Fences

Found this article with pictures of the worlds strangest fences. Definitely worth a look.

Give your dog more personal space. He’ll be a happier dog then.

Odd Titles

Bookseller Magazine gives away a prize each year for the book with the Oddest Title. Thought this was funny, so I looked up the latest nominees and found these:

I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen
How to Write a How to Write Book
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues
Cheese Problems Solved
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs
People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood

If anyone knows where there are a full list of these, let me know. I tried to find them on thebookseller.com, but the link didn’t work (more on that later).

Colorado – Not as safe as we thought…

Whenever we hear of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and other natural disasters, my sister and I always comment about how lucky we are to live in Colorado. We don’t have much of that here.

As you can see from this image, maybe my confidence in this great state is misguided.

Susan Cutter and Kevin Borden, of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, analyzed nationwide mortality data from 1970 to 2004. They published a report on Spatial patterns of natural hazards mortality in the United States. According to their report the heat and drought of the the Plains States cause more deaths than the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the California Earthquakes. Who knew?

50 worst cars of all time

Time Magazine has an interesting article on their website entitled “The 50 Worst Cars of All Time”

It’s a pretty amusing list. Probably the only caveat I would have is that there is an undercurrent of bad attitude about anything not fuel efficient, and several snide, elitest comments like this one about the 1995 Ford Explorer

In its very success, the Ford Explorer is responsible for setting this country on the spiral of vehicular obesity that we are still contending with today. People, particularly women drivers, discovered that they liked sitting up high. Even though more fuel-efficient minivans do the kid- and cargo-hauling duties better, people came to prefer the outdoorsy, go-anywhere image of SUVs.

If you look at the fuel economy data for 1995, the Explorer only got 2mpg less than a compreable, best selling, Chrysler Town and Country minivan. The writer obviously had an axe to grind, but if you can look past the eco-propaganda, it’s a pretty interesting collection.

Denver sets record low temperature

Record low temperatures in Denver were set yesterday and early this morning.

The low temperature Sunday at Denver International Airport dropped to minus 18 at 6:35 p.m., setting a record low for Dec. 14. At 2:31 a.m. today, the temperature at DIA was minus 19, a new low mark for Dec. 15, the weather service reports.

Stupid Global Warming…