My Guess? An off-centre wheel has a definite stable point in its rotation. Perhaps that provides the rider with a little assistance to remain relatively stationary while juggling.

The person would not discuss the names of others who attended to protect their privacy.

Well if that isn't the most ironic thing I've read all day...

And by a curious coincidence, not only does the pebble meet each of the askslashdotter's criteria, funding for this particular project on kickstarter closes less than 24 hours after the article was posted here. Is that the foul stench of astroturf assaulting my olfactory system?

Cool idea, but really, does it need a slashvertisement?

Libertarianism isn't "the truth". It's exchanging one form of tyranny (the federal government) for thousands of others with far less accountability (corporations.)

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I think you're being overly generous. Anyone can make a simple error, but it takes a special kind of person to screw up in such spectacular fashion as in that post. This writer wrote but fourteen words, and in so doing, made one blindingly obvious grammatical error (the aforementioned "an writer"), one capitalisation error (self-publishing is NOT a proper noun), one style error (one may place a space on both sides or on neither side of the "/"), and one logical construction error (the statement and question were linked by punctuation, but bore no contextual relationship to each other).

Protip: when claiming - in writing - to be a writer, it's usually a good idea to proofread one's own work prior to publication.


Disclaimer: Sigg3.net may not be a native speaker of English. If that be the case, it's not such a spectacular screw up, as I am quite certain that his command of English is far better than my command of his native language.

Most, if not all x86-based computers these days, boot first into 25 rows by 80 columns text mode before switching to another display mode. Now, that number was not arbitrarily chosen - 25x80 characters has been a standard for text consoles for decades. But even that was not arbitrarily chosen - guess how many characters the punch card could represent. (Really? You need to be told it's 80?) That's right folks, even if indirectly, most of us use a hangover from punch card technology every day and often we don't even realise it. Of course, the backward compatibility links go right back through the Hollerith Census Tabulator cards to Jacquard Loom pattern cards, if I remember the story correctly, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Perhaps, but gently, m'kay?

If we took this off-line to workshop it, we would stand a better chance of engineering a best-practice solution to fit the paradigm of an adaptive revenue stream from product lines architected to incentivize the imagineering constructicated by cloud-conscious upwardly-mobile C-level Gen-Y clients demographically oriented by the dynamics of an elastic market.