You're sitting in a restaurant with your friends. The TV in the corner is blaring. You realize that none of you are actually talking to each other. Instead, you're all staring at a piece of furniture!
Now there's a solution: the TV-B-Gone. This small keychain wonder is designed to turn off virtually any television.
Unions hate it, administrators seem clueless, Michelle Ree used it to weed-out ineffective teachers in Washington, DC. What is this mystery? Quantitative assessment of teacher performance. Hint: it's not all about teacher education level or seniority. Read on for more.
If you remember the old Palm PDA then you remember Graffiti. Made entering characters a lot faster (after the learning curve). Swype may do the same thing for on-screen smartphone keyboards.
I'm no Apple fanboy so I'm pleased to see what may be the beginnings of real rivals to the iPhone. Check out Mossberg's review of new smartphones from Samsung ... and they're available on four wireless networks.
Not exactly workable for hardware issues or an unbootable or unconnectable pc. But, an affordable and, it seems, often effective approach to fixing pc problems.
Was there a Golden Age of Flight? Gold service maybe with golden prices and not-so-golden safety record. The service may be mediocre today but at least it's cheap, safe and available.
I haven't tried these yet, would be interested to hear from any of you who give this a try. Could consume a good week or so. Amazing what's out there ... probably being data mined as I type!
Here's a couple of disconnected articles for you ... but you know by now that I just send out whatever I run across that I think is interesting or funny or useful.
I enjoyed the article about the world's largest hand-dug well in Kansas (I'm a Jayhawker so this is on on my gotta see list) ... hey, it's one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas! Same list that has the Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson. That's on my list, too. My Pop sold explosives to all the salt mining companies in Kansas and I remember having a chunk of crystal salt the size of a deck of cards that had preserved insects and plant pieces in it. Wish I still had it. Maybe I'll look for a souvenir salt chunk on our road trip this Fall.
Was really touched by the second article about "wildcat scattering" ... and that's not a cat herding term. It's about putting your loved one's ashes in places that have personal meaning. With or without the papers and permission (btw, Disney frowns if you're thinking that). Seems much more meaningful to me than a casket in a plot with a chunk of granite on top. Anyway, read the article and judge for yourself.
