Miscellaneous Ramblings

To help bring some diversity to your online spending sprees, Wired News asked around for suggestions in order to present you this limited, biased but gem-packed list of some of the coolest online stores.

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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24
hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2
cups of coffee.

Some are so clever that it’s easy to be taken in. Others are so patently ridiculous that you should probably slash your wrists for falling so easily.

"It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing."
— At age 29, in Playboy, February 1985

When Daniel Wright needs new comedic material, he turns to an unlikely source: the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The ability to suck up to the folks who don’t have big titles but make the world run is more useful.

If life throws you a lemon, you can always make lemonade. But what if life throws you more than 500 roadkilled deer?

If we want to support individuals indefinitely — allotting each person 3,500 calories per day from wheat and 247,000 gallons per year of fresh water — the planet has room for only about 5 billion people.

Peter Skidmore, a program manager from Seattle, has officially come up with the best idea since sliced bread.