“So, if you’re in California, Pennsylvania, Arizona, or Minnesota, you’ll want to hang your air fresheners somewhere else.”

That (not kicking giant clouds of moon dust) I’m no so sure about. That’s a big vehicle, a heavy vehicle, with correspondingly big landing engines. It may kick up dust anyway. Less than it would if the landing engines were all the way down near the ground, but some. 

Teeny tiny robots. Robots smart enough to seek your phone, make sure you’re not using it, sneak up on it and mount it—to their charging pads. After they’ve serviced your phone, they crawl or fly to their on charging ports.

Oh, come on! It’s just a precautionary patent. Apple may want to use something like this or not, and it is hedging its bet, ensuring no copycat can use the design. That, and keeping other manufacturers from getting a leg up and designing a phone that looks like an Apple product without it being an Apple product.

Has anybody else’s iPhone come out of the update without WiFi? Mine has. 

Voting should be by essay “In times of uncertainty, it takes a special kind of person to take the public trust in his or her hands and represent the people of the state of Maine in all legislative matters. Such person, who shall, in my opinion, represent the 2nd congressional district of Maine is none other than…”…

“Senators normally wave the reading of bills…”

I believe that the Koreans at Samsung have been led astray by depictions of US life. They seem to think everybody in the US lives in a palatial expanse. I bet Samsung’s domestic models are a more manageable size. 

Let’s be frank: do the dick pics we send those senators really need to have been sent unsolicited to us first? Can’t we just crop them from porn site pics? Crop out everything but the thick, veiny bits of the photo? A thousand times a day, every day? Like a DDoS attack, but with more ‘D’?

I bet he has friends.

“…should be roasted incessantly.”

He will. Believe in me, he will. He’ll have to die first, and that’s a long time to wait for it, but when it begins it will last for at least an eternity.

Maybe they do. To hasten the process or something. 

An heir in jail! That’s an idea to try in the ‘ol U. S. of A. I even have a few in mind. 

“The Atlantic Ocean Is Getting Wider Thanks to Upwelling Magma”

She’s gonna have to sell all her animal print clothes on Etsy to make that kind of cash. 

In most of Brazil those are called “May flowers” or “October flowers”, depending on the latitude you’re at (they tend to bloom later in higher latitudes, it seems).

I work as a conference interpreter and let me tell you, one of the most useful things I do to help me in my job is to practice low volume listening. Basically listening to people talking in as low a volume as I can while retaining comprehension. You never know when you are going to get a soft speaker on the job,…

One question I have is why aren’t cars equipped with double glazed windows and windshields. And better thermal insulation under the cabin panels. Just because cars already produce a lot of heat from their engines, it’s ok to just waste energy? And electric cars, can they spare the battery charge to run heaters just…