Did Someone Say Links?

[Canadian Hick]

Here are some things (http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-on-you-right-now.html) to keep an eye out for with the elections coming up.

I know I spend too much of my life at Cracked.

[reggiekrh]

Here are some things (http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-on-you-right-now.html) to keep an eye out for with the elections coming up.

I know I spend too much of my life at Cracked.

Nice! When did Cracked become relevant, anyway?


Mockery developed as a "conformity enforcer" to keep people in line.

Somebody here should recognize himself as a "conformity enforcer".

Gary Marcus wrote a recent book called Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind that discusses, among other things, why we can't always trust our brains. It delves into some of the topics that the Cracked article talks about, including our analytical and emotional sides of thinking. Marcus called it the ancestral brain and the deliberative brain. The analytical, or deliberative, part of our brain is relatively new and takes more practice and effort to use, so he argues. Not as useful as the older and more reactive ancestral brain for dodging predators or competeing for scarce food and mates on ancient savannahs.

Interesting how it all relates to modern day politics.

[Canadian Hick]

Nice! When did Cracked become relevant, anyway?





This article is one of the rare ones that only come around a couple times a year written by one of their editors and the man who did the writing for PointlessWasteofTime.com.

[batmanuel]

45 million year old beer (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html) (sorta)

[reggiekrh]

45 million year old beer (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html) (sorta)

Yabba dabba doo!

[Chairman_Kaga]

45 million year old beer (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html) (sorta)

William Brand, says the beer has "a wierd spiciness at the finish,"
Yeah, that's the ancient alien yeast burrowing into your flesh on it's way to your brain to take over.

[Canadian Hick]

The conservative answer to Wikipedia! (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page)

A couple excerpts from their best articles:


Ιt is sometimes asserted that if human bones aren’t found with dinosaur bones, then dinosaurs and man didn’t live together.[47][48] Creation scientists point out that this is a false assumption; if human bones aren’t found buried with dinosaur bones, it simply means they weren't buried together.[47]

...

Creationists note that the fossil record contains mainly marine organisms and that a small sliver of the fossil record contains vertebrates and thus assert that we shouldn't expect to find many human fossils at all.[47] Μoreover, as the biblical Flood would be a marine catastrophe, it would be expected that marine fossils would dominate the fossil record. Τhis is in fact what we find.[49]


Obama is likely to be Muslim because:

* Obama's background and education are Muslim
* Obama's middle name remains Muslim, meaning "descendant of Muhammad," which most Christians would not retain[8]
* Obama recently referred to his "Muslim faith"[9]
* Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for "Pakistan" rather than the common American one[10]
* Obama, in his autobiography "Dreams from My Father" (1995), descibes Muslim Malcolm X as his favorite black leader
* Obama's claims of conversion to Christianity arose after he became politically ambitious, lacking a date of conversion or baptism.[11]

[reggiekrh]

The conservative answer to Wikipedia! (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page)

A couple excerpts from their best articles:


You forgot to mention the Richard Lenski debacle.


http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog

Andy Schlafly, who appearently runs the abomination called Conservapedia, challenged Lenski's research into E Coli. It is embarrassing. PZ Myers gives a good review of it with links here (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/lenski_gives_conservapdia_a_le.php).

You do not need to know much about microbiology or the backround of the previous exchanges to recognize a verbal ass kicking. It's a thoroughly entertaining read! Preface by Myers. (Previous exchanges are in the above link to Conservapedia including the quoted letter below)


Once again, Richard Lenski has replied to the goons and fools at Conservapædia, and boy, does he ever outclass them. For a quick outline of the saga, read this summary at A Candid World; basically, Andy Schlafly has been demanding every bit of data from Richard Lenski's work on the evolution of E. coli, despite the fact that Schlafly doesn't have the background to understand it and doesn't have any plan for what he would do with it if he got it. Lenski has been polite and helpful in his replies; his first response is a model for how to explain difficult science to a bullying ideologue. Now his second response is available, and while he has clearly lost some patience and is unequivocal in denouncing their bad faith efforts to discredit good science, he still gives an awfully good and instructional discussion.

I've put the whole thing below the fold, in case you'd rather not click through to that wretched hive of pretentious villainy at Conservapædia.

(Quoting Lenski's Second Letter)
"I tried to be polite, civil and respectful in my reply to your first email, despite its rude tone and uninformed content. Given the continued rudeness of your second email, and the willfully ignorant and slanderous content on your website, my second response will be less polite. I expect you to post my response in its entirety; if not, I will make sure that is made publicly available through other channels.

I offer this lengthy reply because I am an educator as well as a scientist. It is my sincere hope that some readers might learn something from this exchange, even if you do not.

First, it seems that reading might not be your strongest suit given your initial letter, which showed that you had not read our paper, and given subsequent conversations with your followers, in which you wrote that you still had not bothered to read our paper. You wrote: "I did skim Lenski's paper ..." If you have not even read the original paper, how do you have any basis of understanding from which to question, much less criticize, the data that are presented therein?

Second, your capacity to misinterpret and/or misrepresent facts is plain in the third request in your first letter, where you said: "In addition, there is skepticism that 3 new and useful proteins appeared in the colony around generation 20,000." That statement was followed by a link to a news article from NewScientist that briefly reported on our work. I assumed you had simply misunderstood that article, because there is not even a mention of proteins anywhere in the news article. As I replied, "We make no such claim anywhere in our paper, nor do I think it is correct. Proteins do not 'appear out of the blue', in any case." So where did your confused assertion come from? It appears to have come from one of your earlier discussions, in which an acoltye (Able806, who to his credit at least seems to have attempted to read our paper) wrote:

"I think it might be best to clarify some of Richard's work. He started his E.Coli project in 1988 and has been running the project for 20 years now; his protocols are available to the general public. The New Scientist article is not very technical but the paper at PNAS is. The change was based on one of his colonies developing the ability to absorb citrate, something not found in wild E.Coli. This occurred around 31,500 generations and is based on the development of 3 proteins in the E.Coli genome. What his future work will be is to look at what caused the development of these 3 proteins around generation 20,000 of that particular colony. ..."

As further evidence of your inability to keep even a few simple facts straight, you later wrote the following: "It [my reply] did clarify that his claims are not as strong as some evolutionists have insisted." But no competent biologist would, after reading our paper with any care, insist (or even suggest) that "3 new and useful proteins appeared in the colony around generation 20,000" or any similar nonsense. It is only in your letter, and in your acolyte's confused interpretation of our paper, that I have ever seen such a claim. Am I or the reporter for NewScientist somehow responsible for the confusion that reflects your own laziness and apparent inability to distinguish between a scientific paper, a news article, and a confused summary posted by an acolyte on your own website?

Third, it is apparent to me, and many others who have followed this exchange and your on-line discussions of how to proceed, that you are not acting in good faith in requests for data. From the posted discussion on your web site, it is obvious that you lack any expertise in the relevant fields. Several of your acolytes have pointed this out to you, and that your motives are unclear or questionable at best, but you and your cronies dismissed their concerns as rants and even expelled some of them from posting on your website. [Ed.: citation omitted due to spam filter] Several also pointed out that I had very quickly and straightforwardly responded that the methods and data supporting the evolution of the citrate-utilization capacity are already provided in our paper. One poster in your discussions, Aaronp, wrote:

"I read Lenski's paper, and as a trained microbiologist, I thought that it was both thorough and well done. His claims are backed by good data, namely that which was presented in the figures. I went through each of the figures after Aschlafly said that they were uninformative. Actually, they are basic figures that show the population explosion of the bacterial cultures after the Cit+ mutation occurred. These figures show that the cultures increased in size and mass at a given timepoint, being able to do so because they had evolved a mechanism to utilize a new nutrient, without the assistance of helper plasmids. ... Lenksi's paper, while not the most definite I've seen, is still a very well-researched paper that supports its claims nicely."

