(Yes, I’m catching up on CNN this morning, I have a headache, and it seemed like a good plan at the time). Clearly SouthWest want to be the only ones screwing their customers, don’t you dare rest your head on your wife because that’s a Federal offence they will pursue.
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Kynan’s going to be in trouble…
Kynan is an Australian I work with. He has an Australian flag in his cube, and it seems to me that he’s skirting on the edge of crazy US laws if he happens to move to one of those jurisdictions. I can’t imagine such laws passing in Mountain View, but I figure he deserves the…
10-4 good buddy
10 series radio codes might be dropped from US police lexicon. Seems a shame to me.
Anyone for chicken?
Why you should stand away from the car when the cop tells you to
This man makes a rather compelling argument:
Alan Cox’s IBM ThinkPad explodes
This burning laptop thing is starting to get old.
There is nothing of honour here
If you look at it just right, the universal radiation warning symbol looks a bit like an angel. The circle in the middle could indicate the head, the lower part might be the body, and the upper two arms of the trefoil could represent the wings… The U.S. Department of Energy has been grappling with…
When the Russians drilled 12 kilometres into the ground, they didn’t reach China
Beginning in 1962, the drilling effort was led by the USSR’s Interdepartmental Scientific Council for the Study of the Earth’s Interior and Superdeep Drilling, which spent years preparing for the historic project. It was started in parallel to the Space Race, a period of intense competition between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. The survey to find…
When Henry Ford imported America to export rubber
Wow. A few interesting random stories tonight. It appears that Henry Ford wanted to pay less for rubber for his car tires. What’s the logical solution? How about moving a piece of America to Brazil and trying to grow plants on rocks? …by the late 1920s, the infamous automobile tycoon Henry Ford set out to…
Natural nuclear reactors
In the early- to mid-1950s, Dr. Paul Kuroda from the University of Arkansas described the possibility of naturally occurring nuclear reactors lurking in the crust of ancient Earth… Such a reactor could not exist today, because too much of the Earth’s natural U-235 has decayed… but a billion and a half years ago, there was…