Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Strange Laws

Strange Laws

Illinois


Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.

In Zion, Ill., it is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals kept as pets.*

Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.

It is against the law for a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana, Illinois.

In Normal, IL., it is against the law to make faces at dogs.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Letters of Note

Letters of Note

In October of 1993, a stand-up performance by Bill Hicks was controversially pulled from Late Night with David Letterman a few hours prior to broadcast — Letterman later claimed it was due to a potentially upsetting religious joke; Hicks, on the other hand, blamed it on a pro-life commercial to be screened during an ad break that clashed with some of his routine. Much debate ensued.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

NeverWet superhydrophobic spray-on coating

Being a Dickhead's Cool

Satellite view of Earth

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Water

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Water | Environment | DISCOVER Magazine

Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.

And “fresh” can be a relative term. Before 2009, federal regulators did not require water bottlers to remove E. coli.

3  Actually, E. coli doesn’t sound so bad. In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council found that one brand of spring water came from a well in an industrial parking lot near a hazardous waste dump.