Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

[A clock in France’s Pantheon was fixed by “cultural guerillas” who broke in and conducted their restoration in secret](http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2217067,00.html). It’s a wonderful idea. Of course, if it’s a Harry Seidler building conventional guerillas might be preferred.

[Don’t send your children out on railroad tracks for coal](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/10/do-not-send-your-chi.html). OK, it’s from the 1920s. Which just shows the ‘warning about the obvious’ thing some liability specialists love to point out isn’t that new a trend.

[Furniture pieces that you can use to build almost an infinite range of shapes](http://www.conelrad.com/daisy/index.php). It’s a good thing I don’t have one of these. I’d never stop rearranging it while watching TV.

[10 of the best from SkyMall](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/skymall.s-scariest-stuff/10-reasons-were-doomed-skymall-edition-326183.php). Incredible proof of the imminent destruction of society. The Hitch Critters are very scary.

[Star Wars recast with various celebrities](http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=17338&display=photoshop#entries). As with all Worth1000 contests, some of the entries are quite poor. But the best 10 or so are pretty clever.

[The Discovery Channel is casting for a show where you have to construct Rube Goldberg machines](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/rube-goldberg-realit.html). OK, it could be a lot of fun. But it’s far more likely that it’d suck. Hope they work that strike out quickly.

[An architect using Lego for the scale model of his house](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/lego-towers/architect-makes-scale-model-of-housing-proposal-in-lego-298497.php). Hopefully that kit will be released soon. Bigger than even the [Millenium Falcon kit](http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/Products/exclusive/10179.aspx).

[Some simple advice for better presentations](http://www.43folders.com/2007/08/23/better-presentations/). The average slide presentation I see is pretty bad. There are a lot of features in most of the software packages like Power Point that should never, *ever* be used.

[Robotech and Voltron movies are coming soon](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/08/robotech-voltron-mov.html). There’s a 1 per cent chance these would be good. But it’s far more likely they will destroy everything good about these shows.