Category: Of Interest
Those miscellaneous things that just must be published.
Gangnam Style Sans Music
Do It Anyway!
Totally awesome! 303 views right now. I predict one million views by Thursday.
WWI still going
And glacier melt has revealed 100 square meters of World War I munitions. The comments on that article are saddening.
Those famous last words
What will you say with your last breath? I certainly hope that mine will be poetic but I doubt I will achieve something as elegant as Samuel Beckett’s father’s last words:
According to [Samuel] Beckett, his father got up one morning, put on his dressing gown, then collapsed to the ground with a massive stroke, and died. His final words were "What a morning".
See also.
Well now, some people really do give a flying fuck
Today’s children’s shows
As I watch Saturday morning tv with my son I think these shows are creepy or the creators were high but then I recall my childhood programming and in all likelihood the probability that my childhood programming was the result of someone’s acid trip is far greator.
Not Mel Blanc
My 7 year old son is watching an animated show on television. I know I’m seeing a blue elephant with wheels for feet. But all I hear is Philip J Fry.
Thank you Internet!
Why couldn’t we watch the Olympic opening ceremonies live?
He’s a movin’ on up
Sherman Hemsley, aka George Jefferson, moves to a deluxe apartment in the sky
A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self
This currently has 309 views and is guaranteed to be the next big viral video on the web. I wish I had his forethought 20 years ago!
Update: Today, 24 hours later: 1,254,053 views.
Think your water is clean?
Compare your rivers to this one in Bangladesh.
Connecticut Voting on Marijuana Legalization Today
Since they are voting on legalization on 4/20 is the outcome of the vote a bit predetermined?
Update 4/26/2012: Yup, it passed.
The House of Representatives voted late Wednesday night to legalize marijuana for medical purposes for adults — despite a letter from the state’s top federal prosecutor saying that those growing marijuana would be violating federal law.
The vote was 96-51 in favor.
Patients would be required to receive a prescription from a physician to receive marijuana to relieve pain from illnesses such as cancer, glaucoma, HIV and multiple sclerosis. The bill would allow some producers to cultivate and grow the marijuana, and licensed pharmacists could provide the marijuana to patients. Patients would need to requalify every year in order to keep smoking medical marijuana.
[Source, Hartford Connecticut Courant, House Approves Legalization Of Medical Marijuana]
Cash is dying – anyone can accept credit cards
Square hit the market with a bang. An innovative small piece of hardware took advantage of the microphone feature of a smartphone’s headphone jack to create a way to read a credit card and interact with software on the smartphone. You can buy a Sqaure at Target for $9.99 and I believe you get a $10 credit from Square. They make their money via a percentage of the transaction but you don’t need a merchant account.
Now Paypal is getting in on the "anyone can accept credit cards" game. Paypal is offering their smartphone card reader for free. Soon, your excuse of "I have no cash" to say no to Girl Scout cookies and Boy Scout popcorn will be gone!
