ACLU is simply an amazing search engine. It can tell you so much, from the center of mass of a planar lamina to the amount of calories in a pizza, to unemployment. One does not have to look further than their home page, which contains a plethora of icons scattered about, to see the sheer amount of information possessed by …
Seattle’s traffic is ranked 4th worst in the nation. I can’t argue against that. Being a commuter myself, I often find myself on the bus, waiting at a red light for five minutes because some dumb-ass has blocked the intersection, or an even dumber jaywalker decides to hop in front of the bus as it’s nearing the station. Many have …
As of this post, there are only 6 people in space, all aboard the ISS. How do I know? This website: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ Hopefully, we’ll see this number grow enormously as we start commercializing space travel. Until then, space is only for the highly privileged and rich.
A few days ago, I read an article on the Seattle Times newspaper about a new bill that would allow speed camera photos to be used in court as evidence. While it seems like a commonsense argument, not everyone is happy with the idea. Among the opponents of this bill is the ACLU, which says that increasing use of speed …
Every six months or so, I receive the Yellow Pages for my city and surrounding regions. For the past seven years, I’ve noticed a very interesting phenomenon. If you look at the first page of the White Pages section, it is all a bunch of companies with prefixes: “A”, “AA”, “AAA”, and so on. The number of As before the …