’s not just Americans who are dying in Afghanistan. As the [...]

RIP:  Irony. You will be missed.
Death often comes unexpectedly. Even when the deceased has been unwell for a long time, it can still be a surprise. Irony had been ailing ever since 1973, when Henry Kissinger, a war criminal, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the audience at the awards ceremony didn’t burst out laughing. [...]

If flexing your tree-hugger cred while you’re alive just isn’t enough, go granola post-mortem with a purchase you can’t make twice: your coffin.
A safely biodegradable, 100 percent recycled paper coffin, the Ecopod is a radical, “green guilt”-free alternative to conventional chipboard and laminate caskets that leak toxins into groundwater and soil. Inventor Hazel Selina describes [...]