Golf Cart Injuries Rise

ScienceDaily (Jun. 10, 2008) — As golf carts are used in more settings off the golf course, the number of injuries is rising. According to an article in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, from 1990 until 2006, the injury rate rose more than 130 percent. During this period, nearly 150,000 golf cart-related injuries were recorded in people as young as 2 months and as old as 96 years.

Golf carts have become much faster and more powerful - some can reach 25 mph and travel over 40 miles on a single battery charge. Golf carts are now routinely used for transportation purposes at sporting events, hospitals, airports, national parks, college campuses, businesses and military bases. In many gated and retirement communities, golf carts have become the primary means of transportation. Most golf carts are not subject to federal regulation, and state and local regulations for golf carts vary widely by region. (Full Story at sd)

I don't think there is any cause for alarm here. I just hope the government doesn't decide it needs to start regulating golf carts.

Putting an End To The Madness

Make sure to click on the picture to enlarge it. . . Still, that lizard has prime camo.

Find The Lizard

I'll circle it for you tomorrow. (Click on the picture to enlarge it)

Oops

Remember the French guy wanting to sky dive from 25 miles up (I posted about it yesterday). Well this is how it turned out.

Overheard

Frat boy #1: Dude! Look at that girl in that store... She's checkin' me out.
Frat boy #2: Dude, that's a mannequin!
Frat boy #1: Oh.

--Rockefeller Center

Overheard by: Michelle



You can go here to check out more things people have overheard in New York City. (Do remember that people don't always censure themselves on the street. . . actually, I should say they almost never do).

Not All Dudes

Alright, alright I didn't mean to ruffle feathers by saying "all" my readers were male. I do have a small group of females that visit the blog.

Tied Up

I've been all tied up the past couple of days. Sorry, that I didn't get a chance to get on here and let you folks know that I was going to be absent. Yes, I have been forgetting the parting picture as of late. I assure you it is here to stay; I just have to stop forgetting. I plan on giving you several parting pictures today to try and make amends.

Free Rice

Maybe you have heard that rice prices have gone through the roof lately. With so many poor people in third world countries that depend on rice as a staple, it's becoming quite the problem. You can always donate to charities that will provide for those folks, and that's a very good thing. You can also improve your vocabulary with this game, and with every correct answer you're donating 20 grains of rice. . . Basically it's a good way to feel better about procrastinating.

Reporting Can Be Dangerous

Travelling

I'll be out of pocket tomorrow. I'm, again, traveling in the great state of Alabama. This means no blogging from me tomorrow. Hope to catch all of you back here on Wednesday though.

Would You Like Fries With That?

Cars now come with several cup holders, and this innovative accessory helps you make the most of them! French-Fry Holder holds one order of fries (and its cardboard container) close at hand! Even has a clip-on ketchup cup! Can also hold snacks or crayons. Fits into virtually any-size cup holder, with a no-slip rubberized base grip to help it stay in place. Also fits in a child's car seat's cup holder. Dishwasher-safe. (From improvements)


To be honest, this isn't a terrible idea per se. But if you actually need one you either spend way too much time in the car or eat far too many fries. Just saying.

Know Your Fruit

You know those stickers on grocery produce that your check-out guy/gal always has a hard time finding? Well, believe it or not they do more than just assign pricing. You can use them to figure out if your buying conventional, GM or organic produce. (Below from nofruitstickers)

0000	A group of four numbers indicates conventionally grown produce, sprayed with chemicals and pesticides.
8(0000)	A group of five numbers starting with the number 8 indicates genetically modified produce (GMO), unclear as to whether or not the produce was treated with chemicals but more than likely.
9(0000)	A group of five numbers starting with the number 9 indicates organically grown produce, not treated with chemicals or pesticides.

Just One More

It's hard to stop finding these things once you start. Here is a mom who threw one killer Mario party for her son's birthday party. I thought you mom's might enjoy reading about her creativity, and of course rip off some of her ideas.



One more thing. Is Mario still that popular?

[via crunchgear]

Updates

I have added a new feature to Websessed. There is now a polling area on the right side bar. I plan to have a new poll out every Monday. For the most part I hope to get feed back in order to make Websessed better, but there may be times where I am just interested what my readers think about something.


This weeks poll asks if I should keep doing the "Parting Picture" post. In case you aren't familiar with it: The Parting Picture is a picture that I find interesting, funny, compelling etc. It is also always my last post for the day. So when you see that one come up on your feeder, you know there is no more web-goodness, from me, till tomorrow.

Maybe We Should Check The Cards Instead

"Good news for rational, level-headed Virgoans everywhere: just as you might have predicted, scientists have found astrology to be rubbish.

Its central claim - that our human characteristics are moulded by the influence of the Sun, Moon and planets at the time of our birth - appears to have been debunked once and for all and beyond doubt by the most thorough scientific study ever made into it.

For several decades, researchers tracked more than 2,000 people - most of them born within minutes of each other. According to astrology, the subject should have had very similar traits.

The babies were originally recruited as part of a medical study begun in London in 1958 into how the circumstances of birth can affect future health. More than 2,000 babies born in early March that year were registered and their development monitored at regular intervals.

Researchers looked at more than 100 different characteristics, including occupation, anxiety levels, marital status, aggressiveness, sociability, IQ levels and ability in art, sport, mathematics and reading - all of which astrologers claim can be gauged from birth charts.

The scientists failed to find any evidence of similarities between the "time twins", however. They reported in the current issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies: "The test conditions could hardly have been more conducive to success . . . but the results are uniformly negative." (Full Story)

I've never understood the appeal to astrology. It just seems so much, well, like believing Hogwarts is really a train ride away.

Taking a Stroll

Two mysteries have followed me well into adulthood: Does soaping yourself work underwater, and how come there are so many people out on the street all day, seemingly not working? Having pitched a work, and not a soap, column, I recently attempted to answer the latter.

Because look out your window. Who are these people? At any given hour on any given workday, well, it turns out it's not a workday at all. Not for these hordes roaming free, anyway. By rights our parks and movie theaters and stores should be minor ghost towns between 9 and 5 -- chanced upon by the occasional tourist or late-night bartender but otherwise peaceful. Instead, they're inexplicably packed. I didn't doubt that the packers had sound explanations. I just wanted to hear them.

It occurred to me last night that you can learn as much about a city from what its people don't do as you can from what they do do. So I drove to as many parts of San Francisco as I could and interrupted as much leisure as possible to find out. (Full Story)

Actually, I've never wondered about this but all of the sudden I was interested. Good read. Do you ever find yourself out and about during work hours?

[Photo via pocoyo]