Wolves in Google Clothing

A website may walk like Google and talk like Google (sort of) but still not be Google,  thanks to this quirk of the Internet. 

Beware.

Innovative Uses

Photo by dkinsley

In China the pickpockets are pretty clever. Problem: How to keep your fingerprints off whatever you pick from someone's pocket? Solution: Pick your intended pocket with chopsticks!

So, is that an ironclad defense there? "Sure it's on videotape and I had the wallet on me when I was caught, but look your honor: no fingerprints!

Judge: "Case dismissed!"

Here's a video to show how it's done (legal disclaimer: Don't do this!)

When Presidents Were Presidents!

Back in my day, Presidents knew what's what, lemme tell ya sonny boy... Here's a bedraggled kinescope of one now!

Ah for the good old days!

Our Trusty Doomsday Plane

Plane of Doom

Did you know we have a Doomsday Plane? I didn't (at least under that name), although having lived through parts of the Cold War I kind of suspected.

The Doomsday Plane, built out of a Boeing 707 and part of "Operation Looking Glass," exists to make sure that even if the President is blown up and all our military bases are wiped out, never fear! We can still faithfully launch all our nuclear missiles -- including the ones on the subs -- from one of these planes. Actually we have 16 Doomsday Planes because, you know, you can never be too careful.

So rest easy tonight.

I bring this up because one was evidently circling Denver the other day. At first citizens of the 'mile-high city' were concerned, but when they learned it was just their friendly neighborhood Doomsday Plane a warm feeling of security enfolded them like a cuddly radioactive blanket.

This One Simple Trick Will Make Your Android Great Again!

Make your Android phone/tablet great again (as in stopping it from sapping your battery and improving its performance)! How? Well, it's really complex, but I believe in you!

Ready? Ok, here we go...

Step 1: Delete your Facebook app.

The end.

PS -- If you can't stand being without your precioussss (I sure can't!) try this app, or this one. They make it seem like you still have the Facebook app but in reality you're using Facebook on the web. The first one works for me.

Odd Russian Taboos

So apparently, doing aerobics in a funeral home showroom is looked down upon in Russia for some reason. Thank goodness for our precious american freedoms. Over there, it got this lady fired -- and expelled from President Putin's 'United Russia' party.

Hard man, that Putin.

RIP Tom Hayden

"You don't navigate challenges and remain unchanged. Not that you don't sometimes yearn to be young again, but you'll never see the world the way you did when you were truly young."

Tom Hayden, 
60s radical, 80s California legislator