Excellent store display in Wellington, Ohio

Eyeball jewelry, brought to you by the evil geniuses at the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery. Yes, that’s right. Innovative Ocular Surgery. Three words that have no business being used together.
(Dave, don’t click on either of those links. They’ll just upset you.)

I just read an ABCNews article about Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems. These are automated individual cars that run along monorail tracks, navigating directly to your destination station. (The cars pull off the main line into the appropriate station, allowing you to disembark.)

Apparently, systems like this are currently being tested out in Cardiff, Wales (ULTra) and Fridley, Minn. (SkyWeb Express). Both PRT web sites contain a lot of details about how the systems would operate. I’m sold… it sounds like a fabulous idea.

Don Melton’s blog just linked to a fascinating web site detailing (with pictures) a motorcycle drive through the dead zone around Chernobyl.

It’s called Ghost Town, and it’s an extraordinary read.

Finally, Dave has some help in his crusade against it’s/its confusion. Key quote: punctuation vigilantes are not nerds who should really get out more

Nifty keen moving wooden sculptures that range from graceful (Tangle) to strangely terrifying (Focus). The artist has created Flash animations for each one, so you can see how the patterns develop. Really slick. (Thanks, Chris.)

Is anybody else disturbed that the University of Maine has a “Lobster Institute”?

I’m giving up the piano and taking up the orange horn suit

This is fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. Look for the section titled “Whatcha Gonna Do?”

17-year-old Mike Rowe is being sued by the Evil Empire for trying to run a domain clearly based on his own name… Mike Rowe Soft.
I don’t know which is better… that Microsoft offered to compensate Mike with $10, or that they’re Canadian lawyers are called “Smart and Biggar”.