July 04, 2009
Happy 4th of July
FlippyCat posts this lighthearted clip on Independence Day.
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July 03, 2009
Celebrate the 4th
Happy Anniversary, citizens.
And here's Ray Charles to help.
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Timely news
Rare Copy Of Declaration Of Independence Found
Researcher Accidentally Uncovers'Dunlap Print'LONDON -- British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America's Declaration of Independence -- just in time for the Fourth of July.
Katrina McClintock, a spokeswoman at the National Archives, said Thursday that a researcher accidentally discovered the "Dunlap print," named after a printer, several months ago. The find was announced only after it could be properly catalogued.
Edward Hampshire, the National Archives' specialist in colonial materials, said the find was "incredibly exciting."
"It is likely that only around 200 of these were ever printed, so uncovering a new one nearly 250 years later is extremely rare, especially one in such good condition," he said.
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Freelancer's Hall of Fame
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I wonder how many are for sale on eBay?
School Memory DVD Shows Teacher Having Sex
Parents Asked To Destroy DiscsELK GROVE, Calif. -- A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.
Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher's 24 students to get rid of the DVD after the unintended clip was found spliced in a scene where children were sharing stories in class.
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July 02, 2009
Careful with the Mac Book
An amusing French clip:
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Watch that first step
Sears Tower Unveils Glass Balconies
Set Of Balconies Nicknamed 'The Ledge'CHICAGO -- Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they're floating over the city.
"It's like walking on ice," said Margaret Kemp, of Bishop, Calif., who said her heart was still pounding even after stepping away from the balcony. "That first step you take -- 'am I going down?'"
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Like a domino
Danilo sends a link to these pictures of an apartment building in Shanghai that toppled. (It didn't collapse - it fell over.) He writes, "It´s amazing... it´s almost intact!"
The amazing thing is that it didn't collide with any of its neighbors. There are 12 pictures of it at the link.
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Nice work if you can get it (2)
British Man Begins Aussie Island Dream Job
Ben Southall To Serve As Tropic Reef's AmbassadorBRISBANE, Australia -- Briton Ben Southall said he'll miss his mom's Sunday roast as he began what's been dubbed the "Best Job in the World" -- a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island.
The 34-year-old former charity worker bested nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for the dream assignment that started Wednesday to swim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef while writing a blog to promote the area.
He was selected for the 150,000 Australian dollar ($120,000) gig by officials from the tourism department of Queensland state in early May.
Take it, Benny...
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One nanosecond
Bill sent a PowerPoint show of very fast exposure photos - then I found the same show on the web. Enjoy.
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A sea-going safari
THE NEWEST SPORT: PIRATE HUNTINGLuxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast.
Wealthy sportsmen pay upwards of $5,000 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.
The story as it's written suggests the clients are already engaging Somali pirates with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers.
An AK-47 assault rifle goes for $8.50 a day, 100 rounds of ammo is $11.50, are they are also protected by a squad of ex-special forces troops.
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June 30, 2009
Epic kludges
From ThereIFixedIt.com
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Hypnotism works
Tucson John sends a funny story.
A woman comes home and tells her husband, 'Remember those headaches I've been having all these years? Well, they're gone.'
'No more headaches?' the husband asks. 'What happened?'
His wife replies, 'Angie referred me to a hypnotist and he told me to stand in front of a mirror, stare at myself and repeat "I do not have a headache. I do not have a headache. I do not have a headache."
'Well, it worked! The headaches are all gone.'
'That's wonderful,' the husband says.
Then his wife says, 'You know, you haven't been exactly a ball of fire in the bedroom these last few years... Why don't you go see the hypnotist and see if he can do anything for that?'
Reluctantly, the husband agrees to try it. Following his appointment, the husband comes home, rips off his clothes, picks up his wife and carries her into the bedroom. He puts her on the bed and says, 'Don't move, I'll be right back.'
He goes into the bathroom and comes back a few minutes later and jumps into bed and makes passionate love to his wife like never before. His wife says, 'WOW! That was wonderful!'
The husband says, 'Don't move! I'll be right back.'
He goes back into the bathroom, comes back and round two was even better than the first time. The wife sits up and her head is spinning 'OH MY GOD!' she exclaims.
Her husband says again, 'Don't move - I'll be right back.'
