1. The new child booster seat law that went into effect in September with warnings will net parents a ticket on June 1. It requires a booster seat for children younger than eight or shorter than 4 foot 9. This also means I was just a few inches shy of looking really stupid in a car.
2. A group has already begun a grass roots campaign for North Texas to host the Olympics in 2020. They point to the fact that the area won’t require any major building campaigns for the events themselves, and the fact that the massive amounts of lodging needed for the games could be built into the Trinity River Corridor Project.
3. Do you watch American Idol? Do you really want to meet local boy Casey James, who is in the top three? You have a few choices: show up at the AT&T Store in Grapevine at 10:30, be at the Keys Lounge in Fort Worth at 1 p.m., the Stockyards at 4 p.m., or the Wildflower Festival in Richardson at 9:30 p.m. Or you can get sick and go to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, but you have to hurry. My favorite story? This one by Fox, which mentions he will attend an event with the mayor of Cool. Related: I now have a new Foursquare goal.
4. This just in: Craigslist attracts nut jobs. Still.
5. Dear Dallas: Jonathan Braddick just wants to share his car. But you’re being kind of mean and don’t want to buy in to his car sharing idea, even though really cool cities have similar enterprises. But I thank Jonathan Braddick, not just for his enterprising spirit, but also for the inspiration for today’s Friday Morning Ear Worm.