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The Year in Ideas

Some Anonymous Dude writes "The NYTimes magazine reviews this year's great ideas including the anti-paparazzi flash, forehead billboards, scientific free-throw distraction, and why popcorn doesn't pop." From the intro: "Once we have thrown back all the innovations that don't meet our exacting standards, we find ourselves with the following alphabetical catch: 78 notions, big and small, grand and petty, serious and silly, ingenious and. . . well, whatever you call it when you tattoo an advertisement on your forehead for money."

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  1. Re:One thing is sure by HardCase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe it's the "Somebody's making money from the Internet and it's not me" mentality. Remember, on /., business is bad (except for Google).

    -h-