Another pick-me-up, or a "thank goodness I have more sense" inspirational website: Mark Barry brings us this tribute page to the amazing Lawn Chair Pilot who, on July 3rd, 1982, armed with a bb-gun and with some 45 weather balloons tethered to an aluminum lawn chair, willfully shot himself 16,000 feet into the airspace above Los Angeles...

Ok, now fess-up: Who here, at the age of 8, didn't think a homebuilt helium balloon rig was not a really swell idea?