Electric Josh

Exciting speculation about the ridiculous sums of imaginary money that this space has tied up in its dwelling:

...We're in the midst of a huge housing bubble, on a scale only seen once before since the Depression. Worse, the inflated housing market is now in an historically unique position, as the motor of the rest of the economy. Within the next year or two, that bubble is likely to burst, and when it does, it very well may take the American economy down with it.

World's dullest weblog. [Standard disclaimer: I hate the word weblog.]
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More Get Your War On.
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Roland (in the sidebar) has decided to publish his twenty favorite blurbs, which is good news for us, fellow readers, because I've been thinking about ratbots—not these thinking ratbots, which he thought were pretty cool, but these rat go-bots with Borg implants that make them driveable via remote control—and I tend only to remember stuff like this when I'm nowhere near a computer. (Huh? you're thinking, When are you ever not in front of a computer? It does happen; shocking, but true!) Think of all the fun you could have with a steerable rat. [Update: Here's a mirror of the full Nature article.]
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