The Linkage for Jan. 15th

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Jan. 8th to Jan. 15th:

Texas leads nation in tracking paternity
Tags: texas society government
I would have thought it would have been wherever they taped the Maury Povich show.

Colorado beetle scourge goes from bad to worse
Tags: colorado nature animals
A pine beetle infestation is spreading from the mountains into southern Wyoming and the Front Range, and all of Colorado’s mature lodgepole pine forests will be killed within three to five years, state and federal officials said Monday.

Texans report seeing UFO
Tags: texas stupid
Folks in Stephenville are reporting unidentified flying objects in their skies. They’re also making replicas of Devil’s Tower out of mashed potatoes. Okay, I made the second part up.

Not-so-rich buy Texas Lottery’s $50 ticket
Tags: texas government society
Who knew that the super rich didn’t play the lottery? Apparently the folks at our state lottery. It’s okay, though, because middle class folks are picking up the slack and losing $50 a pop at a crazy stupid pace.

A scrapbook career in shreds
Tags: society funny
Scandal has hit the world of scrapbooking. Apparently, there’s also some of sort of power struggle between the old school scrappers and the new generation. Who knew?

Fix will give Hubble major boost
Tags: nasa space science
After fears that NASA’s “moon-or-bust” mandate would mean the end of the HST, it looks like the telescope is not only being salvaged, it’s getting some nifty upgrades.

Intel ‘undermined’ laptop project
Tags: computer technology
Intel reportedly tried to sink a project aiming to bring cheap laptops to children in the developing world.

WWI ‘blogger’ captures attention
Tags: history uk
A man in England has begun posting his grandfather’s letters from World War I online, exactly 90 years after they were originally written.

Mark Malkoff lives In IKEA
Tags: funny ikea
A comedian is temporarily living in a New Jersey IKEA store while his apartment is being fumigated.

Slovenians living Tetris-style
Tags: architecture slovenia videogames
While meeting some strict budgetary and space limitations, Slovenian architects have injected some Tetris funk into a public housing project. If IKEA made apartments, this is what they would look like.

Aggie, sips moving football game back to Thanksgiving
Tags: football tu texas tamu
After 15 years of crappy Friday morning and early afternoon kick-offs, the annual game between A&M and that lesser school in Austin is finally moving back to Thanksgiving night.

Rockies tix probe fails to round bases
Tags: baseball rockies law
Looks like the Rockies aren’t too concerned about a server attack that halted their World Series ticket sales and made them look like fools.

The world, then and now
Tags: history travel books
A look at how travel guides have changed over the past century.