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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."
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
BugMeNot.
well, whatever you call it when you tattoo an advertisement on your forehead for money.
Materialistic and depraved?
You can anti-paparazzi flash be a GREAT idea.
It only applies to 0.00001% of the worlds population...
But... why not go one step further and make peanut butter and jelly cups? Strawberry goes well with peanut butter and chocolate, and if you want to go crazy with the concept so does raspberry and orange marmalade.
Additionally, those apple-cinammon creme-filled cupcakes were pretty good back in the day, but were inexplicably pulled from the market at the same time they replaced the chocolate on the chocolate cupcakes with black wax. They need to bring those back (preferably avoiding the waxy "improvement" to the frosting.)
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
I could just wait for this article to come out each year instead. Anybody else see that the majority of those have been on slashdot before?
I may be wrong but you're downright ugly!
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/14/ 2119209&from=rss
I'm not fat, just big boned...
That's an idea that has been around for ages. It's just that its proponents are far more organized now than they were years ago.
Sure, they are getting a lot of publicity and having some effect in certain areas, but then you have to consider which areas those are. Kansas isn't known as a hub of scientific discovery, for instance. It really doesn't matter what they want to believe. The world as a whole, including most Christians, see ID for the nonsense that it is.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Am I the only one that can't find any article? What gives?
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I like how they talk wistfully about that great, stomach churning invention from 2005: "In Vitro Meat."
Ah, yeah, remember In Vitro Meat?
No? Neither did I.
It's because that article was published the same day (Dec. 11th, 2005).
I'm not sure a contemporaneous story could have "helped make 2005 what it was," at best it could be "helping to make 2005 what it is."
IV Meat is still worth a read though, it's a cyberpunk fantasy come true.
In Vitro Meat (free BugMeNot required).
Adding malware to music CDs.
Circumcision is child abuse.
$25,000 is a LOT of money for someone who's never had more than the $121.45 which food stamps pays per month. To someone in IT, $25,000 might be a 2 month contract, and not very much money. Buy a top notch digital camera to play with, maybe a new plasma TV, eat at a fancy restaurant all month, and your $25K is gone. But for someone who is poor, that $25K might last 2 or 3 years. It is enough to buy a 7 year old Honda Civic with 110,000 miles for $1700. That should be solid transportation for another 5 years. That 25K will buy lots of chicken at the grocery store at $0.79 cents a pound. Add the 10 pound bag of potatoes that is $1.99, and that will last a month. For someone who has been poor, you would be surprised how easy it is to stretch $25 into a weeks worth of good eats. There isn't any steaks, but there is plenty of roasted chicken, rice, oven baked potatoe wedges, and hearty soups made from the left over bones of the chicken with some veggies. I sometimes get a kick out of fancy resturants that use peasant recipes to make meals they charge $40 per plate. The original purpose of these recipes was to conserve and be frugal. For example, there is an Italian resturant near my home that has a $7 soup which is made from olive oil, garlic, basil, water, and lots of day old crusty bread cut in cubes. It is a creamy soup, very tastey, and something that $1 could make a big pot with 20 servings. The bread breaks apart and thickens the flavorfull water.
For someone who is poor, that $25,000 extra cash might be reason enough to buy a case of two buck chuck and stock the wine cabinet.
I know we all live in the USA, but there is a gap growing between the rich and the poor. $25,000 is a lot of money no matter who you are! Those guys who box are often poor, and come from homes where the needs were far greater than the wants.
Having said all that, I hate the blatant advertising. People should not use their body or uniform to advertise. It is a shame, because that $25,000 might be more money than the boxer could make any other way. It is one guaranteed payout.
... or at least you could afford a hat.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
It's a hassle to me (takes time). BugMeNot takes less time, especially with the extension or bookmarklet installed, and I feel no guilt because the NYT would'nt've gotten real information anyway.
I found this tidbit interesting:
Under "Making Global Warming Work For You", there was "Millions of acres of ice may soon become suitable for nautical traffic and oil exploration. An estimated quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources are in the Arctic."
And people wonder why the energy industry/US government is doing all it can to drag their heels on climate control...
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Oh yes, I can't wait for society to accept the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ahh, what a blissful day that will be when the Church of the FSM is recognised as a world religion.