a cautionary tale for moose everywhere

A moose extreme sports enthusiast comes to a tragic end.

I'm impressed that the moose actually survived the experience (if not for long).

I'm also somewhat bemused at the importance put on salvaging the meat (to the extent that they decided not to tranquilize the moose since it might die anyway and the tranks would make the meat inedible). I'm pretty sure that if this had happened almost anywhere in the Lower 48 that people would have been screaming at the very idea of anyone eating such a, um, noble addition to the moose gene pool. (And on the flip side, I expect that moose die all the time in Alaska and go uneaten by humans, so I wouldn't expect that wasting the meat would be that big a deal.)

Anyway, your bizarre news item for the day.

"Eternal Sunshine" script draft

http://www.beingcharliekaufman.com/spotless.txt

Interesting. It has a frame that the movie didn't have, and a different ending, which includes some further explorations of one of the last actions in the movie (by the receptionist).

Neal Stephenson interview on Slashdot

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/20/1518217.shtml

Both informative and damned funny in spots. For those wishing to jump straight to the funny bits, check out the answer to question (4):

In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?