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Ok, so the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act passed the House yesterday, it calls for $14.4 billion to be spent on rails. I guess this is in response to the airlines all imploding due to oil prices being so high. Anyway, whatev, right? Trains? Feh! But wait this bill also wants to get private bidding for a rocket train! 2 hours between NYC and DC. Hellz yeah! Sadly for the world, rocket train seems to be mostly a marketing term, just like a bullet train disappointingly means neither a train the size of a bullet nor a train shot from a gun, rocket train looks like it just means really, really fast train. Sigh.

On the opposite of disappointing, though, is this wierd puzzle house on 5th ave here in NYC. Some people spent 4 years renovating their house, apparently mostly because their architect took it upon himself to build all kinds of odd, davinci code style contraptions into the apartment, unbeknownst to the owners. Yeah, 4 years, and he basically paid for all this stuff himself because you know, the ultra-rich should always benefit the most. He got others to work for free. When I’m not disgusted by this and the fact that it’s occupants seemed to react to this awesomeness with a “oh, neat.”, I think it’s pretty freakin’ cool. But getting back to the disgust, somehow the article makes cool man Tom Otterness seem petty for saying “Of course I couldn’t have done it for free.” At least he kept his sanity. Turns out, you’re petty if you don’t want to do charity work for the ultra-rich.

And then there were the office pranks. Check out this link bait of the best office pranks of all time. (via) I mean, sealing off and filling up your buddy’s cubicle with popcorn. Well, it’s Real Genius worthy and that’s high praise indeed. Many other inspirational ideas for you all, as well.

BONUS LINK: K.I.T.T. is up for sale on Ebay.