This is not right!

A proud US father and self-confessed engineering "geek" has named his son after a computer software term.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3451207.stm

http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/content/framesets_e/bedouin.html

Her Majesty's favorite secret service agent wished hard to have this space-age "toy" under his Christmas tree, but the ingenious old man in the lab was late commissioning Swiss automobile dream factory Rinspeed Inc. to make this wish come true. So he has to wait until after the Geneva Motor Show 2004 to venture off to his new mission. But then well equipped with the first automobile in the world which can actually drive, swim and fly across the water - the Rinspeed Splash.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35269.html

Expert Says Glass Is Major Threat to Birds

By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Daniel Klem Jr. cradles a small, dead bird with chestnut-mottled wings, another victim of what he says is a largely unrecognized environmental hazard that kills birds in flight.

The culprit is the plate glass used in windows, skyscrapers and other structures, which the birds strike because they cannot see it.

"Glass is ubiquitous and it's indiscriminate, killing the fit and the unfit," said Klem, a Muhlenberg College ornithologist who estimates that collisions with glass kill up to 1 billion birds a year in the United States alone.

This guy must have researched this for years...

full scoop:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=624&e=8&u=/ap/20040201/ap_on_sc/birds_clear_danger_1

"Buildings that we have created to be aesthetically pleasing are slaughtering birds."