(As far as I saw, Aaronp is the only poster who asserted any expertise in microbiology.) As further evidence of the absence of good-faith discussion about our research, in the discussion thread that began even before you sent your first email to me, I counted the words "fraud" or "fraudulent" being used more than 10 times, including one acolyte, TonyT, who says bluntly that I am "clearly a fraudulent hack." In the discussion thread that also includes comments after my first reply, the number of times those same words are used has increased to 20, with the word "hoax" also now entering the discussion. A few posters wisely counseled against such slander but that did not deter you. I must say, it is surprising that someone with a law degree would make, and allow on his website, so many nasty comments that implicitly and even explicitly impugn my integrity, and by extension that of my collaborators, without any grounds whatsoever and reflecting only your dogmatic adherence to certain beliefs.

Finally, let me now turn to our data. As I said before, the relevant methods and data about the evolution of the citrate-using bacteria are in our paper. In three places in our paper, we did say "data not shown", which is common in scientific papers owing to limitations in page length, especially for secondary or minor points. None of the places where we made such references concern the existence of the citrate-using bacteria; they concern only certain secondary properties of those bacteria. We will gladly post those additional data on my website.

It is my impression that you seem to think we have only paper and electronic records of having seen some unusual E. coli. If we made serious errors or misrepresentations, you would surely like to find them in those records. If we did not, then - as some of your acolytes have suggested - you might assert that our records are themselves untrustworthy because, well, because you said so, I guess. But perhaps because you did not bother even to read our paper, or perhaps because you aren't very bright, you seem not to understand that we have the actual, living bacteria that exhibit the properties reported in our paper, including both the ancestral strain used to start this long-term experiment and its evolved citrate-using descendants. In other words, it's not that we claim to have glimpsed "a unicorn in the garden" - we have a whole population of them living in my lab! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_in_the_Garden] And lest you accuse me further of fraud, I do not literally mean that we have unicorns in the lab. Rather, I am making a literary allusion. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion]

One of your acolytes, Dr. Richard Paley, actually grasped this point. He does not appear to understand the practice and limitations of science, but at least he realizes that we have the bacteria, and that they provide "the real data that we [that's you and your gang] need". Here's what this Dr. Paley had to say:

"I think there's a great deal of misunderstanding here from the critics of Mr. Schlafly and obfuscation on the part of Prof. Lenski and his supporters. The real data that we need are not in the paper. Rather they are in the bacteria used in the experiments themselves. Prof. Lenski claims that these bacteria 'evolved' novel traits and that these were preceded by the evolution of 'potentiated genotypes', from which the traits could be 'reevolved' using preserved colonies from those generations. But how are we to know if these traits weren't 'potentiated' by the Creator when He designed the bacteria thousands of years ago, such that they would eventually reveal themselves when the time was right? The only way this can be settled is if we have access to the genetic sequences of the bacteria colonies so that we can apply CSI techniques and determine if these 'potentiated genotypes' originated through blind chance or intelligence. But with the physical specimens in the hands of Darwinists, who claim they will get around to the sequencing at some unspecifed future time, how can we trust that this data will be forthcoming and forthright? Thus, Prof. Lenski et al. should supply Conservapedia, as stewards, with samples of the preserved E. coli colonies so that the data can be accessible to unbiased researchers outside of the hegemony of the Darwinian academia, even if it won't be put to immediate examination by Mr. Schlafly. This is simply about keeping tax-payer-funded scientists honest."

So, will we share the bacteria? Of course we will, with competent scientists. Now, if I was really mean, I might only share the ancestral strain, and let the scientists undertake the 20 years of our experiment. Or if I was only a little bit mean, maybe I'd also send the potentiated bacteria, and let the recipients then repeat the several years of incredibly pain-staking work that my superb doctoral student, Zachary Blount, performed to test some 40 trillion (40,000,000,000,000) cells, which generated 19 additional citrate-using mutants. But I'm a nice guy, at least when treated with some common courtesy, so if a competent scientist asks for them, I would even send a sample of the evolved E. coli that now grows vigorously on citrate. A competent microbiologist, perhaps requiring the assistance of a competent molecular geneticist, would readily confirm the following properties reported in our paper: (i) The ancestral strain does not grow in DM0 (zero glucose, but containing citrate), the recipe for which can be found on my web site, except leaving the glucose out of the standard recipe as stated in our paper. (ii) The evolved citrate-using strain, by contrast, grows well in that exact same medium. (iii) To confirm that the evolved strain is not some contaminating species but is, in fact, derived from the ancestral strain in our study, one could check a number of traits and genes that identify the ancestor as E. coli, and the evolved strains as a descendant thereof, as reported in our paper. (iv) One could also sequence the pykF and nadR genes in the ancestor and evolved citrate-using strains. One would find that the evolved bacteria have mutations in each of these genes. These mutations precisely match those that we reported in our previous work, and they identify the evolved citrate-using mutants as having evolved in the population designated Ara-3 of the long-term evolution experiment, as opposed to any of the other 11 populations in that experiment. And one could go on and on from there to confirm the findings in our paper, and perhaps obtain additional data of the sort that we are currently pursuing.

Before I could send anyone any bacterial strains, in order to comply with good scientific practices I would require evidence of the requesting scientist's credentials including: (i) affiliation with an appropriate unit in some university or research center with appropriate facilities for storing (-80ºC freezer), handling (incubators, etc.), and disposing of bacteria (autoclave); and (ii) some evidence, such as peer-reviewed publications, that indicate that the receiving scientist knows how to work with bacteria, so that I and my university can be sure we are sending biological materials to someone that knows how to handle them. By the way, our strains are not derived from one of the pathogenic varieties of E. coli that are a frequent cause of food-borne illnesses. However, even non-pathogenic strains may cause problems for those who are immune-compromised or otherwise more vulnerable to infection. Also, my university requires that a Material Transfer Agreement be executed before we can ship any strains. That agreement would not constrain a receiving scientist from publishing his or her results. However, if an incompetent or fraudulent hack (note that I make no reference to any person, as this is strictly a hypothetical scenario, one that I doubt would occur) were to make false or misleading claims about our strains, then I'm confident that some highly qualified scientists would join the fray, examine the strains, and sort out who was right and who was wrong. That's the way science works.

I would also generally ask what the requesting scientist intends to do with our strains. Why? It helps me to gauge the requester's expertise. I might be able to point out useful references, for example. Moreover, as I've said, we are continuing our work with these strains, on multiple fronts, as explained in considerable detail in the Discussion section of our paper. I would not be happy to see our work "scooped" by another team - especially for the sake of the outstanding students and postdocs in my group who are hard at work on these fronts. However, that request to allow us to proceed, without risk of being scooped on work in which we have made a substantial investment of time and effort, would be just that: a request. In other words, we would respect PNAS policy to share those strains with any competent scientist who complied with my university's requirements for the MTA and any other relevant legal restrictions. If any such request requires substantial time or resources (we have thousands of samples from this and many other experiments), then of course I would expect the recipient to bear those costs.

So there you have it. I know that I've been a bit less polite in this response than in my previous one, but I'm still behaving far more politely than you deserve given your rude, willfully ignorant, and slanderous behavior. And I've spent far more time responding than you deserve. However, as I said at the outset, I take education seriously, and I know some of your acolytes still have the ability and desire to think, as do many others who will read this exchange.

Sincerely,
Richard Lenski

P.S. Did you know that your own bowels harbor something like a billion (1,000,000,000) E. coli at this very moment? So remember to wash your hands after going to the toilet, as I hope your mother taught you. Simple calculations imply that there are something like 10^20 = 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 E. coli alive on our planet at any moment. Even if they divide just once per day, and given a typical mutation rate of 10^-9 or 10^-10 per base-pair per generation, then pretty much every possible double mutation would occur every day or so. That's a lot of opportunity for evolution.

P.P.S. I hope that some readers might get a chuckle out of this story. The same Sunday (15 June 2008) that you and some of your acolytes were posting and promoting scurrilous attacks on me and our research (wasn't that a bit disrespectful of the Sabbath?), I was in a church attending a wedding. And do you know what Old Testament lesson was read? It was Genesis 1:27-28, in which God created Man and Woman. It's a very simple and lovely story, and I did not ask any questions, storm out, or demand the evidence that it happened as written at a time when science did not yet exist. I was there in the realm of spirituality and mutual respect, not confusing a house of religion for a science class or laboratory. And it was a beautiful wedding, too.

