FLOATING HOUSESThe Dutch are gearing up to build a town consisting of houses that will float in the event of a flood. Someone in NOLA needs to give these guys a call before they get too far into reconstruction.
THE UNGOOGLEABLES
How people are hiding from the search engines -- and why it might be a good idea. For me, it would probably be a lost cause at this point.
WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO...
Fizzy food -- carbonated yogurt from researchers at BYU, carbonated ice cream from Cornell University and Mac Farms, and carbonated ice cream from MIT.
GOOD STUFF VIA LIFEHACKER:
GETTING FIRED...
for blogging.
BIODEGRADABLE PLASTIC
Good for the landfills and the corn farmers.
DARK CHOCOLATE
One more reason to keep a lot on hand.
HARVARD'S $25.9 BILLION ENDOWMENT
The wealthiest university in the world. Yale is eating dust with their $10 billion stash.
PETE'S POND
In the last three days of watching Pete's Pond, off and on, I've seen elephants (one completely underwater with just his trunk up), hyenas, zebras, ostriches, little deer creatures that I haven't identified yet - and about a million different kinds of birds. Our dog, Rusty, especially enjoys the animal noises -- walking around the house with his ears perked up -- looking for African intruders. How does he know that these are animals?
Unfortunately, National Geographic may have become too successful with this project. Last night I had trouble squeezing in for a view from the window.
WALLACE & GROMIT
I'm a fan and I can't wait to see the new movie.
OBSTACLES TO FREE WI-FI
There are some big players who don't want Google giving away free Wi-Fi. Expect lawsuits and attempts to legislate their business model out of the game.
These companies, which have made bundles gouging the public because the market could bear it, should probably not expect a lot of public support or sympathy for their cause.
NETSCAPE COULD BECOME A PLAYER, AGAIN
They've signed a deal with HP.
It's a good thing that the latest version of the browser (which really initiated the public use of the Internet) comes pre-installed on new HP computers because I had a terrible time trying to get Netscape 8.0 to install after downloading it.
I'm actually running the Canadian version because the US version kept wanting all of my proxy settings in order to go further with the install. Since I'm not running a proxy I was stuck. (Even the Canadian version required a little voodoo.)
I hope that admitting I have Canadian software on my computer doesn't put me on some kind of FBI security alert list -- or red flag me for the RCMP the next time I'm up north. I suppose that for the sake of full disclosure I should admit, too, that I host my boydston.us (top-level .us) domain on a Canadian webserver in Edmonton, Alberta. What's a border among friends?
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