WRT the JetBlue guy, according to the NYT's article yesterday (which made me laugh out loud multiple times), JetBlue didn't call the Port Authority police for over 30 minutes after the incident. The NYT speculated it was to give the JetBlue guy time to get home. That seems specious to me. But funny.
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
And when the cops got to his house, he was doing his boyfriend, per Gawker...
Why is it only 2:33? Are the cats slowing down Earth's rotation again?
Allyson! That's fantastic! Peter Freaking Beagle loved your book, holy shit!
You realize the downside to this is that you can never again worry about not being a good enough writer without someone saying, Dude, Peter Freaking Beagle!
Now that I'm sitting in a new location, I feel like I should put up a sign warning people that they may not want to look at my monitor. Maybe a "What has been seen cannot be unseen" LOLcat?
Researchers led by Tajuki Narumi at the University of Tokyo created a cookie-eating simulator that allows users to believe that they’re tasting different flavors, when they’re really only tasting one:
To create the effect, the team branded a plain cookie with a distinct logo that the headset tracks via a built-in camera. An air pump sprays out the smell of the chosen cookie, increasing its concentration as the system “sees” the cookie approaching the wearer’s nose.
Meanwhile, a visual display in the headset shows an image of the chosen cookie, suggesting the correct texture for that flavour.
The combination of smell and visual texture combine to fool the user’s sense of taste into thinking they are eating a flavoured cookie instead of the plain one.
New diet technology! I can believe I'm eating chocolate chip cookies when I'm noshing on seaweed cakes!
Dana, paypal is fine.
Allyson, that blub is made of awesome!
Oh dear. The text of BoingBoing's link to Ted Steven's obit:
He will be transported to the afterlife in a series of tubes.