P.P.P.S. You may be unable to understand, or unwilling to accept, that evolution occurs. And yet, life evolves! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pur_si_muove] From the content on your website, it is clear that you, like many others, view God as the Creator of the Universe. I respect that view. I find it baffling, however, that someone can worship God as the all-mighty Creator while, at the same time, denying even the possibility (not to mention the overwhelming evidence) that God's Creation involved evolution. It is as though a person thinks that God must have the same limitations when it comes to creation as a person who is unable to understand, or even attempt to understand, the world in which we live. Isn't that view insulting to God?

P.P.P.P.S. I noticed that you say that one of your favorite articles on your website is the one on "Deceit." That article begins as follows: "Deceit is the deliberate distortion or denial of the truth with an intent to trick or fool another. Christianity and Judaism teach that deceit is wrong. For example, the Old Testament says, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.'" You really should think more carefully about what that commandment means before you go around bearing false witness against others."

[Chalybos]

Reggie, that's one hell of a clipping.

[reggiekrh]

Reggie, that's one hell of a clipping.

Heh, can't get me for just posting a link on that one!

I know it's a laborious read, but it's such a great letter I had to post it. Lenski simply eviscerates Schlafly.

[TheMan]

The conservative answer to Wikipedia! (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page)

I will see your Conservative Wacko Site and Raise whit this Liberal Wacko Site!

http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

with 100% truth

* Bill Gates is an evil conservative business genius who realized that designing and selling numbers is more profitable than hardware.
* Obviously, he is a conservative, as demonstrated by his predatory business practices and by the fact that only people who create and use Macs (and not PC's) are liberals[WTF!?]. Unlike most conservatives, he does not want all people with AIDS to die a horrible and painful death. Besides, if all the Africans die, he will lose an enormous potential market for his products.

* Sport Utility Vehicle. Neither a sport vehicle nor a utility vehicle. A whack, fake (and successful) attempt by the motor vehicle industry to lure in overpaid middle class workaholic mothers who think that they need a three ton vehicle to carry their stupid kids to soccer practice.

* Declaration of Independence - Most conservatives don't quote it or even make reference to it, because they don't think that it should have been sent. In fact, one of the items high on the conservative agenda is to stop the march of time, return all land from the Louisiana Purchase back to the French in exchange for a few bottles of old wine and piece of apple pie, return California to the Spanish in exchange for a sword and a chance to call the King of Spain a fascist, abolish women's voting rights, and submit back to the British Parliament.

[reggiekrh]

I will see your Conservative Wacko Site and Raise whit this Liberal Wacko Site!



Haha! It's as absurd as the Conservapedia.



* Sport Utility Vehicle. Neither a sport vehicle nor a utility vehicle. A whack, fake (and successful) attempt by the motor vehicle industry to lure in overpaid middle class workaholic mothers who think that they need a three ton vehicle to carry their stupid kids to soccer practice.

However, that seems about right.

[Canadian Hick]

I will see your Conservative Wacko Site and Raise whit this Liberal Wacko Site!

http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

with 100% truth

Hilarious!

Holy s**t, it's more wacko than the conservative one.


The American Civil War was a war between the good, real American, patriotic, democratic, North, and the evil, racist, conservative, dark empire of the South.

[reggiekrh]

Hilarious!

Holy s**t, it's more wacko than the conservative one.

Indeed.

Sarah Palin?


As governor of Alaska she fired her ex brother in law, got her husband a job as an executive with the BP company. She also was found in a Burger King Bathroom performing a sexual act on Senator Ted Stevens (R)

You won't here that from the evil centrist national media!

[Canadian Hick]

I dare Conservapedia to produce something funnier.

Upon further inspection I think this site's a joke, meant to spoof Conservapedia. No one can type this many ridiculous things sentence after sentence.


Liberapedia is a large wiki that is always trying to grow bigger. If you want to add to it, feel free, but make the articles ridiculously liberal, yet make them claim that they are neutral. Otherwise it's not funny and you should just go to Wikipedia. Our aim is to create an wiki that is both relatively factual and funny at the same time. It is important to remember that Liberapedia is not just another joke wiki like Uncyclopedia.

It was fun while it lasted.

[reggiekrh]

I dare Conservapedia to produce something funnier.

Upon further inspection I think this site's a joke, meant to spoof Conservapedia. No one can type this many ridiculous things sentence after sentence.


I strongly suspected it was a spoof while reading the Palin entry. However, is it a spoof of Conservapedia or of liberals?

[Canadian Hick]

I strongly suspected it was a spoof while reading the Palin entry. However, is it a spoof of Conservapedia or of liberals?

Yeah, liberals sounds better. Probably trying to take a swing at the liberal media. Afterall "make the articles ridiculously liberal, yet make them claim that they are neutral."

If anyone still wants to laugh at retarded encyclopedic websites, there's always Metapedia. I did not link to it, because, well, if you ever go there you'll understand. If extreme racism angers you, do not go there. On second thought it's more of a site you go to if you want to lose all hope in humanity rather than laugh.

[Canadian Hick]

If you are one who believes George Lucas raped your childhood, this should be funny. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/251-Star-Wars-The-Force-Unleashed)

[reggiekrh]

I saw this buried in a Bill Murray article. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/08/film.bill.murray.ap/index.html)


The writers of "The Office" have been hired to pen a "Ghostbusters III," which Murray thinks could offer a fresh take on the films, the second of which he (and many others) found disappointing.


Perhaps ten years too late, but it may still work. The secret ingredient is Ernie Hudson.

[Canadian Hick]

PG Porn! (http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858)

Loud cheesy porn music might not be safe for work, among other things.

[reggiekrh]

Best robbery of the week! (http://tech.msn.com/news/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=11018138&GT1=40000)

An inner tube getaway? Awesome!

[DrGreen]

PG Porn! (http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858)

Loud cheesy porn music might not be safe for work, among other things.
....Mmmmmm...
...Aria Giovanni..

[Chalybos]

Oh ****. Not only funny, but a bit of genius. If the boat was trailered in at a boat launch ramp, there's no way to track it. Not even tire tracks. No business keeps track of those wheels. Hell, you wouldn't even be able to tell if they went upstream or down after picking up the guy. Assuming there are no prints on the tube. And that he didn't post the ad from a legit account or from home.

[reggiekrh]

Hell hath no fury... (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/17/india.beheading.woman.ap/index.html)


LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- A woman chopped the head off a man who allegedly tried to attack her and then paraded the head through a market in northern India, police said Friday.

Police arrested the woman late Thursday after receiving calls from frightened witnesses who reported a blood-soaked woman holding a severed head was walking through the village, said police officer Ram Bharose.

The woman, 35, told police she had gone to a nearby forest to cut grass for fodder for her cattle when a man attacked her from behind.

"In a bid to save her dignity she beheaded him with a sickle," Bharose said, adding that the woman had bite marks on her neck and cheek.

The woman also told police that the man had been harassing and stalking her for three months and she had no regrets about killing him, he said, adding that she would probably be charged with culpable homicide.

The incident took place in Makkapurva village, some 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.

[Chalybos]

The bite marks kind of make it look like self defense. But that's irrelevant; I wonder how she'll be executed?

[Chairman_Kaga]

PG Porn! (http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858)

Loud cheesy porn music might not be safe for work, among other things.
Isn't that Malcom Reynolds (char name) from Firefly?

[Pfaffgod]

Yes it is I loled when I saw him.

[Canadian Hick]

On Cracked someone made a series of short stories, and this one made me laugh, a lot.

Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Six Months as Chief Librarian (http://www.cracked.com/forums/index.php?topic=38067.msg976716#msg976716)

[reggiekrh]

Yay Baptists! (http://baptisthomeschooling.blogspot.com/2008/10/perilous-times-sodomites-in-school.html)


A friend recently sent me this article about a "gay-friendly" high school. If we were living in a biblical society, homosexuality would be punishable by death so such a school would be unnecessary. Although I'm against the special accommodations, perhaps this new trend of segregation will protect straight kids from these predators. With any luck, some radical will blow up the gay school. No, I'm not condoning vigilantism--I'm merely saying that it would be poetic justice.

And then again in the comments...


Since there is no hope for gays, we would be better off without them. They are recruiters and not reproducers so the safest solution would be the death penalty.

Baptists are fun!

[ANGRYAFRICANMAN]

Yay Baptists! (http://baptisthomeschooling.blogspot.com/2008/10/perilous-times-sodomites-in-school.html)



And then again in the comments...



Baptists are fun!

JEEZ REGGIE YOU NEVER STOP DO YOU. I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL GOING TO UNITE BEHIND OBAMA? WHAT IS THIS THAT YOU WRITE? IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE NOT IN THE UNITE MODE YET. YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!!

[Chalybos]

We are going to unite. We're going to start with all of those who voted for McCain, and begin the purging. Lucky for you, we're starting on the East Coast. Can we get away with it? Yes we can!

[reggiekrh]

JEEZ REGGIE YOU NEVER STOP DO YOU. I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL GOING TO UNITE BEHIND OBAMA? WHAT IS THIS THAT YOU WRITE? IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE NOT IN THE UNITE MODE YET. YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!!

I have stopped. The mission is over. Prepare for assimilation. Resistance is futile.

[reggiekrh]

Awesome article about a medic who chronicled his time in a Nazi slave camp.


Anthony Acevedo thumbs through the worn, yellowed pages of his diary emblazoned with the words "A Wartime Log" on its cover. It's a catalog of deaths and atrocities he says were carried out on U.S. soldiers held by Nazis at a slave labor camp during World War II -- a largely forgotten legacy of the war.

Anthony Acevedo served as a medic during World War II. He was captured and sent into a Nazi forced labor camp.

Acevedo pauses when he comes across a soldier with the last name of Vogel.

"He died in my arms. He wouldn't eat. He didn't want to eat," says Acevedo, now 84 years old. "He said, 'I want to die! I want to die! I want to die!' "

The memories are still fresh, some 60 years later. Acevedo keeps reading his entries, scrawled on the pages with a Schaeffer fountain pen he held dear.

He was one of 350 U.S. soldiers held at Berga am Elster, a satellite camp of the Nazis' notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. The soldiers, working 12-hour days, were used by the German army to dig tunnels and hide equipment in the final weeks of the war. Less than half of the soldiers survived their captivity and a subsequent death march, he says.



Read on. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html)

[Chalybos]

Thanks for the read, it's a good article.

[batmanuel]

Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/13/1659214&from=rss)


People are just getting dumber, aren't they?

[reggiekrh]

Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/13/1659214&from=rss)


People are just getting dumber, aren't they?

Nope. There's just more of them. ;)

[Chairman_Kaga]

Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/13/1659214&from=rss)


People are just getting dumber, aren't they?
My question is always if they are this stupid, HTF did they get 400k in the bank they could send away?

[reggiekrh]

My question is always if they are this stupid, HTF did they get 400k in the bank they could send away?

Barack Hussein Obama.

[batmanuel]

My question is always if they are this stupid, HTF did they get 400k in the bank they could send away?

Clearly her husband. Hopefully ex-husband.

[reggiekrh]

Scientists say Copernicus' remains, grave found. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_copernicus)


WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.

[Canadian Hick]

Mad Fold-ins (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html)

[Joe_Shooter]

Gotta love the onion: Making the war more handicapped accessible (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_how_can_we_make_the_0)

[reggiekrh]

US families rely on handouts in world's richest country
Working parents feed their children in soup kitchens as cost of living soars

Link. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/recession-food-handouts-america-virginia)

There must be a "lazy" epidemic in the U.S.?

[reggiekrh]

The Super Repo Man.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

This guy has a fun job!He repos lear Jets & Helicopters.

Sweet gig.

[Canadian Hick]

The Super Repo Man.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

This guy has a fun job!He repos lear Jets & Helicopters.

I was reading this earlier today and I cringed at the idea of him getting a show like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

[Chairman_Kaga]

waste time playing zork.

http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php

Bonus it looks like you're actually working.

Wow, DECSystems. One of my primary functions at work is to support the OpenVMS environment and even I don't run across the phrase/word DECSystems much anymore.

[CMontyBurns]

Pickle Surprise (Youtube) SFW (http://madville.com/weird/308445_wtf_pickle_surprise)
WTF

[Angry Kid]

Pickle Surprise (Youtube) SFW (http://madville.com/weird/308445_wtf_pickle_surprise)
WTF
Just stop it, you. http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/17.gif

You already got me on FB.

[TheMan]

http://www.break.com/index/how-to-tell-real-boobs-from-fake-ones.html

[batmanuel]

3 wolfs! (http://www.amazon.com/THREE-WOLF-MOON-SHIRT-ADULT/product-reviews/B000NZW3IY/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)

[LilPuppy]

3 wolfs! (http://www.amazon.com/THREE-WOLF-MOON-SHIRT-ADULT/product-reviews/B000NZW3IY/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)

LOL +10 resistence to energy attacks , + 8 strength and 30 feet added to leap....damn amazon is some fine reading in the morning LOL..

[reggiekrh]

http://www.break.com/index/how-to-tell-real-boobs-from-fake-ones.html

Awesome...


...and...



3 wolfs! (http://www.amazon.com/THREE-WOLF-MOON-SHIRT-ADULT/product-reviews/B000NZW3IY/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)

...awesome.

[reggiekrh]

[url=http://www.cracked.com/article_17439_shady-agendas-behind-5-popular-conspiracy-theories.htmlConspiracy Theories?[/url]


Do you ever wonder why some conspiracy theories, no matter how retarded they sound, seem to never die? Where do these things come from, anyway?

Well, it turns out that politicians have realized that in the Internet age, a good conspiracy theory can work wonders. So why not just start one? You know, like...

[LilPuppy]

http://www.cracked.com/article_17439_shady-agendas-behind-5-popular-conspiracy-theories.htmlConspiracy Theories?


there you go you bloody drunk ;) Penguins still suck

[reggiekrh]

http://www.cracked.com/article_17439_shady-agendas-behind-5-popular-conspiracy-theories.htmlConspiracy Theories?


there you go you bloody drunk ;) Penguins still suck

LMAO! Thanks, Pup!

[Chalybos]

3 wolfs! (http://www.amazon.com/THREE-WOLF-MOON-SHIRT-ADULT/product-reviews/B000NZW3IY/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)

Well, there goes my morning ...

[reggiekrh]

Well, there goes my morning ...

Feeling deflated for wearing your measly 2 wolf shirt to work today?

[Chalybos]

Well ... yes. :(

[LilPuppy]

No Chaly thought it was wear a three poodle shirt day at work... :)

[Chalybos]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/464490000_aebb49afc7.jpg?v=0
Never underestimate the ninja poodle.

[reggiekrh]

Bravo, Pixar. Bravo. (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show)



From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.
After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.
The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

[reggiekrh]

First!





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/reggiekrh/Internet-Commenter-Wkly.jpg




http://www.holytaco.com/if-internet-commenters-had-magazine

[Chalybos]

Another red flag to IT?!?!?!!? ****!

[reggiekrh]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/reggiekrh/fifteenwolves.jpg




Looks like some kind of unannounced VSF get together.

[batmanuel]

THAT'S FIFTEEN WOLVES!

[reggiekrh]

It was only a matter of time...



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/reggiekrh/222011.jpg



Link. (http://www.threadless.com/submission/222011/Three_Keyboard_Cat_Moon)

[Angry Kid]

Those are people who died (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/13/jim-carroll-dead-basketba_n_285201.html) . . .

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.

[Chalybos]

Aw, damn, I love that song ... :(

[batmanuel]

wow didn't hear that.

