The French protest election results with flair we’ll never get right in America
Month: May 2007
Only I can hear them
Typewriter waffles
The picture, she is being worth one thousand of words and more!
A waffle meant for the true geek in your life. (via boingboing)
[tags]The typewriter waffle-iron[/tags
11 year old hero
The only thing missing from this story is a single hunk of metal, delivered mafia-style execution from very close range. Hail to the 11-year old boy who is the hero of the day at Disneyworld in Florida.
An 11-year-old boy helps police catch a child molester during his family’s vacation at Disney World.
. . .
“Well the beginning was pretty good until we ran into this little big bump”, says David.
That bump was convicted sex offender William Bishop who 11-year-old David and his sister ran into out by the pool at the Swan Resort on the property of Walt Disney World.
David says, “He was asking my sister some very strange questions like where are your mom and dad? Do they know where you are? Do they know you are going on the slide? Can you point your mom and dad out to me?”
The AACS crack song
AACS gets cracked. More specifically, a single AACS key is found. That key gets posted online. A large portion of the net decides the key is DIGGable. Original DIGG poster gets banned and the post gets un-DIGGed and deleted. Hilarity ensues. Then, someone writes a song.
[tags]AACS key DIGG removed, AACS crack song[/tags]
Mencia stealing jokes?
Hmmmm, is Carlos Mencia just stealing other comedians’ material?
Cracked.com previews the new Vanity Fair cover
Click the image for the full cover.
That looks about right.
[tags]Cracked.com previews the new Vanity Fair cover[/tags]
The REAL Sept. 11th story
Thanks to cow-orker James for this dandy write-up of the REAL story behind the Sept. 11th attacks. I’m pretty sure this is much more accurate than the official report.
BUSH: So, what’s the plan again?
CHENEY: Well, we need to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. So what we’ve decided to do is crash a whole bunch of remote-controlled planes into Wall Street and the Pentagon, say they’re real hijacked commercial planes, and blame it on the towelheads; then we’ll just blow up the buildings ourselves to make sure they actually fall down.
RUMSFELD: Right! And we’ll make sure that some of the hijackers are agents of Saddam Hussein! That way we’ll have no problem getting the public to buy the invasion.
CHENEY: No, Dick, we won’t.
RUMSFELD: We won’t?
Umm, WTF Judge?
From the latest issue of Reason magazine comes this interesting judgement from the bench:
In March 2004, two Florida teens — 17-year-old male “J.G.W.” and 16-you-old “A.H.,” as court records refer to them — photographed themselves engaged in sex acts. Then they sent the pictures from A.H.’s computer to J.G.W.’s email account. It’s not exactly clear how, but the photos soon wound up in the hands of the police. Both teenagers were charged with producing child pornography.
The sex acts themselves were no illegal; both teens were over Florida’s age of consent. It was the documentation of the sex acts that was illegal, because the federal child pornography ban defines a child as anyone under 18. In essence, they were arrested for exploiting themselves.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
It is important for men to remember that, as women grow older, it becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at them. Some are oversensitive, and there’s nothing worse than an oversensitive woman.
My name is Jim. Let me relate how I handled the situation with my wife, Peggy. When I retired a few years ago, it became necessary for Peggy to get a full-time job along with her part-time job, both for extra income and for the health benefits that we needed.
My money is on Superman
Cell phones might not be killing bees
I realize this might be a difficult claim to accept, especially if you are my wife, but there is some evidence that I was right. At least, there is evidence that I was right when I recently claimed that cell phones weren’t killing all the bees. Instead, a new theory is coming out saying that a deadly fungus may be causing Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The scientists behind this thought have said this is very early preliminary information, and they don’t think they can say yet that the CCD issue has been solved. However, the idea looks to be gaining traction when you see reports from other scientists.
A fungus that caused widespread loss of bee colonies in Europe and Asia may be playing a crucial role in the mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder that is wiping out bees across the United States, UC San Francisco researchers said Wednesday.
. . .
But the results are “highly preliminary” and are from only a few hives from Le Grand in Merced County, UCSF biochemist Joe DeRisi said. “We don’t want to give anybody the impression that this thing has been solved.”
Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the country – as well as in some hives where bees had survived. Those researchers have also found two other fungi and half a dozen viruses in the dead bees.
N. ceranae is “one of many pathogens” in the bees, said entomologist Diana Cox-Foster of Pennsylvania State University. “By itself, it is probably not the culprit … but it may be one of the key players.”
There is still quite a bit of research to do to verify this, it seems. But as the article notes, other scientists are seeing this same fungus in the hives they are checking. And I would like to add that there is no evidence that I am right on anything else, nor evidence that I have ever been right before, nor evidence that I will ever be right again. Just in case you think maybe my wife should start giving me a little slack and listening when I say something.
[tags]Possible culprit found for disappearance of bees[/tags]