From the you’ve-got-to-be-joking division, by way of Boing Boing, comes this story of a man who’s had three amputations (both arms and a leg) and still out-drives police in car chases. Yes, as in more than one of them. I triple-checked my calendar, and we’re nowhere near April Fool’s Day.
Archive of entries posted on 9th May 2007
Metric vs. Imperial
Great Britain has apparently decided not to switch over to the metric system, or at least not just yet, saying that it would be harder to sell things to the US if they did. As my friend Don tells it, there’s only one reason why the US isn’t solely using the metric system like almost [...]