I was at a Radio Shack today, and discovered a package labeled “High Speed USB 2.0 Beverage Warmer!” I had to read it several times before I convinced myself that I wasn’t misreading. A hot-plate plugged into your computer is fairly weird in and of itself, but it would only need to draw power from [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
“Peekaboo pledges pole-dance kit for Wii”
Some things just beg you to put on a puzzled and/or disbelieving expression and say “huh?”. This qualifies as one of them.
“Nude Vacations: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Worries”
Vacationing in the buff? Hey, why not?
“Your Computer Keyboard Is Covered With Germs”
“Computer keyboards are filthier than toilets, according to a recent study.” Oh my, everybody break out the disinfectant wipes, pronto! Has no one considered that the strength of your immune system, like many other biological systems, depends on how much exercise it gets? Regular exposure to common bacteria and viruses is what keeps it strong. [...]
“Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?”
A look at the systematic and dishonest fiddling that has been done with climate data to make us think that there is a global warming problem, followed by a reminder that none of this is new: Bear in mind that warming and cooling concerns are nothing new, as this alarming bulletin reminds us – The [...]
“HP develops new type of memory circuit”
Although the most obvious use for this is to replace flash memory, I suspect it’s going to be very important in the future, to a lot of different applications.
“The Five ForcesCircles of Hell”
Poloni Ploni Almoni mentioned this page to me. I’m not an MBA, and I’ve never studied their way of thinking, so it was quite eye-opening, and finally explains a lot about cell phone providers that I’ve never understood before.