"Despite the fact that he wasn’t driving it any more, he insisted it would never be for sale. Steve McQueen himself tried to buy it back in 1977 but Joe had already promised that it would not leave the family, flattered though he was by the offer.
…
He said he was dedicated to keeping the car’s existence secret"
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- Brad Bowling, Bullitt Mustang – Discovery
After seeing Drive this weekend, I got into a car mood and discovered that the original Bullitt Mustang has a bit of mystery surrounding it.
"I am afraid to even ask this, but since when is unemployment really a problem? I understand we all want paychecks — or at least money. We want food, shelter, clothing, and all the things that money buys us. But do we all really want jobs?
We’re living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That’s because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working."
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Douglas Rushkoff, “Are jobs obsolete?”
Being a software engineer employed full time, I feel somewhat like a paradox. Able to replicate my work a near infinite number of times, yet I’m still at the office 40 hours a week.
"tcplay is a fully featured BSD-licensed TrueCrypt implementation… It supports cipher
cascades, hidden volumes, system volumes, etc."
— Disk encryption should be more prevalent.
"Eventually, Laberge had his “aha” moment: a precision controlled piston that hammers giant shock waves into a magnetized sphere — slamming atoms together hard enough to fuse and create energy."
— Can one idea be energy’s holy grail?
"He wanted to build a Clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. The vision was, and still is, to build a Clock that will keep time for the next 10,000 years."
— Jeff Bezos helping to build 10,000 year clock
