Email to Home Address

How about this for a new concept, you can mail or receive mail electronically to your home address. This site has set up an email for every home address. Free for personal use, cheap for bulk mailers. It takes input directly from billing systems and sends them off to your street address. You open it like an email. It might work once more people know of it. For now, I'm not sure, but it would save the trip to the mailbox to collect paper to throw in the trash. You can just hit the delete button, or better yet, don't open the mail and you will never see it.

Pay Toilets on Airplanes

Ryanair in England is considering charging airline passengers a pound ($1.45) to use the toilet onboard the plane. Is this the beginning of another new crappy trend? Passengers better remember to bring cash.

Nanotechnology

The easiest way to describe the size of a nanometer is by comparison. If a baseball is a nanometer, the whole earth would be a meter. A meter is 39 inches and a yard is 36 inches.

The Wilson Double Core tennis ball, the official ball of the Davis Cup tournament, has clay nanoparticles embedded in the polymer lining of its inner wall, which slows the escape of air from the ball, making it last twice as long.

Search Me

Want to find out what is going around the web about you, go to searchme.com or try and find yourself on zoominfo.com Type in your name or the name of someone you know. You might be surprised at what information they are collecting about you.

Mind Games

A new game, called Mind Flex from toy maker Mattel, allows players to move a ball around an obstacle course by using just their powers of concentration. Mind Flex relies on EEG technology to measure brain wave activity through a headset equipped with sensors for the forehead and earlobes.

Focusing on the ball causes a fan in the base of the game to start up and lift the ball on a gentle stream of air. Once a player has the ball in the air they need to try to weave it through hoops, towers and other obstacles.

"It's a mind-eye coordination game," said Mattel's Tim Sheridan. "As you relax you'll find that the ball drops."

The game will be available in September for eighty dollars, and was displayed by Mattel at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Global Warming Effect on Polar Bears

Now I've heard it all. Polar bear penis bones (sic) are shrinking in Eastern Greenland, according to the University of Aarhus in Denmark. It found that polar bears living in the Eastern Greenland are somewhat less well endowed than their cousins in Svalbard and the Canadian Arctic. They say this could be due to the high prevalence of pollutants such as PCBs and DDT in Eastern Greenland - pollutants which records show are less prevalent in Svalbard and the Canadian Arctic.

The study showed that carnivores living in snowy environments, close to the poles, tend to have longer penis bones to help them be more competitive. The group concludes that human pollution, combined with the difficulty of finding food in warming climates, may spell disaster for Eastern Greenland polar bears. Wonder how they get close enough to measure them.

Speaking of Queens

Bet ya didn't know that Queen Elisabeth II is the official head of state of Canada. . . and Australia, Antigua, Barbados, Belize, New Guinea, New Zealand, Jamaica, Grenada, Bermuda, Bahamas, Grenada, all the Soloman islands, St. Kitts, and Tuvalu (what's left of it, over in the Pacific, between Hawaii and Australia). Sounds like a dance - Let's do the Tuvalu.

Shameless Self Promotion

One of my books, “Greatest Jokes” is cited on a wiki about president John Adams of all people.

http://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams

Snopes is a site that debunks the myths floating around in cyberspace. Many of the popular emails asking for money, or promising that Microsoft will donate if you forward this email, etc.

This valuable site became even better recently when it cited another of my joke books for a story about Nancy Pelosi. I just love it. Now I am a credible source. . . for jokes, I guess. Such a dubious distinction!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/captaincook.asp