How was UPS Founded?
Today I found out UPS was started by two teenagers with one bicycle and $100 borrowed from a friend.
The date was August 28, 1907 and the two kids were 18 year old Claude Ryan and 19 year old Jim Casey. The two had one bike between them and $100 borrowed from a friend to found the "American Messenger Company" in Seattle, Washington. The company was initially run in a hotel basement at Second Avenue and Main Street in Seattle.
Yogurt Cups Made of Plants?
Is this really happening?
The Atomic Garden
Eradicating famine? My ninja, please.
After WWII, there was a concerted effort to find ‘peaceful’ uses for atomic energy. One of the ideas was to bombard plants with radiation and produce lots of mutations, some of which, it was hoped, would lead to plants that bore more heavily or were disease or cold-resistant or just had unusual colors. (Source)
Posted: April 25th, 2011
at 11:39am by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,green,science,ethics
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The Limits of the Cloud
A lot of the pundits pontificating about the cloudpocalypse are blaming application developers for not building redundancy into their apps. I’m sure in some cases, that is true, but the reason this became such a disaster was precisely because app developers built in redundancy. The cloud failed because everyone expected the cloud to fail. (Source)
Posted: April 24th, 2011
at 7:13pm by mnp
Categories: computers,web,development
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