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When I was very small my mother used to make hard boiled eggs for me at breakfast time.  I don’t remember liking them very much, until I discovered salt.

Now Ben Harris, a student at Brunel University, has advanced egg science quite a bit further.  Harris’s rather good idea: apply some heat sensitive ink on the shell of an egg to let you know how cooked it is.  Will egg timers die out?  For more, see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2292596_1,00.html

Of course, once you’ve applied such technology to eggs, why stop there?  Bacon, watch out …

An interviewer asked John McCain, “If you decide to run again in 2008, what would you do differently?”

(McCain lost the Republican primary to George W. Bush, after a particularly heated and vicious battle in South Carolina.)

McCain’s answer was classic:

I wouldn’t do anything differently. Look, after I lost in South Carolina, I slept like a baby: I slept two hours and woke up and cried.

For more on McCain’s interview, see:

http://money.cnn.com/blogs/brainstorm/2006/06/mccain-on-guantanamo-global-warming.html

Imagine that you walk up to your friend at their house party. You clink your mugs of beer together. You hang out for awhile, then drift apart, meeting others. Every time they take a drink, your mug buzzes, alerting you to also take a drink.  Near the end of the party you meet up, equally sloshed. Sure someone could imagine making such magical mugs, but would anyone actually dare to make them? Yes Virginia, yes they would: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925425.400.html