The Linkage for Jun. 17th
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Jun. 2nd to Jun. 17th:
Village re-elects dead mayor
Tags: funny romania
Sucks to be the guy who lost that election.
Experts unveil 'cloak of silence'
Tags: science
Although not as visually impressive as Maxwell Smart's Cone of Silence, an acoustic cloak is still pretty cool.
Hawaiian McDonald's outsourcing drive-thru orders to the mainland
Tags: business mcdonalds
More than half of the McDonald's restaurants in Hawaii with drive-throughs are now using what are called "remote order takers" – people taking their orders at a call center in El Paso, Texas.
Prof aims to neutralize Nazi sub threat
Tags: history norway tu worldwar2
In 1945, the British sank a Nazi sub carrying sixty tons of mercury off the Norweigan coast. 63 years later, the race is on to entomb the sub before its cargo leaks out of its corroding canisters and creates a massive ecological disaster.
Honda rolls out zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell car
Tags: automobile technology
Screw your biodiesel flex-fuel hybrids – this sucker runs off of hydrogen. Well, it does if you can find a H pump in your neighborhood.
Asinof dies of complications from pneumonia
Tags: baseball deaths history
Eliot Asinof, author of "Eight Men Out", died at age 88 on Tuesday.
Google founder books space flight
Tags: google russia space travel
Yet another person with tons of money punches his ticket for a future space voyage. Do you think Korolyov and Kerimov ever imagined their beloved Soviet space program would one day become such a capitalist venture?
Cuttlefish spot prey before birth
Tags: animals nature science
Scientist have discovered that cuttlefish embryos are capable of identifying different types of prey from within their translucent egg cases and learn which ones are worth hunting before they hatch.
Mah hi skool dont teech too good
Tags: brazoswood education
Ah, my old high school is about to earn a mark of shame – being named academically unacceptable by the TEA. I wonder if they'll slap that up on the side of the building in big letters.
Lighthouse, presumed destroyed, found on opposite coast
Tags: funny history
Apparently lighthouses are just like car keys – always in the last place you look.
Jon Arbuckle hears voices
Tags: art funny
Wow. I didn't know there was a way to make "Garfield" seem funny again, but this is it.
CNN hops on the online t-shirt store bandwagon
Tags: business cnn media
CNN has started selling t-shirts with headlines from their web site. Not particularly interesting or witty headlines, just random headlines… so that's there now if you need it. I wish The Onion would do this instead of the shirts they offer currently.
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