Norman Joseph Woodland, the man who invented the bar code, died on Sunday at the age of 91.

A lot weird things are supposed to fix the oil spill. This guy is complaining that BP won't consider is idea: "a giant shower curtain at 5,000 feet that goes to the bottom of the ocean." We're doomed. [AP]

Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the Frisbee, died this week at home in Utah. Morrison patented the world's first commercially produced plastic flying disc in 1948, and sold the concept to Wham-O in 1955. (He'd also been a prisoner of war in Stalag 13 during World War II, after his P-47 Thunderbolt was shot down.)