Greening the fat: University of Louisville eggheads are converting used cafeteria ‘tater grease into fuel for a campus shuttle bus. Speed School students are currently using a 5-percent grease/biodiesel blend, but are hopeful that in the future, the shuttle bus will include a mobile-deepfryer, thus creating the world’s first (and most delicious) perpetual motion machine.
Yet another reason to buy local: Consumer Reports tested 19 name-brand canned foods and found unsafe levels of Bisphenol A (BPA), which is the dangerous mutagenic plastic stuff that forced you to go out and buy a metallic water bottle. Via HuffPost: “Canned Del Monte Fresh Cut Green Beans Blue Lake had the highest amount of BPA for a single sample, with levels ranging from 35.9 parts per billon (ppb) to 191 ppb. Progresso Vegetable Soup BPA levels ranged from 67 to 134 ppb. Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup had BPA levels ranging from 54.5 to 102 ppb.” Basically, you should throw away your can opener.
It lives!: On the cusp of Obama’s first full year of elected-bliss, former President and disgraced human being George W. Bush has expressed doubt over Osama Bin Laden’s vital signs, saying at a New Delhi business conference , “I guess he’s not dead.” Bush also suggested that Obama shouldn’t “abandon the people of Afghanistan” like he did for the last eight years. In other news, New Delhi businesspeople are fucked.
Railroading the economy: Financial investor Warren Buffet’s monolithic Berkshire Hathaway has announced plans to purchase a $34 billion railroad in order to, um, get people to believe that America is worth investing in again. It’s not the first time Buffet has attempted to singlehandedly save the US economy by opening his mouth/wallet, but analysts say there are too many systemic problems to make his bid anything more than cold comfort.
Text or Die: The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is educating the masses about the dangers of texting-and-driving. Says KOHS’ Shane Ratliff: “It’s just like playing bingo. You may be able to text and drive for five years, but one day, your number will come up.”