I remember when this issue of Popular Electronics came in the mail. I wanted one, but couldn’t afford it at the time (or at least, I couldn’t justify spending the money on what was essentially a toy). As this article notes, it first became publicly available thirty-two years ago today.
Here’s one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in a while. Some (probably lefty) religious groups claim that it’s immoral to bottle water.
First they came for the water bottles, and I said nothing, because I drink from the tap. Then they came for the scuba tanks…
Derb makes an interesting point about the heritability of religious belief.
The two things
I just got a st0ck spam with the subject “spam special.”
I guess that this is a case of the fan hitting the sh1t.
Gilroy police Sgt. Kurt Svardal said authorities have no idea where the plane was from or where it was going. The aircraft came pretty much straight down into a holding tank filled with raw sewage at a sewage treatment facility. It was too dangerous for even a dive team to go into the water and check for bodies or the tail number of the plane, which would indicate who owned it and where it was from.
The tank is about 20 feet deep and will have to be drained before police can determine if anyone is inside.
Don’t sign me up for that accident investigation. Reportedly, a very large number of last words from pilots on voice recorders is “Sh!t!” There’s no voice recorder on this plane, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the pilot used that word, in this case literally.
I’d sure like to think that this is true:
North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il and his generals inspect a Korean People’s Army Unit in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on December 6. According to the report, intelligence activities against the Kim regime also are being considered. The Chinese military intelligence service, known as 2 PLA, “is toying with the idea of a palace revolution that would kick out the ‘Kim dynasty’ and replace it with ‘pro-Chinese generals,'” the report said.
Long overdue, if so. That wouldn’t be great for the North Koreans, but it has to beat the current situation. I suspect that the Chinese are getting pretty upset now, because they don’t want Japan to start to build up a nuclear arsenal.
…for Rudolf:
A Jersey Evening Post journalist is making a late bid to reach the top of the charts this Christmas by dressing as a reindeer and urging the nation to “hug a Muslim”.
In the video, Lewis, who has no previous musical experience, sings: “Turn to the person next to you now and give them a hug. Muslim, Hindu, Christian or Jew
I’m sure that Bush and Rove will get the blame for this any minute now.
For some 20 million years, the baiji, also called the white-flag dolphin, frequented the Yangtze
What kind of person would pay someone to shove wasabi up their nose? I’d have trouble getting to sleep if I had to look forward to that in the morning.
Now that I’ve been named Time’s Person of the Year, I expect my readership to go up considerably.
John Kerry is appropriately (and uncharacteristically) humble about it, of course.