April 2008
4 posts
Pitted Dates With a Pecan in the Center
Have you noticed that the pit of a date looks like a pecan corner? It would be cool, then, to have dates with edible pits - the pit being replaced with a pecan quarter. The problem is, it would be so delicious (the over-sweetness of the date balanced by the slight bitterness of the nut) and convenient, there would be little reason ever to stop eating it.
Class Action Betting
Over at The Stalwart, Joseph Weisenthal came up with a way for rich people and poor people to make a little wager together:
It would be fun if rich loudmouths could put out $1 million bets on some event occurring, and then 10,000 or 100,000 people could play the role of counter-party, collectively.
So, for example, someone like Mark Cuban could offer $1 million that HDTV doesn’t hit %xy...
Potentially Back-Handed Compliment for a...
Also from Joseph Weisenthal at The Stalwart:
Just curious, suppose another journalist wrote a story about something truly astounding or got some unidentified source to say something really killer, like some crazy quote. How would it come off if I wrote something like: “John Q. Reporter got the Stephen Glass-worthy money quote: ….”?
In my mind, that’d be a total...
The Canary I Loved
Story of a coal miner who grows too attached to the canary they’re supposed to send into the mine shaft to test for deadly gas, and heroically risks the lives of his entire crew to keep the canary safe.
Artistic Magic Trick
If I were a magician on the order of Chris Angel, David Copperfield or Penn & Teller, I’d turn the entire world black and white for half an hour. For those thirty minutes, life would be so crisp, beautiful, and timeless.