Oh, my! I’ve just found Athens’ Beer-o-meter, where you can see who’s got the best beer prices of the day. Now, Athens is known for its cheap beer (“Um… I’d like three PBR bottles, a Bud draft, and a shot of JD.” “OK, that’ll be $3.25.”), and this “tool” is just what’s needed to keep the prices down.

The ‘‘Super Bowl’’ of dogfighting was busted up by police over the weekend, several towns over. Apparantly, folks from all over the South-east were charged with felony counts of dog-fighting and nearly 20 pit bulls were recovered.

The Athens bus system installed bike racks on the front of the busses last week, becoming the first bus system in Georgia to do so. Each rack holds two bikes, and allows the rider to take his bike to his bus destination. This, coupled with bike lanes that are beginning to appear around town, is a wonderful thing. When I moved to Athens two years ago, all I had was my bike to get around. Although there are many bikers here, Athens was a terrible town to try to bike around in. Sprawl has put many of the shopping areas outside of the reach of bikers, and too many cars on the road made even the short rides dangerous. I lived within a mile of where I work and took one of the “safest” roads Athens had, but still got hit by inattentive drivers several times – luckily without injury to me. Finally, out of necessity, I bought my first car this summer (at age 28!).

Last year, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an article titled D’oh! An analysis of the medical care provided to the family of Homer J. Simpson. They compare and contrast the medical care provided by Drs Julius Hibbard and Nick Riviera, and offer a suggestion on which one doctors should emulate into the 21st century. The editorial discussing the article is just as funny, and nominates instead Dr. Bones McCoy for TV’s only true physician. (From Memepool)

The Brunching Shuttlecocks made me cackle again this morning. Also worth checking out is the rating of Street Names. I would like to apply this principle to other street names, giving us “Harding Road That Winds Around a Lot Then Comes to an Abrupt End at the Cannery.”

Brigit at EatonWeb ‘Blog turned me to this article by Ralph Nader that poses the question, “What if Alan Greenspan was actually worried about working people?”

It strikes me as odd that I’m making quite a bit more than my parents did at my age, I don’t have a family of my own, but I’ve got nothing to show for it. I live from paycheck to paycheck, but don’t live a materialistic lifestyle. There’s something I’m just not getting. Something I’m sure that Greenspan gets, but just doesn’t much care about.

Many astronomers were skeptical of the precise predictions for the Leonids offered by Asher and McNaught earlier this year. Data from last night seems to precisely match their predictions, and go a long way toward validating their model. The real good news? They predict a strong storm visible in North America for 2002.

It took me about a month too long to read this epinion titled The Incredible Truth About Minneapolis. Very funny, and written by that wacky Wendell over at OneSwellFoop.

Well, I observed the Leonids for about four hours last night, and saw roughly four meteors. It might have been three, as they were all very dim, and I could have imagined one. Apparantly at the same time I was watching, observers in Spain saw one every second or so.

The thing that I noticed most was the extreme amount of airplanes in the sky. At one time, two dozen were in my field of vision at the same time! And the sound of engines was steady, a constant deep droning. I guess that’s what happens when you live within 100 miles of the Atlanta airport. Too bad, really.

I spent many, many hours a few years ago lost in the worlds created by Trilobyte software. 7th Guest, 11th Hour, and Clandestiny were superb puzzle-based games, and still rank among the best I’ve ever played. I was wondering today what they’re up to, as I’ve not heard of anything from them in a while. Turns out they closed their doors this year, after falling from about as high as a software company can possible get. Their defunct homepage linked to this excellent article from GameSpot that charts the rise and fall of Trilobyte. It’s over 20 pages long, but does a great job of describing what was happening there. As an employee of a software startup myself, the article was all the more pertinant.