Comments on: Breakfast Links: Grades, Baffling Toys & Ball Pool

By: Breakfast Links: Ball Pool, Glassdoor & Rent or Buy

Breakfast Links: Ball Pool, Glassdoor & Rent or Buy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:22:53 +0000

[...] a scale slightly larger than the last time I talked about ball pools, LA is turning three of their exposed rerservoirs into giant ball pools! Although, sadly, I suspect [...]

By: Breakfast Links: Evolving Clouds, Evolving Humans & RIAA

Breakfast Links: Evolving Clouds, Evolving Humans & RIAA — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:46:16 +0000

[...] noctilucent clouds are coming on faster, lower and brighter than ever before and scientists (my favourite, you know) are baffled - they figure it’s telling them something about our atmosphere they [...]

By: felix

felix — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:22:34 +0000

Yeah, that’s gross. Funnily, in that XKCD piece he talks about the main impediment to going bigger is figuring out how to scale the washing process up. Nasty!

By: Poyla

Poyla — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:52:16 +0000

First of all, What was wrong with that fish dissecting toy? I actually thought that was cool.
I always wanted a plastic ball room! I went to Sesame Place when I was little and they had a HUGE one with a vinyl mountain in the middle called Cookie Mountain ( http://www.sesameplace.com/sesame/pa/attractions_da_cm.aspx ) Now it looks like they took all the plastic balls out, probably for health reasons!

By: felix

felix — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:21:58 +0000

That is a particularly good form of gun to fire. One of the few selections that I think doesn’t deserve to be in a baffling list, but should be in an awesome list.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:44:42 +0000

I wouldn’t mind having the gun that fires teddy bears.