Archive for December, 2009
Infectious Awarables: Clothes for Trendy Geeks
While shopping in Ann Arbor today, I came across a collection of ties that humored the geeky side of me. Infectuous Awarables sells a collection of ties, scarves and other items that depict real and accurate images of infectious diseases and other microbiology-related items. While many would not like the idea of sporting an image [...]
Flying Planes Like Geese
According to an article by The Guardian, scientists have proposed an interesting new approach to reducing commercial airplane fuel usage: flying planes in a goose-like formation to reduce drag. The article states they calculated that flying in a group across the United States could yield a reduction in fuel usage of the aircraft by about [...]
Flashing the Google Maps Car
For their Google Maps project, Google employs a fleet of vehicles to drive the streets of the world in order to provide images from the viewpoint of the streets. In Calgary, Canada a man noticed the vehicle coming and dropped his pants to moon it. Above you have the “end” result of his work, published [...]
New Site Design
I just updated the design of this blog in an effort to make it more simple and less cluttered. Now the pages focus more on the content. The header image is currently a picture I took in Vesprem, Hungary, but the image will occasionally be changed. Let me know what you think of the new [...]
Spelling Mishaps Are Not Exclusive to Local News
Our local news media outlets are notorious for consistently publishing egregious spelling errors that seem to pervade all forms of their communication. It has gotten to the point here where it behooves the reader more to proofread newspaper articles and news broadcast titles rather than to read the abject content. Therefore, when I loaded the [...]
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