We cater to your fears

I believe this ad is truthful in that they are, in fact, catering to Americans' fears... but I can't help but think that the message their advertising is really going for is more of assuaging your fears, or being sensitive to your fears.

Project Icarus

I've been trying to think of something intelligent to say about this project, but am failing.  Project Icarus and the resulting video is just too cool for words. 

Hey Mabel! Black Label!

One of our yard projects this spring is to build a sand pit for the kids.  Every time we investigate the yard, we find something new.  This time, just under the sod, we found rock ledge (which we expected) and a whole lot of broken glass and a "Black Label" beer can (which we didn't exactly expect.  I can only guess that when the houses were being built on our street in the early 70's that the ledge was exposed, and the workers weren't very careful with their empties on lunch break (if it were purposeful, I can only imagine we'd have *more* broken glass).