Google’s bike directions suggest I “try driving”, and even shows me how much time I’d save. I could easily just click the little car icon at the top. Did Google just land a big deal with a petrochemical company?

Google’s bike directions suggest I “try driving”, and even shows me how much time I’d save. I could easily just click the little car icon at the top. Did Google just land a big deal with a petrochemical company?

Funnier if you are -000UTC

Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in his whimsical essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). Not everyone is happy with the results.

— Paul Eggert, editor of the public-domain Time Zone Database (TZDB), via Jon Udell