I’ve been a critic of RFID for the purpose of identifying people from early on because the concept is inherently flawed despite the insistence of people paid to insist otherwise. Chris Paget is in a widely circulated story regarding him driving around Fisherman’s Wharf with $190 worth of gear (likely not bought with an [...]
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Tesla’s Lab For Sale
There’s little doubt that Nikola Tesla was a genius. Among other things it was his AC that beat Thomas Edison’s DC. His Shoreham, Long Island Lab infamous for the Wardenclyffe Tower (aka Tesla Tower) is up for sale by it’s current owner Agfa. The actual tower is long gone, but building designed [...]
The Crisis Of Credit
I meant to post this over a week ago but just left the bookmark on my desktop. Here’s a great visualization of the current credit crisis. Simplifying something and having it still make coherent sense and still stay true to the real story is nothing short of an art. This one is [...]
George Carlin Dead
I titled this post simply “George Carlin Dead” since he wasn’t fond of the softening of the English language (“passed away”, etc.). I would have posted this the other day, but I’ve been fighting a bad cold for a few days now and just wasn’t up to putting together an appropriate blog post.
I was [...]
Flood Pictures
The Boston Globe has some amazing photos from the 2008 Midwest floods. Particularly impressive is that first one with the nearby tornado.
They Forgot One Minor Detail
From the National Post:
Airport employees in Vancouver were forced into the role of babysitters after a family forgot their 18-month-old toddler after clearing security and boarded a flight to Winnipeg without him.
Did anyone see this and not immediately think of Home Alone (yes, the title of this post came from the tagline of the first [...]
Strange Population Statistics
Yesterday the estimated world population passed 6,666,666,666. Interesting (though just coincidence) the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses was supposed to pass 666,666,666. Perhaps we are the beast?
An interesting thing to note is that the population is increasing at a very rapid rate. How long it’s sustainable before a Malthusian catastrophe is [...]
