Saturday, October 10, 2009
Weekend Update: 10.10.09–The Textplosion Edition
Sometimes life’s irony smacks you in the face. Sometimes BoomTown smacks you with it instead.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
This Just In From the N.S. Sherlock Institute for the Bleeding Obvious…
…drivers who text while at the wheel are more likely to have accidents than those paying attention to the road ahead. In fact, according to a new $6 million dollar study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, texting while driving increases your chances of crashing by 23 times.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Text Offenders
A new study reveals that one in four Americans drive while texting. Plus CES adds more Mac stuff.
10 CAR PILE-UP! ROTFL!
It’s no surprise to hear that one in four Americans drives like an idiot, but to learn that a similar percentage truly are idiots, well… I guess that’s not really a surprise either. After all, you’d have to be pretty dim to text while driving, a practice that widespread research and more than a few fatal accidents have proven to be a dangerous distraction.
Explain Our SMS Pricing? Sure. Space Telescope Transmission Costs x 4
If wireless providers applied the per-byte pricing scheme they use for SMS texting to other data transmitted over their cellular networks, it would cost nearly $6,000 to download a single 4 MB song. Yet the price of text messaging has doubled industrywide in the last three years. Why?
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- Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
