Ever noticed the regional difference on how someone asks for a carbonated beverage? As in I’ll have a… Pop, Soda, Coke or the ever so rare Pepsi?
(via Strange Maps)
Medieval Peasants Had More Vacation Than You
Based on the historical research of family rights advocate John De Graff, medieval peasants took more time off—about two weeks more—than modern American families.
Americans get the shortest vacations in the industrial world. A Harris poll found that only 14 percent of Americans took the traditional two-week summer vacation in 2007. Another survey completed by Gallup, found that 40 percent of Americans didn’t take even a single week off as a block in 2006.
Patients 'free from cancer' after immune-boost treatment
Cancer patients have been left free of the disease after being treated with a new drug which harnesses the power of their own immune cells.
While the effects of the immune boost treatment have only been tested in blood cancer, there is hope that is might be adapted to work against other types of cancer.
Converting gas-powered cars to electric
For about $12,000 you can convert your gas powered car to electric. Larry Horsley of Georgia converted his Chevy S-10 to electric six months ago.
Horsley says “Anyone who has basic mechanical skills can build one of these, but it takes time.” Mostly waiting for parts. He estimates he already saved $700 in gas alone.
Hopefully supplies will start becoming more available and auto shops start providing the service. It wouldn’t surprise me that if the trend catches on we might see a tax incentive as well.
White space spectrum has the greatest potential to expand and improve wireless communications when paired with mobile devices, like laptops and cell phones.
Megan Tady
from Wireless to the People
Best Buy to carry Apple iPhone 3G at its stores
Big news for the iPhone and for the mobile web. Having a footprint in the largest chain of electronics stores in the US will allow the common American to learn more about what the modern mobile phone can do.
They will be able to see the true mobile web, probably for the first time.
Obama Will Announce His Running Mate By Text Message
Sometime between now and the convention, Barack Obama, just like the cool kid in study hall, will surreptitiously send a text message announcing his pick for vice president.
A brilliant idea for the progressive candidate. Not only will it reduce the cost of increasing voter turnout, but it allows Obama to develop powerful one-to-one messaging with potential voters.
Leveraging the mobile phone, an intensely personal device, will enable Obama to pull himself inside our social spheres and make us feel connected to him, as if we have a personal relationship with the candidate.
If anything this has been Obama strength as a campaigner to make us feel like he is talking directly to us during his stump speeches. Mobile is the perfect medium to take it to the next step.
I hope it works… not just as a mobile guy, but for the rebuilding of the country.
Food and oil prices push US inflation to highest since 1991
The cost of living in the US surged at twice the rate expected last month to the fastest annual level in 17 and a half years, official data showed today, due to spiralling food and oil prices.
Yikes!
