Introducing a revolutionary new concept… a cell phone you can CARRY WITH YOU. Sure, you have to wind it up and add plutonium, but it’s worth it. Ah, the early 90’s.
Retro Commercial – Radio Shack Cell Phones – 1990
| September 19, 2011
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NYC Will Have 10,000 Shared Bikes Rolling Around the Streets Next Summer
| September 19, 2011
After much gnashing of teeth from city residents, NYC’s transportation department has the go ahead to launch their planned bike sharing system, comprising 10,000 bikes and 600 stations that will cover much of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The original plan was first proposed last year, and since then, the city has been working to gather support for the project. Now that they have it, they’ve shared more details. According to the New York Observer, here are some of the key bits of info:
• Bikes will be available 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week.
• Stations will span across the city from the Upper West Side neighborhood in Manhattan out to Brooklyn neighborhoods like Greenpoint and Crown Heights.
• Portland-based Alta Bike Share is the company responsible for installing and managing the bike sharing infrastrucure.
• The first 30 minutes of any ride are expected to be free, with fees for additional time.
• An annual membership is expected to cost less than a MetroCard (which normally costs ~$100/month).
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World’s Most Expensive Model Car Costs 12 Times More than the Original
| September 19, 2011
German model maker Robert Gülpen has built the most expensive car model in the world – a 1:8 scale replica of the Lamborghini Aventador made from carbon, platinum gold and decorated with precious stones.
52-year-old Gülpen, who describes his creation as a “high-tech work of art” said he wanted to create something unique that has never been done before. A former mechanical engineer, Gülpen started making miniature car models from precious metals in the late 1990s and eventually became a renown miniature car model maker. He decided the cutting edge Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 would be the perfect choice for his greatest masterpiece.
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| September 18, 2011
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| September 18, 2011
Affirmative Action For Ugly People?
| September 18, 2011
The effects are not small: one study showed that an American worker who was among the bottom one-seventh in looks, as assessed by randomly chosen observers, earned 10 to 15 percent less per year than a similar worker whose looks were assessed in the top one-third — a lifetime difference, in a typical case, of about $230,000.
In addition to whatever personal pleasure it gives you, being attractive also helps you earn more money, find a higher-earning spouse (and one who looks better, too!) and get better deals on mortgages. Each of these facts has been demonstrated over the past 20 years by many economists and other researchers.
Why this disparate treatment of looks in so many areas of life? It’s a matter of simple prejudice. Most of us, regardless of our professed attitudes, prefer as customers to buy from better-looking salespeople, as jurors to listen to better-looking attorneys, as voters to be led by better-looking politicians, as students to learn from better-looking professors. This is not a matter of evil employers’ refusing to hire the ugly: in our roles as workers, customers and potential lovers we are all responsible for these effects.
