Good job from a Reuters reporter today...

Trying to duck the mob of photographers and reporters, Gore with his wife, Tipper, dashed across the street into an office building. "Don't report that we jay-walked," he said as they crossed in the middle of the block through traffic.

How dangerous is radiation?

This is the most startling thing I've read in a while.

Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought?

A mounting number of studies are coming to some surprising conclusions about the dangers of nuclear radiation. It might not be as deadly as is widely believed.

(Spiegel Online)

What's the biggest object in the solar system?

Trick question.

Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun

Now that's strict

Swiss tell German guy to learn German

Giant snails

Giant snails are overrunning Brazil. These are almost 8 inches long. I have enough trouble with the small snails, I can't imagine a back yard full of these things.

It's a trap

Soccer not allowed

I got this from StumbleUpon, which is not a particularly useful site to me since they require me to install a browser toolbar that I refuse to install. So the most I can do is browse their list of web sites...

Latest movie based on a videogame

(from Megan McArdle)

OMG!!! LOL!!!!

Spoons of the day

http://members.aol.com/pennames/spoonday.htm (from Gavin in Virginia)

Webcam of the day

Live view of the traffic at my local dump. This is truly the application that Al Gore invented the Internet for.