Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain the weird and wonderful situations we encounter in everyday life
Poor Arthur Waldo (Terry Camilleri). The painfully soft-spoken man is deathly afraid of driving after accidentally killing a man a year before, and then he has the bad luck to pass through Paris, Australia. There the residents have blocked and booby trapped all of the roads leading in and out of town to kill unsuspecting passersby. The local…
Scientists in the US have created a breakthrough substance that can change in seconds when exposed to liquid, shifting from hard plastic to soft and back again.
With boating season coming up for everybody these boating safety tips will ensure you have a great and safe time.
Is Brett Coming Back to the NFL?
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.
The iPhone’s fake GPS is a useful feature, and stops you from looking too much like a map-studying tourist when in foreign lands, but the new iPhone 2.0 update will bring the service one step closer to real GPS. It still uses cell tower and WiFi triangulation, but will be able to update in real time as you walk (or drive) around.
What’s black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, of course. California biologists made a custom wetsuit for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
We may never know, but it is fun to think about it…
“The all-new CDA-9857 goes beyond traditional radio, with Full Speed? Connection for iPod?, BlueTooth, and Windows PlaysForSure compatibility. In addition, this head unit is specially designed with Full Dot-Matrix Biolite? for a sleek, easy to read display. iPod Full Speed Compatible (req. KCE-422i) MP3 / WMA
The new GM Flexible Earnings Card allows customers to redeem Earnings for Cash Back in addition to GM Vehicle Rewards, giving them even more choice for rewards.
Each speaking for about 20 minutes, the website has video downloads / vodcasts of eminent thinkers and innovators explaining their ideas. In addition to the ones listed in the title (Singularity, Atheist, Immortal, Freakonomics, and Wikipedia for those living in cave the past few years …), the MIT 1-laptop/child guy and many others present.
I propose that the default dashboard feed should be set up in such a way that it doesn
’t show more than the two latest items from each site. This would mean that other articles from other sites would be shown in the dashboard longer rather than being pushed out by the Weblog Tools Collection constant and consistent addition of new items.
Here is a flash news for you.
Tom Cruise reportedly is a big fan of the “Star Trek” television series and of Dr. Spock in particular. Considering all the speculation that surrounded the casting of the upcoming “Star Trek” movie, it wouldn’t seem like a stretch to think that Tom Cruise might be one more late addition to the roster.
The month of May is gonna be a huge one around here, so we are getting prepared by launching the Video Update a wee bit early. In addition to the not-to-be-missed world premiere of “The Sensei” at the beginning of the month, here’s the latest and greatest at Deane Ogden Studios!
There is also a twist at the end of the video which I don’t want to spoil.
The lagoon measures 1013 metres in length, covers an area of eight hectares, contains 250,000 cubic meters of water!
Hilarious. “Apple
® today unveiled Manila® Case®, the world’s thinnest case for the world’s thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. When empty, Manila Case measures an unprecedented 0.07-inches at its thinnest point, but its dynamically adaptable height goes up to a maximum of 6.9-inches, adapting to both the MacBook Air and Reuben sandwiches.”
When the Epilepsy Foundation site was hacked last week, exploits caused users to view seizure inducing animated images. However, here are some defensive measures, to protect epileptics from future attacks.
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An interesting list of ten amazing vacation locations that are at risk of disappearing for good - with summaries of why each location is at risk and what is being done to save it.
Useful Video to watch…….
Location: Shell Petrol pump, Brazil
“…the integrated camera will record a full color video of the entire incident and upload it (via Bluetooth 2.0 with your cellphone) straight to YouTube. This insures you have video evidence (with a time/date stamp) of your encounter stored in a secondary location which can be used in court.”
Mapquest is now offering another service to customers of Sprint Nextel caleld Find Me. Basically a cool hand held GPS option in your phone. It will tell you nearby restaurants, theaters, etc. It will also tell your friends and family who you approve of your location…cool eh?
What’s really up with this Company?
‘And then we thought we
’d look closer at the location they’re in. And that’s where things got really strange.
The address had changed completely.’
The annual Today Show event of Where in the world is Matt Lauer starts April 28th, and the clue for the first location is up. So where in the world is Matt Lauer going?
This site will find your location by using your IP address!
Location Based Advertisement is moving to the mainstream. There is a great potential in this feature.
Keep yourself and an animal safe at the same time
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that a substance obtained from animal cartilage had been found in samples of tainted Baxter heparin. The FDA confirmation came after the New York Times ran a story this morning that included interviews with several scientists involved with the investigation. . .
The younger presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and another teen were fired from jobs at a Boy Scout camp after the killing of a stray dog. The youths tortued and killed a dog and got away with animal abuse. Do we really want this guy to lead the country?
�Today, I am here to share some grilling woes with my Grill”Dud” Kabobs.
� Man, is it tempting to just grab that pre-made kabob from the meat section.� All the meat and veggies are skewered nicely and seasoned to make these things ready to slap on the grill.� In fact, for the the novice, they even come with brief cooking instructions on the st
Mozilla Prism application (Single Site Browser) is nifty application that allows you to have permanently opened website separately from Firefox, and therefore increasing stability and responsiveness. Minor problem is that Flash doesn’t come in bundle with the installation package. Here’s a solution for that.
He would love if u come bit close.. Hillary
Are the Democrats once again ready to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? If the results of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary are any indication, there could very well be an icy autumn chill in the air come November for Sen. Barack Obama should he become the