I always heard when I was a kid that if you swallowed bubblegum it would remain in your system for 7 years. Some versions of the story said it lasted “forever”. I didn’t fear these much since I heard all this from children.
When I was three or four years old — this is one of my earliest memories — I saw two teenage girls walking down my street wearing tiny bikinis. (more…)
I have a list of fallacies taught to me by adults in my youth which I will attempt to catalog in the category (click on the Fallacies link). Some of them were jokes, some were sincere beliefs, and some were stated in science books. All were lies.
Lesson learned: Never lie to children.
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I’ve got the new carputer half-installed in my dinky little car. It’s running on a tablet PC I picked up for cheap. I bought a new license for iGuidance and installed it on there. It’s not perfect because it’s running Windows 98 and it crashes a lot. (Windows 2000 is more helpful at cleaning up resources you forget to release.)
But it works. And it has maps. And it knows directions. And it speaks.
It’s basically TomTom GO for only $200. (more…)