Positioned on the cusp of a dying civilization, "One Hundred Mornings" shows people still bound by rules — like deference to a couple of essentially useless local cops — while coming to terms with an unspeakable future.
Adam Lipson cannot decide which of the many gadgets he bought in the last couple of years proved most useless.
Todd Henson of Kentucky's corrections department says that it costs $60 to keep someone in a state prison for a day, compared with $3 to supervise someone on release.Done badly, as in California a state that went from a model of enlightened policy in the 1960s to a cautionary tale a couple of decades later parole is useless as a way to cut crime.
This latter chart is an ideal source of useless facts about Michael Phelps.Another couple of interactive visualisations allow readers to add personal data, though they are of varying usefulness.
In David Caesar's film, described on the video box as a "darkly comic tale of the young and useless," a couple of Australian wastrels (Ben Mendelsohn and Jeremy Sims) and would-be bank robbers try to figure out life, such as it is, and get their bad acts together.
(3) I got to meet a couple of education secretaries, who were both useless.
Last I heard about Leapfish (this was a couple of years ago), they ran a useless but fun tool that provided you with a free appraisal for your domain name based on a variety of ratings and criteria.
I smiled at the mommies and drove back to Lauren and Guillaume's house, where I made myself useless for a couple of hours before returning to pick up Chloe.
On the other hand, it contributes to an economic system that skirts ethical lines via oppressive labor practices abroad, sourcing of conflict minerals that may or may not include child slavery, and planned obsolescence that like clockwork makes the phone useless after a couple of years.
For everyone else, it seems like the latest example from the Internet of Useless Things; why can't you just stand up and turn a couple of lights off? (Don't bother with dimmers; they're designed to waste electricity).
