Want to win $20 million from Google? All you have to do is land a small spaceship on the moon and send back pictures. No, not in a video game. I'm talking about a real spaceship on the real moon. It's the Google Lunar X Prize. (Hat tip: Philipp Lenssen) … [Read more...] about Win $20,000,000 From Google!
Archives for September 2007
Fear and Loathing At the Airport
The Transportation Security Agency is training people to look carefully at people's faces to detect signs of fear or anxiety that might indicate a terrorist. Fear and anxiety at the airport? In the security lines? My God, do you think they'll find anybody like that? How about rage? If I'm trying to get through the TSA security station and I'm filled with boiling, pent-up, … [Read more...] about Fear and Loathing At the Airport
Working On a Fake Job
Our financial information research company is going to be temporarily adding 15 top tier legal minds to our staff in order to conduct an intensive due diligence and legal research project in Washington DC. We are hiring individuals who are independent and can work from their home office and local law libraries yet can still be accountable to a team and are available to begin … [Read more...] about Working On a Fake Job
The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
The increased use—and abuse—of Tasers by police has been the subject of some recent controversy. Kip Esquire sums it up perfectly: A big part of the problem with tasers is that they were originally marketed as a substitute for guns, but have become a substitute for exertion. Tasers are, increasingly, not used to save lives but to merely make cops' lives easier. … [Read more...] about The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better
Radley Balko discusses the hypocrisy of the living wage movement. … [Read more...] about Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better