I don’t know about you, but parking in the city (or any city for that matter) is akin to pulling out nostril hairs. Yes, it can be that painful. But a Spanish funded solution may have come up with the best way to fix these common parking congestion woes: by fitting each parking spot with an electronic sensor and alerting drivers to the precise spot.
Would you believe me if I said that King Juan Carlos of Spain has the sound of giggling children set as his ringtone? And that it went off during a meeting with a Honduran ambassador?
Last Thursday, a Twitter account purported to be from WikiLeaks’ Anonymous supporters (the same group which brought down PayPal, Mastercard and Visa’s websites) threatened to take down Amazon in a similar DDoS attack. Seemingly it failed, but Amazon’s websites in the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain went offline for about 30 minutes each last night, due to a “hardware failure in our European datacenter network,” claims an Amazon rep.
Usually, if you draw all over the walls at school, you’re facing a bummer of an afternoon in the principal’s office. But the kiddos at this wonderfully designed school in Spain are lucky—their school’s exterior IS a blackboard.
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Ahhhh! If you get freaked out by pigeons, wait until you see a whole writhing mass of the winged rats trapped inside a catapult-sprung net. Truly terrifying. And apparently the solution to Spain’s big pigeon problem.
