solar-heated water from the summer months will be stored 65 meters underground in “60K m3 of crystalline rock and can then be pumped back up to heat homes in winter.”
Month: July 2007
Fake ATM receipts for sale
for rekha, who thinks that ATM receipts have any value whatsoever 😉
Chore Wars
Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.
i should get a least 5000 XP for filing a police report
Miniature anatomical toys
Sold as a blind assortment in a closed box you don’t know which one you’ll get: surprise!–it’s a pop-open stomach!
Prison Thriller
anywhere else this would probably be cruel and unusual punishment.
Robot fly
The 60 fly milligram robofly has a 3 centimeter wingspan and achieves lift using wing motions modeled on a real fly.
Trash Talk
Incensed by the most recent arrest of an alleged drug dealer, a Cleveland politician wrote the perp a scathing, profanity-filled letter that referred to the man as a “crack dealing piece of trash” who should “go to jail or the cemetery soon.” In a July 12 letter, a copy of which you’ll find below, Councilman Michael Polensek, 57, tore into Arsenio Winston, 18, after learning of the teenager’s arrest earlier this month on a felony drug trafficking rap.
wow
Scale matters
The Tragedy of the Conversational Commons that comes from being able to hijack an audience to get attention for your own views becomes too persistently tempting when that audience is large. At large scale, John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory cannot be repealed.
Neocon Cruise
A red-faced man who looks like an egg with a moustache glued on grumbles, ” If the Germans think they can take responsibility for the world, I don’t care about German courts. Bomb them.” I begin to witter on about the Pinochet precedent, and Kate snaps, “Treating Don Rumsfeld like Pinochet is disgusting.” Egg Man pounds his fist on the table: ” Treating Pinochet like that is disgusting. Pinochet is a hero. He saved Chile.”
filed under delusional, religion
Swarm Behavior
Recently, swarm theory has begun to move from the laboratory into the business and industrial world.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 