Swimming in a river in New Jersey as a kid these would occasionally latch on your leg. Someone with a pocket knife would amputate the head which would fall off seconds later. As long as it was your leg it latched onto none of us seemed to care much.

Continues today with the selling of hand sanitizers. The increasing paranoia that everything you touch is spread with disease. Purell has created an entire industry from fear of touching the "unclean". Personally, I never, ever use the stuff. Personal choice, I do not recommend anyone do what I do, I don't like the…

Where to go in the event of Zombie apocalypse.

Gimp Shop has some catching up to do

More crap on the bottom of the Ocean. The Ocean is the world's toilet bowl but the septic tank is full. No one will ever clean it out.

It's not just that you are dead, it is how you die that counts. I'd rather have malaria then be chomped on by a shark.

I only know what I've been told. My Uncle claimed to have broken a leg running off the porch of his parents home, in an escape from certain alien doom. That was in East Orange, New Jersey.

Back at Imagineering under contract. Last year I finished a stint as Creative Director and Show Producer for the second best ride ever...Test Track

Thanks for such a great article. Many at Imagineering have wonderful fond memories of the creation of this attraction. As for me, I also have a rutabaga from the Urban Habitat hydroponic garden

Those Disney Islands, they are now called Cruise Ships. Island nations under the governance of Mickey himself.

1980 Model for Horizon's, Epcot Center, Florida, based from Gerard O'Neil's Space Station concepts. Finished model filled a sphere and was filmed internally while rotating, later used for projection on wall in Outer Space scene.

Great, maybe they can also shield us from the harmful effects of the sun, watch out for incoming asteroids and check on any black holes that might be heading our way. I feel so much safer now.

Dump Adobe and switch to GimpShop. It's free and once you get past some tool differences it works fine. Change the world with Open Source!

A bit late for this comment but this technology puts an end to the argument that people kill people.

Jim Carrey, insane meets insane...

I swear I heard his cell phone ring....