Pollyanna, Meet Cassandra: At the risk of being branded one of Them -- i.e., a global warming alarmist ("Wall of water! Run for your life!") -- I must say this little interactive Web thingie intrigues me.

 

CapeCodFlooding.org, a site created by a group called the Civil Society Institute, shows how much flooding would take place at a handful of spots on Cape Cod, Martha´s Vineyard and Nantucket if the sea level were to rise by a meter.

 

I´ve been to Cape Cod and Martha´s Vineyard only once, about 20 years ago. I´ll never forget it. It´s an enchanting place. It would be a tragedy to see such beauty diminished.

 

Urine Big Trouble Now: Speaking of beauty diminished, here in Ohio (and I´m sure this is true in many other heavy interstate-commerce locales), we have a big problem with a little something that has come to be known as the "trucker bomb."

 

Maybe you´ve seen these lovely wildflowers scattered along our roadsides, or yours -- plastic jugs full or urine. Is there anything more disgusting?

 

Now a company called Superslab 100 Inc. is doing something about this vile problem. The concept sounds pretty ingenious to me. The product converts the liquid waste into a biologically safer and more easily transportable solid. The company says it´s resistant to leakage and can be safely disposed of in any trash receptacle.

 

Thanks heavens for entrepreneurship.

 

Hartford, Capital of the Great State of New York: Thanks to you sharp-eyed readers who wrote to set me straight on the fact that the legislator who resigned after being snared in the FBI´s Big East trash-mob dragnet ["Another Head Rolls," Nov. 15] was in fact a state senator in Connecticut, not New York. I´ll put on a "Geography Moron" dunce cap and go sit in a corner now.

 

Pete Fehrenbach is managing editor of Waste News. Past installments of this column are collected in the Inbox archive.

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