Category: Interesting

I always like periodically checking this page, as it’s basically all the items listed currently on eBay, sorted by highest price first. The current high item is a custom water-powered engine, running for a cool $60-million.

This, to go along with a crapload of really expensive Amazon items.

The whole objective of the early daylight saving’s time was to reduce power consumption. In reality, it just caused some minor grief for the tech industry and saved no measurable energy.

Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, describes the issue perfectly:

Most Americans believe that if you play fair and work hard, you’ll get ahead. But this notion is threatened by legislation passed Thursday night by the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow Internet service providers to play favorites among different Web sites.

Here’s a real world example that shows how this would work. Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying you’ll be connected in a minute or two, but if you want, you can be connected to Pizza Hut right away. That’s not fair, right? You called Joe’s and want some Joe’s pizza. Well, that’s how some telecommunications executives want the Internet to operate, with some Web sites easier to access than others. For them, this would be a money-making regime.

Thanks kottke for the link.

This was your tax dollars at work here, folks. This comic book was given to our soldiers during World War II who were fighting in Asia and the Pacific so they could tell the different between Japanese and Chinese men (as we were friends with one, but not the other).

I was never one of those folks that got really into Minesweeper (once I completed the large board, I was done), but this full history is fascinating.

Don’t bother comparing — they’re going to merge, so I’d wait until things are combined a bit better first.