Wednesday, August 5, 2009

More Weirditty! (not really, there is some clever stuff too)


Sole Nigerian Black Man was included in an Identity Parade in Spain- and convicted, and set free- Reuters

When people use real-time driving maps to try to pick the fastest routes, traffic slows down.- Christian Science Monitor via Seed's Daily Zeitgeist

Biofuels: carbon-neutral sources of energy being developed through enlisting bio-organisms- Seed

Blackwater founder implicated in murder- The Nation

Comments can earn you a job- " Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is looking to hire people on the PR side, and one of the things they're asking for (even before a resume) is a link to your Slashdot profile (or other similar "comment histories")."- TechDirt

City-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations: "charter cities," could be the future- TED

The Spleen is not useless- it helps in a heart-attack or gash-wound, microbial invasion- New York Times

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