[batmanuel]

Two up:
1. Top 10 Amazon hijacked reviews (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6189803/Amazon-hijacked-10-funniest-review-threads.html)
2. The coolest thing I have read in months (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones)

The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone.
...
Called the Georgia Guidestones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones), the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque (http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/4212332.jpg) on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the "guides" themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (prize truth—beauty—love—seeking harmony with the infinite).


#2 is worth the read... fascinating. I want to go there now and am REALLY disappointed to not be traveling to GA regularly any longer--it's only 2 hours from my home office there--I'd stay an extra day or convince someone we need a team building event for that :)

[reggiekrh]

Two up:
1. Top 10 Amazon hijacked reviews (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6189803/Amazon-hijacked-10-funniest-review-threads.html)
2. The coolest thing I have read in months (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones)


#2 is worth the read... fascinating. I want to go there now and am REALLY disappointed to not be traveling to GA regularly any longer--it's only 2 hours from my home office there--I'd stay an extra day or convince someone we need a team building event for that :)


THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK BUT MY BOOKSHELF IS A BIT SPARSE AS AFTER READING IT I BURNED ALL MY OTHER BOOKS, INCLUDING THE BIBLES AS THEY WERE WRITTEN PARTIALLY IN LOWERCASE LETTERS, OR AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM, THE DEVIL'S RUNES. CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND ME A GOOD ALLCAPS BIBLE?

LMAO.

That makes me think of ole ANGRY.

[Chalybos]

http://www.demoty.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11669&g2_serialNumber=4
I'm sorry, but I saw this and got a case of the stupid-giggles.

[TheMan]

Two up:
1. Top 10 Amazon hijacked reviews (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6189803/Amazon-hijacked-10-funniest-review-threads.html)
2. The coolest thing I have read in months (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones)


#2 is worth the read... fascinating. I want to go there now and am REALLY disappointed to not be traveling to GA regularly any longer--it's only 2 hours from my home office there--I'd stay an extra day or convince someone we need a team building event for that :)

Just what I had been looking for!

http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-UFO-01-Detector/dp/B000796XYQ/ref=pd_sbs_indust_4

[reggiekrh]

Free Harvard Class on Justice. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/television/26sandel.html?_r=1&em)


Many of the 14,000 or so students who have taken Harvard’s wildly popular course “Justice” with Michael J. Sandel over the years have heard the rumor that their professor has a television avatar: Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson’s soulless ghoul of a boss at Springfield’s nuclear power plant.

The joke, of course, is that Mr. Sandel — who at one time or another taught several future writers for Fox’s “Simpsons” and shares a receding hairline with the evil-minded cartoon character — is the anti-Burns, a moral philosopher who has devoted his life to pondering what is the right thing to do.

Now Mr. Sandal gets to play himself on television, not to mention online, as Harvard and public television stations across the country allow viewers to sit in on his classroom discussions about Wall Street bonuses and Aristotle, same-sex marriage and Kant, for the next 12 weeks.

Here be the link! (http://justiceharvard.org/)

Looks interesting.

[Canadian Hick]

Free Harvard Class on Justice. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/television/26sandel.html?_r=1&em)



Here be the link! (http://justiceharvard.org/)

Looks interesting.


Sounds like a useless class. King James wrote a better one himself over 2000 years ago.

https://www.giftlandofficemax.com/images/Holy%20Bible%20King%20James%20Version.jpg

Don't need no fancy Harvard bookworm telling me what ain't right.

[reggiekrh]

Sounds like a useless class. King James wrote a better one himself over 2000 years ago.

https://www.giftlandofficemax.com/images/Holy%20Bible%20King%20James%20Version.jpg

Don't need no fancy Harvard bookworm telling me what ain't right.

Ha!!

[Joe_Shooter]

Sounds like a useless class. King James wrote a better one himself over 2000 years ago.I wonder why he waited until the 1600's to seize power and what he was doing for all those years after he finished his writings.

[DrGreen]

I don't need no fancy Harvard bookworm telling me what ain't right either but how about, if instead, he asks.

or
"...to awaken the restlessness of reason and see where it might lead"?
I'm in.

Fair warning about the course at the end of Episode 1 (18:30 - 24:30) of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY

It's hard to watch tho without being able to get to one of those mics.

[Chairman_Kaga]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Never realized how many there are.

[DrGreen]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Never realized how many there are.
Something is nigh.

[Angry Kid]

Something is nigh.
Memphis is next.

[Chalybos]

Memphis is next.

And ... ?

[DrGreen]

Having worked in IT doing support for almost 5 years I find this hilarious.

Don't reboot the web server! (http://www.break.com/index/it-guy-vs-dumb-employees.html)

Original site with much more here: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

Another day at the desk. Funny
I like when he loads the other guy outlook.pst file and removes the sent item from his mail. tehehehehe
What is that cool network device monitor alert app that pops up when he kills exchange server?
Can anyone recommend a good tool that for alert/monitoring network devices/ips?

[Chalybos]

That's frigging hilarious, Roland.

[Angry Kid]

This is the next series recording to be programmed into the DVR (http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/11/24/steven-seagal-lawman-is-an-actual-reality-show-coming-to-ae/).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA)

[LilPuppy]

Lol my niece pointed this out to me..... Next will be Jean Claude VanDam meter maid..

[Vygramul]

Top features not included in Windows 7:

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/10/top-11-windows-7-features.html

[Chalybos]

I lol'ed. :)

[Angry Kid]

Warp speed (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3303699/We-have-broken-speed-of-light.html).

Well kinda.

Not really.


The pair (of scientists) say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

[Vygramul]

OK, maybe Spence can explain this: if you break the speed of light, you arrive before you left. I keep hearing that (and it's in this article). Does that mean it's not possible to leave Earth and arrive at a destination 1 Parsec away in 0-3 years? You either go sub-light and take longer than 3 years, or FTL and arrive in negative time?

[Jlspence]

That article reminded me of the "cold fusion" experiment several years ago. It will be disproven.

Anyway, going sublight, just below the speed of light, would require just over 3 years as you said. Hypothetically, if one could go faster than the speed of light, it would in fact result in time travel (negative), i.e., one would get there before they left.

[reggiekrh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02WMNoHSm8

The Sagan one is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vpu6yJPRVQ

[Pfaffgod]

If you arrive before you leave wouldn't there be two of you then?

[reggiekrh]

If you arrive before you leave wouldn't there be two of you then?

Somehow....no.

[Chalybos]

If you meet yourself, you cancel yourself out from ever having existed. Duh. Don't you read sci-fi?

[Vygramul]

Wow. This first pic rivals Iwo Jima: http://www.life.com/image/2628526/in-gallery/23030/wwii-women-in-the-fight

[reggiekrh]

If you meet yourself, you cancel yourself out from ever having existed. Duh. Don't you read sci-fi?

But if you didn't cancel out and you totally get it on with yourself, does that make you gay? Or is it masturbation? Is this a Sex Paradox? A Sexadox?

[*Seminole*]

http://www.life.com/static/app/171/3313171/filmstrip.jpg
Thanks Vyg.....Not sure why, but I find these pics to be......uh......quite entertaining.

[TheMan]

But if you didn't cancel out and you totally get it on with yourself, does that make you gay? Or is it masturbation? Is this a Sex Paradox? A Sexadox?

Dude, you so need to stop drinking and find yourself another girl!!!!

[reggiekrh]

Dude, you so need to stop drinking and find yourself another girl!!!!

Or a time machine?

[reggiekrh]

The Big Picture: Afghanistan (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/afghanistan_october_2009.html)

Some powerful photos.

[reggiekrh]

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

I love things that give you a perspective of scale. Here, you get to zoom in and compare sizes of things existing in the micro world.

Pretty cool stuff.

[Chalybos]

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

I love things that give you a perspective of scale. Here, you get to zoom in and compare sizes of things existing in the micro world.

Pretty cool stuff.

Oh, hell Reg, you could always just look down next time you whiz. Bah-dum-tss!

