Geek vs Life

Woe is me! The White space initiative is moving along, for sure, but it does seem to be dragging.  Who gives a rat’s bottom about economic woes, or health care debacles?

I want cheap, fast internet and I want it NOW.  

Thank Shay Shafranek* that Google and Microsoft are both working on it.   If you are like me and have the attention span of a gnat, then click on over to the article at dailywireless.org and get the image-laden info on what is going on in the realm of the WHITE SPACE…..

Then go tell your Congressman that you don’t care about any of that national deficit crap, we want CHEAP BROADBAND ACCESS!!!!

* Read “Shay Shafranek, God of the Geeks“

Do you know the guy, the one in the Dyson Vacuum commercials?  

I always thought he was just a tool.

But you know, I came across something on the good ole’ intarwebs that has changed my mind about the guy. He gives awards for innovative inventions that improve our existence.   That is pretty nice of him to encourage people to make things that don’t suck. (That is, unless invent a vacuum, then your invention is supposed to suck.)  

Check out the James Dyson Award page to get more details.  While you’re there, take a look at a few of the projects, they are quite cool.

Nikola Tesla (July10th 1856 – January 7th 1943)

Happy Tesla day!

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

http://richardlalancette.wordpress.com/category/nicolas-tesla/

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_tesla.htm

http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm

http://snagwiremedia.com/prison-inmate-escapes-jail-using/

In true gamer fashion a Turkish man has escaped from a German prison Solid Snake style by making use of a cardboard box.

The man hid in the box at the end of a shift of his prison job of making stationery and was carried out by a courier service along with other boxes. The inmate then cut through a tarp in the truck and jumped out shortly after the vehicle left the prison grounds. The driver eventually noticed the tarp flapping in the wind and reported the cut to the police.

Beate Peters, the warden of the Willich prison presumes that the man had accomplices outside the prison, and a manhunt is underway throughout western Germany.

This pretty much made my day… and I needed to share it with you all.

Check this out. Someone actually built a working jet pack. If I weren’t so afraid of heights, I would so want one.