Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
This story caught my eye because using DNA for data storage — plant DNA, in that case — was part of one science fiction book I read (I believe it was I, Jedi, by Michael A. Stackpole, published in 1999). The concept is undeniably neat, and it made perfect sense in the context of the …
GoddessJ enjoys playing The Sims, more than anyone else I know. She’ll spend days creating houses and building up her characters so that they can afford them. But when she heard that 20th Century Fox has purchased the movie rights to The Sims, she was less than impressed. “Pong: The Movie can’t be far behind,” …
I know that thieves generally aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, but this guy has to be one of the dumbest I’ve heard of in a long time.
And I thought I was a sound sleeper!
If you’ve ever wanted to head to the store for some ice cream, but didn’t have the get-up-and-go to get off the couch, Marek Turowsk has the perfect furniture for you. I’ll say it again: for sheer weirdness, reality beats fiction any day of the week.
Scott Adams (of “Dilbert” fame) has an excellent “infotainment” article today, on leadership and stupidity. One that seems to explain a lot about current US leadership.
According to this humorous article, Hong Kong is considering doing just that. Interesting turnabout for Christian anti-porn agitators.
I was very amused to see this story today, about a train in India that stopped on a short unpowered section of track and the passengers had to get out and push to get it started again. It reminded me of my mother’s stories of the AJO&P Railroad of her youth. The acronym stood for …
When I first saw the above title today, I thought it had something to do with a former owner who had an Egyptian fetish. When I read the story, I discovered that I was mistaken: he’d bought a “flat” (apartment? condominium? something like that), sight-unseen, and when he arrived to look over his new property, …
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As a child, my family moved quite a bit. One of the strangest things I noticed was what people called a carbonated beverage in different places. In many of the places I’ve lived, it’s a soda; in some, it’s a pop. My sister was once mortified when, just after one of our many moves, she …