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Why Did the Butterfly Cross the Road?

Posted on March 25, 2007 ·

“Why did the chicken cross the road?” is one of the oldest jokes around.  But what about butterflies?

 When they cross the road, traffic halts.  At least in Taiwan:

“Taiwan is to close one lane of a major highway to protect more than a million butterflies, which cross the road on their seasonal migration.
The purple milkweed butterfly, which winters in the south of the island, passes over some 600m of motorway to reach its breeding ground in the north.

Many of the 11,500 butterflies that attempt the journey each hour do not reach safety, experts say. Protective nets and ultra-violet lights will also be used to aid the insects.”

(Full story: BBC News)

 

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Economic Prognosis from Zoho :-)

Posted on March 14, 2007 ·

I can’t help but laugh when I see the last three chart types on the illustration of Zoho’s latest announcement:

 

Web. Bubble. Stock.    Do they know something we don’t? smile_tongue

 

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PikiPimped

Posted on March 9, 2007 ·

I’ve got pikipimped.  (hat tip: David Cohen)

my pimped pic!

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9223372036854775807 months

Posted on March 8, 2007 ·

Being an early beta user has its perks – a particular service I’ve been using and like just came out of beta, and decided to reward me with $200 credit against future fees.  Now comes the really good part:

“Your current … charges come to $0 per month. With the current …. you have, your credits should last for 9223372036854775807 months from now on.”

Life is good.  And around month 9223372036854775805 we’ll re-negotiate, shall we?

 

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Medieval Tech Support

Posted on March 8, 2007 ·

Should the embedded video not play, watch it here.  

(hat tip: Christopher Carfi)

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Feed Me, Seymour!

Posted on March 7, 2007 ·

Little Shop of Horrors Little (?) Shop of Horrors in New York: a group of NYU students created Botanicalls, an innovative project which “establishes a way for thirsty plants to effectively communicate their needs to humans – by placing phone calls to their owners.

Utilizing moisture sensors – which are attached to the plants – as well as an open-source telephony application called Asterisk, the programmed software triggers Asterisk to call a designated number whenever a plant needs watering.”

For now they are only calling …

smile_speedy

(Full story here)

Update (3/20):  Botanicalls’s is getting picked up by  O’Reilly Radar and  BL Ochman.

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Anne 2.1 Pro

Posted on March 5, 2007 ·

Anne Zelenka just incremented her version number, announcing Anne 2.1 pro.

Me, I’m staying with 3.0 smile_tongue

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Listening to Consumer Survey Apple Upgrades iPhone

Posted on February 26, 2007 ·

Kudos to Apple, their attention to customers is exemplary.  Just as soon as we found out that consumers won’t pay $500 for the iPhone, they came back with a much enhanced version. Is this the iPhone Plus?  Or perhaps iLive?  iDo? smile_wink

 

(Hat tip: Dennis Howlett)

 

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Breaking News: President Bush Plans to Bring the Troops Home on JetBlue

Posted on February 23, 2007 ·

“Under increased pressure to announce an exit strategy from Iraq, President George W. Bush revealed plans today to bring U.S. troops home on the budget airlines JetBlue.

According to most official estimates, with its recent spate of scheduling problems and flight delays, JetBlue could take up to seven years to bring U.S. troops home, and possibly ten years in the event of inclement weather.”

(the Borowitz report, via  BL Ochman)

 

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The Day Google Became the Center of the World

Posted on February 17, 2007 ·

The day Google became the Center of the World is February 12th, 2007.  Don’t look for a product announcement, or breaking through another revenue barrier though… it’s something a lot simpler.. yet symbolic.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, previously in Los Altos, now in Pleasanton – small towns people outside the region wouldn’t know. So whenever I am asked where I live, the obvious explanation is “it’s x miles from San Francisco”.    

It all changed on 2/12/07, when Aaron Stanton, the guy who decided he just *had to* be heard by Google arrived in San Francisco.   He is staying at a friends’s in San .. .what?  In  San Francisco, about 40 minutes outside of Mountain View. 

Mountain View The Googleplex has become the Center of the World.

ROFL 2

(P.S. try entering Googleplex in Google Maps )

 

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