Breakfast Links: Animal Power, Posts & TSA Confiscations
Gizmodo ran not one, but two, count them, two animal powered vehicles this morning. Or this morning to me at least. First up, from the old school, check out this hamster powered toy car. Kind of awesome with a video - if only it had remote control steering and was geared to power it forward no matter which way the hamster ran. I wonder if that’d be confusing for said hamster. And on the very opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got the one horse power car. Yes, that’s right, some wacko put the horse on a treadmill inside the car, which has to make for an awesome smelling ride - one pine freshener on the rear view mirror is not going to cut it… (via)
And check it another pair of posts. I know, it’s like christmas for you! First there was some camera company who paid a customer to remove their negative review of them on Amazon! And in the grand tradition of the internet he posted up the conversation. And on the flip side of that coin, apparently Craigslist has an automatic post taker downer that removes any post that receives a certain amount of “flag as spam” clicks. Any kind of automatic thing like that is just waiting to be abused and now there’s softs you can grab to flag all your competitors posts as spam enough for Craig to drop them like they’re hot. Convenient!
And we’ll close up this fine tuesday morning with a post from the TSA blog on what happens to all the stuff they confiscate from you. I like this quote:
We often refer to prohibited items internally as Voluntary Abandoned Property. Passengers call them confiscated…, either way; these items become possessions of the federal government
Tomato, tomahto. I like when he says you have choices. Yes, you have a choice, get rid of whatever you’re trying to bring on board or miss your flight. Awesome. Then he goes on to say how they either get rid of it, they can’t really donate it, blah blah blah. They also forgot to say, the confiscators can take it home with them as a nice parting gift from you if it’s something good.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I totally had one of those hamster cars for my Hamster when I was a kid! Howie probably remembers it. It was slightly bigger and fit over the separate walking sphere the hamster would run in. Humphrey loved it.