A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.
"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Honors Tuskegee Air Guitarists." In this week's podcast.
I hate when that happens.
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Find the lesson about technology and innovation in this New York Times article:
In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.
In settings where cellphone use is forbidden — in class, for example — it is perfect for signaling the arrival of a text message without being detected by an elder of the species....
The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course....
[It is]... the offshoot of an invention called the Mosquito, developed last year by a Welsh security company to annoy teenagers and gratify adults, not the other way around.
It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.
Technorati Tags: innovation, mobility
Paris Hilton is engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, AND Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are tying the knot.
Truly, it's the Summer of Love, all over again. Though what will the tabloids call Paris and Paris, since there's no chance of a cute "Bennifer" like mashup of their names?
And does this engagement mean that Paris is our generation's Jackie O?
Clearly I need more coffee. That damned Markoff book is keeping me up. Curse you, interesting reading!
[To the tune of Natalie Merchant, "Wonder," from the album "Tigerlily".]
A surprisingly funny article from Harper's about how difficult it is to give up American citizenship and emigrate. Who knew the State Department could just say, "No, you're still a citizen"?
Previously, I was getting spam that claimed I was a money-laundering child pornographer. Now, apparently I'm-- well, I'm not sure what:
Travel and fly on planes under any name!Get job at preschool if convicted molester!
(This is not spam. You signed up as Arab decent person looking for new identity information for new mission.)
I'm a research director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Silicon Valley. I'm also an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science Technology and Society program at Stanford University.
At the Institute, I work on the future of science and technology. In my free time I'm working on a book on the end of cyberspace. More details are available in my c.v. (PDF). My first book, Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions, was published by Stanford University Press in 2002.
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