New Tricycle Morphs into Bike on the Go

"A new trike-bike design lets kids learn to ride on their own by giving them three-wheel stability at low speeds, while letting them experience the balanced freedom of a two-wheeler at high speeds."

Claude the Cat

Interesting facts about cats, mostly made up, but oh so true. Use the little arrow thingies at the bottom to cycle through the set.

Picture of the day. Oh yeah, try this: lift your right foot up and make clockwise circles with it. Now use your right hand to draw the number 6 in the air. Funny.

Target Corp. Redesigns the Pill Bottle, Hoping to Grab Customers - from TBO.com

"Target pharmacies this month rolled out a flattened bottle with easier-to-read labels and plastic rings that can be color-coded for each family member. "

Meet Tyson, the Skateboarding Bulldog!

This dog can skateboard better than some people I know.

Mailboxes that fight back

"He's invented three amazing mailboxes designed to deter, punish, or catch mailbox vandals and mail thieves."

Trunk Monkey Commercials

And you have only a siren, yes?

Powers Of 10

Your journey starts with a "view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth".

Modern Living

About a hunnert or so weird and cool clickable animations.

Granny has gnome security

"Battling gran Jean Collop nabbed a burglar — by laying him out with a garden gnome."

Driver Uses Car To Keep Trucker Off Freeway

"A New York man who says he lost a close friend to a drunken driver -- and didn't want to see it happen to anyone else -- used his car to block a tractor-trailer from pulling onto a highway because he thought the trucker was drunk."

Acoustic Radar

How did people detect planes before there was radar? Giant ear-trumpets!

World Jump Day

Wouldn't you like to stop global warming, extend daytime hours, and create a more homogenous climate?

Smart clock knows when you're ready to get up


Image of the day.

Quote of the day

"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. Not
something actively destructive, but someone who irritates, who
disorientates. Someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just
enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all
than the mere humdrum quality of existence."

- musician Elvis Costello.

French's Introduces Antibacterial Mustard

Do You Speak American?

"The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide For The Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster offers suggestions on how to pronounce thousands of words and expressions. Here are 100 examples!"

Robotic garage gets OK

"Robotic parking -- like valet parking, but without the valet -- is coming to Fort Lauderdale."

Picture of the day (as I usually say: click on the image to view full-size... and as I say now: if you see an image you want for your desktop, simply right-click on it and choose that option).

The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit

"Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a world of no night or day. It is a world of salt."

Colorado Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling

"Colorado is serious about its no-dawdling law in left lanes. Drivers who insist on staying in the passing lane are risking tickets as the State Patrol has begun enforcing a law requiring motorists to use the left lane for passing only. "

Patient Receives Blood Pressure Implant

"A 36-year-old woman with severe hypertension has been fitted with a pacemaker-like implant that, in limited trials in Europe, has shown promise in controlling wayward blood pressure through electronic stimulation of neck-artery nerves. "

Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast

"Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or "dead zones" in the seas, an international report said on Wednesday. "

Quote of the day

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings
endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

- Elie Wiesel

Unhappy Hour

"Like a lot of hardworking Americans, I often complain that there aren't enough hours in the day. That's why I dread what happens this weekend, when we're all supposed to "spring forward" between sundown on Saturday and sunup on Sunday."

Picture of the day (click to view at full size)

Getting Rid of "Spam" and Other E-mail Pests

"The basics of spam, "phishing" and other e-mail pests, how they got your address in the first place -- and what to do now that you're inundated."