Hot off the Press: Eyjafjallajökull and 4/20 edition

As more and more meth addicts learn to make meth on the move, more and more of their toxic labs end up littering the roadsides: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/15meth.html?ref=us.

After he won the Pulitzer Prize, Apple has encouraged Mark Fiore to resubmit his iPhone app they rejected in December: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/books/17cartoonist.html?hp.

The University of Wisconsin has cut ties with Nike over the company's treatment of workers in Honduras: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5071568. I thought Bucky had Adidas gear. Regardless, Iowa should do the same. I won't ever by an authentic Iowa jersey as long as they are made by Nike.

Surfers and environmentalists are clashing over the access path to the mostly untouched Lower Trestles beach: http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2010/04/17/politics/dpt-trestles041710.txt.

Childhood lessons on capitalism at Legoland: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks17-2010apr17,0,6271789.column.

A NYT op-ed call to ban the use of antibiotics on cattle: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/opinion/18kennedy.html. Ahh — it's good to be a vegetarian.

The famous "spider" theme building at LAX is soon to reopen after an extensive remodel and retrofit: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/us/18lax.html?ref=us. Visiting it is probably inconvenient for most travelers, as it sits in the middle of the airport, and I don't think it's connected to any of the terminals.

Iowa City will be upgrading the annoying chip seal portion of Sycamore Street still within the city limits: http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20100418/NEWS01/4180319/1079. This is no big news for lots of people, but it's interesting to me as a longtime IC southsider. My family used this portion of Sycamore a lot when we went to school and my sister's softball games, and my dad always said they should "curb and gutter" the street. The area has changed a lot since I was a kid, and I can remember huge swaths of the southside as cornfields. There was a nice, rustic barn at the end of my street, which is gone now.

A 15-year-old has been elected to a LA neighborhood council: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-council-teen19-2010apr19,0,4654284.story.