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  • Olympics
    Friday, 10 February 2006

    Every major sporting event like the Olympics is full of scandal around participants’ performance-enhancing drug usage. We should stop this paranoia surrounding using these drugs and rather embrace it. There should be a second version of the Olympics that allows performance-enhancing drugs, body augmentation, cybernetic implants, et c.

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  • House Wiring
    Friday, 24 June 2005

    All the tech gadgets people have these days all have their unique adapter that plug into the wall and then have a big wall-wart and then some DC power that goes into your gadget. Instead of this myriad of AC->DC converters, houses should have a central DC converter, and then along the normal AC outlets, there should be a common style 12VDC connector that devices can all accept and, if necessary, convert to a different DC voltage.

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  • Reducing Road Traffic
    Wednesday, 1 June 2005

    A significant amount of traffic on the roads is due to people going somewhere to get something (as opposed to someone or to get somewhere). The internet has lead to the ability to shop at home, and simply wait for the things to be delivered - even groceries. However, there is still someone who drives out to deliver the items, and thus using the roads, and increasing traffic.

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  • Cell Phone Disconnects
    Monday, 10 January 2005

    With the profusion of the wonderfully unstable technology of cell phones, it is all too frequent to have the other party in a phone conversation disappear. This event is promptly followed by a series of reconnect attempts by both parties that continue to both get busy signals, until one gets lucky, or the other gives up. I hereby propose that the standard protocol for this event is for the party who originated the initial call is the one to redial, and the other party should just wait for several minutes before attempting to call so that the line is left open.

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