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iTunes is implementing a “popular songs cost more money” policy starting today. I propose the following program for any infinite good:

*All goods start at $.01. The early purchaser gets a deal!

*Cost increases by one penny (or some increment) with each purchase. So the ( Read more... )

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Have you ever been in one of those situations where someone is talking just a little too loud? Maybe you’re a big hungover, or they’re a bit deaf; either way, it’s awkward to say “please lower your voice,” especially to a boss or someone who is already angry.

To ( Read more... )

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A friend of mine was recently infuriated by this article. The crux of the article is that anti-abortion activists are supporting legislation that will REQUIRE a sonogram before a woman gets an abortion. Basically, you make her watch the little heartbeat before she gets rid ( Read more... )

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The proper quote by H. L. Mencken, not P.T. Barnum, is either “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public” or “No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”

Or, I guess, ( Read more... )

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I just had a sweet idea.

You’ve seen cartoony representations of people filling up helium balloons and floating away.

There’s even the priest who attached a bunch of weather balloons to a  lawn chair and got himself killed.

But how much would it really take to just, say, ( Read more... )

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Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson was, in my opinion, a very enjoyable movie, but disappointingly low tech.

Lots of movies and cop dramas nowadays have the archetypal tac board with obsessively clipped newspaper articles and colored bits of string connecting seemingly ( Read more... )

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The prison system sucks. It is a binary operation where you’re either in or you’re out, and the abrupt transition doesn’t do anyone any favors. I have finally figured out a solution.

1) Prison sentence will now be in the form of “points” instead of in years.
2) Each day a ( Read more... )

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The use of emoticons in chatting/txting is nigh universal now. However, emotions are fairly flat and 2D. Within a couple of years, I predict the following: the ability to create ones own “emoticons” that are audio and/or visual clips of celebrity catch phrases. For ( Read more... )

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I haven’t written here in awhile, so I’m going to go out on a limb and make a couple of predictions. I’m going to tell you how to make a lot of money in the next 5-10 years.

1) Holographic photography. Since we saw CNN anchors in “holograms” during the presidential ( Read more... )

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There is a website that allows you to enter your available ingredients, and it will output all the mixed drinks you can concoct.

In that vein, I want a website that will allow you to input your available tools, and it will tell you what MacGuyver could build. I see this ( Read more... )