Doing that blog thing where you post links or something

[mayhap]

This is basically the kind of public transit I fantasized about in high school.

SkyWeb Express is very user friendly. Just swipe a prepaid card through a stanchion in front of an empty waiting vehicle, punch in the destination number, take a seat in the vehicle and our computer control system will sweep you non-stop to your destination.

It operates on demand whenever you need it. Empty vehicles wait for you - not the other way around.

The ride is private. You don't share your trip with strangers, just with your family or friends.

The computer control system chooses the fastest way to your destination. You don't stop at any other stations as you travel across the guideway network. Stations are on sidings, so you just bypass ones along the way.

Not least, all of this can be done in a way that is extremely cost effective, and it is ready today.

While I'm pimping out links, I may as well mention this speech by Malcolm Gladwell, who writes for the New Yorker and wrote The Tipping Point, one of the select few books intending to change the way you think that actually, you know, changed the way I think.

Malcolm explores why we can't trust people's opinions -- because we don't have the language to express our feelings. His examples include the story of New Coke and how Coke's market research misled them, and the development of Herman-Miller's Aeron chair, the best-selling chair in the history of office chairs, which succeeded in spite of research that suggested it would fail.

You can download or stream the speech in various formats, and it's about a half-hour long.

Finally: uh, anon? If you're looking for breasts on my journal, you're really not going to have an enormous amount of luck. And if you can't find breasts elsewhere on the internet, you're really not trying very hard. (First link is worksafe, second link probably not so much.)

*points to music* wisdomeagle deals in crack omg.

EDIT: Have I mentioned recently how very much I love British television?

Comments

[wisdomeagle]

OMG am DRUG DEALER! GO ME!

:p

[vagabondsal.livejournal.com]

Bwah! Hooray for Dar Williams!

[supertigerbabe.livejournal.com]

LOL at the breast links!!!! Seriously... how random.

[satyadasa.livejournal.com]

SkyWeb Express

Yay!