The Dutch Connexxion and Helinet companies are planning a helicopter public transport service between Amsterdam and Brussels, stopping in The Hague, Rotterdam and Antwerp on the way. They almost have all the necessary licences in, so it’s looking good.

It’s truly incredible how people have literally made millions of dollars using the intranets.

Apparently the nude vacationing industry has tripled in size from 1992 (when it was at $400m) catering mainly to the over 35s and luxury segment.

Not just NEC products are being rebuilt, but the WHOLE of NEC has been cloned in China! Factories, workshops and all!

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.

More here

I always knew my driving habits were safe!

according to an analysis of more than 12 million passenger cars insured by Progressive, the third-largest auto insurer in the United States.

It found cars with more than 200 horsepower actually generate 17 per cent fewer claims than those propelled by less than 200 horsepower.

From here

Google isn’t the only player to experiment – Yahoo has its own public research page.

The Tech Buzz Game is a very interesting fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.

In the Web Application Frameworks market, I’m betting on Rails.

I wonder if all the people who voted for Dubya are still going to like him when they’re back to tilling the soil in 2010..

THE NUMBERS are staggering — a US$43-trillion hole in America’s public finances that’s getting worse every day. And the stakes are almost inconceivable for a generation of politicians and voters raised in relative prosperity, who’ve never known severe economic hardship

Full story:
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=20050307_101541_101541

See you all in superland…

http://www.whereisthemoney.org/