My playground will be a home, my home will be a playground.

Behold - Spiral Staircase and Slide. Very infrequently do dreams become a reality. Here, a man has bridged the ultimate gap between childish desire and gravity-defying utility. Beautiful.


"You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld?" [link]

And, while we're on the topic of the military, you should definately read "The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army". [link] I found this on the net a while ago but recently came across it again.

I already sent this to Jon and hopefully he submits something. I hope you, too, try your hand at the contest. [link]

HBO gets a dude out of a possible Death Penalty for a murder he most definately was falsely accused of. [link]

79 mph "Baby Bullet" to start running in the Bay Area. [link]

And, finally, to satisfy our growing list of concerns about the Iraq situation, Chalmers Johnson posits 12 questions to President Bush in hopes of improving the remainder of his speeches before 30 June. The most interesting, in my estimation, "2. Please tell us: If we plan to return Iraq to the Iraqis, why is the U.S. currently building fourteen permanent bases there?" [link - about halfway down]