It had been a pretty good run up to that point. The brains of white folks had been humming along cogently for near on 400 years on this continent, with little sign that any serious trouble was brewing.
The number of times you’ve been caught out and about without a bar of gold is set to be a distant memory—at least for Florida and Las Vegas residents, who’ll see hundreds of these ATMs installed next year.
The Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi was the first place to install cash machines that hand out 10-gram bars of 24-carat gold in exchange for money, but in true American fashion similar machines will be situated on each side of the coast from next year.
This infographic stating that 32 billion spam messages are sent every day in the U.S. makes me seriously sick. Wow…that is almost fifteen trillion pieces of spam being sent every year with no real end in sight.
To clarify, the Street View imagery for Antarctica includes panoramas of an area called Half Moon Island—such as this view of penguins and this one of the landscape. The blue dots you see throughout the continent when dragging the pegman are user-contributed photos.
We gadget freaks obsess over gear, big and small: cameras, phones, notebooks, desktops, home theater speakers, HDTVs, and much more. But how often do we pay attention to the technology surrounding our gear, the packing material that keeps it safe?
