More tech toys

I totally want one.

I have absolutely no use for it, but I want one anyway.

Sexy lobster?

Funniest commercial ever courtesy of MrsMalkav.

*sound of brain shutting down*

I think this is the most mind-boggling sentence I've ever read in a technical paper:

One technology that is emerging from the military world is meteor burst communication, which uses the transient radio paths provided by ionised trails of meteors entering the atmosphere to send data packets between a mobile station and a base [83].

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. How...? What? How the _fuck_ did someone come up with that?

"Hey...how can we send a radio signal to someone without anyone being able to track where it came from?"

"We could...umm...well, we could bounce the signal off of ionized particles created when balls of space rocks obliterate themselves in our atmosphere in a blaze of lethal glory?"

".......uh, Jones? Have you been smoking, injecting, or otherwise absorbing some kind of substance I should know about? I've been going to Starbucks a lot of years now, and I'm here to tell you that people don't come up with that shit off a cup of coffee..."

A brave new world of data mining

I just got the following message on Friendster:

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From:	kristine
Date:	Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject:	hey Nick
Message:	How's it goin? I'm Kristy, I just moved right near San Mateo and I wanna meet a nice guy around here :). I moved here a couple of weeks ago for work and now that I'm here I have nobody to hang out with! I read your profile... You're cute and I liked what you had to say :). I'm 22/F/single and I'm lookin for a guy who is a little bit older or more mature than me. You say you're 26 and you're cute so I guess you're qualified :) My friend Jen from back home suggested I tried using friendster to meet people in my area. I just signed up and my profile sux hehe. I do have a blog/profile page at GirlyDiaries.com ... I have alot of photos and stuff up if you wanna see me. I left you a personal msg on my homepage and I took a new pic for you today. Come check me out when you have a chance, k? Lookin forward to seeyin ya, Kristy

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Christ...now they're tailoring spam message using personal information from my profile? Good god...

The Nintendo blowjob

No, not that kind of blowjob.

Anyone else out there have any clever tricks for getting your old NES games to work?

Stephen Colbert is a genius

Watching Colbert interview Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda while having them bake an apple pie is simply genius. There is no other word for it.

Robot Chicken and the Five Stages of Grief

I'm not 100% sure why, but even after multiple viewings, Robot Chicken's giraffe sketch still cracks me up. Particularly "anger" and "grief."

Shedding my last vestiges of Microsoft

They did it.

So I bought one.

I have a shiny new 15" macbook pro core 2 duo in processing, soon to arrive in my eagerly awaiting arms.

Get to fuckin'! It's for your health.

Sex is good for you! (like we didn't know that)

...

- Better teeth: Seminal plasma contains zinc, calcium and other minerals shown to retard tooth decay. Since this is a family Web site, we will omit discussion of the mineral delivery system. Suffice it to say that it could be a far richer, more complex and more satisfying experience than squeezing a tube of Crest--even Tartar Control Crest. Researchers have noted, parenthetically, that sexual etiquette usually demands the brushing of one's teeth before and/or after intimacy, which, by itself, would help promote better oral hygiene.

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Did you know...?

http://immense-world.blogspot.com/2006/10/50-interesting-science-facts.html

Fashion designers are nuts

I think this fashion designer went on rather an extended acid trip and subjected several emaciated women to the results of it.

Fast forward to about minute 9 to start seeing some really bizarre shit.

Who says you can't have fun in the military?

"You are funktastically cleared for taxiway Bravo..."

Stewart on Bush's hypocrisy

There are too many good bits on Daily Show to repost here, but this one seems especially poignant...

Pics

I finally got around to finding a site to upload all my pictures. A goodly number of them now live at http://picasaweb.google.com/halcyonic, and any future pics will probably go there as well.

Not all my pics are there, but maybe the last 6 months or so should be there.

Another sign of the apocalypse

No, it's not a joke. The Boy Scouts really did just create an anti-piracy merit badge. I shit you not.

Yet another reason not to join that goody-two-shoes, homophobic institution...

Proximity to fame

Look! A NYT article on Chuck Thacker! I sat across the hall from him at MSR and asked him lots of annoying, stupid questions! I'm famous by proxy!

Bacteria fed by...radioactivity?

I think it's fairly clear that, in light of North Korea's latest action, this particular bacterium is destined to take over the earth.

Fuck Iran

You know what? Iran really sucks.

Disney...after dark

Perhaps the funniest thing I have ever seen...I just hope it stays up for a while.

White & Nerdy

"I'll ace any trivia game you bring on,
I'm fluent in javascript as well as Klingon!..."