Phone Fusion

Listen to the Genius ...

These little wires be HUGE

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

The Connor Coaster

Yay Connor Yay !!

...Ooo Sorry 'bout that Connor.

porta-nuke (no moving parts!)

Ooooo -- Scarrrry !!!

... not
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXb8Bqo53MwI heard about this a little while ago and just got 'round to actually seeing it. Clearly (or blurily) this, somehow, is the reflection of a mouse -- walking around near the security camera enclosure -- perhaps bathed in blue light from the Marathon sign. Or maybe it's a bug on the lens. In any case, it's clearly moving around on a flat surface near the camera (not darting around the cars and pumps, and people).

"Unsuitable for Toddlers"

Carol-Lynn Parente, the executive producer of "Sesame Street" [said] Alistair Cookie and the parody "Monsterpiece Theater." ... played by Cookie Monster, used to appear with a pipe, which he later gobbled. According to Parente, "That modeled the wrong behavior"

As a result, the first and second seasons of "Sesame Street" (now out on DVD) have been deemed "unsuitable for toddlers"

<sigh>

Ron Paul Kookiness

I've noticed an interesting phenom. It's typical in American Presidential politics to marginalize non-mainstream candidates. Ron Paul (my particular fav) definitely fits that bill, but I've noticed that folks' objections to him seem based upon imagined notions.

Here is a serious 10-term congressman, a strict Constitutionalist, and physician (who has delivered thousands of babies). He's generally maligned as a kook ... but I can not find record of a single kooky statement he has made -or- vote cast during the current campaign -or- even his entire career.

So, that's the challenge ... Please, someone: find some record of Ron Paul kookiness and let me know. It has to be a statement by Ron Paul himself (not one of his critics or supporters). There's a record over two decades long to plow through -- should be able to find something in there, don'tchya think? I've been looking for a while now -- with no success.

So that leaves me with the question: If a candidate has some kooks among his/her supporters (and which candidate doesn't), is that valid enough reason to dismiss the candidacy outright?

Iranian Toonist