This was the great article that I was talking about the other day about how close we are to electric cars. Not physically close, but technologically close.
Driven: Shai Agassi’s Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road
For you Stephen King fans out there, and you graphic novel fans, you should check out N is Here, an “original video series” which appears to be an adaptation of a graphic novel which is an excerpt from an upcoming King novel. Which perhaps is based on the Broadway musical that was based on the original movie which came from the non-musical off-Broadway play. Adapted from the Shakespearean play, Taming of the Shrew, or the movie Dial N for Nurder.
Google Street View caught this Aussie passed out drunk in front of his house.
A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet.
He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.
As he slept off his excesses, a car-mounted video camera passed by to record pictures of the street for Google’s StreetView website.
Ouch. For more on the story…
In the Op/Ed section of the Maine Sunday Telegram (aka the Sunday edition of the Portland Press Herald) read the headline:
The newspaper industry’s demise has been exaggerated, but current conditions do mean we must offfer less.
Ouch. I guess one place in which they are cutting back is in their spellcheck. Perhaps they could save money by only using two “f’s” in offer.
