One of my more recent favorite songs

Speaking of Ducks

In a little old Bull news since the current team only seems adept at losing games and missing shots, 42 year old Scottie Pippen is actually going to play a game in Sweden.

Here's a pretty good Burt Constable article from a while back about how news stories making a come back.

Warning: $1 Million Dollar bills are fake.

Ducks

I just realized that Ducks are pretty hilarous. Plus I couldn't really find anything interesting in the news so here is a picture of some ducks. Feel free to add a caption

The aftermath of Katrina and Rita gets worse with estimates of 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana killed which amounts to "$2 billion, or 5.5 billion board feet worth of timber". Also, "The die-off, caused initially by wind and later by weeks-long pooling of stagnant water, was so massive that researchers say it will add significantly to the global greenhouse gas buildup -- ultimately putting as much carbon from dying vegetation into the air as the rest of the nation's forests take out in a year of photosynthesis."

U of I is going to build the world's fastest computer. Pending State funds

There is priest stalking Conan O'Brien.

I guess the Wrigley Field project is really coming together. To see photos you can go here. It really shows the field striped down.

Inside the beehive building in Chicago. This trib article takes you inside the light.

Cockroaches respond to peer pressure according to this article.

A really interesting article about swarm intelligence and why ants are better at moving in mass than humans. This article talks about ant highways, cannibal crickets, and locust. Check it out.

Speaking of swarms here about the Illini celebration in CU over the weekend
I also happened to catch Nova last night which was a about the fight over teaching intelligent design in classrooms. It was pretty good and I'd recommend watching it. You can find some info here.

Scientists clone monkey embryo in hopes of eventually being able to create stem cells for humans

Here is a pretty interesting article about MJ's marketing power and how it might never fade away.

Wrigley Field prices are going up, but there are more good insights in this article

"This is a good time of year to learn about your inexperienced players, unless, of course, you're from the Dusty Baker School of Playing Neifi Perez Until Fans Throw Themselves Off The Upper Deck."

Sportspickle.com: "Writers' strike leaves David Stern in a bind on how to script NBA season.''

An interesting article about the effects of genetically modified corn killing certain insects that fish eat.

A very odd story about a mail carrier being shot for delivering mail too late.

Be nice to your coworkers they may get you through the day according to this article.

Be careful because the US set a new record for cases of chlamydia with over 1 mil reported

It doesn't look like things are getting better in Pakistan as Bhutto wont work with Musharraf and asked for his resignation.

We all could have chemicals in us. According to this article they found 3 chemical that have been know to go from the product to people from things like shower curtains and toys.

So I had a fast food revelation today. Maybe I'm completely dumb but I realized that the initials for roast beef is RB and thus would be RR's or Arby's connection. Well I looked it up and well I was wrong. Arby's is named for the company founders, Leroy and Forrest Raffel, the Raffel Brothers, also R.B. So another piece of useless information. Your welcome.

The Big Ten Network and Comcast are working towards a solution in broadcasting Illini games. Currently, games exclusive to the Big Ten Network cannot be seen on Comcast. Here is more info.