Link Dump – Cinco de Mayo edition

The wonderful Straight Dope column addresses the question “Are pit bulls really that dangerous?”
I love stuff like this: It turns out that autistic children & adults are very good at working with 3-D models: Google Sketch-Up gallery.
Kind of sickening to read about the mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of Texas. (HT: Jason)
I use a self-hosted Word Press install for this site (and anybody else’s site I help with). These people have a very interesting product to offer – conversion of a .psd (Photoshop) file to a Word Press template. The reality of this is you could have a professional designer design your site in Photoshop for an hourly rate and then have these people turn it into a Word Press site for less than $1,000 all-in. This option would be any turn-key design from a firm in both price & features on the back end.