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From the Harper’s Index (of which I am a big fan of):

• Percentage change since 2002 in the number of U.S. teens using illegal drugs: –9
• Percentage change in the number of adults in their fifties doing so: +121

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

via westerhacking

I’m sure everyone else is getting plenty of their own spam but I thought I’d share some of what seems like a fun new trend.  I’ve finally managed to get my filters to effectively block all the naughty picture, get rich and enhancement emails.  So now all of the spams that make it through have subjects that are what I think are meant to be outrageous attention grabbing headlines.  Its kinda like reading the Onion.  Some of my favorites:

• Hillary Receives 3 A.M. Phone Call From Drunken Bill Clinton
• Barack Obama Wins Ku Klux Klan Endorsement
• Barenaked Ladies with cocaine overdose
• Boy pokes fork into sister’s eye
• Obama trouser fly slip
• Osama sighting confirmed in NYV
• Iowa man says he plannedd to compost pot, not smooke
• Horse gets swallowed by snake
• Horse kicks Ralph Lauren in stomach
• Woman loses nose after dog attack

So I wonder,   is there some spammer sitting in a dark room thinking up fake headlines?   Based on my unofficial polling of spam subjects,  Obama is leading McCain by 100%.

Sand Sculpture

http://www.typeracer.com/

So….   We moved again.  It seriously cut into my internet surfing time.   So here is my backlog of randomness from the past couple of months:

CGI Lady – Not exactly sure how they pulled it off but it appears to be flash based.  Maybe its time I learn me some flash again.

Decaying Theme Parks - My recent obsession with abondoned places continues.  The story behind Dog Patch USA was fascinating but a time consuming read.   Flickr pools are much more manageable.

Free Range Kids – Blog by

Lenore Skenazy who wrote the article about leaving her 9 year old in downtown NYC to figure out his way home on the subway.  Eden is 9 now. And I think she could probably do it.  But it still scares the crap out of me to not have the kids in view.  Which is completely irrational on my part given the amount of free range roaming I did when I was 9.  I did send Eden across Target the other day to go switch out a shirt for one with a price tag.  I had my eye on the doors the entire time and I couldn’t help thinking that she was lost the entire time.  But she managed to find the shirt and make it back to the register in one piece.  Not sure if the experience was more educational for her or me.

Okay,  time to go sort some more boxes out.  If you don’t have our new address, call us.  Our phone number is still the same.  Not sure how reliable the mail forwarding is.

Brilliant.  What else is there to say but brilliant?

In fact the rest of the Billboard Liberation’s modified billboards are pretty funny too.

Taken at a Detroit book depository by a person exploring abandoned buildings. (I hadn’t gotten around to posting it yet but the are many more pictures of abandoned places all over the world at Abandoned but Not Forgotten.

okay, so spending 1.4 million on a car is obscene, but it sure is purty. i saw a lamborghini on laurel canyon while coming home from work yesterday. my heart did a little jump.  when i was a kid i really wanted to fly ridiculously fast in fighter jets.  unfortunately there was the itty bitty detail that they were fighter jets.