As mentioned on Slashdot, check out this article about installing your own home soda fountain. I think this would be really cool if you had a bunch of visitors or a big family. Of course, if you’re a huge loser who lives by himself this probably isn’t realistic.
A pretty amazing story which looks totally bogus, but you can’t help but wonder if there’s some possibility it’s true.
“But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be pure luck.”
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
When flipping through the news, I heard one of my old professor’s names. Turns out he wrote a paper describing the critical nature of the tiles on the shuttle, and submitted it to NASA more than 10 years before the Columbia accident. Kind of suprising to hear about someone you know on the news anyhow.