Geek war Tom Smith

Somehow I missed the latest salvo in the Caltech MIT prank war.

Also this on important advances in natural selection theory.

Dentistry in the Neolithic.  Really.  They drilled teeth.  It can’t have been fun, but maybe the alternative was worse.

And who are we to talk?  Look at these dumb, but patented inventions.  My favorites are the Ball Chair and the gas-powered hair dryer.