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Street View Captures Superhero Pub Outing In Scotland

9:40AM Kat Hannaford | Now that Street View has covered 95 per cent of British roads, expect to see a lot more random snapshots of those eccentric Brits – like these, which show a comic book meet-up on a very remote island off Scotland. More »

Amphibious Bus Runs Into Water, Trouble, But Is Back Now

12:00PM Jason Chen | Glasgow’s Dutch-built “amfibus” resumed testing today after being grounded for an unnecessarily deployed airbag. From the video on BBC’s website, it looks just like a big yellow schoolbus, but runs in liquid and allows writers to make water puns. More »

Joking Computer Puns At Sixth-Grade Level

1:06AM Brian Barrett | It gets boring this time of year in Scotland. That’s what I assume anyway, knowing that scientists in Aberdeen have developed software to turn a computer into a cold pun machine. Some of the jokes are funny! Most are not. More »

Glasgow Considering Installing Giant ‘Solar Lily Pads’ in the River Clyde

3:13AM Adam Frucci | Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture has come up with a way to deliver more renewable energy to Glasgow: solar panel lily pads. Yep, they want to populate the River Clyde with a series of gigantic solar islands that’ll soak up the rays all day long, sending electricity to the grid while also acting as an aesthetically-pleasing attraction. Initially an entry in the International Design Awards “Land and Sea” competition where it took first prize, the Glasgow city council is now considering testing out a small run of the solar lily pads in the river. [BBC via Inhabitat] More »