Exasperated Calculator

Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

  • PETA is evil

    The very, very not safe for work [‘State of the Union’ for PETA](http://wonkette.com/politics/peta/state-of-the-union-nekkid-girl-tortured-puppies-230499.php), the animal rights fanatics in the US, features a gradually undressing woman ranting about animal rights. What has to be wrong with your cause that you need to resort to this kind of thing to get your message across? (I’m linking to…

  • How much does the Internet weigh?

    [50 grams](http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2006/10/weighing_the_we.html). ([Via](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/118097.html))

  • I guess Google is male

    [Otherwise surely Google would have pulled over to ask for directions…](http://valleywag.com/tech/google-maps/sometimes-even-google-is-too-proud-to-ask-for-directions-230380.php)

  • The furniture is coming

    [A table that can walk when you push it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR931mtC3l4). Scary, scary stuff… ([Via](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/walking-table-walks-kinda-scary-230203.php))

  • 13/3

    Weight: 109.9kg Breakfast: Weetbix Lunch: Vegemite sandwich x 2 Dinner: Beef vindaloo curry Snacks: None Total Calories: 1310kCal Exercise: None Ladder: na

  • Virtual Economics

    Recently saw this post on [Boing Boing](http://www.boingboing.net) about virtual economics. Cory Doctorow’s take on the inflation endemic to these games: > I think that this has profound implications for in-game democracy — democracy requires that you play together for a long time, in order to establish civil society. But inflation is such a fixture in…

  • Need an army?

    Just in case your office is lacking in that essential element of fear, [a collection of papercraft monsters](http://readymech.com/). ([Via](http://lifehacker.com/software/weekend-project/weekend-project-make-a-papercraft-monster-army-230161.php))

  • Do you find watch bands constraining

    [Another option, but not for the faint of heart…](http://modblog.bmezine.com/2007/01/17/wristwatch-piercing/) ([Via](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/wristwatch-piercing-ftl-230114.php))

  • What do Americans like to shoplift?

    [Meat is apparently the most shoplifted item](http://www.slate.com/id/2157840/fr/rss/).

  • World’s biggest inkjet

    [The Jeep Waterfall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LUz2WVcek): a 25-foot high waterfall that you can make patterns in like a printer. ([Via](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/77911553/printing_designs_in_.html)).