Finally, a personal mobility option for lazy people

The Segway never really caught on in America because it didn't fully cater to the typical sedentary American lifestyle. I mean, you still had to freakin' stand up when you rode it.

Honda has solved that problem with the new U3-X, the latest thing in personal mobility. Check it out:



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Random album challenge

Here's a quick, fun little project:

1. Go to Wikipedia and click "Random article." The title of the first arti­cle in your result is the name of your band.
2. Go to quotationspage.com and click "Ran­dom Quotes." The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your album.
3. Go to flickr and click on "Interesting photos from the last 7 days." The third pic­ture, no mat­ter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use Photoshop, Paint, or another image editing program to put it all together.

My end result:

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Where to find free e-books, audiobooks, music, and movies

Did you get a new iPad or Kindle for Christmas and can't figure out what to do with it? You'll want to check out this list of apps and web sites for free downloads.

"Death Jar"

From the official Star Wars web site:

The exclusive Death Star cookie jar is built to hold an Imperial army of your favorite cookies, and can even double as a festive ice cooler or candy bowl at your next Star Wars soiree. Made of sculpted ceramic with great detail and features a flat base to keep your Death Star from rolling off the counter. Oh, and no exposed thermal exhaust ports for hungry young rebels. A very cool exclusive available only at StarWarsShop!

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What is it, Admiral Ackbar?

Rep. Giffords had subscribed to her shooter's YouTube channel

By now everyone knows that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot by Jared Lee Loughner this past Saturday in an incident that left six other people dead. I won't belabor the details here, but I did run across an interesting fact this morning that, so far, has not been reported by any mainstream news outlet.

David Franke of LewRockwell.com got the tip:

In response to my earlier posting about the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford, I received this email from a reader (personal name not identified) of this blog:

"It's interesting to note, and I don't yet know the significance, but on the Congresswoman's YouTube page, she subscribed to only two other YouTube channels. One of which belonged to Jared Lee Loughner."

Naturally intrigued, I went to the Congresswoman's YouTube channel and there, at the bottom left of her home page, is a section with the heading, "Subscriptions (2)," with two photo boxes below.

The photo to the right turns out to be former Democratic Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri, who lost last November to his Republican opponent, Vicky Hartzler.

The photo box to the left is blank (no photo inside), and the caption underneath simply says "Classit..." It is not until you click on the photo box and land on the page that you see it identified as: "Jared Lee Loughner. Classitup10's Channel."

Out of the millions of channels on YouTube, Rep. Giffords (or perhaps someone on her staff) had subscribed to only two, and one of them was that of her shooter. Not exactly on the level of the JFK conspiracy, but interesting and disturbing to say the least.

The Daily Show covers San Francisco's ban on Happy Meal toys

You know American journalism is in bad shape when it takes a fake news show to actually get to the heart of an issue...

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
San Francisco's Happy Meal Ban
www.thedailyshow.com

A brilliant way around the ban on incandescent light bulbs

German businessman Siegfried Rotthaeuser thinks he may have found a way around the European Union's ban on incandescent bulbs. He's marketing the familiar light sources as Heatballs®.

From the English version of Rotthaeuser's web site:

The most original invention since the electric light bulb! Although a heatball is technically very similar to a light bulb, it is a heater rather than a source of light. ...

... A heatball is electrical resistance, used as a heater. Heatball is a campaign. Heatball is an opposition against regulations being passed that bluntly ignore the most basic democratic principles as well as bypassing parliamentary procedures, effectively muzzling the common law man. Heatball also resists unreasonable measures supposedly protecting our natural environment. How can we be made to believe that using energy saving lamps will save our planet, while at the same time the rain forests have been waiting in vain for decades for effective sustainable protection?

More power to him.

Irreconcilable differences

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Just when you thought Queen couldn't get any classier...

"Bohemian Rhapsody," arranged for four violins.



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