Archive for the ‘Cool’ Category

You know you’re no longer cool when…

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…you need twine to secure your tricked-out muffler to your cheap rice rocket.

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Starbucks: Not just for coffee

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starbucks.com has one of the most useful features I’ve seen in a long time. In their store locator function (see screenshot below), you can send the store info to a mobile phone as a text message.
I chose to have the info sent to my phone as I was in a foreign locale (ok, it was [...]

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Creepy, yet cool (Cicada-phobic need not view)

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Nice mash-up site on the Tribune with Google Maps on where people are finding the cicadas…
Chicago Tribune Cicada Map

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Good on him!

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British army chief: Prince Harry to Iraq

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Your finger, sir!

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So, I was at Jewel this weekend, and I “needed” to pick up a six-pack of Rolling Rock. Imagine, I get to my surprise when I get the self-checkout, select “Pay-By-Touch“, scan the six-pack, and instead of having to fish out my driver’s license, the scanner says, “age verified via pay-by-touch”. No muss, no fuss, [...]

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How freakin’ cool is this?

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Scientists watch for birth of a new sea…
Oh to live in such times….

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