WARNING: This article contains toxic levels of sarcasm. Read at your own risk. You heard right, Black Friday Gasoline Conspiracy. Do you think it’s just a fortunate coincidence that gas prices have dropped 50% just in time for the big sales? Boy it sure is fortunate for all those ailing retail stores out there who…
Month: November 2008
Daylight Savings Crisis
by enlitened Around the world theirs a financial crisis where the bangs and economies of countries are collapsing. It is like the Grate Depression of the 1930’s all over again. And what is worse is now Daylight Savings has run out. The European Union’s daylight slaving collapsed at the end of October. Officially, at 2am…
Rift at the NIST
by Loren Jersey the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acoustics Scientists and Engineers at NIST came to blows Tuesday over a proposal to redefine lameness, and how it is measured, including the introduction of a new SI unit, the Lamicle. Lameness, the degree to which something is lame, has always been measured in groans, with 1…