That looks awesome. Sorry about the next comment but I can't hold back the engineer in me:

OSHA Regulation
§1910.24(h) Standard railings shall be provided on the open sides of all exposed stairways and stair platforms. Handrails shall be provided on at least one side of closed stairways preferably on the right side descending. Stair railings and handrails shall be installed in accordance with the provisions of §1910.23.

I've got two milk crates worth of these things.

You can't give them away to a store because of a law passed by congress a year or highly regulating the used CD retail industry. You have to fill out a long form with your ID and address and what cds you passed along even if you give them to the shop.

So my theory was that the credit card companies had large claims to stocks of papershredding companies with all of their 89lbs of offers that I get every year in the mail that I have to shred. I guess now, the RIAA must have purchased a shitload of stock in these shredding companies because what the hell else are we supposed to do with them other than bury them in our backyards with our dead cat?

I have it on good sources that this was actually made at Countrywide Financial

One thing the AP missed is that this breakthrough using the leftover peripheral nerve is actually being implemented in the Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program 2009 funded by DARPA.

From the Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab press release:

The DARPA prosthetics program is an ambitious effort to provide the most advanced medical and rehabilitative technologies for military personnel injured in the line of duty. Over the last year, the APL-led Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 (RP 2009) team has worked to develop a prosthetic arm that will restore significant function and sensory perception of the natural limb.

Very creepy. To me, they look like the security forces in the Half Life 2 series.

Oh and here is a link to the feedback page for Glenn Beck on CNN.com.

Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, yesterday's bloviation consisted mainly on
1) This is environmentalist's fault for not letting people clear the brush from the forest floor.
2) That the "Left Wing Liberal Media" was harping on this because it was hitting "their dear friends in Malibu."
3) You see firefighters and policemen trying to put out the flames but you don't see anyone from Greenpeace, et al picking up a water hose.
4) Hillary Clinton wasn't helping to put out the fire either because she was too busy fund raising just south of one of the fires.

It pains me to know people listen to and follow these shmucks. Logic and being non-self-contradictory is soooo passe.