I recently wrote about the movie Idiocracy with Luke Wilson and urged some of you to get it. Well if you ever actually saw it you will recognize the fictional Brawndo softdrink from the future. Well, 20th Century F0x and Redux Beverages LLC teamed up to make the real life Brawndo which is available as of December 15th. It is a peculiar move by the studio to allow its production, considering they pretty much slipped this instant classic movie straight to DVD under the noses of …

Eric Corey Freed is an architect who became well known for green building design and consulting. He has earned a place in the green architecture elite and thus was chosen to write the official Green Building For Dummies book.
Call it 8th grade humor, or just plain tipsy on cheap book-signing-wine, but upon looking at the signature table I couldn’t help to point out the admitted “dummies” all around, getting their Dummies book signed. Yes me included, but I ended up there by chance that night, I swear. …

Professor Il-Keun Kong from Gyeongsang National University in South Korea thinks it’s a good idea to clone glow in the dark cats. Is anyone concerned with losing their cat in the dark? This is what he said:
“We have proved our world-class ability in cloning animals that have modified characteristics,” said Kong. “We found that the red fluorescent protein in all the organs of the dead kitten, which means we have established an efficient way of cloning gene-modified cats.’‘

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I am not going to actually describe ‘how to see and ad’ but I am going to share an excerpt from a book by Thomas Smith named Successful Advertising, published in 1885. He details the behavioral reactions to ads in in sequence from the first time you see ad to the twentieth. This excerpt is still well known by expert advertising researchers who specialize in advertising message retention studies. The index is called ‘effective frequency‘. You can attempt to use the following information to inoculate …

This all somehow ties back into 911. In third dimension which we percieve, we have 5 different solids, icosahedron, dodecahedron, cubes, and tetrahedrons. These elemental shapes have integrity within a 3 coordinate plane. We process this skeletal mathematical information to derive what we perceive. In a 4th dimension, there are 6 different solids and 4 coordinate planes. Although they can make computer models of this stuff, I believe most mathematicians will admit these are pretty abstract concepts. However, this smart guy named Ocneanu decided …

Yup, you heard that us humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes and all that. 23andme.com is offering a personal genetic analysis. You pay a cool $999,00 and you get a personalized kit with instructions on how to “spit” in plastic cup and send it back to them for analysis. What can they tell you? How about what diseases you are prone to, what traits you got from which relative, or will you be fat by 40?. Sound crazy? This guy feels great about it …

“Li Ka-shing is the richest man in Asia and the ninth richest person in the world, and owner of an appropriate rich guy last name. His wealth is valued at $23 billion” and he recently decided to drop 60 million for a piece of Facebook. What a cheap ass! I also read that he dresses “modestly”. When you run out of money next time, just say his name three times. Watch the money pour in.  Can anyone get this guy to introduce China …

Yesterday a friend of mine said: “Whoever invents a device that will find your keys or cellphone will be the next billionaire.” This comments sparked a brainstorm on how it would work around the house. I lose my keys on the way out of my apartment often and ‘bitch’ about it.
This idea is not new however and it will likely not be Joe Smoe in a Cupertino garage who builds this technology, rather it might be our friend, or foe, Google.
Several industry folks are discussing this topic after …

I watched “Idiocracy” (2006) starring Luke Wilson last night and I thought it was brilliant. I feel compelled to tell everyone how important it is to watch it. I hadn’t heard of Idiocracy until recently. It apparently slipped under the cracks and spent maybe a few days on the big screen, however, it screams “hit comedy.” Have you heard of it? I am not the only one late on this movie either. Another blogger on November 23rd 2007, just over a week ago from …