View From the Bushes

Most days it's tough to find something interesting to link to. Today I have enough links; that that's probably all I'm going to have time for. First up, we have an blog entry from someone with fairly compelling evidence that the story I linked to yesterday (about the guy dying after playing video games for too long) is an urban legend. When you consider the number of news organizations that ran with the story, I don't feel too bad about being taken in, though it's an important lesson in maintaining a certain level of skepticism. Speaking of which, here's a list of hoaxes and fabrications that made the news.

Moving on, there was a great article on Slate the other day about the "Mega-Ramp," a nine-story tall skate-boarding ramp that's longer than a football field. Danny Way, the guy who came up with the mega-ramp, used it to jump the Great Wall of China. When I read about stuff like this, I realize how great the divide is between myself and people who are truly brave (or crazy).

Finally, there's an article in Popular Science about several instances where science fiction has been amazingly prophetic. Of course, that's not always the case, but in this particular case it was close enough that the government almost stopped publication of a magazine. Well, that's it for the links. In other news, after having kind of a bad night, I biked in to work today (the long way), and you guessed it, it was ugly.

Wondering why 8 bike rides hasn't gotten me in shape yet
Ross