Impossible Beauty - Teenagers plight for perfection

Essentially a PSA for teenage self-esteem. A good look at what effort is needed to convey the perfect image.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1130618347958

Cow Flatuence accounts for 20% Greenhouse Gases

http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090401/25524-global-warming

Tired of dealing with traffic in Charlotte? Get Involved at the MUMPO

Do you have ideas on which roads should be built / expanded next? Let your voice be heard and participate in the Meck / Uniion Municipality Planning Organization (MUMPO) meetings. Check their site for times and locations.

http://www.mumpo.org/

Credit Crisis Explained for the masses

A really good five minute video explaining the credit cresis with easy to follow visuals.

http://vimeo.com/3261363

Credit Crisis Explained

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Man arrested for taking picture of ATM machine

As the title states, someone walks into an REI, takes a picture of two security officers servicing an ATM, and winds up being arrested.  Im interested to see how this turns up.

http://iamshane.com/2009/05/09/of-atms-iphones-and-911/

Country Music starting to lose popularity?

Growing up for part of my life in the midwest farmland gave me a lot of insight into the inner workings of people that I did not encounter when I was living in the "big city".   It made me realize there is more to America than I had thought.

One of the most prominent things that stood out for me was to learn there was a larger group of people that do not live in the cities with completely different perpectives on issues.  Possibly could indicate why which genre of music is/was the most popular on the airwaves nationwide. Rock / Alternative / Pop / Urban / Classical?  Nope, Country Music.   It was amazing to see how many people that I associate with later on in life didnt know that or even could believe that the TOP 20 HIP/HOP stations didnt represent most listeners.  http://cmaworld.com/media/pdf/marketing/2005_listener_analysis.pdf

However, it would appear just recently that Country is starting to lose out to Urban music in Charlotte, NC. Not sure if this is because city living is spreading or people are just tired of Garth Brooks / Tim McGraw. http://www.radioandrecords.com

Charlotte I-485 progress

The other day some people were talking about the progress of I-485.  Someone had mentioned that they read an article in the Charlotte observer claiming that I485 would be completed by the end of this year.   I reside in the north-east corner and am _very_ interested in its completion, but sadly had to look no further than good 'ol wikipedia to find the current status.

While the North-West segment of I485 will be completed by the end of the year, the North-East section isnt scheduled to start until 2015!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_485_(North_Carolina)

North Carolina - Handsfree cellphone law (A HOAX)!

I had started off this blog posting as a rant about North Carolina passing a law which requires the use of handsfree devices on July 1st.   I was going to drone on about how manual-transmission car owners should be required to keep both hands of the wheel as well ;)

As I started researching the law to see who would have passed such a thing, I turn up an article claiming that it was an email HOAX!

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=293216

If you are in NC, hopefully this will help you out as I was fooled up until this point as well.

_Enacted_ North Carolina DMV laws can be found here: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_20.html  (Note: 20-140.6 is not there!)