A limitless source of power has been tapped by South Africa’s Roundabout. They’ve created a well pump driven by a merry-go-round. As the children play, pushing the merry-go-round, a pump pulls water up from the ground into a storage tank.
Say, that reminds me…
Emeka, the matrix has you.
(via boingboing)
It was a traffic accident you sicko! You should be ashamed!
 | Mary-Kate’s Fender Bender New York Minute star Mary-Kate Olsen found herself in a Los Angeles predicament Wednesday afternoon. The diminutive tween titan was involved in a freeway accident, her rep confirmed today. Olsen was cruising down the 101 Freeway in her black Range Rover and driving through a construction zone when her SUV was struck from behind by a bodyguard tailing her in a black Yukon. |
I thought it was tough when my teachers made me sit in the corner… at least they didn’t have the class beat the snot out of me.
SEAGOVILLE, Texas — Elementary school students say that a teacher made them line up and slap a classmate.
But wait… that’s not all. Here’s the real insanity:
Parents in the district are shocked by the allegations.
They had me going but the story lost all credibility when it implied the parents were actually paying attention to what their children do in school.
Okay, now this is just sad… it’s 1:26am and I’m checking Google.
You always hear about people getting scammed, you can’t swing a cat without hitting a little old lady who lost her identity on the Internet. How often do you ever hear about scammers getting scammed?
Mike pointed me to the hilarious bulletin board discussion chronicling the exploits of community of tech savvy people and what happens when a con artist tries to cheat one of them out of a laptop.
A warning in advance… the thread is really really really long. You may want to start by reading it to get the feel (it is worth digging in a little to enjoy the group as they feed off each other). When you get overwhelmed by the volume move over to one of the summary pages to get the Cliff’s Notes version.
Steve grabbed the top googleblogtag ranking from me and bengt quickly hopped in to kick me while I was down. Perhaps I am not quite geeky enough (yes, Tami, I’ve left myself wide open :)).
Boy, this blog gets more exciting every day.
[Edit: Whose? What was I thinking? Should have sumbitted to my editor first]
The gauntlet was thrown and a sound thrashing was handed out. Bow before me!
Aren’t computers grand? The magic of the web and blogging technology allow us to keep a virtual eye on Rob and Sharon as they each celebrate their 30th birthday in Paris.
Rob has quite the photo setup and the skills to back it up. The pictures are bound to be beautiful.
