Very Local News

• I turn forty in about a month. Yuck. My mom's birthday is right before mine. I have no idea what to do.
• There is a huge number of corporate defaults coming in 2009 according to some annalists.
• There are 800 tunnels in the Gaza strip. 90% of goods in Gaza come through those tunnels. Where does the money come from to pay for these goods? Is anything going the other way?
• Leap seconds are a pain in the ass for IT. The Earth's rotation is slowing down about a second every five hundred days. Then there is the earthquake that kicked off that tidal wave a couple years ago. That affected the Earth's rotation too.
• Last night I lay listening to a science fiction story about modern wireless hacking of video streams between a camera and a young blind girl's brain when I noticed how much my neck and shoulder hurt. I do not know how I pulled something, but I have. What did I just say about turning 40? I'm forgetful too. Great.
• Universities should be ranked based on how well people do five, ten, twenty years after they graduate. There probably is a ranking of this. I haven't dug in to it.