December 2009
31 posts
Thought-to-Speech Machine Could Be the Beginning... →
Plane passenger accidentally activates ejector... →
Oops!
“Arachgoraphobia”
– Fear of wide open spiders.
(made up word of the day)
Overheard story about travel in India
[the guy telling the story] got on a long distance train, and found someone else sitting in his assigned seat. The normal polite “Excuse me, I think you are sitting in my seat” conversation started, but the man already there checked his ticket, and was ALSO assigned to the very same seat.
A porter was able to sort it out though: “You have the right seat, but the wrong train....
Watch Video: Stop Sign Designed by Committee : UsedWigs
I New Idea →
I am enjoying this web site. Several items from it in the next few posts.
(trick in the name and URL: that’s a letter I, not a number 1.)
Noteworthy Court Orders - Lowering the Bar →
Copyright infringement lawsuit against... the four... →
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship →
The nicest touch, to me, is that it is named the ‘VSS Enterprise’. You may remember that the first NASA space shuttle was originally going to be named ‘Constitution’, but a massive Star Trek fan letter campaign convinced president Gerald Ford to name it ‘Enterprise’ instead. The tradition is thus established: first-of-a-kind american ships (including the...
10 Best Places to Live for Escaping World Conflict... →
The End Of The CrunchPad →
I had no particular interest in the CrunchPad - but this is just sad. In his words, “This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.”
A Christmas Tree Rental Service →
Very nice idea.
(Say, Kirkmans… how’s our potted Christmas tree?)
November 2009
43 posts
