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Okay, take a look at this satellite photo from Microsoft's TerraServer, and tell me what's missing. See the red dot?

Okay, let's compare this with Google Map's photo.

The photos don't line up 100%, but compare the red dot on the TerraServer photo with the green arrow on the Google photo. Hmmm... Looks like Google's photo shows some buildings there.

The pictures are of 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. So guess whose corporate headquarters is at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California?

Apple Computers.

From Japan.

Here's one of my favorites from Letterman.

I'm not too sure I understand this one:

I ordered some books from Amazon.com, and went to check on my order. It was shipped, and according to DHL, it is now in the hands of the post office. Huh?

DHL has a service called DHL@Home. You give your packages, DHL ships them across the country, but instead of actually giving them to the customer, it hands them off to the U.S. Postal Service. So, what's the advantage of this service? I mean, why not give it to the Post Office in the first place?

I had a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day, and since I have a 2 hour commute each way, I took the day off of work. Since my eldest son is off from college, We decided to take advantage of the situation and see An Inconvenient Truth today.

In order for us to see An Inconvenient Truth we had to go to a movie theater about 20 miles down the road, and almost 1 hour away. Imagine the carbon emissions we caused just to see this movie. We have in a 10 mile radius of our house, over 50 movie screens. Almost all of them are dedicated exclusively to The Da Vinci Code. No sorry slight exaggeration, many of them are also showing The Break-up.

Meanwhile, the closest theater showing An Inconvenient Truth is located out in the boonies near Princeton. And, even more shocking, An Inconvenient Truth is actually more popular than either The Da Vinci Code or The Break-up. This despite the star power of the leads in those films, their bigger advertising budgets, the talk show buzz they generated, and the fact that these two movies are showing on almost five times as many screens.

Okay, I understand that there may have been doubts when An Inconvenient Truth first came out if people would see it. I understand that movie theaters book these movies in advance. However, An Inconvenient Truth has been out for almost a month now. Certainly, by that time, theater owners would see that the movie is popular, is making money, and maybe, just maybe, they could show it on one of the dozen or so screens they have in their theaters.

It seems like any decent movie skips over New Jersey. This despite the fact that I live right next door to Rutgers, and I'm sure there's enough of an art crowd there to ensure that there is an audience for good films.

Someone sent me this animation. It was on Digg, Devil Ducky, Newsground, etc. I wanted to know the author, and maybe take a peek at what else he did.

No such luck. I checked about two dozen sites before I found the Author's name, Alan Becker.

That's the problem with the Internet, you quickly become detached from your own creative work. Then again, I went to his website and saw all the food he made out of clay. Maybe I was better off not knowing who he was.

What happens if you put a Mentos candy into a bottle of Diet Coke? You get a fountain of spray. What happens if you have 100 bottles of Diet Coke, 500 Mentos, and way too much time on your hands?

You get a Website.

Summer is here and now comes my favorite activity: Looking for watermelons with seeds.

It's really quite simple: Watermelon with seeds usually taste better. They're juicier, sweeter, and tastier. I don't think the seeds really have anything to do with it as much as people messing around trying to improve produce. For example, the worst tasting apples are the Delicious apples. Over the years, grocery stores demanded bigger, redder, and more perfectly shaped apples. What they didn't demand was something that actually tasted good. Instead, we get these overly large, dark red, and mealy tasting apples. Now, no one buys Delicious apples and the tree farms in Washington state now watch the perfect apple sit and rot in the trees.

What confuses me is who was the person who decided watermelons would be a whole lot better if they didn't have all those seeds. The Delicious Apples fiasco I understand. Someone wanted to entice people to buy more apples by making them look better. But, how does the lack of seeds help sell watermelons? They certainly don't look any better.

Let's face it: Eating watermelon is a messy business. First of all, you have to be out all day and covered in sweat and dirt to really appreciate a watermelon. It's got to be hot. You slice open a watermelon and the table is covered in the light red juice. You pick up a big piece and bite into it. The juice drips upon your pants and shirt, but that's okay, they're already soaked in sweat. Your hands soon become sticky, and so does your face as you attempt to bite into a piece without involving your chin. Are you really overly concerned how you'll look by spitting a few seeds on the ground?

Yet, not only has the seedless watermelon been developed, but it has pushed its seeded cousin out of the grocery store. You can mince one of these seedless wonders into a fine much without ever seeing a single drop of juice.