Qian Hongyan was in a car accident when she was three years old, lost both of her legs amputated, moves around on a basketball, and hopes to swim in the 2012 Paralympics in London. Via.
1. Death penalty conviction might be overturned because sequestered jurors and sheriff's deputies assigned to watch them were allegedly having sex. One juror said, "Acts of sex and insubordination were scandalous and unspeakable . . . " Via.
Hewlett-Packard won Walmart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge for a new packaging scheme for its Pavilion dv6929 notebook. Instead of selling consumers a laptop contained in a giant box full of styrofoam, Walmart will sell the new HP laptop in a messenger bag. Making the move will eliminate a huge amount of wasted cardboard and styrofoam, and the reduction in packing materials will also allow Walmart to eliminate one out of every four trucks needed to deliver the computers to the store. You can read a bit more here and here. Via.
Now if the messenger bag is the type that's been ok'd by TSA, I'll be really impressed.
