I noticed the Wisconsin Tourism Federation changed it’s name a few days ago in order to rid themselves of the unfortunate acronym WTF. Apparently the deluge of prank e-mails and phone calls was getting a bit much.
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A few days ago I posted on the recent, unsuccessful attempt by stuntman Louis “Rocket” Re to leap over the world’s largest horseshoe crab on a motorcycle. It appears Mr Re actually managed to clear the crab in question on a previous occasion. At last years Crabfest 2008, he leapt the giant crustacean in order [...]
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This from tourism futurologist Ian Yeoman, from Victoria University in New Zealand, speaking at a conference on tourism:
“Robotics will become important, because you’re going to have labour shortages in the future,” he said. “You’ll have some sort of interaction in terms of robots doing certain types of mundane activities.”
Even robot “prostitutes” that would not pass [...]
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