- From Slashdot: China is going to use silver iodide and dry ice to control the weather during the Olympics. I'm officially scared/impressed. From the article: China's national weather-engineering program is also the world's largest, with approximately 1,500 weather modification professionals directing 30 aircraft and their crews, as well as 37,000 part-time workers — mostly peasant farmers — who are on call to blast away at clouds with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns and 4,991 rocket launchers.
- From CNN: Obese relative may have crushed boy. Can you imagine being so fat you might have crushed another human being to death? Seriously. How tragically sad.
- From Washington Post: A list of 209 things that are either obsolete or soon will be. Starts here. Continues here. Some are more thought provoking than others, but a good list all around.
- From NYT: Yes, Running Makes You High. I know they were waiting on the science, but seriously... go jog a mile or two and call it day. Spend your research dollars on curing cancer.
- From Chicago Tribune: Roundup on who's turning off their lights for Earth Hour. Note: my apartment suspiciously absent from the list. Maybe I will. But I'm not committing to anything.
- From Chicago Tribune: U of I - Champaign/Urbana's in-state tuition is now $12K. With $8K for room & board. $20K in total to go to your state school. Woofty.
