How many astronauts do you think will just sit there, pretending to fly a TIE fighter? I mean you got the window for it, and you're in space...

It's odd how that one chunk of Texas looooves its fruits and vegetables, but the rest won't have any of it.

Also, a comparison  map with local educational and HHS spending is in order, I feel.

I saw a sign like this in rural Minnesota about 15 years ago by a bridge that was being repaired and only had one lane. My mom and I thought it was hilarious. And incidentally, the concept of taking turns when there's someone there and going ahead when there isn't is already kinda present in the flashing yellow lights that some cities use in off-peak hours. For non-bestreetlighted intersections, I agree with Karl. More roundabouts!

Such a great idea. Best way to get rid of sensitive documents ever.

I love the idea of flooding your vision with ad content when you're not doing anything remotely important to get micropayments. Maybe you'd get coupons by seeing a certain amount of ads, or maybe playing ads would defray the monthly cost of AR. (That's not to say that I would love doing it, I just think it's an interesting business model. Pay the customer a tiny amount directly to see your advertisements!)

Fantastic. I'd much rather see people out walking or riding a bike out to get some stuff (as it promotes all kinds of positive stuff: community building, health improvement, etc.) but for a lot of folks this just isn't feasible every day, and lots of grocery bags are the result of doing so less frequently. Not only does this mean, uh, lots of grocery bags exist, but it's also considerably more difficult to simply carry the load when you're walking far or on a bike. This is a great concept.

I largely agree with Sarah, but with one difference: I think it would be much more feasible and productive to get everyone to shift 5% of their focus to providing for others, rather than 5% of people to shift their entire focus. I'm as big of an anti-consumerism advocate as they come, but you have to remember that the perfect is the enemy of the good. I think encouraging people to look at their overall holiday budget and then taking out a little bit to give to charity would be a fairly useful and effective campaign.

This is a great idea, encouraging a bike couture. Perhaps they should try to get helmets involved too. I'm all for more biking, but safety is paramount.

I'm sure it'd work even better if Roger Numbers was back. I miss him so.

As much as I love the Zebra bump idea for biking, it recently occurred to me that they could be disastrous for motorcycles. A car running over them will get a warning. A motorcycle (or scooter, even) riding over them could be very nasty. I still love the concept, but they've got to be extremely visible.

Dear Hawkeye,Google is a search engine. Googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. If you wanted to use a really big number, try saying "the Ackermann function with Graham's Number as the arguments." It's a really astoundingly large number, and sounds impressive! (serisously, look them up, or ask a mathematician sometime.) Why, people might even forget that Iowa lost the recipe for ice. Hope this helps!Your friendly neighbor to the north,TheDourSalmonp.s. I'm one of the 312, as I managed to get into the polling place with literally 30 seconds to spare. If I'd hit a red light, it would have been 311.

I believe Mr. Jonathan Swift had a Modest Proposal that we could fall back on...

Speaking of Australians and canvas bags...

ah yes, anonymous. "Five cars equal one bus in street space but one tenth of a bus in passenger capacity" is so much better! Snappy! Punchy! It rolls right of the tongue.Oh wait no. It's way worse. (and who the hell cares about physical space on the actual street?) This is a great campaign.

As distasteful as I find his personal politics, and as much as I see him participating in the wanton destruction in the fabric of the community, I gotta support his right not to get his ass beat. I mean seriously now, America. Not cool.Also, GOOD, I don't think it's appropriate to suggest that "he had it coming." Regardless of how we crazy godless liberals may have been treated in leaner years, I really don't want to see anyone suggesting that it's okay to violate someone's constitutional rights (not to mention face) just because they are scummy bastards. (Or scummy bastards that happen to talk back to the cops. I mean it's stupid, but that's not hardly an excuse.)Also, and I know this ain't the forum for it, but Bring Back Roger Numbers Already! Who's with me? I know I've got some fellow BBRNA-ites out there.