Boing Boing has a unique tip on how to fly securely: fly with a gun. Not in your carry-on, silly, in your checked luggage. Apparently, TSA won’t let you lock your luggage UNLESS you’ve declared a firearm, then they’ll lock that baby up tighter than a Chinese finger trap and you’d better believe they won’t [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Auditorium is a physics game for the musically inclined. Soothing AND challenging.
Unfortunately, what is perceived as confidence in men is often seen as pushiness in a woman. A Psychology Today articles suggest that a firm handshake may go a long way in subconsciously conveying a positive view of your confidence. Um, maybe?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I read too many Bill Bennett’s Big Book of Virtues stories when I was little, which consist of tales of dismemberment and death to kids who didn’t exhibit said virtues. Tasteful, I know. Anyway, I wrote a bunch of stories as a kid about disobedient little girls getting eaten by wild beasts and dishonest young [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets. Note: This is a series where I feature a selection off a hilarious list by blogger Joe Crawford about How to Tick People Off.
Corny concept, but this strategy physics games makes me wish they had made more levels!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
I’d actually heard about Romeo, a solitary Alaskan black wolf who likes to make friends with domesticated dogs, several years ago, but I just came across a recent article and remembered what a great story it was.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Nick Bilton asks on the New York Times’ Bits blog, “how do we drive people to understand that… online conversations are not just a place to vent and that humanity is still in play in a digital world?”
