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“Kyoto Box” a breakthrough in boiling water!

// April 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Current Events, Humor, Science, Technology

An example of a solarcooker from solarcooker.org

An example of a solarcooker from solarcooker.org

I just read about something called the “Kyoto Box” over at Steve Milloy’s blog.

What is it exactly?  According to an article on the BBC website: (more…)

My idea: outsource to a computer

// April 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Humor, Technology

In Dave Barry’s article, Technical Difficulties, he laments the fact that much of modern telephone tech support is being outsourced to foreign countries.

As he so eloquently puts it:

THE GOOD NEWS IS: The foreign tech support people are smart, educated and eager to help, and they speak English.

THE BAD NEWS IS: They speak it in such a way that you understand only about every fifth word.

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