Techotic

BoingBoing writer Mark Frauenfelder says:

We came across these golf balls stuffed into holes in a wall made from lava rock in Kona, Hawaii. My daughter tried to dig one out to no avail.

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Dog meat or “xiangrou” in Chinese is to taken off the menu during next month’s Beijing Olympic Games. Waiters and waitresses were instruct to “patiently” suggest other options to diners who order dog “fragant meat”. Dog meat is eaten by some Chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.

Kevin Kelly says:

While hunting in my archives for something else I dug up this exercise in scenarios. It was a small game Brian Eno and I played to loosen up our expectations of what might happen in the near future. We were both struck at how improbable current events would be to anyone in the past, and how incapable we are at expecting the improbable in the future.

Dave of Our Delhi Struggle says:

Spotted this in a fancy mall in Gurgaon, India (the tech hub south of Delhi). I don’t know the backstory, and I couldn’t find out because (proving that India is aspiring to Western standards in every way!) a guard started rushing over to bust me for taking pictures.

This amusing email that Bill Gates sent to Jim Allchin and team about his frustration as he was trying to download Movie Maker in January 2003.

Last week Jim showed Gates a print out of the email, and Gates replied, “There’s not a day that I don’t send a piece of e-mail … like that piece of e-mail. That’s my job.”

Brilliant comedian George Carlin passed away on June 22 at the age of 71. But 10 days before his passing, Jay Dixit had the privilege of talking to George for what was supposed to be a 350 words Q&A on the back page of Psychology Today but ended up with over 14,000 words.

37 year old Dave Bruno, who is an online entrepreneur one day looked around his San Diego home and realized how much his family’s belongings were weighing him down. He then began what he calls the 100 Thing Challenge.

Lucy Cockcroft said:

The chalk outline of the Cerne Abbas giant has become almost totally obscured from view by thick vegetation, because there is a shortage of sheep to keep the hillside trim.