U.S. debt grows too big for National Debt Clock. The National Debt Clock in New York’s Times Square — first erected in 1989 when the debt was less than $3 trillion — cannot keep pace with the growing national debt, now at more than $10 trillion. NBC’s Brian Williams reported last night that “the debt has been piling up so fast lately they had to drop the dollar sign to make room for an extra digit.” A new clock with two extra digits will go up next year. Watch it: Recall in September 2000, during President Clinton’s last year in office, the National Debt Clock had the reverse problem. It was shut down because “it started ticking in the opposite direction, shaving off roughly $30 a second.
Oct
08
2008
Oct
01
2008
Back then people wrote novels about the temptations and tribulations of “selling out.” They don’t anymore because “selling out” is now our deepest aspiration.
Sep
28
2008
Overheard at Salon:
KelBell83:
Did I fall in a rabbit hole?
djmagaro:
In America, the rabbit hole falls on you!
Sep
14
2008
Sep
11
2008
Bald Billboards Wednesday, September 10, 2008 * E-Mail * Print * Share: o Digg o Facebook o StumbleUpon o Post to MySpace! o o Attention bald men: New Zealand’s national airline needs you! Air New Zealand is offering to pay bald travelers to stand in lines in three airports — while wearing temporary tattoos on the back of their heads so the displays can be seen by people lining up behind them. The airline would pay $660 for each walking billboard, a company official said. The tattoos will promote a new system that is meant to reduce check-in waiting times. Air New Zealand marketing manager Steve Bayliss described the campaign as “a bit of fun.” “It’s a … tattoo on the back of someone’s head, so they have to have their head shaved or be bald already,” he told National Radio on Wednesday. “It will be an advantage for them to be bald already.” The tattoos would fade or wash off after about two weeks, he said.
Scott says: Cool, I’ve always wanted to travel to New Zealand and this will be a good way to pay for part of the trip. :)
Sep
10
2008
Tweaks to your browser to speed up page loads.
Sep
08
2008
Ok, I admit it…… I am a Spongebob fan
Sep
07
2008
I believe this bit was written by my good friend and collegue Brian Jackson who had a highly rated morning radio show for years and is a very talented comedy writer. Somebody must have put video to it and uploaded it to YouTube. I forwarded it to him and I would like to see what he says.
Sep
05
2008
An infinite collaborative web-based painting. Fun to sketch craziness and explore.
Sep
05
2008
Dutch Dance Club Lets Patrons Produce Energy
Last week, I profiled a gym that uses human-powered energy. It’s a brilliant idea, but there’s no reason why it should be limited to the gym. If you think about it, dancing expends just as much energy as working out. Shouldn’t that energy go somewhere too? Rotterdam’s WATT club, which just opened today, features a dance floor where the disco lights become more dynamic as patrons get their groove on. The floor even has a meter to show people how much energy they’re producing at any given moment. WATT contains more than just an electricity producing dance floor. Drinks are stored in basement tanks to save energy by using a central cooling system and toilets in the club flush with rainwater. The so-called “pee experience” lets patrons watch rooftop rainwater travel through transparent pipes when they flush. The club’s owners claim that WATT saves 30 percent on energy and carbon emissions and 50 percent on waste and water compared to most nightclubs. WATT follows in the footsteps of a green dance floor in London, and the club’s parent company has plans to bring the sustainable dance floor concept to the United States. Could this be the next big thing in nightlife?
A tumblelog with smatterings of half-formed thoughts, unlikely experiences, audio and video experiments, and random snapshots of my journey as the body running ScottOS.
