Weirdness
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Three items of interest
- The UltraMarathon Man
- David Lee Roth Doing Bluegrass – sort of disturbing
- Not disturbing is Norman Blake in a rare YouTube appearance
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Quick round up to clear off some firefox tabs
- An interesting Interface
- Why Hawks Win – an interesting article
- A good deal on health insurance
- Dashboard Mohamed – I’m not that brave myself….
- ASP.net AJAX Cheatsheets
- The lives of the first web builders, in wacky Canadian form.
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Apocalyptic reading for the Tech Crowd
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
That’s the fiction reading of the new year – for the disturbing nonfiction reading check out North Carolina Woman Charged With Malicious Castration After Attacking Man’s Genitals. It’s disturbing mostly in that there are other kinds of castration in North Carolina.
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Apparantly America is at the point
Where we have 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournaments. Life is interesting.
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One liners and things that caught my eye
- Good one liner –
If there is a motto for the Bush Administration’s war policy, it is, “Doing the Right Thing Wrongly.”
The argument on the neo-right these days resembles the 30s debates between Stalinist and Trotskyist on the nature of communism, i.e. can one separate the theory and practice.
- The nature of motion sickness
- From an article about the Skyhook (sort of a reverse parachute) –
The first live test was conducted with a pig as the target. Due to some stability issues, the pig spun in the 125 mph wind, and arrived on the plane dizzy and discombobulated. It recovered, however, and promptly attacked the crew.
- Good one liner –
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Very sad
Tech journalist James Kim and his family are missing. He was one of the main reviewers from the old TechTV days, lately he’s been at CNet.
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Of morbid interest
How hangings work, from Slate. I would require a drop of 5’ 1” by the 1892 rules, but a drop of 6’ 1” by the 1913 rules.
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Quick rapid fire
I hope to have my election predictions tommorow, but in the meantime…
- Robotic sentry that shoots real bullets
- Mapped Up – good idea, good execution
- This is a fine epitaph
- Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises
The professor used the self-flagellation method to cure his own depression; he also recovered from two heart attacks with the help of physical tortures too.
Only the Russians would come up with this. Actually this would explain the flaggelants of the middle ages, as well as the Puritans scourging themselves.
- Victim’s cousin charged with tattooing killer
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The funniest thing I read today – Monday edition
From the Navy Seal recruitment page
The SEAL program consists of more than 12 months — followed by an additional 18 months — of intensive training designed to push you to your physical and mental limits — again and again
More than 12 months, followed by 18 months?
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Still uploading
Pesky large files. Anyway, here is some lovely reading material for you.
- This is the strangest article you will read this week. By a lot.
- Profanity across languages– the Dutch “May you get the measles” is my favorite
- Deadweight Loss / Excess Burden – if more people understood this, the world would be improved remarkably. Short version, it’s a cost to someone with no benefit to anyone.
- Human Powered Vehicles – a bike that goes over 40 miles per hour