I was browsing the English version of Der Spiegel today, and guess what I found! 09/01/2009 (English Version)Investing in Death Betting on US Life Expectancy Proves Risky By Christoph Pauly and Anne Seith in Frankfurt =============== Namely, banks are offering Europeans “financial products” of bundled life insurance policies, that they…
The disappointment is profound. On the very eve of Michael Jackson’s comeback tour he drops dead of an apparent Demerol overdose. I know the scenario. The very same thing happened to my father, except that he was in a hospital with the antidote Narcan nearby and an alert crash team…
(This was the letter the Wall Street Journal didn’t print, but should have, in response to the WSJ’s bemoaning the public rejection of the hazardous CFL light bulb – archived here, screenshot here 1.1mb.) Nice try by Jeff Ball to try and sell Compact Florescent Light Bulbs to an unwilling…
I am stunned by all these news reports of Bill Gates actually unleashing a swarm of mosquitos on his audience! “Poor people in third world countries shouldn’t be the only ones getting malaria,” he says. What a smug-faced geek!! Most geeks outgrow their social backwardness, but obviously he never did!…
I swear the spiritual heavenly reality of instant mind-to-mind communication is rushing full force upon us. It can be overwhelming, but there are ways to lasso the volume and chaos and corral it to something manageable. If Facebook and MySpace are too dizzzy bizzzy, cumbersome, and prone to crashing my…
I can’t believe I’ve only JUST discovered Etsy.com! Where HAVE I been??? It’s where artisans of all types and interests hang out their wonderful handmade wares. All unique items you won’t find in Wal-Mart, with far less expensive listing fees, and with far less oppressive “rules” than eBay. So I…
I came across this Moon Phase widget I really liked, and if you want one for your blog too, you can click on it and sign up free. The Sun Face Widget I made myself embedding an image of the Sun’s magnetic features, taken daily by the National Solar Observatory….
A lot of verbal fisticuffs have been flying on sites like TreeHugger and Slashdot between science minded people who are lining up and polarizing over the whole concept of extracting energy from H2O. And I gotta tell ya, some of it’s getting pretty hostile. In This Cornahh! Defenders of the…
I don’t think Genepax realized the attention they were going to garner from all over the world, or they might have had an English-language web site ready before their big unveiling last week. 😉 I myself was so happy to see the story of their water-powered car, that I jumped…
Age of Aquarius The more I think about it, the more I realize just how huge the implications are that mainstream consciousness, is finally picking up on water fueled cars! I’d been seeing the ads around for conversion kits for a couple of months, and by investigating had found like…
