Ever wonder what 100,000 bouncing balls would look like going down a San Francisco hill?

filbert & leavenworth, sf - Bouncing balls

There's a lot of stories being posted now. Apparently this shut down power in a friend's building.

Blast rattles San Francisco financial district

I thought you might like this.

‘I Dare You’ - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com

Finally! We have proof that Google is hiding things from us in Alaska, Mexico and er… New Jersey. Hmmm. Anyway, it’s a conspiracy I tell you!

Firstly stretching over a large part of Alaska, all the way into the Yukon territory, is this gargantuan hole in the landscape. Interesting shape too…

Google Sightseeing � Post Archive � Black Holes

] INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- Eat your way to the bottom
] of almost any bag of popcorn and there they are: the
] rock-hard, jaw-rattling unpopped kernels known as old
] maids.
]
] It's long been known that popcorn kernels must have a
] precise moisture level in their starchy center -- about
] 15 percent -- to explode. But Purdue University
] researchers found the key to a kernel's explosive success
] lies in the composition of its hull.
]
] Unpopped kernels, it turns out, have leaky hulls that
] prevent the moisture pressure buildup needed for them to
] pop and lack the optimal hull structure that allows most
] kernels to explode.

Finally! The mystery is solved! I, for one, can die happy.

CNN.com - Scientists solve unpopped popcorn - Apr 21, 2005

] Cookie Monster curbs cookie habit
]
] Hoots the Owl, Cookie Monster and friends in Sesame
] Street
]
] Hoots the Owl (left) explains the benefits of fruit to
] Cookie Monster
]
] Cookie Monster, the biscuit-eating puppet on US
] children's show Sesame Street, will cut down on his
] favourite food as part of an anti-obesity drive.

People are insane - just so you know.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cookie Monster curbs cookie habit

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Housing - San Francisco

] The distractions of constant emails, text and phone
] messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration
] than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled
] volunteers.

Emails 'pose threat to IQ'

Have you ever wanted to build your own cube farm? Perhaps you want to pretend that Sue is that CBW (C*** B***H Wh**e) from work that drives you nuts and you can sacrifice her by the copy machine? Maybe you have a crush on Jim and you want to have a little nooner under the "Hang in there kitty" poster? Now you can!! With Cube Figures all of that is now possible. I have Sue and she's busy making copies for me right now. I'm thinking of buying the "newhire" expansion kit so that she has lots of friends to hang around the coffee machine with.

The Cubes

] Hiring the right people is extremely crucial to Fog Creek
] Software. In our field, there are three types of people.
] At one end of the scale, there are the unwashed masses,
] lacking even the most basic skills for this job. They are
] easy to ferret out and eliminate, often just by reviewing
] a resume and asking two or three quick questions. At the
] other extreme, are the brilliant superstars who write
] lisp compilers for fun, in a weekend, in Assembler for
] the Palm Pilot. And in the middle, you have a large
] number of "maybes" who seem like they might just be able
] to contribute something. The trick is telling the
] difference between the superstars and the maybes, because
] at Fog Creek Software we only hire the superstars.

This is great and is exactly what I look for when hiring candidates!

Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing