I recently saw this on the local network at the unversity:
Well, at least the user was honest 
If he was aware that his iPhone would tell everybody of its existence through Bonjour? That, I don’t know.
Sometimes the news just leave me scratching my head:
Apparently, in 2003, Pennsylvania abolished the “helmet law” forcing motorcycle riders in the state to wear a helmet.
As a result, people are less inclined to wear helmets (first surprise), according to a recent study head injuries needing hospital care due to motorcycle accidents went up 87% compared to before the law fell (second surprise), leading to a rise in the resulting medical care costs for these injuries of 132%.
So, Pennsylvania gets rid of their helmet law, and now they act surprised that people leaving their bikes the direct way are more likely to suffer severe injuries? What the hell?
(Helmet picture CC by-nc-sa licensed by midnightglory on flickr)
Interesting, I just noticed that what is known (and has been for like a decade or so) as the “Opel Astra” in Europe is sold here in the US under the Saturn brand name, making it the Saturn Astra:
Both Saturn and Opel are brands under the hood of General Motors, so there’s no big surprise here. What’s more interesting is that 4-dollars-a-gallon seem to be making American car buyers interested in smaller European-style cars quite a bit more than they used to.
Also, the very same cars (sold under the same or a different brand name, doesn’t matter) are much more affordable over here. The abovementioned Astra can be bought for 18.000 US dollars on this side of the big pond, while you’ll have to cough up 20.000 Euros (that’s about 30.000 dollars) easily for the same car in continental Europe.
The usual excuse for higher car prices in Europe used to be “the European customer wants higher quality than the American one” — when the very same car is concerned though, this argument is hardly convincing.
Now it has happened: As an effect of the urgent need for a weekend, I registered with twitter. Only adding people I could think of easily, I am not “following” 37 people 
Of course, my twitter experience started all peachy right off the bat, by first giving me site errors:
(hey, at least they are pretty)
… and then I noticed something weird about the times they show on every page:
“ungefähr 1 Stunde ago from web…” … is that… Germenglish? Englerman?
But let’s not be discouraged. They probably just started their announced maintenance window four hours early
Anyone else think I forgot to “follow” them on twitter? Leave a comment.
Yesterday on Discovery Channel:
Most regular toilets flush in the key of e-flat.
Well, add this to the list of things I am not sure I needed to know.
Still, I am wondering if that means from now on I should set my tuner aside and just tune my trumpet after the toilet? Of course I’d need to call the plumber about once a year when the whole thing is out of tune
Yeah, me and my silly mind. I know.
(The picture above CC by-nc-sa licensed by hll!H on flickr)
Userfriendly.org published a funny little picture about the second Microsoft cake:
They should have covered the Firefox 2 cake instead: After all, it still rendered in black and white
(Thanks for the link, Jean Pierre!)