[reggiekrh]

Oh, hell Reg, you could always just look down next time you whiz. Bah-dum-tss!

Ouch.

With friends like these....

[Chalybos]

We're here for you.

[Vygramul]

With tweezers.

[Chalybos]

Cold.

[reggiekrh]

Very cold....which explains things!

[Canadian Hick]

SHUT UP WOMAN, GET ON MY HORSE! (http://www.shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/)

[batmanuel]

i listened to that damn thing too many times.

[Chalybos]

So .... I think I'll watch the rest of it when I'm home. And my son's gone to bed.

[Vygramul]

If you let it loop long enough, the video and sound get very out of synch, and the line "give it a lick" becomes very amusing.

[batmanuel]

What if Germany actually lost the second world war? (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/alternate_universe_sci_fi_channel)

very nice.


The show is considered by many to be another boon to the Sci-Fi Channel's fall schedule, which also includes Battlestar Gleichschaltung, a weekly drama about a starship crew that enforces the total coordination of intergalactic society and commerce, and the hit reality series Jew Hunters, in which a team of paranormal investigators scour banks and former Polish ghettos in search of Jewish spirits.

LMAO. so wrong.

[Canadian Hick]

Someone tell Sem to stop assaulting the Greek clergymen. (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1050707.ece)

[Chalybos]

Someone tell Sem to stop assaulting the Greek clergymen. (http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1050707.ece)

Wow. Must be a *****, being a Marine but still having such low self-esteem that even steroids can't compensate for. Little dick syndrome, I assume.

[Chairman_Kaga]

WTF. How did we get caught napping on this one?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/17/news/economy/silverdome_buyer/index.htm?cnn=yes

Imagine the LAN party we could have had if we pooled our money?

I blame all of you. :(

[*Seminole*]

WTF. How did we get caught napping on this one?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/17/news/economy/silverdome_buyer/index.htm?cnn=yes

Imagine the LAN party we could have had if we pooled our money?

I blame all of you. :(

First, it housed the Lions. Now, it will house a soccer team......place is cursed

[LilPuppy]

First, it housed the Lions.

be nice... saw my first NFL game there and the Stones in 81....

[reggiekrh]

Oh noes! It has begun! (http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/india.tv.attack/index.html)


Right-wing activists storm TV station over 'bias'

Ohhh, India. Whew. I thought Civil War II had begun.

[Canadian Hick]

Who's your daddy? (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26388459-401,00.html)




Also, why's the weird news links locked?

[reggiekrh]

Who's your daddy? (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26388459-401,00.html)




Also, why's the weird news links locked?

Huh. Imagine the guy who came up to him and asked him what was new?

[Chalybos]

Holy crap. I think I saw that in a movie. Maybe not Manson, but a similar theme.

[ANGRYAFRICANMAN]

And Bob's yer Uncle!

Wait a second. Blaster and Hick are related? Tell me it is not true. That means all the crap I have been telling Bob might be getting back to Hick.

Next thing your gonna tell me is that Spence is related to Walt Disney.

[Angry Kid]

bump
This is the next series recording to be programmed into the DVR (http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/11/24/steven-seagal-lawman-is-an-actual-reality-show-coming-to-ae/).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99E16w0PxCA)

This is the bestest show EVAR.

[ANGRYAFRICANMAN]

bump

This is the bestest show EVAR.look how fat he is. Holy crap I hate that guy. There is now way this is real.

[Chalybos]

look how fat he is. Holy crap I hate that guy. There is now way this is real.
Did you know he has two black belts?


He ties both of them together to get them around his waist.


His gi is made of 300 Thread Count Egyptian Cotton.

[Angry Kid]

Pearl Harbor + three score and eight = Mighty Mo 2.0 (http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1614583.html)

It ain't a battleship, but it's still pretty kick-ass.


The new USS Missouri is of the Virginia class of submarines, designed to replace the Los Angeles class.

[Chalybos]

Very nice, thanks AK.

[DrGreen]

#7: Cinderella story with heavy fetish undertones.

[batmanuel]

It has just 300 pieces which are all just varying shades of a single color, though a few have gradations across the piece; i.e., each piece is a generic pixel. Out of the box, you can make Mona Lisa, JFK, etc, arranging it according to symbols printed on the reverse side. But here's the amazing thing: take a photo (for example, of yourself) with a cell-phone, e-mail it to the company, and they will send you back a pattern that will recreate that photo. (http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/2231237/Universal-Jigsaw-Puzzle-Hits-Stores-In-Japan?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashd ot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)

[batmanuel]

Free LCD TV in Chicago
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ele/1498514993.html

[Angry Kid]

Free LCD TV in Chicago
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ele/1498514993.html
bah
This posting has been flagged for removal

Got the cache?

[batmanuel]

bah

Got the cache?

actually...yes.

Free LCD TV.Yes it works perfectly.Yes it has a remote. No i wont deliver. Why is it FREE you ask????? My room mate thought it would be "hysterical" to pause gay porn on my TV while my girlfriend and I were on vacation for 2 weeks, thus burning and image into the screen. So...If you dont mind a sillouette of a skinny white guy taking a load in the face from the biggest black ***** in recorded history forever adorning your new TV, Its yours.

[Chalybos]

O. M. effing G. That's frigging brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.

[Vygramul]

http://tinyurl.com/y9p3qqo

You need to register with the Washington Post unfortunately.

[Angry Kid]

I think I have something in my eye . . .

[Chalybos]

I think I have something in my eye . . .

You too?

[Canadian Hick]

Different salty discharge, Chaly.

[Chalybos]

True, tears don't burn.

*******.

[LilPuppy]

*******.

hmm , seven letters??? can I buy vowel.... A please...

oh and how do you know this??

[Chalybos]

hmm , seven letters??? can I buy vowel.... A please...

oh and how do you know this??

"a". Twice.

[LilPuppy]

"a". Twice.

hmm twice.... can I have an S please

[DrGreen]

True, tears don't burn.

*******.
No but they make the best lubricant.

[Vygramul]

A young boy crying... always reminds me of my first time.

[reggiekrh]

A young boy crying... always reminds me of my first time.

Has he ever forgiven you?

[Pfaffgod]

*******.

I know what it is!

[LEAD MAGNET]

Certainly the most incredibly detailed hand-built aluminum model of a P-51 Mustang you've ever seen!
http://jalopnik.com/5429697/retired-dentist-builds-amazingly-intricate-all+aluminum-wwii-fighter-models
That's just...WOW!

LM

[Chalybos]

Holy ... wow, that's incredible.

[Chairman_Kaga]

Certainly the most incredibly detailed hand-built aluminum model of a P-51 Mustang you've ever seen!
http://jalopnik.com/5429697/retired-dentist-builds-amazingly-intricate-all+aluminum-wwii-fighter-models
some local shots from an airshow a few years ago

http://goneboating.net/images/airshow/GaryAirShow1.html

[Pfaffgod]

Certainly the most incredibly detailed hand-built aluminum model of a P-51 Mustang you've ever seen!
http://jalopnik.com/5429697/retired-dentist-builds-amazingly-intricate-all+aluminum-wwii-fighter-models

Now give me that thingy from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" so I can fly it around. That is just downright awesome.

[RolandTGunner]

Because cats make everything better. Even science!
http://hug-machine.livejournal.com/66293.html

[batmanuel]

Dead Pharaohs speak: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/first-study-of-mummy.html

[TheMan]

Because cats make everything better. Even casseroles!

FTFY

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7029058.ece

[Chalybos]

Bet that's the only ***** he's eaten in 50 years.

[Pfaffgod]

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=9476

This is pretty awesome.

[batmanuel]

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=9476

This is pretty awesome.

awesome.

[TheMan]

Honest movie titles, 2010

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1802286

[RolandTGunner]

Behold the ekranoplan! (http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html)

And you thought your government was the best at wasting money!

[batmanuel]

Behold the ekranoplan! (http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html)

And you thought your government was the best at wasting money!

WASTE? that thing is freakin' sweet!

