Autoerotica, Detailed Photos Of

The silver SUV apparently backed out into the street so fast that it struck and flipped the blue car, then mounted it. Nobody appears to have been seriously hurt, so we all have a guilt-free pass to mock the, um, compromising situation.
Found in Paula Wirth’s photo stream.

Cargo Aircraft Safety

Who knew FedEx and UPS planes crashed so often? (Blame the intronetz for making this too easy to discover.)

UPS plane catches on fire, lands in Philadelphia (2006). Apparently the source of the fire remains a mystery, as with a few other UPS fires.
FedEx planes have crashed and burned in Tallahassee (2002) and Memphis (2006). In [...]

Site Crashed…Recovered…Sort Of

My hosting provider lost a server, and their most recent backup of my database was from Wednesday. That was newer than what I had, so that’s what I’ve got. Any comments submitted between then and mid afternoon today have been lost. I was luckier with my posts: I write most of them in ecto and [...]

Morbidly Curious

A friend pointed me to PlaneCrashInfo.com and I can’t help but explore. I was told to start with the pictures (which end in late 2001, and so don’t include recent incidents like the flaming nose-wheel at LAX or the overshot runway in Chicago), but it was the collection of “last words” transcripts from the cockpit [...]