Wow… it’s actually illegal to have an indoor bathtub in Virginia. That could explain a lot. 😉 (Disclaimer: I’m allowed to say that because I lived in Virginia for several years, and several of my beloved — and not so beloved — relatives still do.)
Damned clumsy time travelers. 😉 (“Anachronous” is probably a better term for this than the writer realized.) I’ve confirmed that the article isn’t a hoax, at least — it really was reported, and discussed pretty widely at the time. Whether the watch is or not is an open question. A cursory glance at the Google …
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I’ve been pained for several years by the ads in one of my RSS feeds. Mozilla Thunderbird (my program of choice for handling e-mail and RSS feeds) waits until it has all of the images for a message before rendering any of the message, including its text. That’s fine, I don’t mind text or non-animated …
Looking for something exciting and new to panic about? Look no further! I especially like this snippet of advice from the “brown bear” page: Never intentionally feed a bear: Monitor your bird feeders, never put meat scraps or fruit in your compost bin, and put garbage out in a bear-resistant container on pick-up day. Bear-resistant …
As strange as it sounds, the research does have a useful purpose. Other than giving the researchers an excuse to legally (?) keep otherwise-illegal drugs, that is. 😉
I recently spotted this quote on our friend interrobang’s blog: The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability. — Steven Stack and Jim Gundlach, “The …
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That’s one heck of a pool table.
This gives me hope, because no matter how stupid people seem to be nowadays, they’re not quite as stupid as they were a century ago. It also saddens me about just how far we still have to go.
Yet another science-fiction technology is now becoming science fact. I wonder how long it will be before this technology, or something based on it, is put to medical use — and how long after that it will be before it’s turned to malicious use as well.
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, my previous company was purchased by a larger company (I’ll call it BigCo for the rest of this entry) several years ago, and they still keep me on the payroll for consulting and the more intricate development work on Project Badger. BigCo is not a software company, it’s …