Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Forty ways the world is getting better (to be honest I have mixed feeling about a couple of these like the number of cell phones out numbering the number of people)

- Now for your cheery thought for the day - Mount Vesuvius may have killed people by vaporizing their blood and exploding heads from the inside. "Tragically, those poor people in the waterfront chambers would have died instantly." Tragically? Would it have been less tragic if they weren't killed instantly but had their agony prolonged? Sadist scientists are the worst.

- Big League Chew will have their first package featuring a girl player for sale soon. Heh heh - all I can think is now people who support girls' sports will have to battle those who think pretend chewing tobacco leads to real-life use and cheek and gum cancer. Well played Big League Chew!

-  Well this isn't good - new Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked

- And this is scary as fuck! Driverless cars could become WMD's

- Interesting - independent analyst pegs Tesla stock value at $430 per share

- History will not be kind to the FBI and DOJ on the "Russian Collusion" BS

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Frisky Biscuits would be a good name for a band or a fantasy football team... Such a great photo - Clint Eastwood, Bob Cousy, Tommy Heinsohn and the recently deceased Frank Ramsey...  The more you know - if the Earth was the size of a regulation NBA basketball then the moon would be the size of a tennis ball... Cool - Navy SEALS using sensory deprivation tanks to accelerate learning... Gloaming (twilight, dusk) is a word that should be brought back into the common vernacular... Vandalism against driverless cars is increasing and soon I predict you'll see a rash of insurance "scams" where pedestrians and human drivers learn what the parameters of the driverless cars that can be exploited for financial gain. The thinking will be that if a person or company has the money for driverless cars they are good targets for lawsuits... Tom Brady's high school went 5-5 his senior year even though they had him as their starting QB. You can never tell...

Driverless Cars

Attacks on driverless cars is going to be a big issue in the very near future. For example I can see throwing snowballs at driverless cars becoming a big thing in the Northeast by bored or mischievous kids. Growing up we used to throw snowballs at buses because we knew the driver was prohibited from stopping (plus buses were a BIG target). Driverless cars will be similarly targeted.

I can also see scam artists waiting in crosswalks till the last moment to try and purposely get hit by driverless cars in the hopes of a big payday. Lots of ways to mess with driverless cars will be invented with very little sympathy for the autonomous victims.

And have we stopped saying autonomous vehicles and are now referring to driverless cars? How about "sedan drones"?