Okay so Bearfire Resort, located near Dallas, TX, is going to have a huge mountain of fake snow. Not manmade snow, but some weirdo plastic polymer franken-snow.
Fake snow. via core77 via geekologie
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Kottke links
Links from Kottke.org. Some older, some newer, I’ve not been to Kottke in awhile, so just things that caught my interest. I might break some of these out into their own posts, maybe not.
NYU students are materialistic! -NYU students would exchange their vote for an iPod Touch or a free ride to NYU. Half said they’d give up their right to vote FOREVER for $1 million. Disenfranchisement for an amount that wouldn’t even buy a 1 bedroom condo in the city they go to school. Even exchanging their vote, for an iPod?! I love Apple, and my iPod (I don’t have a Touch, but I do own an iPhone). But trade my vote for one?
Ninety percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting “very important” or “somewhat important”; only 10 percent said it was “not important.” Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference – including 70 percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for free tuition.
Yeah, real important. So important that’d you sell it away…
Musical roads. – The Japanese develop roads that play melodys when being traversed at certain speeds. I’m quite certain I’d find this annoying and speed to avoid it. If they want to discourage speeding, they should make a road that generates an annoying tone at high speeds.
Okay, I had like 6 Kottke links, but as I was writing this post, decided not to put them here. Two is enough.
Didn’t make the list
Men’s Health 20 Worst Foods In America.
This isn’t on the list since it’s homemade, but this would have to be tops on the list right?
But it all tastes so good. Yes makes you nauseated after you eat it, but still….
evolution or de-evolution
Is “de-evolution” even a word? Oh no, maybe I’m heading in the wrong direction?!?!
I don’t know… Especially in America I think with the celebrity worship the species might get better looking, but not so intelligent.
For science, yeah….
the Japanese Government referred to the expedition as “scientific”. It is a description that infuriates anti-whaling activists. Whale meat harvested on the expeditions is sold on to the Japanese market and the profits used to fund “future research”.
As part of its declared mission to collect scientific data on the age and “mode of life” of Antarctic whale stocks
Admittedly, I don’t know anything about this past the news wire reports. But I guess to learn about the whales you have to kill them.
Japan says it needs to kill the animals in order to conduct research on their reproductive and feeding patterns.
Max Power!
Hmm, I guess technically did your parents sabotage you? Hmm, from here on out, please call me Abel Max Power (to half steal Homer Simpson’s other name). Though do I really need A’s anymore? I wonder if Eugene subconsciously made people think “excellent” or perhaps the sound, so “unsatisfactory”?
Oh yeah, blog is back kids… But I’m going to revamp. So categories (once I figure out my schema) will be overarching and tags will be the new categories!
How to make a good first impression
The gentle art of selling yourself | Review | The Observer
Or something to that effect.
link via Kottke
Gotta work at it
The Science of Lasting Happiness: Scientific American
Apparently the key to staying happy is like the key to staying healthy, ever long vigilance. Practice makes perfect and all of that. Exercise those happy thoughts folks!
People should watch
Cognitive Daily: HBO Series on addiction
Wait, let me not tell you what to watch. I’ll watch if I get that free HBO preview weekend. I find the subject interesting. Whether or not you do is up to you obviously.
So I need to buy a used microwave oven now
High Voltage in your Kitchen: Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments
Holy crap do I want to try this! Unfortunately I rent a condo and the microwave is a built-in above the stove deal. I used to have a spare microwave, but when I moved out of my apartment I gave it to my roommate because I had this fancy nice one at the condo. Crap I wish I could get it back. (You’d think giving my former roommate a basically new microwave, and a 36″ TV, would ensure that I wouldn’t have to pay the last month of utilities (note: I wasn’t in the apartment the last month, I had the dreaded overlap rent month), but no, full charge for them. And they weren’t cheap!)
link via Dethroner