[TheMan]

Behold the ekranoplan! (http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.html)

And you thought your government was the best at wasting money!

Websites with all Russian text scare me.

[Chalybos]

Websites with all Russian text scare me.

Even the porn ones?

[Chairman_Kaga]

WASTE? that thing is freakin' sweet!
Jet powered cruise liner! How can that be a waste? Should put guns on top and put it in the next BF* game.

Be like the C10 on water.

[Chalybos]

Is it me, or do those tubes on the top of it look like they could carry ... cruise missiles? ;)

[Joe_Shooter]

Even the porn ones?
Porn has text?

[Chalybos]

Porn has text?

The titles do.

[Joe_Shooter]

The titles do.Fair point; one _must_ pay attention to the titles or you could end up with...well, let's just say there are some very disturbed people in this world.

[Angry Kid]

We're number one!! We're number one!!! Woof-woof-woof! (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-11/americas-25-craziest-cities/full/)


Keep Austin Weird—the famous slogan from Austin, Texas, was conceived as a marketing tool, but it’s grown for some into a mantra. And why not? It’s been a rough couple of years. Those that don’t embrace a bit of zaniness risk having it consume them.

#1. Cincinnati

[LilPuppy]

Happy Steak and BJ day

mens answer to Feb.14

http://www.steakandbjday.com/

[RolandTGunner]

We're number one!! We're number one!!! Woof-woof-woof! (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-11/americas-25-craziest-cities/full/)

Austin's not half as weird as it used to be.

But this is totally awesome!

Aliens vs. Winnie the Pooh.

http://godxiliary.com/alienvspooh/Medium/

[Chalybos]

That was as funny as it was disturbing.

[RolandTGunner]

That was as funny as it was disturbing.
I thought is was pretty good for the first 3/4 then it kinda wandered away from a big finish.

[Chalybos]

The first one with the predator in the trees was gold.

[RolandTGunner]

Amazingly realistic scale model of WWII warn-torn town. Wow, very nice work.

http://www.marwencol.com/

Read about the builder. He is recovering from brain damage.
http://www.marwencol.com/about/

[Chalybos]

Wow. That's one form of therapy I'd never heard of, but whatever works. Hell of a way to end up in a coma.

[TheMan]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/04/01/navy.pirates/


A group of suspected pirates was captured Thursday after attacking a U.S. Navy frigate in the Indian Ocean.
.
.
The USS Nicholas reported taking fire from a suspected pirate skiff shortly after midnight local time west of the Seychelles, the statement said. The Nicholas quickly returned fire and began pursuing the skiff, which was eventually disabled. A boarding team from the Nicholas subsequently captured and detained three people, the statement said.

Two more suspected pirates were captured on a confiscated "mother ship,"

The guy that okay'd this attack needs to have his pirates license revoked!

[Chalybos]

"Look! See all of those cranes? It must be a new kind of freighter!"

[ANGRYAFRICANMAN]

I like the comment section. "Crazy little Somalians."

[reggiekrh]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/04/01/navy.pirates/



The guy that okay'd this attack needs to have his pirates license revoked!

Yeah, I get goose bumps of joy when I see stories like this.

[Angry Kid]

Meta signature (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=TwF&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Sometimes+it%27s+only+the+mail+that+makes+me+ feel+like+I%27m+alive%22&cts=1270426710873&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=)?

[TheMan]

http://tanks.linite.com/pf.html

Mostly scratch-built Panther RC gas powered model.

This guy is hard core!
http://tanks.linite.com/hetzer.html
http://tanks.linite.com/sturmtiger.html

screw the engine, I want to see the main gun working!!

[LilPuppy]

ah those crazy Ukranians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3YQ24i1wP0&feature=player_embedded

[Chalybos]

... Oooooookay then ...

[reggiekrh]

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/vmix_cdf93fba-47ca-11df-9f5c-001cc4c002e0.html

Dashboard video from a January traffic stop in Hamilton that ended in gunfire. A jury ruled on April 13, 2010 that Hamilton Police Officer Ross Jessop was justified in shooting Raymond Thane Davis.

[LilPuppy]

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/vmix_cdf93fba-47ca-11df-9f5c-001cc4c002e0.html

Dashboard video from a January traffic stop in Hamilton that ended in gunfire. A jury ruled on April 13, 2010 that Hamilton Police Officer Ross Jessop was justified in shooting Raymond Thane Davis.

wow this went to a jury....even a non-cop lover like myself knows that he did no wrong and is lucky to be alive

[ANGRYAFRICANMAN]

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/vmix_cdf93fba-47ca-11df-9f5c-001cc4c002e0.html

Dashboard video from a January traffic stop in Hamilton that ended in gunfire. A jury ruled on April 13, 2010 that Hamilton Police Officer Ross Jessop was justified in shooting Raymond Thane Davis.

You probably thought the officer was coming down to hard on the guy right Reggie. Honestly why would this go to a criminal trial. What a complete waste of tax dollars. The system is so broken.

Just like the prosecution of those Navy Seals over the last couple of days.

[LilPuppy]

You probably thought the officer was coming down to hard on the guy right Reggie. Honestly why would this go to a criminal trial. What a complete waste of tax dollars. The system is so broken.

Just like the prosecution of those Navy Seals over the last couple of days.

I agree with you on the cop....the Seals , I'll reserve my opinion because lately your military and special forces have been killing more civilians than insurgents

[reggiekrh]

You probably thought the officer was coming down to hard on the guy right Reggie. Honestly why would this go to a criminal trial. What a complete waste of tax dollars. The system is so broken.

Just like the prosecution of those Navy Seals over the last couple of days.

Nice try, you jackal.

And why are Navy Seals interrogating prisoners? Don't they have better things to do?

[batmanuel]

Best. Charity. Car wash. Ever. (http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/04/star-wars-car-wash-with-slave-leia.html)

[Canadian Hick]

You're welcome. (http://www.playedonline.com/game/598161/super-mario-crossover.html)

[batmanuel]

Best. Charity. Car wash. Ever. (http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/04/star-wars-car-wash-with-slave-leia.html)

And now, slave leia's have video... third one is the best to watch. wow.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/04/slave-leias-soap-up-for-the-greatest-car-wash-of-all-time.php

except i have to say, worst camera men ever... seriously... showing the sound dude while the blond playmate is hanging over the car? no close ups? what is wrong with these guys?

[Canadian Hick]

A look back at the mentally unstable Epic Beard Man. (http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-05-12/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-internet-sensation/)

[Canadian Hick]

A new tax for the children. This is important, and everyone should help support it. Except for on Tuesday afternoons, nothing good to tax then. (http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-stripper-pole-tax,0,2434254.story)

[TheMan]

Most Soul-Crushing TV Finales (http://www.cracked.com/article_18490_the-7-most-soul-crushing-series-finales-in-tv-history.html)

[batmanuel]

Most Soul-Crushing TV Finales (http://www.cracked.com/article_18490_the-7-most-soul-crushing-series-finales-in-tv-history.html)

nice list!

[Dr.Strangelove]

nice list!

Very funny stuff, man I wish more shows ended like these.

[batmanuel]

Super Sexy CPR. (http://supersexycpr.com/cpr.html) WIN.

[Hsnopi]

Super Sexy CPR. (http://supersexycpr.com/cpr.html) WIN.

effing AWESOME!

[batmanuel]

effing AWESOME!

i have learned more about CPR today than...ever.

[reggiekrh]

Super Sexy CPR. (http://supersexycpr.com/cpr.html) WIN.

Holy crap. That was awesome on so many levels.

[batmanuel]

If I ever have that chick on top of me and dressed like that, doing compressions, and my heart doesn't kickstart I deserve to croak!

[RolandTGunner]

http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/

http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/gallery/

This is totally damn cool!
Run some card stock through your ink jet printer and keep yourself or your kids busy for hours!

[Chairman_Kaga]

http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/

http://www.papercraftmuseum.com/gallery/

This is totally damn cool!
Run some card stock through your ink jet printer and keep yourself or your kids busy for hours!

