This guy has come up with a way better way to make free money than me.
He wrote the most ridiculous book in the world, and I'm sure people are buying it. It's about controlling the world with your mind.
I love how he uses foggily-understood quantum mechanics 'n stuff:
Science is now proving that our thoughts have the ability to literally create things in the universe. In the past, we did not have the equipment to gauge any changes or creations caused by our thoughts. But now, with the advent of what are known as particle accelerators (magnifying devices that allow us to see the smallest particles), we can witness the changes our thoughts produce in the physical world.
Emphasis mine, I need not add. Ha!
By using particle accelerators, physicists have discovered that subatomic particles (the essence or energy that makes up our physical world) appear to exist only when someone is thinking about them, or trying to observe them. When a scientist puts his or her attention on them, they flash into existence. This means that subatomic particles are created by sending thoughts in their direction.
I love it! I have to write a book like this. Hey, I have a foggy understanding of QM! And other physics-y stuff too!
It's especially great how that image of the atom still means "hey folks: this is
science."
I found this site by clicking a Google ad in my Gmail. I hope I get such awesome ads on my site!
p.s. I know we're flush with these now, but I have a
Gmail invite going spare if anyone wants it.
Google ads
In an attempt to make free money, I have added Google ads down at the bottom right of my page.
The links are generated depending on the content of the page, so let's see if I end up with a bunch of My Little Pony-related ads.
Who knows if I'll ever get enough clicks to make anything, but hey! Free money! (Well, free in that it costs the clicker only time and me only my dignity).
Click! Click like the wind!
Here is a borg My Little Pony.
Sing it with me:
My Little Pony
Borg Pony
To BoingBoing, for introducing me to the concept of pony-modding: um, please stop reading my mind.
The party went great, and lots of people got me very thoughtful books for my birthday.
So, I thought I'd lay some reviews down to show my appreciation for choosing such perfect books.
First, Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss.
At first I was a bit wary about this book. Sure, I am punctuation-obsessed; all tech writers are. See, there's a semicolon right there.
But I thought, uh oh, this book is going to be as blustering and pedantic as I'm afraid I am when I expound on the three types of dashes and when to use them.
Oh no, it is wonderful. It is funny and happy and everything that a book on complaining shouldn't be. I may possibly think this due to the fact that, to quote my mom, this Lynne Truss writes like me. (Actually she said that I write like Lynne Truss, but hey, this is my blog.)
Now my only complaint is: how come Lynne Truss gets to write an international bestseller about punctuation? Haven't I been complaining about punctuation for years? Can't I jibe wittily about the three types of dashes and when to use them?
Oh well, it's been done, now.
Getting a London cab can be a nightmare, especially if it's late and you're away from your neighbourhood where you've been cultivating a sibling-like closeness with your local minicab company. So, this might turn out to be really cool: u-go..
It's a service that aims to get you a taxi quickly: you just text your location, destination and the time you want to be picked up, and they find a taxi for you and text you when it's on its way and when it arrives.
They work with black cabs and minicabs, so the fare can vary, but they have a fare estimator and a coverage map with estimated response times in their site.
The whole thing is charged to your pre-registered credit or debit card -- which is a lifesaver in a town where most taxis only take cash -- and it only costs 60p!
I'll definitely be trying it next time I'm far from a taxi queue.
