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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Real-life Hurt Locker: how bomb-proof suits work

quote [ How a Bomb Kills You........
A microsecond after a bomb goes off, the explosion compresses the surrounding air and blows it outward in a lightning-fast shockwave that ripples through clothing and literally flattens internal organs. ]

BAAABUMMMMMMM...... Oh shit!

[by JOECAM@12:06amGMT] [+10 Interesting] [15 comments]


Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Actor Corey Haim dies at age 38

quote [ NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Actor Corey Haim died at the age of 38 early Wednesday morning. ]

RIP
[by JOECAM] [+8 Informative] [19 comments]


Apple is doooooomed

quote [ While hard to picture now, Jobs and company will one day, maybe soon, fall out of step with fashion. Growth will stall. Fair-weather investors will flee to sunnier stocks. Loyal fans will become embittered. Smelling blood, critics will get even nastier. ]

tee hee

[humour] [by foobar] [+4 Funny] [45 comments]


For the white supremacist child who has everything

quote [ Dark green leather overcoat. Field Gray jacket with all offical emblems and medals as worn by Hitler. Cloth field gray officers cap with gold braiding and die cast emblems. Limited to 2000 pieces worldwide! THIS Figure is rare and very hard to find! Comes new in box! ]

Trouble shopping for the kids of your white supremacist pals? Look no further.
[humour] [by sua_sponte] [+7 Funny] [72 comments]


1978 'Dating Game' winner is a serial killer

quote [ Within months of his "Dating Game" appearance, Alcala would become a killer, prosecutors said, abducting and murdering a 12-year-old girl in 1979. Before the decade was over, Alcala would claim four more victims, according to testimony at his trial. ]

Creepy.
[by sua_sponte] [+5 Interesting] [13 comments]


Real-life Hurt Locker: how bomb-proof suits work

quote [ How a Bomb Kills You........
A microsecond after a bomb goes off, the explosion compresses the surrounding air and blows it outward in a lightning-fast shockwave that ripples through clothing and literally flattens internal organs. ]

BAAABUMMMMMMM...... Oh shit!

[by JOECAM] [+10 Interesting] [15 comments]


Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Philadelphia school webcam followup followup

quote [ Absolute Software, new owners of the LANrev remote administration suite (formerly owned and developed by Pole Position GmbH), say they are going to remove the webcam remote activation feature from the software this week ]

followup to http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/79517 which was a followup to http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/79487
Looks like the version that still has the functionality will be popular on bit torrent.
[by mcclint] [+6 Informative] [25 comments]


Building a Better Teacher

quote [ ...what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm... ]

From the Sunday New York Times Magazine. It's a long article, but really interesting if you happen to be a teacher (I know some of us are).
Full Article in Extended...

[by EtOH] [+10 Interesting] [53 comments]


22 Weird and Beautiful Caterpillars

quote [ Actually, a caterpillar is a young butterfly or moth that has just hatched out of its egg. Their look varies from scary to cute, but they always grab my attention when I find one in my garden. ]

They are all beautiful.

[by JOECAM] [+10 Good] [15 comments]


Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Super Mario Bros on an 8x8 LED matrix

quote [ This is a game project for S10-05833 - Gadgets, Sensors, and Activity Recognition in HCI taught by Scott Hudson at Carnegie Mellon University. I created a simple version of Super Mario Bros using an 8x8 LED matrix (one color), an Arduino Nano, two buttons for the input (forward and jump), and a piezo sensor hooked to a separate Arduino for the theme song. ]
[sci&tech] [by JimboSmith] [+10 Good] [21 comments]


Waterboarding for dummies: CIA documents on waterboarding

quote [ Finally, to keep detainees alive even if they inhaled their own vomit during a session – a not-uncommon side effect of waterboarding – the prisoners were kept on a liquid diet. The agency recommended Ensure Plus. ]
[politics] [by f00m@nB@r] [+10 WTF] [14 comments]


Gazzele - Just Now

quote [ Gazelle's concept videography pushes them to live in the moment to deal with the current political injustices facing the dark continent. ]

Afro-Disco-Funk. The video is part of a series of performance pieces he did highlighting how aid to Africa ends up getting returned to Europe.

[politics] [by cardinal] [+7 Good] [16 comments]


Philosophy lectures by Rick Roderick

Excellent lectures by the late continental philosopher Rick Roderick. Practicing in a unpretentious and socratic method that is sadly absent from most of the academy. Unfortunately I only heard of Roderick after his death. Thankfully his unique style and enthusiasm have been recorded and are available for free.
[literature] [by mado] [+6 Good] [22 comments]


FANTASTIC EPIC FLAMING HYPOCRITE FAIL

quote [ hehe i reposted the ashburn story...found this palin article. didn't have to change the entry title...win! ]

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care
[politics] [by bigjohnson] [+10 Funny] [66 comments]


Monday, 8 March 2010

Discarded

quote [ George Georgio
Hidden: pshchiatric hospitals ]

I don't love this stuff.

[art] [by vahid] [+10 Interesting] [28 comments]


Underwear, Mountain Of Sand Angers Neighbors

quote [ A home in Volusia County is sparking outrage Friday. A homeowner has strung up women's underwear and built mountains of sand in the back and neighbors are desperate for help. The homeowner, Robert Hodges, calls himself "Prince Mongo". He claims to be from the planet Zambodia and is 333 years old. Hodges says he is here to save the world: "I have a spaceship coming that's going to carry 333 spirits, 333,000 spirits from earth." ]

I, for one, welcome our Zambodian saviors.

[politics] [by Ankylosaur] [+10 WTF] [15 comments]


Firefly's Jayne Fears Equality For Monsters

quote [ The Public Broadcasting System's taxpayer-funded "Sesame Street" has, at cursory glance, presented young American children with what colorfully appears to be one of television's few safe havens of educational fun.

Yet, embedded in its visually intoxicating muppetry and otherwise innocently entertaining educational content there lurks highly controversial political messages designed to promote multiculturalism and global citizenship ]

Rage against the Muppet, Adam Baldwin!

[politics] [by Ankylosaur] [+10 WTF] [62 comments]


Roy Ashburn: "I'm gay."

quote [ Ashburn, a divorced father of four, said that his many votes against gay rights were efforts to represent the conservative views of his constituents. ]

A follow-up to this post.
[politics] [by Krutz] [+10 Interesting] [103 comments]


The Energizer Bunny may give you a virus!

quote [ Energizer has pulled its DUO charger from the market thanks to a security vulnerability that was discovered within the monitoring software they made available to Windows-based PCs... the real time monitoring software was made available with a DLL file that acts as a backdoor to the system, allowing remote access to port 7777... (&) grants total control to an attacker ]

A Trojan more precisely. Who'd have thunk a big company wouldn't properly check its software?
[sci&tech] [by maryyugo] [+4 Funny] [12 comments]




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