While I’m a firm believer in modern nuclear-power (they’ve said that new systems could power the entire city of New York for a year and put out the amount of waste the size of a tennis ball), I’m really glad I don’t live near any of the older reactors that have problems.
Drop some acid…
(if you’re into that) and then head to this site…or just check it one when you’re not trippin’ out…it’s a pretty wacky site.
“Whoa…look at the body at that…”
This is slowly going to become more and more common — ad getting put in places they normally shouldn’t. Companies are paying to have them included in actual TV shows, plugged by the host, etc… . It’s hitting the magazine world, too, and one of the most well known regular features in any magazine is the Playboy centerfold. Well, in the June issue, they plan on moving the centerfold, and replacing it with a BMW ad.
A real periodic “table”
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.
From the site:
In the well over a century since its invention by Dr. Mendeleev, the world has consistently failed to notice the word “Table” clearly contained in the name “Periodic Table”, and has insisted in printing it on paper, hanging it on the wall, putting it in the back of chemistry textbooks, and generally doing all kinds of things with it that having nothing to do with being a table.
So what does the guy do? Build an actual table, complete with removable elements, with samples behind them.
Write your own trash talk show script
Write your own Jerry Springer script (the site owner is working on a Jenny Jones and Jerry script part 2 module as well). The results are great!
Comments/Archives Now Work
Still need to find a few minutes to fix some minor bugs, but I’ve upgraded to Moveable Type 2.11, and I’ve fixed the comments and archives page so you can actually read them (and post). Woohoo! 🙂
Techniques to Keep your Newspaper Readers
Did you hear about the lady who got trapped in a news vending machine (and the Wal-Mart employees that wouldn’t help her)? It was a pretty funny story. One of my favorite columnists, Dave Barry, knows how, using what we learned in the above incident, newspapers can boost their revenue and subscriber base:
“If a relatively stupid, spring-operated newspaper vending machine can catch and hold a customer, imagine the results we’d get if we equipped these machines with computers, motors, wheels, stun guns, etc. We have the technology to make a vending machine that can chase prospective readers for miles, knock down their doors and refuse to take no for an answer.”