FedEx trucker crashes under the influence of pork-rinds

Actually, the title pretty much says it all.

BLAINE, Wash. -- A Washington State Patrol trooper says the driver of a FedEx tractor-trailer rig choked on some spicy pork rinds, lost control of his truck on an interstate and jackknifed it before coming to a stop in a muddy ditch.

Trooper Keith Leary says Edward Sutherland was driving his rig southbound from Blaine near the Canadian border Monday when he began choking and veered from the southbound lanes across the median into northbound lanes of Interstate 5.

See Pork Rinds Lead To Blaine Crash for a little more information, or if you don't believe me.

And the Gulf oil spill keeps on spilling

Now This is a FLASHLIGHT

A long time ago, I got myself onto a mailing list from something called ThinkGeek. I'm not sure I've ever actually bought anything from them, but I've spent many an otherwise useful hour browsing around their website. If you haven't encountered them before, let me just say that most of their products are either computer geeky, or science fictiony, or just plain weird. Some, like this Star Trek lamp with a revolving shade, are all of them together.

Anyway, one of the things I just wondered across there was a industrial strength flashlight. This flashlight is rechargeable, but outputs so much light the run time is only about fifteen minutes. This flashlight uses a 100 watt halogen bulb as a light source, and it gets so hot you can cook an egg on the lens.

Don't believe me? Watch this.

Now this is a flashlight.

Some Days Are Better Than Others

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Funny, and maybe a bit sad, if true

A long time ago, for reasons I no longer remember, I signed up for Aish.com online newsletter.  It usually has some interesting things in it, even if (maybe even especially if) you are not Jewish.

Anyway, a year or so ago, Aish produced a short video on the Dreidel, which is some sort of gambling toy top.  (I've never seen one in person in my life, so the description is a bit vague.  Sorry.)  Eventually, that video found its way to YouTube, where it apparently was at least a minor success.

Indeed, so much of a success the World Poker Tour complained, and YouTube showed their courage by yanking the World Dreidel Tour video, apparently based upon the fact that YouTube'rs can't tell the difference between a card game and a spinning top.

More information and a Petition are available here.

Never Mind....

Riccardo Riccò tests positive; Saunier Duval team withdraws from Tour de France

Second rider tests positive at Tour

Tour rider Beltran tests positive for EPO - official

sigh....

Tour de France

The Tour de France is starting today.

TV coverage (at least in the US) is on something called Versus. My guess is Versus is a descendant/spin-off of Outdoor Life Network that covered the Tour in the past.

http://www.takebackthetour.com/

Word of warning -- For some reason the Tour web sites are very graphics intensive. Following the Tour on a dial-up line can be painful.