Roll On

I've seen this before on the news and they even have one of them sitting here in the office for awhile. An engineer, several decades earlier on a trip to Morocco, saw a woman crawling along the ground because she was unable to use her legs. The image haunted him until one day he was inspired to try to invent a wheelchair. He found that most people in developing nations couldn't afford wheelchairs and often relied on donated (often used) wheelchairs from wealthier countries, and that the estimates were that less than 100,000 wheelchairs had ever been given away and that there was a need for more than 100,000,000. (For the remainder, they either have to scoot along the ground or rely on family to carry them places.)

He set about to build a new wheelchair. While it wouldn't be approved by the FDA in this country, it's really good at solving a need, inexpensively, using mass-produced items in a kit that's also inexpensive to ship. Pretty cool. Click here to learn more.

Genius of Marc Shaiman

One of the tracks from the soundtrack for "The American President" just
played on Launchcast. I am a fan of the movie and enjoyed West Wing for a
number of years (but not to the end). I have to say what a genius Marc
Shaiman is. The music is really good, really inspiring. It feels so
infused with history, builds so well and just feels really good. Even
makes me a little sad that The West Wing is off the air, even though I
couldn't stick with it until the end. Makes me yearn to make another trip
to D.C.

This Is Just Wrong

Ok, they're amusing themselves way too much. I'm a little afraid. http://www.zoo.org/zoo_info/special/zoodoo.htm

I Made Page 2 Again!

MSNBC.COM -- Once again, I wrote well enough to end up on page 2 of 2 page MSNBC.com reader submission article. Woo hoo! More...

Dumbest Song

This has gotta be the dumbest song I've heard in a long time. And I'm still not convinced that it wasn't Bill Cosby singing.

I come over early in the morning
I’m like a heat wave, without warning
And when I touch you my heart begins to flutter
Cos you're smooth and creamy like peanut butter

Girl I wanna lay you down
(I said) girl I wanna lay you down

Take it away Zach

I'm gonna flood you, like a love river
Awe baby the post man, is about to deliver
Cook you up some dinner, a little pasta
Listen to some music, a little rasta

I said girl I wanna lay you down, oooohhh
I said girl I wanna lay you down,

(Don't you know I need your love!)

So turn out the lights, bring out the candles,
wrap your arms around my love handles,
they say the passion may not always endure,
but this feeling that i have for you is burning up my world

Aweee, I said girl I wanna lay you down
(I said) girl I wanna lay you down
Girl I wanna lay you down
Girl I wanna lay you down
Girl I wanna lay you down
Girl I wanna lay you down
Girl I wanna lay you down

Your moms must be proud

The U.S. military is convening the military equivalent of a Grand Jury to
find out if there is enough evidence to try four men with rape and murder
and a fifth of failing to report it, among other things. The men are
accused of drinking alcohol, abandoning their posts, changing clothes to
avoid detection and then raping a 14-year-old girl, murdering her, then
setting her body on fire to destroy evidence. And then murdering two other
adults and the girl's 5-year-old sister. Hey, thanks for making America
look great. Thank God this country takes things seriously and is trying
these guys instead of sweeping it under the rug and calling it the cost of
war. Eye for an eye, I'd like to kill these guys myself. While I can't
really understand any of their actions, what kind of ****ing ***nut kills a
5-year-old? What the ****? If I weren't posting this via e-mail from my
workplace, I would be posting that word, regardless of whether or not I
thought my parents look at my blog. I don't think they should be tried. I
think they should be put in stocks in a central place in Iraq and the
Iraqis should be given lots of push-pins to jab them until they die from
the blood loss.

Faith Like a Child

What if a baby said they didn't believe in life after birth? They've never
been outside the womb, so why believe that such a thing exists? For that
matter, who's to say that there is anything else? Maybe even mom and dad
don't exist.