Map of corporate jets fleeing Miami after the Super Bowl

Woman Lost for 25 Years

A woman in Asia has returned home after supposedly getting lost for 25 years after getting on the wrong bus.

The Funniest Picture in the Tubes

TheFunniest.info is an interesting site that attempts to determine the funniest photo on the internet by having users vote one picture better than another, then displaying another pair and asking the user to choose, and so on and so forth. It can be rather adictive. Also, some of the photos are off color and not suitable for children.

McDonald's Coffee Beats Starbucks'

It seems that Consumer Reports ran a taste test and McDonald's beat Starbucks in terms of Coffee taste. McDonald's coffee was "decent and moderately strong. Although it lacked the subtle top notes needed to make it rise and shine, it had no flaws."

Starbucks' coffee "was strong, but burnt and bitter enough to make your eyes water instead of open.”

Biggest Living Thing

A 2,200 acre sized fungus that is about 2,400 years old.

Prehistoric Looking Shark

Oldest woman in the world

A Quebec woman, Winnifred Bertrand, believed to be the world's oldest person has reportedly died at the age of 115 and 124 days, according to Radio-Canada.

Labels

Now that Blogger finally supports tags (which they call labels), I have been going back and tagging a lot of previous posts. I will also be tagging future posts so that people can find related articles just by clicking on a tag.

Follow-up Solar Energy

As a follow-up to my post "Cool New Solar Energy Idea", Dane has led me to Stirling Energy Systems Inc., a company which seems to be already manufacturing such devices.

Really Big Diamond

And you thought the Star of Africa was big.

WikiMatrix

WikiMatrix is a site that allows you to setup side-by-side comparisons between any number of over 100 Wiki platforms. You can figure out which one is best for you based on feature sets, price, etc.

There also ForumMatrix for those in the market for a forum.

Plagiarist's Nightmare

This article calls Google Books a plagiarist's nightmare. Interesting article, worth the read.

Line Rider

Cool Flash-based game. You draw a line and the little man rides it on his sled. Here's an example:

A Brief History of the Apocalypse

An index of hundreds of different predictions of when the apocalypse would (or will) occur.

It Came from the 1971 Sears Catalog

Black Friday

Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year - it ranks sixth. Cyber Monday is the ninth busiest online shopping day of the year.

Source article

European Cities Do Away with Traffic Rules

"European traffic planners are dreaming of streets free of rules and directives. They want drivers and pedestrians to interact in a free and humane way, as brethren -- by means of friendly gestures, nods of the head and eye contact, without the harassment of prohibitions, restrictions and warning signs."

"The new traffic model's advocates believe the only way out of this vicious circle is to give drivers more liberty and encourage them to take responsibility for themselves. They demand streets like those during the Middle Ages, when horse-drawn chariots, handcarts and people scurried about in a completely unregulated fashion. The new model's proponents envision today's drivers and pedestrians blending into a colorful and peaceful traffic stream."

I am not going to comment on this. Make of it what you will. I will say, though, that the article contains the interesting tidbit that Germany has 648 valid traffic symbols.

UserFriendly.org

Impairing Productivity since 1997

HonestArgument.com

HonestArgument.com allows users to create an argument, i.e., a topic for debate, and then debate them back and forth. The assertions or refutations are mapped out in a visual tree with nodes and sub-nodes. It is an interesting concept, but, in my opinion, needs a lot of help, particularly with the UI.

Orisnal

Orsinal is a large collection of Flash games created by Ferry Halim. I've only tried one, Milk the Cow, which is . . . . . interesting.

Enjoy :-)