Cruising around the Wired News blogs in my pink Cadillac…
• Seat belts for dogs: Their time has come. Gadget Lab has the details.
Makes me wonder: Where's the best place for a dog to sit? Front passenger seat? (There's a risk of an air bag disaster or, as I've experienced, a canine-caused shift of the car from drive to neutral.) Back seat? On the floor?
• I wouldn't know a Cthulhu if it came up and ate me (which it might well do), but Table of Malcontents is making me so curious that I'll eventually give in and do a Wikipedia on it.
• Several years ago, I was innocently walking across a street while talking on a cell phone, oblivious to everything around me. And I almost got creamed -- by an ambulance.
To make things worse, a cop happened to be on the scene and gave me a ticket.
Thankfully, he never actually filed the paperwork for the ticket, robbing me of the chance to regale a judge with my defense ("I'm very busy, I'm very important and I was on the phone. What is wrong with you people?")
As Listening Post reports, a New York state senator wants to ban people from crossing intersections while on the phone or listening to an MP3 player.
For some reason, New York City and Buffalo are his targets. Those lucky ducks in Poughkeepsie: they'll get off scot free.