With that, he goes back in the bathroom. This time, his wife quietly follows him in the bathroom, she sees him standing at the mirror saying, "She's not my wife. She's not my wife. She's not my wife."
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Phone advice from Argentina
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What next?
Families told doormats are health and safety riskFamilies living in a flat block have been told to remove welcome mats from their porches because they are a health and safety risk.
They have also been told to remove pot plants because they create trip hazards and fire risks.
Residents at the block in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. say the items have never caused problems.
We'd call them 'potted plants' here in States.
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Robô gigante
Danilo writes from Brazil, "A friend of mine told me this is model RX78 of the first series of Gundam. It was built to celebrate 30 years of the series that has the same name."
CNet News has a slideshow about this giant 'mecha' in Japan.
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June 29, 2009
Welcome to Now
An interesting page hosted by Sprint.
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What color was the alert level?
'Suspicious package' triggers evacuation, turns out to be mosquito trapA mosquito trap kicked off a bomb scare at Peterson Air Force base this morning that led to the evacuation of the Base Exchange store.
The incident started at 10:30 a.m. when a customer saw the trap and reported it as a "suspicious package." Base officials ordered the evacuation and closed Peterson's east gate as bomb-disposal airmen rushed to the scene. The scare was short-lived as bomb experts identified it as machine for killing mosquitoes rather than people.
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Coffeebot
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Mind control
Toyota Wheelchair Controlled By Brain WavesTOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. said it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
Toyota's system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a release Monday. [...]
The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.
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Animal 'toons
Mary sends a collection of 10 cartoons of animals.
Continue reading "Animal 'toons"
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June 27, 2009
No! Not the Cheetos!
Shelbyville couple accused of assault using CheetosSHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- Authorities in Shelbyville say a couple got into a fight using orange puffy snacks.
The Bedford County Sheriff's Department said 40-year-old James Earl Taylor and 44-year-old Mary S. Childers argued at a home Sunday using Cheetos.
Deputies said they were charged with domestic assault. No one was hurt.
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Animal thieves
We have a dog like the Dalmatian at our house.
H.T. Bill
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Not to mention the redundancy
Four-letter gobfulFIZZY drink makers Tango were in a tizzy last night after discovering a new can design spelt out a rude word. [Photo at the link - JdJ.]
The problem emerged with the first letter of each word on slogan Tango With Added Tango.
Neil Murphy, 33, who spotted the blunder at his Preston off licence, said: "I found it quite funny but I can see why parents will find it offensive."
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How to fail a breathalyzer test instantly
H.T. Rob
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They needed undercover agents for this?
Craigslist Pot Ad Leads To Bust
Undercover Detectives Respond To AdQUINCY, Mass. -- A man has been arrested after he allegedly placed an advertisement on Craigslist selling marijuana. Police said undercover detectives responded to the advertisement and bought a small bag of pot from 30-year-old Christopher Gray for $45.
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Hang Twenty
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June 25, 2009
Walkin' on air
A couple decided to get in married in zero gravity. (No, they didn't go into orbit.) From their blog at Erin & Noah's Zero Gravity Wedding:
ZERO-G News BriefWeightless Wedding Coverage
June 22, 2009The ZERO-G Weightless Wedding has generated an unbelievable amount of TV, print, radio and online coverage throughout the country and has even reached the UK, China, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. At this point, the wedding has been covered in nearly 300 television segments and more than 200 articles and blogs.
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Solid indeed, citizen
Mary sends a link to this clip of the Ross Sisters doing a little song & dance in the 1944 movie Broadway Musical. (That's Manhattan Serenade during the dance scene, for you Godfather fans.)
It's a pretty amazing video; you'll need to watch the first couple of minutes to see what makes their act special.
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How it works
Tucson John sends this little tale.
It's August in a resort town that sits on the shores of a lake. It's been raining for days and the little town looks totally deserted. It's tough times, everybody's in debt and everybody's living on credit.
Then a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a $100 bill on the reception desk and goes up to inspect the rooms and pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 bill and pays his debt to the pig farmer.
The swineherd takes the $100 bill and runs to pay his debt to the feed store.
The feed store owner takes the $100 bill and pays off his debt to the town's prostitute. In these hard times, she'd given him "services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel with the $100 and pays off her tab there for the rooms that she's rented when she brought clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will be none the wiser.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, picks up his $100, says that he didn't really like any of the rooms and he leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt and it looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.
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