That's cool and all but...

http://www.nitroplanes.com/edf.html

(Ad linked from the papercraft page)

[RolandTGunner]

http://io9.com/5545416/a-brief-history-of-batman+themed-pornography-nsfw

I saw this and laughed & laughed.

Maybe it's the alcohol or something.

I'm sorry. :D

[Dawg]

That's cool and all but...

http://www.nitroplanes.com/edf.html

(Ad linked from the papercraft page)
In particular.. I like this one
http://www.nitroplanes.com/mq9.html

Fly it around your neighbor's house so they think they are under surveillance by guv'ment!

[Hsnopi]

That's cool and all but...

http://www.nitroplanes.com/edf.html

(Ad linked from the papercraft page)

ok now i want one. *sigh* yet another hobby!

[Naz]

Roland that is awesome. Forwarding this to the Grond right now.

[cowboy]

not sure if this is posted but it made me laugh, http://www.thinkgeek.com/blog/2010/06/officially-our-bestever-cease.html

I would look to see if this is posted but im lazy :P

[Dawg]

Old Spice answering message:
http://www.oldspicevoicemail.com

You can plug in any number to test it (just numbers, no dashes). It generates an mp3. Seems pretty limited but nifty.

[Vygramul]

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Footy+2010/

[batmanuel]

I love the lockpicking stuff at DC... but couldn't get near it this year. Too many people :( Just got home last night... fun times were had, though.

[Angry Kid]

Everything I needed to know about surviving an A-bomb blast learned in kindergarten.

[batmanuel]

Now this is how to quit a job...

http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/

I'd hire her!

[Angry Kid]

All they needed was one of these:

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p81/Vader_017/AirplaneMovieOttoPilotInflatable.jpg

You ever been in a cockpit, Joey?

RHETORICAL EDIT: Why is 'cockpit' OK, but ******* isn't?

[batmanuel]

http://jalopnik.com/5629528/how-i-saved-a-747-from-crashing

You seldom hear about the ones that don't crash.

Interesting read.


I would have given a thousand dollars for a rearview mirror.

I have often wondered why planes don't have "this." Or more precisely, something like this. I have read about pilots not being sure that landing gear is down because an indicator did not light up. Most likely it's the bulb, but they have to go through a ton of crap to figure it out, including maybe fly-bys so someone can try to spot it, or another plane, or something outrageous. A $5 webcam pointed at the gear from where it drops down from could tell them instantly.

[TheMan]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/205108/microsoft_suspends_xbox_gamer_for_living_in_fort_g ay.html?tk=hp_new


You've just signed up for Xbox LIVE. You're entering your personal information, and when you get to the city and state fields, you tap in 'Intercourse, Pennsylvania'. A couple days later you get an email from Microsoft notifying you that your account's been suspended. Why? Because you violated the online gaming service's code of conduct by using a term with overtly sexual connotations.

Except Intercourse, PA really exists, an unincorporated hub where "many Amish and local folks do their business." Sound like an honest mistake? Change the city name to Fort Gay and the state to West Virginia--an actual place situated between the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers with a population of around 800--and you wind up with Microsoft, egg on its face, apologizing for banning Josh Moore, a proud resident of the perfectly real West Virginia city.

[DrGreen]

Your real doll just got more sensitive. (http://www.pcworld.com/article/205323/artificial_eskin_may_soon_help_robots_feel.html?tk =hp_new)

[2112]

Thought you might enjoy a preview of the upcoming Amazing Race season...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cfeTZNcA3g

[Naz]

I can't wait for this years Amazing Race and this looks like it may be worth the wait.

[Hsnopi]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/15/

particularly apropos to us.

[CMontyBurns]

http://holymaurymotherofgod.tumblr.com/

The Results are in!

[RolandTGunner]

http://holymaurymotherofgod.tumblr.com/

The Results are in!

Ick.

Just ick.

[batmanuel]

that is scary. hurts my eyes.

[RolandTGunner]

http://retrogasm.tumblr.com/

An amazing collection of eclectic classic artwork & photographs.
Not really SFW, depending on where you work but not pron.

[Naz]

Comprehensive glossary of animated gif's

http://jezebel.com/5664134/the-comprehensive-gif-glossary

[batmanuel]

Comprehensive glossary of animated gif's

http://jezebel.com/5664134/the-comprehensive-gif-glossary

nice one.

[RolandTGunner]

http://www.comicbookwar.com/

Scans of great old war comics.

[Angry Kid]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/switzerland.cern.antimatter/

"Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time"

Warp drive, here we come . . .

[RolandTGunner]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/switzerland.cern.antimatter/

"Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time"

Warp drive, here we come . . .

I saw this too and I was wondering if it should be posted in the Trouble Every Day thread...
Ya know, because they may accidentally create a pin-head sized singularity that could destabilized the planets core.

[Chalybos]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/switzerland.cern.antimatter/

"Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time"

Warp drive, here we come . . .

"CERN's next ambition is to create a beam of antimatter which they hope will allow them to unpeel more of the mysteries surrounding it."

$50 says the DoD has a plan for this already.

[batmanuel]

Yes, warp drives are coming...

Laser camera takes photos around corners (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11544037)

:monkey:

[TheMan]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6258069,00.html


Members of the German government and local activists had cited privacy concerns in insisting Google give property owners the right to have their addresses blurred out. The service allows for a panoramic, highly-detailed view of city streets.

Not only did the amateur hit squad pelt the houses with eggs, they also taped notes stating, "Google's cool," to their mailboxes, according to local media reports.

A spokesperson for the Essen police department said the incident was booked as a case of property damage, although little was damaged.

[RolandTGunner]

My house can't be seen from the street..

[Angry Kid]

Courtesy of failblog.org:

http://www.amazon.com/Adult-Reusable-Cotton-Poly-Diaper/dp/B000BF5JFK/


Check the "Frequently Bought Together" section . . .

[Chairman_Kaga]

Courtesy of failblog.org:

http://www.amazon.com/Adult-Reusable-Cotton-Poly-Diaper/dp/B000BF5JFK/


Check the "Frequently Bought Together" section . . .
You needed multiple copies of CoD?

[batmanuel]

Awesome cave photos from Vietnam... truly looks like another world entirely. One section could hold a half-mile of 40 story buildings.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography

[Chalybos]

Humbled by nature. That's incredible.

[RolandTGunner]

http://www.fivecentnickel.com/

Simple, common sense financial tips.

[Dr.Strangelove]

http://www.youtube.com/user/FPSRussia

booom. I love this guy.

[RolandTGunner]

Some great images of the unfinished, abandoned Soviet Super Collider.

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/02/14/large-twin-of-hadron-collider/

Some of the tunnel shots would right at home as backgrounds for Fallout or Half-Life 2.

[Jlspence]

Cool images/video of the shuttle and ISS together as taken from the ground.

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/STS-133.html

[Angry Kid]

Enjoy.

http://seawitchery.tumblr.com/post/4070384205/i-started-out-clicking-strategically-and-by-the

[Angry Kid]

oopsie - 2 posts in a row, but wtf . . .

Some randomly funny sh!t (http://web.mac.com/lambtodd/iWeb/todd%20lamb%20/Todd%20Lamb%20Notes%20From%20Chris.html).

[Pfaffgod]

Enjoy.

http://seawitchery.tumblr.com/post/4070384205/i-started-out-clicking-strategically-and-by-the

You found the best thing on the internet.

[Angry Kid]

You found the best thing on the internet outside of free pr0n.
ftfy

[Chairman_Kaga]

http://vault.fbi.gov/

I want to believe!

[batmanuel]

Here's a pretty good list of scifi books -- scifi author's picks for 'favorite' work. I haven't read most of what's on here and some of them sound pretty interesting...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice

[Chairman_Kaga]

118

too true

[Jlspence]

Nice 10 minute video of a U2 flight. The current owner of the airport where I keep my plane is retired Air Force where he flew both B-52s and U2s. He was a U2 pilot up through 2003.

http://www.wimp.com/breathtakingfootage