Odds & Sods #29: The Boing Boing Edition
If you don't already visit Boing Boing at least a couple of times a week, you're missing out on a lot of good stuff.
- Google Patent Search debuts. Now you can search 7 million US patents with all data coming from the US patent office. Oh, great, just what we needed: another reason to stay seated in front of your computer for hours at a time.
- Man solves Rubik's cube with his feet. See if you can guess how he did it. (Hint: he's a film director.)
- Cook cubic hard-boiled eggs with this device. OK, honestly now: you're either going to say "Wow -- cool!" or "Um, why?" Put me down in the former group. How's about you?
- Russia spy HQ has giant batman mural in floor. Seriously, where can I get a T-shirt with this design on it?
- And lastly, with headlines like these, do you really have to read the story?
You have no idea how BIG the home patent search thing is. I knew a patent lawyer in Cleveland who would charge ten Grand, up front, and that principly went towards his trip to Washington DC to conduct a patent search.
It's always been an archaic proceedure, but this jumps them from the 18th century to at least 1980.
And I want square eggs too! I'm ordering one ($3.50) so I can have it in time for easter! The kids will lose it when they see what the bunny delivers!