I was cruising a quasi-work related intranet site where people post things they want to barter for shiny objects or other compensation when I noticed this: New on the market! Be the first in your neighborhood to own one! The Brinks Security Baby Safe™ - Worried that a catburgler who has broken into your house looking for your jewelry or electronics is going to see little Timmy as an opportunity to enter the black-market baby biz? Well, worry no more! Now with new Baby Safe™, you'll never need to worry again that Junior will be left unprotected in your home. It does present an interesting alternative to the 14 year old baby-sitter with her long distance phonecall habits...

Sinkhole

Aerial view of the huge hole caused after a collapse in the sewage system in the neighbourhood of San Antonio, north of Guatemala city, 23 February 2007. A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed two teenage siblings when it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Edward Ramirez said he and other residents had been hearing noises and feeling tremors for about a month before the ground opened up before dawn, waking many in the poor neighborhood.

Sandworms begin their life as simple creatures known as sandtrout, or "Little Makers" to the Fremen. The sandworm begins the adult stage of its life at only about a meter long, rarely surfacing before reaching two meters, but their final size, as indicated above, can be several hundred meters. A joke among imperial ecologists goes: Question: What do the sandworms of Dune eat? Answer: Humans.