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Category Archives: cool stuff
A gift idea for next Christmas
Monday, January 14, 2008
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power […]
Paper money is obsolete
Monday, January 14, 2008
Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world The only way to distinguish some of the “supernotes,” experts say, is to compare photographically blown-up sections with magnifying instruments, […] About $50 million of the mystery money has been seized since 1989.
Doris Lessing
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
On not winning the Nobel Prize I am sure that everyone here, making a speech will know that moment when the faces you are looking at are blank. Your listeners cannot hear what you are saying: there are no images in their minds to match what you are telling them. In this case, of a […]
Not me!
Friday, November 2, 2007
(also not me, though i met the guy at a gaming convention in Calgary once)
A quote
Friday, October 12, 2007
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon
On a similar subject
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
An example of a more advanced civilization than ours: National Public Toilet Map (Australia)
Stuff i like, this year
Friday, August 24, 2007
Cool, if i can make another of these entries at last, i must be getting back into the swing of blogging.
Heavy Economics
Thursday, August 23, 2007
On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott vs. Brian Johnson (pdf) (via Metafilter)
Tell it like it is, Liz
Sunday, August 19, 2007
That’s Liz as in Liz Phair. http://www.visi.com/~lazlo/liz/article.html#kids BRANDY [Age 10]: I am…Brandy…Are you really famous? LIZ PHAIR [Age 27]: I’m moderately famous. I’m somewhere-like, if you picture it as constellations in the sky-you know there’s the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper. I’m sort of like that, what is that “W” one? Cassiopeia. […] LAUREN: […]
