Tapping into Water Savings

Up scale Berkeley restaurant serves water from the faucet: Local tap water bubbles up in restaurants: "'Our whole goal of sustainability means using as little energy as we have to. Shipping bottles of water from Italy doesn't make sense,' says Mike Kossa-Rienzi, general manager of Chez Panisse. "

True, but the same could be said about shipping bottles of wine from Italy, or France, for that matter. Then again, the profit margin on wine is consderably more than on water.

UW Women's B-Ball Head Bounced

Seems the wow wasn't there. Sports UW dumps Daugherty Seattle Times Newspaper: "'Sometimes change for the sake of change is good,' "

Video Game Machines with Personalities

As if we needed more proof that video gamers are in serious need of a life: Will Ooijer's 1UP Blog: If consoles were girls: "If consoles were girls "

Maybe Fencing is Useful

I usually tell people that fencing is a sport with no self defense applications in the real world, but it turns out I was wrong: Sword fight ensues after S.C. break-in: "Sword fight ensues after S.C. break-in"