Category: Oddities

Jim Kelly pointed out this old Onion story about Stephen Hawking building himself a robotic exoskeleton. Old, but still funny.

The Morning News: IKEA Walkthrough:

IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings.

Looking for information about IMAP (my mail folders got f***ed), I came across the personal web page of Mark Crispin, who invented IMAP and wrote the Unix email client Pine. He’s got an amusing page of
Important Information Which Everybody Should Know, such as:

The basic rule with any treatment of injured victims is: if it is
wet and it isn’t yours, DON’T TOUCH IT!"

Also some good stuff about charging bear attacks.

Finally, he points to the site of an Alaskan Town called Eagle, which he says could serve as a good model for the fictional town of Cicely on the show Northern Exposure. This might have been better than Kotzebue for my purposes.