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...tracks were first laid in the 1880s, the entire line wasn't fully completed (on an upgraded track) until 2004, and at a cost of nearly $1 billion. Now, luxury trains up to one kilometer long, sometimes numbering 52 carriages, crawl through the forbidding primordial stretches of Outback twice a week, like giant high-speed caterpillars. It's a seemingly endless landscape of Martian redness, and to be able to enjoy it all from a private Platinum cabin - while taking high tea served to you by a personal butler - is a curious lesson in the persistence and ingenuity of humankind...
Ever since 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (a.k.a. the Humphrey-Hawkins Act) into law, Federal Reserve chairmen have had to troop before Congress twice a year to explain themselves...
...already gotten a few people into trouble. Just last week, sports blog Deadspin used the site to tattle on Texas Rangers reliever C.J. Wilson, who used his Twitter profile to make fun of broadcaster Chris Berman's attempts to hit on women at ESPN's ESPY Awards. Wilson thought twice about his comments later, but Tweleted preserved them. A quick glance over the deleted tweets of Twitter's top users reveals that most have been on their best behavior, though John Mayer apparently thought this little gem - "Wearing corduroy pants means having a nail file on you all the time...
...parlor trick? Perhaps, but Fujifilm is gambling that consumers will not only be willing to pay for such special effects, but they'll also pay extra. When the camera debuts in Japan this summer and in the U.S. and Europe in September, it will cost around $600, roughly twice the price of conventional digital cameras. The picture frame will cost several hundred dollars, too; Fuji isn't sure yet how much to charge for 3-D prints. "We know that if it's over 500 yen [$5] per photo, it probably won't sell," says Takeshi Higuchi, general manager...
...people spending real money on this stuff? Humor is clearly a big draw: a study last year by Lightspeed Venture Partners found that virtual ninjabread cookies are given twice as often as virtual chocolate. There's even a create-your-own-gift application, which has more than 300,000 users. Make yours clever enough, and you could horn in on the estimated $42 million in Facebook gift sales...