Another reason to take the stairs.

Traces of Cobalt 60 have been found in elevator buttons in France. These have been traced back to Indian steel mills. Basically what happens is when Cobalt 60 is unregulated it gets discarded in scrap metal and when melted down finds it's way back into iron and steel products making the products radioactive.

While you probably wont get any over exposure just from pushing the button, I feel sorry for the folks who were installing them and testing the elevators.

Lesson here? 

Buy local. Take the stairs.

The lucky girl who got the flowers

The one in the brown =p

Ben the flower guy!

White one earred cat and Sarah caught consorting

Evidence!

Objectified

Objectified

http://vimeo.com/2773785

From the people who brought you "Helvetica"

Down with Detroit.

There can be only one legitimate response to this crisis. Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under. In the same way we have subsidized Big Oil by destabilizing the governments of petroleum rich countries, or outright invading them, we have subsidized Detroit long enough. Just as every barrel of oil is undervalued because we do not factor in that portion of the defense budget that helped bring that oil to market, so we have undervalued our government's, and therefore our, complicity in producing cars that not only were inferior, but drove Detroit itself right off a cliff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/the-rise-and-fall-of-detr_b_204462.html

The source of this paragraph is incredibly surprising. 

The ping pong table