“I was shocked when I heard about the alleged rape. But I can’t say that I was surprised to hear that 15 of the 47 players on the Duke lacrosse roster have arrest records that are laced with alcohol-related crimes.”

What’s up with Lacrosse?

Given the generally good times we’ve had out here in internet land, you’d think the folks you’d run a across would be pretty grateful that they live in a place and/or a time when and/or where they could participate in such a cool revolution.

You’d also think you’d run across a lot of people who have been seriously humbled by the amount of dough they’ve been able to accumulate in a very short time due in large part to the incredible luck of the moment.

You’d also think that in an industry that spends so much time considering communication and social networks, that you’d run across a lot of folks who are pretty cool and friendly when you meet them in person.

And you’d even think that, to a certain extent, since a lot of us were nerds who weren’t all that popular in the pre-web days that there’d be a pretty serious effort to treat others with a bit of dignity.

Ah Yeah, you’d think.

According to this story scientists have found “fossils of a 375-million-year-old species of ancient fish found north of the Arctic Circle [that fills] an evolutionary gap in the transition between water and land animals.”

They still haven’t been able to find any evolutionary link between the rest of us and Kansas.

Vanity Fair is getting with the whole green movement with a new issue that features Al Gore, the environmentalist, on the cover along with Julia and George.

My good friend Zem has been way ahead of the curve when it comes to understanding sustainable building and living the green life while not giving up the good life. You can read along with her green adventures on her stylish blog, ecoFabulous: Sustainable. Sexy. Stuff.

You’ll never look at a fridge in quite the same way.