There is no simpler way of letting the emergency services know who to contact should you be involved in an accident than by using ICE.

This is a cool concept

ICE - In Case of Emergency

Lance Armstrong closed out his amazing career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory

One hand on his handlebars, the other holding a flute of champagne, Armstrong toasted his teammates as he pedaled into Paris to collect his crown.

His sixth win last year already set a record, putting Armstrong ahead of four other riders -- Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault, Belgian Eddy Merckx and Spaniard Miguel Indurain -- who all won five Tours.

Armstrong's new record of seven wins confirmed him as one of the greatest cyclists ever, and capped a career where he came back from cancer to dominate cycling's most prestigious and taxing race.

Lance Armstrong wins seventh consecutive and last Tour de France

I just wanted to say that I passed my second qualification exam (oral exam) on Tuesday, and am now officially a PhD candidate. Yay!

Congrats!!

w00t!

Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

Lost Liberty Hotel

Here is a strange site. Sometimes funny sometimes sad. People send in their secrets on postcards they have made. Check it out.

PostSecret

] Compare these laptops.....then compare the prices....same
] laptop...different price...I am convinced that one comes with a pair
] of rayban sunglasses because people who buy that one have futures so
] bright, they have to wear shades

Nice

Check out the prices

] The service, similar to offerings from its competitors,
] lets users aggregate information, search, E-mail, and
] other content in their own personal portal to the Web.

I really like this homepage by google - it's google'ish in the sense that it's minimalistic, fast, and easy to use. And it integrates with Gmail.

InformationWeek - Google - Google Gets Personal - May 19, 2005

] Paul Dillenberger, Bill Heinemann, and Don Rawitsch
] may not be on any legal tender, but that
] doesn't mean they're not just as important as some of our
] presidents. While student teaching in Minnesota, these three
] men created the edutainment classic The Oregon Trail.

Wow. We use to have to play this game for hours in my third grade gifted class.

CollegeHumor Newsletter

] A small digital camera apparently planted by an
] unidentified voyeur to shoot up passing skirts caused a
] brief bomb scare near a Manhattan subway station, police
] said Wednesday.
]
]
] A pedestrian called police on Tuesday afternoon to report
] seeing a box with wires sticking out of it under a subway
] grate in a sidewalk on the Upper East Side. The block was
] closed off while the police bomb squad investigated.

Cheap Thrill or Bomb

This was a hopeful Frontline. Coverage of democratization in Lebanon and the return of Liberia to peace. Particularly interesting was the interviews with people in Syria on the Iraqi border. The people there seemed shifty and real. I didn't feel like reporter or reportee were trying to insert a message. The messages were between the lines.

The image of a US fort in Iraq with its flag raised high against nightly mortar attacks was pretty powerful. Its an image you've seen in 1000 movies but this one is real.

FRONTLINE/WORLD . Lebanon - The Earthquake