Panera's Pay What You Can Restaurant

Panera has been running a non profit restaurant in MO that runs on the honor system.  And it's working!

Customers are told to pay what they can afford.  I find it intriguing that people can manage to behave themselves enough to make this happen.

Panera is not the first to do this.  A place called One World Salt Lake City has been running their restaurant on the honor system since 2003.

You can read the full article here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37213165/from/38357994

[photo: sfgate.com]

Best times to buy stuff

Did you know that Tuesday is the best day to get a deal on airfare?  Or that a tweet at Noon (EST) during the week will get the most attention?  Or that it's a good idea to fill your gas tank up before 10am on Thursdays?

This article from Vocalpoint has some great tips and hints about the best time to take action:
http://www.vocalpoint.com/_500001298/Articles/The_Days_of_Your_Life

Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving

At this map you can click on your county to see the population moving into or out of your area.  You can zoom in and move the map around.  Pretty interesting.

Click here for the map: 

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html

It shows many more people leaving Morgantown than moving in.  And it looks like lots of people from the northeast and southeast are relocating to Greenville, SC.  I can't wait until I'm one of them.

♪ Meet George Jetson ♪

A flying car!  How cool.  I could get places so much faster with this machine.  It goes 115 mph in the air.  I'd be able to see my friends that live all over the country any time!  Since it's so lightweight and tiny, it's classified as a light sport aircraft, which means in order to get a license, you'd only need 20 hours of flying time with a professional.  I could do that.  It has electric folding wings, so you can just fold them up when you want to drive on standard roads.  

Anyone want to donate $194,000 so I can get one?

Click on the link to read the full article and see more pictures: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7860966/Terrafugia-Transition-flying-car-gets-go-ahead-from-US-air-authorities.html

Jimmy Kimmel does an entire show on his laptop

Apparently there was a power outage on the set of the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight.  He decided to do the show anyway, entirely on his laptop.

I remember learning Windows 3.1  in high school...I never imagined someday we'd come so far that we could record a TV show with just a laptop and a webcam.

You can read the whole article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_en_tv/us_people_jimmy_kimmel

Immortal Jellyfish?

So it seems this little guy is capable of cycling from an immature polyp to a mature stage and back again. That's a pretty neat trick.

(Photo: Peter Schuchert)

Go here to read the full article:   http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html