Odd Consumer News
For $400 or less, you can built the Automite. It goes 40-55 mph, gets 90 miles
to the gallon, and is uglier than the day is long. Link
[http://www.prismz.com/automite/].
Making the Yugo look like a luxury ride:
Topic
Technology
A collection of 172 issues
Marshall McLuhan Revival?
> The average American is a ravenous media junkie, consuming up to nine hours a
day of television, web time or cellphone minutes, according to new research
which raises fresh questions about how technology is revolutionising society. .
.
> As information technology marches on, and search engine giant Google even raises
Something for Sundy Morning
Quotes from Simone Weil:
> All sins are attempts to fill voids.
> Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a
duty.
> Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is
the
Brews You Can Use
But can I get my wife to wear the radio transmitter?
> A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a
refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany. . .
> The disc-shaped mat can be attached to a normal beer mat
New Standard Educational Fare?
Just make sure the Internet filter keeps out all references to God:
> The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers
want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible
and self-reliant.
> The machines' AC adapter would double
What Do You Get When You Cross . . .
. . . geeks with sex, art, and alleged civil liberties?
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen
[http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/25/webzine_fsm_porn_tas.html]. My (hopefully
limited) sense for the morbid prompts me to mention it here:
> Some crazy internet wackos
If It Feels Good, Do It . . .
. . . And if you can do it, it must be good. Those are today's cultural mantras:
> British scientists have been given permission to create human embryos that will
have three genetic parents.
Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1772135,00.html].
Ham Radio in Vogue
> In an age of high-tech, real-time gadgetry, it's the decidedly unsexy ham radio
-- whose technology has changed little since World War II -- that is in high
demand in ravaged New Orleans and environs. The Red Cross issued a request for
about 500 amateur radio operators
Bringing Tears to My Eyes
Is there any way to equip it with a miniature guillotine?
> A South African inventor has unveiled a new anti-rape female condom that hooks
onto an attacker's penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual
assault in the world. . . .
> Ehlers said
Far Out! We'll Never Have to Bowl . . .
. . . join a club, have spousal relations, or talk to anyone again!
> The multiple-channel screen, known in the television industry as a "mosaic," is
about to show up on millions of TVs throughout the country. It's another sign
that satellite and cable systems are beginning