Keep on ticking after you’re dead

Published 10:28 pm Sunday, November 30, 2008

The answer to our energy needs might not be found in this lifetime, but what about in the next? One small town is generating electricity using solar panels mounted on grave sites.

So, good news if you don’t get along with Aunt Bertha. Just wait long enough and maybe someday she’ll power your blender.

For Seahawks fans, it’s time to start looking ahead to their own great beyond: the draft.

The team’s most obvious need is at wide receiver, but the Hawks might be able to address that through free agency. New York Giants star Plaxico Burress could be available after shooting himself in the leg, and he would be a great fit. The man catches footballs and bullets.

Strange, fascinating hedgehogs are the subject of a new book. The critters are adorable to people, but not so adorable to each other. They’re very prickly, which makes mating a challenge and snuggling afterward totally out of the question.

Male hedgehogs are fine with this arrangement, since they’d rather just roll over, turn off the Barry White record and go to sleep.