Just read in the Costco Connection (not a bad read, actually, especially for a certain smallish room in the house) that San Francisco passed a law against large grocery and pharmacy stores giving out plastic shopping bags. Their reasons? They wind up in the landfill, are made from petroleum which we should be conserving, and cost too much to be ( Read more... )

"Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang... Under a new draft regulation...a father named Zhou and mother named Zhu could choose to call their child either Zhou, Zhu, Zhouzhu or ( Read more... )

The Governor of NJ, Jon Corzine, was riding in the front passenger seat of his official SUV when it got hit by a pick-up truck. He was pretty seriously injured (broken ribs and several other long-term injuries ( Read more... )

In high school we used to have a party in math class - I always brought a cake baked in the shape of the letter pi. Aah, geekdom ( Read more... )

There are very few donatable and donated organs for babies, mostly because there are relatively many babies born with heart defects, but relatively few die (thank G-d) with usable hearts. The fix is that since such small children haven't fully developed their immune systems, they are able to take mismatched blood type hearts up to around age two ( Read more... )

I feel like today I've woken up from a nightmare. Well, that's a bit too dramatic; let's say an unpleasant dream ( Read more... )

Found this on Snopes.com, a reputable (IMHO) site that sifts through urban legends and scams ( Read more... )

Got this from september_05http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15730874/wid/11915773?GT1=8717Read more... )

the movie, that is. Been meaning to write about seeing it ( Read more... )

First off, just have to share ( Read more... )