August 2011
30 posts
An App For Wanderers Seeking Workspace In Cafés... →
Can You Split Atoms at Home? A swede investigates →
A Swedish gentleman, citing a a curiosity about whether or not it’s possible to split atoms in one’s own home, has been arrested for trying to induce fission of radium, americium, and uranium in his kitchen. No joke.
After catalyzing a “small meltdown” on his stove he wrote an inquiry to the Swedish Radiation Authority asking if his activities were, strictly speaking, legal.
Flying donkey →
In July 2010, a Russian tourism company forced a donkey to parasail over the Sea of Azov as part of a publicity stunt. “As soon as his ordeal was over, a lot of the people on the beach ran forward to soothe him.””
“Keith Richards tells a great story about Charlie Watts, legendary drummer for...”
– Seth’s Blog: “I’m your singer…”
WatchAcceptance speech for a Hugo Award. So touching… (via Best Fanzine - The Garcia Moment, Worldcon Captured on Ustream:2011 Hugo Awards Conference)
Cow leaps three foot fence and squashes car -... →
“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...”
– The philosophy of Stanley Kubrick - Google Books
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...”
– Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ
“Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.”
– Daring Fireball: Resigned
“Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is offering to pay Michael...”
– The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: Anti-endorsement contracts
“A similarly wet stretch in early July dumped four years’ worth of rain in one...”
– Not ready for the rain, in northern Chile — Marginal Revolution
