Metrik Minute

Well, it’s finally happened, folks.  Somebody thought that being green is so cool, and that conserving materials is so great, that they’ve released a fantastic 1/2 of a product. 

The new Halbo, by BMW, is a radical new design for a motorcycle.  It’s all electric, very futuristic, and by the looks of it very uncomfortable. 

“I don’t even see a seat in the pictures!” writes one Vlad Metrik, publisher of this blog.  It’s just a wheel, a battery, and a rolling ball that’s attached for balance, I guess.  ..That or sideswiping pedestrians. 

I just don’t get it.  I’m into all the new bikes being electric and all, ..but please stick to the meaning of the word – Bi (two) Cycle (um, ..cycles, or wheels). This is just a mockery of a Unicycle. 

Not that a Unicycle wouldn’t be cool at 100+ mph, but I can imagine that it would get mighty uncomfortable the way that seat rides up on your crotch. 

Dell finally creates a netbook for college kids that has a solid vent-free bottom so that when boys with dirty pants use it, the laptop remains safe. 

They are also including an anti-bacterial keyboard because, as we all know, boys are made of “snips and snails and puppydog tails.”

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/20/dell_school_netbook/