Get Cynical

Don’t you hate websites that use frames and you can’t link directly to the page without doing a little searching. Here is the link to the entire website but down below I put the link to the water car which I was interested in.

Under the ultra-light carbon-composite skin lies much more than just an agile and lively sports car. The Rinspeed “Splash” is the true incarnation of a really cool and fun sports toy. At the push of a button a cleverly thought-out hydraulic mechanism transforms the sports car into an amphibious vehicle. But that alone wasn’t enough for Frank M. Rinderknecht (48), founder and boss of Rinspeed. A highly complex integrated hydrofoil system enables the “Splash” to ‘fly’ at an altitude of about 60 cm above the water.

Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.

(via /.)

Foreign countries may hate many things about the good old US of A whether they’re burning our flag or blowing up an embassy but there is one thing we have that they undeniably love – American movies. Other countries love our movies so much that they’ll even make their own cut-rate rip-offs without asking permission of Hollywood bigwigs.

Here is a cool gallery of old board games. I don’t think I recognized any of them.
(via Sciatica)

I think I have been asked all of these at some point during interviews. I also think I have answered all of them wrong.