Getting a charge out of the Japanese

Orgismo.com => Japan Railway passengers to generate electricity at train stationsThe East Japan Railway Company…… JR claims that this sort of human-powered electricity generation system may provide a portion of the electricity consumed at train stations in the future.

IKEA Bed

We finally put together Michelle’s new IKEA bed.Usually, I don’t find IKEA furniture particularly difficult to assemble, but this was just a royal pain.It wasn’t difficult to understand or follow the directions, it’s just when you start with a bag of hardware the size of a 10lb bag of supermarket ice, you know you’re in for an evening’s fun.We moved the bed to the opposite side of the room from her old bed so that, during the night, when she bumps the walls, she’ll stopping waking up her brother in the next room.Now she’ll be waking us up.

The Dreck of the Rani

TV Scoop => Return of The Raniack when I was a lad…er…OK slightly more than a lad – we’re talking the 80s – one of Doctor Who’s most evil enemies (and you know he had a whole slew of evil enemies, so think cream of the crop, head honcho, with a heart even blacker than the blackest black of Douglas Adams’ black controls which are labeled in black on a black background, where a small black light lights up all black to let you know you’ve used one) was The Rani.Said report goes on to indicate that the Rani will be returning on next season’s Doctor Who.What is this dreadful fascination with the Rani?

The (Real) Wild, Wild West

Forget that embarrassment with Will Smith and the giant spider, the Wild, Wild West has finally made its triumphant debut on DVD, with the release of the 40th Anniversary edition of the first season of WWW.