Dancing To A New Beat?

Just found a link to this video on Boingboing.com and love it. These guys are amazing. My wife would love to go out dancing, but I don't dance (can't might be more appropriate). I really love dancing from yesteryear though, and have watch this video over and over. These guys are amazing. It's like they are floating on air.


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Lions Vs. Hyenas

This video is one of my fav off the internet. I have watched it at least 30 times! It shows just one more reason I love big cats. Story goes like this: Lady lions kill a meal, but while trying to settle down for a nice meal, a pack of hyena come in and steal dindin. So big daddy male lion come in and reminds the hyena who's boss of the savana. Hyena may be highly social animals, but they are just nasty dogs in my book. Don't watch if you don't like the facts of life (animals eat other animals!) Just click the play button on the video below to watch..... (You may need to hit stop on the blue radio player on the right side of the screen just below my Flickr.com box)

A Very Bright Idea

This is one of the coolest ideas I have seen. From a story on Treehugger, a teacher realized it would make a huge impact on the planet and kids consciousness if he gave every child 1 CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light, check out the picture)for their home. I have been interested in the bulbs since they 1st came out, but they have recently dropped in price enough for me to buy some. A local grocery store even had them on sale for $2.88 recently. They use a small fraction of the energy of a normal bulb, are a brighter white, and last 5-7 years! The bulbs I am using now only consume 16 watts, while the old ones wasted 60 watts. They also don't put out a ton of heat like normal bulbs, feeling cool to the touch. I had a professor in college that swore every week that if everyone, including businesses, made the switch, we would use a fraction of the power produced at electric plants today.

Anyway, back to the story, Mr. Luna's Bright Idea, the teacher, is trying to talk Opera into helping the cause and has a Virtual March on his site that takes about 10 sec. to fill out, and who knows, with Opera on board it could happen. He already got Home Depot to donate a bulb for every kid in his town, that was 5500 bulbs, and will save the people of the town over $500,000 in electric costs! Please take a moment to check out his site and sign up!!!!! Then pass it on to your friends, and check out the bulbs next time you are at the store. I am planning to buy 2-3 bulbs a month till all my bulbs are replaced.

Gas: On Everyone's Mind

As some of you know, I drive quite a commute back and forth to a job and spend a good portion of my paycheck to fill my tank. I can only make it about 4 round trips to work on a tank. My last fillup cost $3.09/gal and was over $40 total, but while in Georgia last weekend, I saw it for $2.62/gal! Edmunds.com has an excellent article about how to save fuel and even kills a few gas myths along the way. They were able to get 37% better mileage using their tips, and found that tire pressure didn't affect mileage that much, nor did using the air conditioner! Check out the Driving Tips Here