Today's Links
Patents o' the week:
Flake for covert security applcations "having one or more symbols and/or a selected shape are used in a composition, such as ink or paint, to provide a covert security feature to an object.
Aquarium for transgenic fluorescent fish "a tank and an excitation light source which is configured to emit light at a wavelength optimal for causing a transgenic ornamental fish to fluoresce."
Follow-up:
The Wikipedia entry for Hunter S. Thompson is quite informative.
Rox Populi has a Hunter S. Thompson Reader.
ESPN has helpfully collected HST's sports articles onto a single page.
Woooo trippy. Try moving your mouse around.
It didn't take long for parodies of The Gates to arrive on the internet. Here's The Somerville Gates, Visits by Batman, Famous Bear and Andy Warhol, The Crackers.
Did you know that 7-Eleven is owned by a Japanese company? I didn't.
Even if it was only for one short hour, the McDonald's in Times Square had its very own washroom attendant.