Scooter Nation— Fall back or Standard Time is this weekend. This time change gives you an extra hour of sleep, unlike its evil, sleep sucking stepsister, Spring. This weekend, at 2:00 AM on November 6th, Daylight Saving Time will end, and revert back to Standard Time. You’ll need to wind back the clock one hour, going back in time (like M.J. Fox and Doc à la Huey Lewis) to 1:00 AM. DLST vs ST has an interesting history. For example, a man, born just after 12:00 a.m. DST, circumvented the Vietnam War draft by using a daylight saving time loophole. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled them to their Israeli counterparts, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded—one hour too early—killing three terrorists instead … Read entire article »

A Getting There post alerted me to PETA’s latest attempt at “Helping various things that need money” in the form of poster adverts on our highway tollbooths, whereas the money paid by the organization could conceivably help to keep MD’s increasingly outrageous toll fees stable for a while (and actually, it’s not a half bad idea). But by the virtue of the adverts/organizations “controversial” nature – i.e. naked women claiming how awesome veganism is – this prompts some sort of blog post or article by the local media talking about how controversial PETA is, while displaying said controversial ad in print, and therefore giving PETA free advertisement. Gotta give it to them, it’s smart. Hell, I even fell for it last time, when PETA pulled a similar maneuver to keep … Read entire article »