Archive for June, 2003

Don’t tell what I do? Um, not a problem.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

(via devnull)

Ronald’s Playhouse: The Wall Street Journal says McDonald’s has a strict policy forbidding the men who play Ronald McDonald to reveal their true identities. Can this really be a problem with any of those men? (Barach)

Yeah, but he’d still need a web-shooter

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

(via The Independent)

Researchers have developed a tape so strong that the amount needed to cover your palms could let you stick to the ceiling.

A combination of capillary force and Van der Waals interaction supply the stickiness.

However, it turns out the scientists are spoilsports:

“We have also considered producing a large amount of gecko tape, sufficient amounts to enable a student to hang out of a window of a tall building,” Professor Geim said. “However, it would cost too much money, and would not benefit us scientifically, so we have limited our demonstration to the Spiderman toy.”

Weekend at UMass

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

Damon’s team had a good weekend at State Cups in two of their three round-robin games. On Saturday, they beat Nor’easter 2-0, and on Sunday they beat Tri-Valley Eagles 8-0. Since Puma had a goal scored against them vs Eagles, even though they won, we only have to tie them in our last round-robin game in two weeks to advance. Of course, they’d prefer to win, but a little cushion is nice.

Ben’s Juventus team still has to play Lusitano this week to find out if they advance to the semis.