Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
A whole five megabytes, and I’ve been inside bathrooms that weren’t much larger than that thing. There’s no mention of price, but I’m betting it’s in the six- or seven-figure range. (I didn’t click through to find out; the details of computer artifacts from before I was born just aren’t that interesting to me.)
Some companies are accused of paying people to sit around doing nothing, but this is just ridiculous.
I never knew that carrots came in different colors: The reason modern Western carrots are orange is because they were bred that way, in the 16th and 17th centuries, in tribute to the Dutch royal House of Orange. I wonder what people would say to yellow or purple carrots. Other than “that’s weird!” 😉
This would be extremely useful, and not just for medical purposes — “cold sleep” is a common plot device in science fiction books and movies, for dealing with decades-long interstellar voyages, just as one example. And since humans obviously can do it, I think it’s inevitable that science will find a way to harness it, …
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“Be careful: this machine has no brain. Use your own.” One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard in months, and not just for working with powered machinery.
I generally find Verity Stob pretty over-the-top, but she didn’t have to exaggerate this one much, if at all. It’s an old one, but it had me smiling and nodding because I’ve seen more than my fair share of Windows machines with nearly every one of the symptoms she mentions. Far too often they’ve been …
“From the department of unsourced photographic Internet literalisms, an adobe photo-shop.” (Via Boing Boing)
I’ve never had a car that invites theft, so I’ve never even considered buying The Club. It turns out that that’s a good thing… it’s not just useless against professional thieves, it can actually attract them. (My preferred theft-deterrent? Drive a decent-looking older car. It has worked for me for a long time. 😉 )
A few weeks ago I posted that we had a raccoon raiding our trash. We’ve named him Ralph, and he and at least one of his relatives have been visiting our trash cans so regularly that we now refer to them as “Ralph’s buffet.” As I mentioned then, so long as the worst they could …
Well, something is definitely wrong with him, and I don’t think Palpatine is completely to blame for it. George Lucas might be though. 😉