Month: April 2007

Underground Highways

Because of the steadily decreasing price/performance ratios of our tunneling technologies, the increasing intelligence and cleanliness of our automobiles, and the ever increasing social value of our spare time, some overcrowded city (LA? NY?) will eventually decide to put a nice, long AHS express tube underground, creating a fast connection between 2 important and yet informationally different urban cores, at the same time bypassing the most gridlocked sections of the city. Only certified, AHS-equipped, electric vehicles will be allowed into these underground connector tubes. Want Speed? Get Intelligent and Go Green.

if you really need suburbia, at least but all roads into tunnels. should be cost-effective soon.

Address Hacking

hack used by Russian netizens to trick e-commerce stores into delivering US/Canada-only merchandise to them in Russia: So what was possible to do is to put totally Russian address in the order delivery form, like: Moscow, Lenin St. 20, Russia in the address fields, usually there is a plenty of space to enter long things like this, and in the field country they put Canada in the field ZIP code – Canadian zip code. What happens next? The parcel travels to Canada, to the area to which the specified ZIP code belongs and there postal workers just see it’s not a Canadian address but Russian. They consider it to be some sort of mistake and forward it further, to Russia.

i guess the post office now routes around problems too?