Thursday, August 31, 2006
Passengers Wanted
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Strange News Day
Saddam Finally See's South Park
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being made to watch his appearance in cult cartoon South Park while he is behind bars. The deposed leader on trial in Iraq was featured in the movie spin-off as the lover of the devil. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut featured Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together. - Yahoo Clown Crushed to Death in Front of Audience of Children A hot-air balloon caught fire during a circus stunt, killing a clown acrobat as dozens of children watched, police said Tuesday. The accident happened Monday night as the Royal Russian Circus was performing in Scariff, County Clare, a village in western Ireland. About 100 people were in the audience, most of them children. Police said the clown was a 26-year-old man from Belarus but didn't release his name. Witnesses said the man, dressed in a clown outfit, was hanging from a cage suspended by ropes and a hot-air balloon inside the canvas tent. When the balloon exploded in flames, the cage fell on top of the man. - AP Woman Crashes Car Teaching Dog to Drive A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said. - Yahoo Can real life get any weirder?
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Portland Dissapoints Again
Only number 19 on the America's Drunkest Cities? C'mon PDX, you're killing me.
Reno doesn't even make the cut which is depressing, but I had more faith in Portland. Oh well, at least Cleveland took a stand, ranking #7 on the list.
Take That Evil-Doers!
Say what you want about Microsoft, but this is pretty cool.
"Users of Microsoft's Messenger email service will be able to report suspected sexual predators directly to the police at the click of a mouse. In an attempt to protect the 11 million users of the service from potential abusers, the software giant has struck up a partnership with the UK government-backed Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre. Microsoft will add a "report abuse" icon to Messenger that will link any users worried about their anonymous internet buddies directly to online police services." - Guardian Unlimited Although the potential for abuse of the report abuse feature is pretty freaking high.
Zorak
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Obligatory Jellyfish Shot
Monday, August 14, 2006
Homesick
Message to John
Chard!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
They're Baaack....
One of the best meteor showers of the year - the Perseids - will get washed out by a nearly full Moon this year. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try and enjoy them anyway. The Moon will be 87% full on Friday, August 11, rising after 10:00pm. Head out after it goes dark, and see if you can spot an Earth grazer; a special kind of meteor that can be very bright and slow, leaving a dramatic tail. After 10:00pm, only the brightest meteors will be visible. 2007 will be much better, when it'll be a moonless sky. - Universe Today
Friday, August 04, 2006
Ozium
I'm up to my brain in the mire of an ancient swamp
Pteranadon smiles at me and flies up to god
Baby let me drink deep from your globes of reality
Writhe your naked ass to the mindless groove
Baby give your tongue a taste and follow me up to my room
The bullgod has your head, and baby that's just fine
Now it is time, we became the mighty cell
Wrap those hungry jacks to the mindless groove
They say we've got a lifetime, but we know that ain't true
I will not be denied, I will not be denied
The faster you gyrate the faster we'll be there
Arms up overhead, a goddess in the ancient song
Work that mighty world to the mindless groove
They say we've got a lifetime, but we know that ain't true
I will not be denied, I will not be denied
They say we've got a lifetime, but we know that ain't true
I will not be denied, I will not be denied - Monster Magnet
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Erie Effect
"Scientists say it's a mirage, but others swear that when the weather is right, Clevelanders can see across Lake Erie and spot Canadian trees and buildings 50 miles away.
Eyewitness accounts have long been part of the city's history. "The whole sweep of the Canadian shore stood out as if less than three miles away," a story in The Plain Dealer proclaimed in 1906. "The distant points across the lake stood out for nearly an hour and then faded away." "I can see how this could be possible," said Lawrence Krauss, chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University." - Yahoo
Excerpt
"A big problem was that the canning, freezing and dehydrating kinda killed the taste. They also kill the smell and the color. So a billion-dollar industry sprang up to make processed food not taste like cardboard. Mostly they do that by injecting chemicals. A simple example is methyl anthranilate, which is used as a metal corrosion inhibitor in jet engine lubricants and also to make grape Kool-Aid taste like grape. Amyl acetate (also used as a paint and lacquer solvent) tastes like banana. But the formulas are usually much, much more complicated than that. To simulate an old-fashioned strawberry milkshake, the "artificial strawberry flavor" in a Burger King shake contains forty-six chemicals. None of which is strawberry." - Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock
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