The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Tourist Survives Plunge into Crocodile-Infested Waters After Bungee Cord Snaps
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/09/tourist-survives-plunge-into-crocodile-infested-waters-after-bungee-cord-snaps/
Check out the video! I prefer my adventures to come _without_ the risk of dying!…
A dearth of posts lately, but there is a reason for it I will now bore you with… For those reader(s) who aren’t aware, my lovely wife and I have built a house out in the Virginia countryside (see http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/…
In addition to being gone for almost a week, the last several days has seen my domains stuck in ice cold molasses for some reason. Though I have had no reply from my service provider, the problem appears to have …
We took a week off over Thanksgiving partly to work on the greenhouse pool project (http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/greenhousepool/ if you find yourself with too much time on your hands) and partly to spend time with my mom. I got very sore …
Why Steve Jobs’ Magic Doesn’t Work In Medicine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/10/31/why-steve-jobs-magic-doesnt-work-in-medicine/
The final paragraph was what triggered me to post this here:
…I’ve idolized Jobs since I was a teenager. My first email account was on a NeXT, and I think he
America’s ‘Oh Sh*T!’ Moment
Has the U.S. deleted the very things that made it great? Niall Ferguson on how America can avoid imminent collapse.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/30/niall-ferguson-how-american-civilization-can-avoid-collapse.html
The author provides some paths to avoid the looming apocalypse, though I tend to be …
I started this blog today and went through my email to pull out things I wanted to post (I looked at my inbox on my gmail account, so only those emails that someone responded to got posted here). I didn’t …
but this one is thoughtful but also really funny:
Daum: Invasion of the idiocrats
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/18/opinion/la-oe-daum-idiocracy-20110818
I think I am going to have to rent/buy Idiocracy and see how far our society really is away from achieving that state.…
If we could somehow penetrate the bureaucracy and get access:
An e-ripoff of the U.S.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/opinion/la-oe-sparrow-medicare-fraud-20110821
To me the solution isn’t to do away with the electronic payments, but to invest in serious validation before payment. Given the half billion …
Got to be read to be believed:
Court Approves Lawsuit Against Toyota Over Cyberstalking Ad Stunt
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/toyota-punkd/
I am sure that the executives at Toyota had no idea what was going on, it was some flunky somewhere way down the …