What if you put farms in skyscrapers instead of people? What if you grew the food for cities in cities and left vast tracts of agricultural land return to an uncultivated state? Better, fresher food for metropolites and further destitution in the hinterlands? Weird pseudo-synthetic veggies for metropolites and Big Ag conglomerates laughing their way to the bank as they rebrand “traditional” factory farmed foods as the natural alternative? Well, someone’s thinking about it.

Via Boing Boing

Can’t find it on YouTube, but I’m reminded of the old SNL skit which proposed a metric alphabet - 10 letters to replace those unwieldy 26. LMNO would be one letter, so (the example goes) the word ‘mucus’ would now be ‘LMNOucus’.

Meh.

Map via Core77.

Because there isn’t enough lolsomething in our lives: The Trouble with Tribbles, in lolcat.

Via supersocialist

Google has edited its recent announcement to anonymize logs after 18–24 months, after the policy was questioned with regard to European privacy laws. Now it’s apparently a strict 18 months, which the company calls the smallest possible time-frame to “address [its] legitimate interests in security, innovation, and anti-fraud efforts.”

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