I like this idea. It’ll never happen in reality but I wonder if a website could be setup where models in blank coveralls have their heads replaced with Congressional heads and then the logos photoshopped in.  Combine this with info from the sunlight foundation and I think we’d have a great start on straightening out congress.

Petition: force Congress to display logos of their corporate backers on their clothes – Boing Boing.

Lehi changes Morning Glory Road to Morning Vista for business.

I work in Lehi. Man I need to get out of here. Seriously, a road named after a flower got renamed because the city council heard that there was another “meaning” for it on Urban Dictionary? I kind of want to add definitions to Urban Dictionary for the names of the council members.

He looks small and far away but he was close enough to yell and talk to. Also, behind me about 100 yards are houses. I think I could live in Daly City.

I was 3 and a half. And a mouse, I think. And blondish! Check out my brother’s socks. Where do we get that kind of awesomeness these days?

He makes a great point here! How else will we learn about the amazing stuff out there?

She did this entirely on her own. The previous week she did it in the Porsche too. There once in place she stuck out her hand for the keys and once handed over, started trying to put them in the right place. Lucky for me the Boxster has the keys go on the “wrong” side of the steering wheel.

So why are we as a county getting ~20% of our energy from a 60+ year old nuclear power plant design that is known to have a number of safety issues, instead of basing it on a known safer nuclear technology? Highlights from the talk: no uranium, no plutonium, no ultra high pressure vessels, no need for large amounts of water, worst case scenario the design of the reactor causes itself to go into shut-down (not melt-down), and we already have a massive supply of the fuel? Also, the waste, 83% is inert in 10 years (not 10s of thousands) and 17% is inert in 300 years. 10 minute video from a NASA engineer.

I really wish we had stuff like this here. I could go from SLC to LA in two and a half hours, or to the bay area in two hours. It’s be great!

Google continuing to use their wads of cash for interesting and useful things. I would love it if all computers could boot in just a few seconds. Hopefully this filters out to all computers in the nearish future.

This is neat! This is the sort of thing that got me interested in engineering. MIT researcheds created self cleaning, anti-fogging glass.

This was a VERY long time ago!

What happens when you give a crowbar to an electrical engineer? Awesome things. Jeri Ellsworth is Still my hero!

So it turns out you don’t need a heart to live. These people had marginal hearts and got an inline turbine installed with the heart to help give the blood a boost. Turns out in a few cases some hearts stopped all together but the turbines didn’t. The people hadn’t even noticed their hearts weren’t. They’re literally running around with no pulse. Which is something else you can live without.

Nature Valley Trail View “Making Of” from Mat Bisher on Vimeo.

Toyota’s new concept car FT-Bh. I love it! I think it’s a great little city car. It’s small, lightly weight, seats 4, hybrid that gets 118 mpg combined. Amazing what you can do with low drag and low weight.

We need more crazy people like this guy. Hilarious and scary story. “All of a sudden you’re prey. It’s fantastic!”

Solar cells keep advancing. I’ve heard that regular panels are slightly cheaper to operate than standard grid power now in San Diego, it’s only a matter of time before that efficiency (and grid cost) spreads to the rest of the country. In this picture, that’s a single later of Si atoms!

Long exposure during a lightning storm in Greece. Amazing pic!

Megalodon was huge! Check out this picture at the Earth Science Pic of the Day. The smaller white teeth on top are Great White Shark teeth. The lower darker fossil one is from Megalodon. It was bigger than my house!

Music only:

Why aren’t production cars as cool as concept cars? It’s an electric car and this French company is working with Nissan who is doing their Leaf thing.

From his latest album, I like it a lot: