Isn’t Life Strange?

Following are links from the week beginning Monday, April 21, 2008. (Emphasis is my own)

NEWS STORIES

• Muslim Call to Adopt Mecca Time (via BBC) - A Senseless proposal from senseless people.
• Radical Greens Harm the Earth More than they Help (via NY Post) (Editorial)
• Shell Says It Has 55 Years of Reserves (via Financial Times) - Well that’s what they SAY…
• Hip Hop Website Features Video of Child Threatening to Kill President Bush (via NewsBusters)
• Los Angeles ‘is a Third World City’ (via Telegraph)
• Mother, Daughter Charged With Attacking Teacher (via WSB TV Atlanta)
• Pittsburgh Learns Subway Mural Worth $15 Million (via Houston Chronicle)

SCIENCE/TECH

• Deep Thinkers See How Things Will be in 2058 (via MSNBC) - Yeah, but where’s my flying car?
• HD Enthusiasts Crying Foul Over Cable TV’S Crunched Signals (via AP/Yahoo)
• Mysterious Phoenix Lights a UFO Hoax (via Live Science) - Read the comments… proof that people will believe only what they wish. 
• Officially Official: Corvette ZR1 makes 638 hp and 604 lb-ft (via autoblog) - What?  That’s all?
• Solar System Could Go Haywire Before the Sun Dies (via NewScientist)
• Sorry To Ruin The Fun, But An Ice Age Cometh (via The Australian) - This is almost as fun to watch as the Democratic Primaries!

MISCELLANEOUS/ENTERTAINMENT/WEIRD

• Category 5 Compliant Wedding Set (via Etsy) - Personally I’m holding out for the CAT 6 rings.
• Fish Tales: Former President George H.W. Bush Catches A Mammoth in the Keys (via FoxNews)
• Guillermo del Toro to Direct ‘The Hobbit’ Movies (via Houston Chronicle)
• Lynchings in Congo as Penis Theft Panic Hits Capital (via Reuters/Yahoo)
• A Biker’s Ride Through Chernobyl (link) Many photographs and impressions about Chernobyl, now a ghost town 22 years after the nuclear power plant accident.