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[Sep. 23rd, 2009|07:59 am] |
My credit must be worse than I thought. Now I'm getting condolence cards from identity thieves. Bryan Cox
The Top Features of Ford's Internet-Enabled Pickup Truck
- Automatically twitters road kill count. - Monitors your music library and drives you to RIAA HQ when necessary. - Beams out a DoS attack whenever you pass a Toyota. - The cup holder is really a cup holder. WTF? - For convenience, the homepage is set to your insurance company's site. - Real-time display of Ford's plummeting stock price. - A back windshield sticker of "PC Guy" peeing on "Mac Guy." - Automatic driver updates mean you could be replaced at any time.
"Desertec" is a plan to power Europe with solar energy from the Sahara Desert.
The Top Possibilities from Saharan Solar Power
- A really big air conditioner to cool off the desert. - Great, just what we need: First imported oil, now imported electricity. - Energy independence from oppressive oil-providing regimes like Libya, Egypt, and Sudan. - Shell, Exxon and Texaco all line up for government bailouts. - It's got to be easy to make solar panels on site with all that silicon oxide just laying around. - Creation of millions of jobs for people to sweep the sand off the panels. - If this idea works, then the tropical rain forests are doomed for sure, either for biofuel or to make solar wastelands.
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