Two completely unrelated stories that should not worry us at all: Apparently a few years ago Japanese researchers developed a fuel cell that runs on blood. . . [via Steve] Then we have the UK researchers who’ve created a robot that eats “vermin” and powers itself by “digesting” the meat. Read more…
The subject that will not die has reared itself again. So, if we don’t tax the Internet to pay for dead trees killed by a dying business model, and we don’t turn copyright law into an undead brain-eating zombie under the control of the RIAA, what do we do? Well Read more…
UPDATE: Fixed dick quote attribution. I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats out there, and forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, most rules boil Read more…
So on June 3rd, a couple of unidentified men who were allegedly Japanese nationals were arrested by the Italian police crossing into Switzerland with what appeared to be $134.5 billion dollars in U.S. Treasury Bonds. The men were subsequently released and the US Treasury says the bonds are crude fakes. Read more…
I’m not going to rant about this, because it was pretty damn obvious what was going on as it happened. However, as a little bit a hypothetical I want to ask you the following: Let’s just say our last president made some policy announcement about a cornerstone of his administration’s Read more…
Boing-Boing tells us of a lil Canadian think-tank report. The Conference Board of Canada (sounds so official, I trust them already) who’re self-characterized as “the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests” (you know they’re independent, they said so.) Read more…
This does not mean the guy does not have issues. May I present, for your consideration, Andrew Mizsak, 28 year old member of the Bedford School Board, who also works as an independent political consultant. Perhaps he’s done consulting for his mom, who serves on the Bedford city council. If Read more…
Apparently, if this post causes you substantial emotional distress, Congress wants to put me in prison. Of course, that’s not how they characterize it. Again, we have more proposed legislation to protect the children. Which begs the question why say this, “with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause Read more…
Remember this post? The law where we essentially banned both the vintage toy secondary market as well as every small toy producer that doesn’t have the resources of Hasbro? I know, instinctively, that the reaction of most readers was probably less “that’s a terrible law that’s a completely unwarranted government Read more…
I will just point you to a site that answers a question that you never knew needed to be asked.