BB- july 11

BB- july 11



Only in the South would you find a prestigious technological university studying such an esoteric subject as “wet critter shakin’.”

Yup, scientists at Georgia Tech conducted research on the relative shakin’ rates — “oscillatory moisture dispersal” — between smaller and larger critters. They found that, generally, there is an inverse ratio between size and speed. Soaked mice, for example, shook themselves dry at an average of 27 cycles per second, as opposed to thoroughly wetted midsized dogs, which shook at only 5.8 cycles per second. Measurements, of course, were restricted to oscillation of the bodies, not the tails, due to wide and erratic differences in tail types.

Despite this kind of scholarly selectivity, some observers still criticized the study, because no account was taken of the relative lengths of the critters’ fur.

High-Tech Crimefighting

As more and more cell-phone users are learning, those expensive iPhones are really, really smart and capable — and, they attract street thieves like large-denomination bills overflowin’ from your pockets.

In San Francisco, a 31-year-old guy named Horatio Toure spotted an iPhone in the hand of a lady, and immediately attacked, snatchin’ it right outta her grasp as he sped past on his bicycle. Oh, he musta been spinnin’ and grinnin’, knowing he got away clean and could sell that smartphone for some hefty bucks. That feeling lasted just a couple of minutes.

What he didn’t know was that his victim was engaged in a real-time test of her company’s GPS — Global Positioning System — software, and the phone’s precise location was being tracked by multiple satellites, downloaded and running live on the company’s computers.

As you might guess, San Francisco cops have GPS, too. They snatched up Toure as handily as he had snatched that iPhone.



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