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The End of the Beginning

Bill Whittle knocks another one out of the park… well worth your 9 minutes.

This Art Blows… Up

Now this is cool.

h/t: The Awesomer

Friday Caption Thread

That’ll Keep Hawaii Safe…

Some dolt who was elected to the state legislature in Hawaii is attempting to ban the sale of toy guns there.

SECTION 1. Chapter 709, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: “§709- Sale of toy guns to minors prohibited. (1) It shall [...]

What’s this “Internet” You Speak Of…

This 1994 video from the “Today Show” is fascinating:

h/t Iowahawk

As Iowahawk intimated on Twitter, it’s like watching dinosaurs 65 milliion years ago casually discussing “that fireball in the sky.”

I knew all about the Internet in 1994, but it’s not surprising these three did not.  What is interesting is watching this and remembering [...]

It’s Only the Beginning

Prediction (which I really hope is wrong): Egypt represents the tip of a very dangerous iceberg. More rebellion is on the way and more regimes are going to totter and fall. For the root cause of the troubles in Egypt is the same thing that ultimately sparked rebellion in Tunisia and (so far) peaceful [...]

Saturday Open Thread

Happy 62nd Birthday Steve Perry!

Friday Fun on a Frozen Lake

This is from Norway I believe…. I’m unclear on the physics of it. You’ll know what I mean about 90 seconds in… very cool. Explosives R fun.

Next Up: Photon Torpedos

First they produced a working railgun and now they’re well on their way to producing the functional equivalent of a phaser. As a result, the Navy may be soon displace the Air Force for the coveted title of “Branch of the Service With the Coolest Toys”. From Fox:

Scientists with the Navy’s Office of [...]

Nuts to you!

I have never heard of “Nuts” magazine prior to seeing this video. I assume it’s another in a long line of UK “Lad Mags” featuring women in various stages of undress like Maxim. This Christmas greeting features Lucy Pinder, who while not Selma H has her own considerable charms. Don’t worry the video is safe [...]

The Navy Has Bigger Joules Than You Do

This is awesome. Story here on the U.S. Navy’s new toy — the Railgun. From The New York Daily News:

Say hello to the Navy’s little friend.

Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the [...]

If You’re Stuck On What To Give

RONCO has a suggestion! Hey good looking, we’ll be back to pick you up later!

Suicidal Bombers?

Most suicide bombers are of course motivated by their form of Islam to do their dirty work. New research indicates that many suicide bombers’ main motivation is not ideology or religion — but a desire to commit suicide. From The Boston Globe:

Qari Sami did something strange the day he killed himself. The university student [...]

Busted!

Shocking news out of Hollywood: Salma Hayek copped to criminal activity during an interview with V Magazine Spain. From Fox:

“I was an illegal immigrant in the United States,” Hayek said during the interview. “It was for a small period of time, but I still did it.”

In addition to entering the country without [...]

Now In The Hands Of Soldiers In Afghanistan

This could be a game changer is some fights…

Emerging From Shadow

Mark Twain in autochrome by Alvin Langdon

Terry Teachout has a great meditation on the recent fascination of “the past in color” and what it meant to grow up as black and white gave way to color. I grew up in a color world and was fortunate to cultivate a taste for black and [...]

If You Believe We Put A Man On The Moon

This may be inspirational or depressing…you decide.

Here Comes The Boom X 80

A single B-2 bomber releases 80 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition (GPS Guided)) bombs on a target airfield in a single pass during a test.

Long Live Bing!!!

Google, the mega-successful search-engine folks (yay, capitalism!!!), couldn’t find it in themselves to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11 last month. However, they have been giving John Lennon, who would have turned 70 today, a posthumous tongue-bath this weekend. I do my best not traffic Google (a co-worker told me about it yesterday [...]

<strike>Obesity</strike>Efficiency Epidemic

“I’ll bet that bird could make a whole lotta McNuggets…”

Michelle Obama has chosen nutrition and childhood obesity as her cause to champion as First Lady. She gets some grief in Conservative circles for this, but I don’t have a problem with it. It’s what First Ladies do. Laura Bush had literacy. [...]