Morning Coffee Reads

BP has plenty of company with trouble oil wells - 27,000 unregulated abandoned wells in the Gulf, mostly from the 1940's. My favorite sentence:

Oil company representatives insist that the seal on a correctly plugged offshore well will last virtually forever.

Yeah, and I believe the oil company representatives.

All of Oakland (and LA) are paying super close attention to the Oscar Grant murder trial by former BART policeman Mehserle. Emotions are high. Many plea for justice and peaceful protests.

And more from the 'can't we all just get along files. Mideast peace??

Cool: Testing a 24-hour solar plane

Picking the winner of today's World Cup game - Paul the Octopus - only 75 minutes 'til game time.

Happy 70th Birthday (wow) Ringo! Means I'm a pup.

Park Bench Capitalism.

PAY & SIT: the private bench (HD) from Fabian Brunsing on Vimeo.