This reminds of a story I read a while ago about how they discovered that if you have a fruity soft drink with the preservative Sodium Benzoate in it, and also ascorbic acid, then they combine together to form benzene...as in what's in pertrol. [news.bbc.co.uk] It seemed to partly happen because no one had thought you…

I've seen this picture a few time now since yesterday, and I have to admit I still don't quite get what exactly happened...

I'm hoping this is actually some sort of elaborate car insurance scam by a dad ashamed of having to drive his kids around in the Sienna...

Yeah, not the best illustration, I just couldn't find a group photo without one...but at least it was still as fully functional as a load carrier despite the 'frills'!

I like 'Sportsbrakes' as much as the next guy, but sometimes I just miss at good old, no frills, estate car (paleo-Britspeak for wagon)

Thanks, that's enlightening, if depressing. The railway here is not nearly as good as it could potentially be, but it's nowhere near as crippled by regulation and entropy as over there, by the sounds of it.

As a regular train user in the UK I've always been curious (and somewhat bemused) by the issues preventing the American passenger railways system turning into something realistically useful. What are the safety and speed restrictions you mentioned about/for?

You'd think if any part of the AT&T's system was hacker-proof it would be the part that speedily separates the customer from their money! You could see now why they'd be concerned...

If this was in the UK the phone company would probably try to recoup the losses from the accounts of the people who were hacked, in the same way that if your phone is stolen and used they'll charge you the retail cost of the calls, rather than what it actually cost them.

Sounds a bit like the British Library, which has the ability to commandeer the freezer units of local supermarkets to prevent further water damage to books in the immediate aftermath of the sprinkler system going off in during a fire in their storage areas.

That makes more sense. The Wiki article came at it more from the side of local discomfort with the idea of so much fuel in one place and less from the side that it was actually used in the building...

According to Wiki the building also contains 300,000 litres of stored fuel oil and diesel across 6 floors...

Hello Leberkase! One of Bavaria's finest non-wheeled and non-alcohol-based exports...

Thanks, not sure that stood up to all the anticipation, but impressive nevertheless! :)

Wow! That's amazing! It's like it's standing on the ground!.. ;)

Can anyone stick the external link to the video in a comment (assuming there is one)...All I'm getting is a still picture of the plane, which isn't that impressive at all!

Yeah, I was thinking of posting this one as a cheery interlude after the one above...It's really nicely done and still a strong message without having to resort to gore.

Would have been cool to see an above and below the water shot, with the bar held vertically or at an angle...

Awesome though mega-projects like this could be, I really don't think we can do them properly anymore...I mean look at Heathrow terminal 5...It's hardly 'mega' but that took, what, 14 years? to get off the ground and that didn't exactly go to plan...

In the spirit of the Japanese MP drinking the Fukushima water I want to see the TSA, or at least their decision makers, marching into work every morning through a gauntlet of backscatter scanners...If they really are that confident about everyone else's safety and health surely they'd be willing to stake their own on…