criitz

Xennial

Stop lying, that thing chugged AA batteries like water

You make good points, but I still think nothing good can come of playing ball with Facebook. I dont trust them

It is a monument to man's arrogance

Party pooper

Star voting solves all the problems for single winner elections

The Clampets are moving again

The people that named those places were still European

Checkmate

It hasn't been the same company that delivered that gaming magic in the 90s since, well, the 90s.

I was curious about the claims about Eno so I Googled a bit. Eno actually is responsible for a lot of these ideas being put in use, if not inventing them himself. He basically pioneered the concept of standardized traffic rules.

As for the stop sign, Eno proposed the idea in 1900:

In a 1900 article titled “Reforming Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed,” for Rider and Driver magazine, he proposed placing stop signs at intersections. It was a civilizing notion.“That was a new concept and really did introduce the idea that you had to watch out for other people,” Schank says.

Harry Jackson created his octagonal sign 14 years later, in 1914:

Stop signs were invented in Detroit in 1914, which seems the obvious place considering it’s the car center of the universe. Detroit police sergeant Harry Jackson was working an intersection where one lane came in at an odd angle and so he continuously had to stop the cars coming that way. He took a board, cut the corners off and wrote “stop” on it. It did the trick and soon he was telling the other cops about it and it soon caught on.

The invention of the roundabout is a bit more complicated. Circular intersections of some kind predated Eno, but they wouldn't all be considered roundabouts by our definition today.

He did one thing right - lighting the beacons of Gondor

vituperative
/vī-too͞′pər-ə-tĭv, -tyoo͞′-, -pə-rā″-, vĭ-/

adjective
Using, containing, or marked by harshly critical or irate language.