via @Bytemarks
Well, you may have heard this one before, but Richard Branson is taking pre-orders for $200,000 flights slated for 2011 – 2012. For only 10% down, your name goes on the list with 300 others. The last time I heard about this, it was a couple of years ago and the price was ~$250,000. Maybe in another decade it won’t be a laughably outrageous price.
Marv
10 Balloonies – Groundspeak’s DARPA War Room
To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Internet, DARPA is hosting the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems. The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States.
Groundspeak is the owner of Geocaching.com and if they win this competition, Groundspeak has pledged to donate $10k on top of the $40k prize money to charity.
As of this writing, they are half way there. They’ve located 5 of the 10 balloons.
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Lego turkey shoot
Originally uploaded by Gaetan Lee
Well the safest place for the turkey is right in front of the blaster muzzle.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Marv
From @hawaii’s tumblelog.
It’s funny to see your childhood friends that haven’t aged a bit.
Wrapped up in a nice Christmas Package with a pretty bow before Thanksgiving just like everything else Christmas.
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Sigh, it’s shameful that Chuck and Kreg didn’t recognize Portal or Jonathan Coulton’s song “Still Alive” when they saw the video. If only you could have seen the ruckus in the chat room (they didn’t) during the recording of Technorama. Anyway, the show should drop in this feed on or around Thanksgiving. Make sure to call in to the show and voice mail line for next week show when we officially revoke their geek cards.
Marv
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