Well, it's not built to be an instrument but actually to resemble one. It's still an incredibly beautiful pedestrian bridge.

Quoted: As we understand more and more about the materials to build suspension bridges, their shapes are going to become more bizarre and seemingly impossible. Architect Santiago Calatrava made this suspension bridge in Jerusalem to resemble the shape of a lyre, a stringed instrument popular during classical antiquity.

I can't wait to hear the new album. I think T was playing Machine Gun the other night and I liked it. We saw Portishead play at the Paramount (I think) many years back.

Quoted: As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard dash along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly shaking their hands. ...

After a ten-year hiatus, Portishead is back. This is not a reunion bow, though, but rather an energized reboot of a band that ten years ago found itself burnt out from a rock 'n' roll life and creatively kaput after the success of their enormously popular 1994 trip-hop debut "Dummy" and their 1997 self-titled follow-up.

Well, if this isn't a good reason to decrease CO2 emissions ... (as if there weren't a few dozen others!)

Quoted: Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.

Congrats Kobe!!

Quoted: Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the 2007-08 NBA Most Valuable Player presented by Kia Motors, the NBA announced today.

Was this woman not around during the Abercrombie and Fitch magazine fiasco a few years back? And is her name really Milfs?!?

Quoted: Marci Milfs went to Urban Outfitters to find clothes for her teenage son.

She was surprised to find sexually charged books that she believes have no place in a clothing store for teens and young adults.

On one end of the spectrum was "Porn for Women," a photo book showing men doing housework. On the other was "Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults," a guide for making anatomically correct artwork.

This sounds like crap. Determining genetic mutations from stone carvings and statues? Why don't we consider that there was some artistic license taken? Or should we next determine that the anubis carvings were real people that had the mexican wolf boy mutation? Crap.

Quoted: Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.

I never understood the Linksys blue ... (not that this would be any more "camouflaged" on top of the bookshelf than the other one).

Quoted: Away with the signature Transformer-toy looking black, grey, and blue Linksys router! Linksys newest line is black, sexy, and very sleek. They're camaflouged to blend right in among your sexy peripherals and almost disappear on your desk.

Nothing like rubbing salt in a widow's wounds ... and I think that "coupled with the state's current budget difficulties" should actually read "coupled with the multi-millionaire status of the missing man".

Quoted: CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to bill the widow of adventurer Steve Fossett for the unsuccessful recovery search.

Last year, the state spent $687,000 over a month looking for the multimillionaire adventurer after his plane disappeared in northern Nevada. During a month-long search, ground crews, the Nevada National Guard and the Civil Air Patrol scoured a 20,000 square-mile area, but turned up no sign of Fossett or his plane.

"We believe that while this is not a common practice, the extraordinary costs of the search, coupled with the state’s current budget difficulties, warrant the request. The exact process the state will go through to make this request is still to be determined," said Gibbon's press secretary, Ben Kieckhefer.

I have a couple of brothers who will want this (if they can find the NES cartridges!).

Quoted: I've seen plenty of Nintendo NES clone systems in my travels, but this is the first time I've seen a mass-produced portable that can play the actual cartridges from the classic 8-bit gaming system. The FC Mobile portable console plays original game carts from the NES wherever you go.