Exasperated Calculator

Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

  • Toy or Future Emperor?

    [Brian the Brain looks like he may well try to conquer the earth in his spare time](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/brainiac-buddy/brian-the-brain-possibly-blams-brain-in-toy-form-295814.php). Either that, or he’ll turn out to be misunderstood and really just hear for peaceful purposes.

  • Eco Friendly Toys

    [A wind powered model car](http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/loopwing-toy-car-runs-on-wind-power/). What would be better if you could adapt the wind generator to charge a laptop…

  • The End of Time

    [AT&T ends its automated speaking clock](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/29/reflections-on-atts.html). These were really clever bits of technology in their day. But who on earth would have guessed that they would get killed by mobile phones.

  • Paging Jamie and Adam

    [The Cold War Jet Train Race](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wacky-races/the-soviet-union-vs-us-jet-train-race-293010.php). I hope the Mythbusters saw this, because just imagine what they could do with them…

  • Election07: The Final Week

    *Announcements*: The ALP announces a [National Primary Health Care Strategy](http://alp.org.au/media/1107/mshea170.php). Nothing from the coalition. *Polls*: [Newspoll marginals](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22772731-601,00.html) ALP 54 in the 18 most marginal seats. 7 days to go. This time next week, we should know the result.

  • The sound of sitting

    [A chair shaped like an audio wave](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/chair_lets_you_sit_on_a_s.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Nice, but where would you put it?

  • Not the Oval Window

    [An ex-Playschool presenter says TV is akin to child abuse](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/14/2090814.htm). Like many cranky people, her point isn’t clear other than ‘not happy’.

  • The ultimate arcade machine

    [A home arcade cabinet with built in beer keg](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/05/gamerator-arcade-cab.html). Awesome. Of course, it would probably be a lot to cheaper to have your keg separate.

  • SF Movies in Real Life

    [A wind dam straight out of a film like Waterworld](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wind-dam/wind-dam-design-for-russian-lake-is-spooky-awesome-323062.php). One is pretty. More than one is going to get pretty ugly pretty quickly.

  • Explaining the writers strike

    [An explanation from the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart](http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/11/not-the-daily-s.html). Funny and accurate. Of course, you need to see [the response from the Colbert Report writers](http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/videologblog-writers-strike-colbert.html) as well.