Now you now its cool to grow your own food

From On The Level…

For an upfront fee, the company will design and plant an organic vegetable garden in the customer’s backyard. Customers then have the option of maintaining and harvesting the vegetables themselves or paying a weekly fee for MyFarm to handle it. This movement appears to be growing; after two months of operation, the owner has already installed 10 gardens and signed up an additional five clients.

How autistic are you?

From Crunchy Con….

A friend whose grandson is autistic tells me that this 50-question assessment devised by Cambridge University is considered by those in the autism community to be a pretty accurate assessment of where one falls on the autism spectrum. It’ll take you only a few minutes to complete it, but the results might startle you. It certainly did startle several readers in a thread below, which is why I’m giving it its own entry.

This is the test….

What a way to rob a truck

From SPIEGEL…..

The men, all Romanians, raided trucks driving down motorways by climbing into the back from the bonnet of a car driven to within inches of the vehicles, at night, with their headlights off, and at speeds of 80 to 90 kilometers (50 to 60 miles) an hour.

“One of them climbed out of the side window of the car onto the bonnet, climbed onto the truck, broke the lock, stole goods such as laptops and mobile phones out of the back and got back in the car, all while they were driving,” Manfred Radecke, spokesman for the police in the western city of Dortmund, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

For those that don’t know, the bonnet is what we in America call the hood of the car.