Random Linkage 2009-Jan-30 PM
- I’m not the only one who thinks it odd that FaceBook intentionally doesn’t notify you when a “friend” drops you, nor that Burger King’s FaceBook gimmick of awarding Whoppers for unfriending people was rather moronic
It is this policy that Burger King ran afoul of this month with its “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who severed the sacred bonds with 10 of the friends they had accumulated on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they’d been dropped for a sandwich (or, more accurately, a tenth of a sandwich).
- Swiss police find two-acre field of pot while using Google Earth in an investigation
Google Earth has proven useful for a plethora of things—finding your house from space, checking out islands in the Pacific Ocean, and now, finding massive fields of weed. At least that’s what happened in Switzerland, when Swiss police managed to come across a “large marijuana plantation” while using Google’s popular software.
- Fission-Fusion process to burn radioactive waste and reduce such waste from nuclear reactions by 99%. I suspect Gore will still oppose nuclear energy (via /.)
We have created a way to use fusion to relatively inexpensively destroy the waste from nuclear fission,
says Mike Kotschenreuther, senior research scientist with the Institute for Fusion Studies (IFS) and Department of Physics.Our waste destruction system, we believe, will allow nuclear power—a low carbon source of energy—to take its place in helping us combat global warming.
- Sorry folks - your government wimped out on the digital television crossover again
- Nintendo Wii outsells Sony PlayStation 3 better than 2-to-1 worldwide. Just in case you wanted to believe Sony claims of how great their system is and sells
December 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
This blog brings back some memories from years ago. Great work keep it up!