[links] Link salad hangs out (briefly) in Rehoboth Beach, DE

[jaylake]

Baltimore's 'arabbers' keep horse-cart vending alive - This is cool. (Via Lisa Costello.)

How the Rube Goldbergs of Credit Cards Fly First Class for Free - “Manufactured spending”? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Can Genomics Blow Up the Clinical Trial? - Genomic technology could accelerate patient trials of new cancer drugs that are targeted to

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[criada]

That space program headline kind of makes me go "duh!" since the benefits of space programs -- satellite infrastructure, patents that arise as byproducts of research, and plain old boasting rights--are a good way to kick off out of the kiddie end of the pool.

[wild_irises]

Whenever anyone mentions Rube Goldberg, I feel immediately compelled to mention that he owned a brothel in San Francisco. No,really.

I will let your imagination carry things on from there.