Scientists a step closer to steering hurricanes

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I wonder if there will come a day when man really can control the weather?

Scientists have made a breakthrough in man's desire to control the forces of nature – unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them off course, to prevent tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina.
The damage done to New Orleans in 2005 has spurred two rival teams of climate experts, in America and Israel, to redouble their efforts to enable people to play God with the weather.

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Picture of the day - WTF?

See if you can figure out what it is that makes this picture a
WTF? picture.

Food items of the day - part 2

Arctic Delight — Reindeer Paté

While this is probably the most palatable food on our list, we include it for the wrongness factor: "Mommy, why is daddy eating puréed Rudolph?" Here's the upside to snacking on Santa's Little Helper -- because the reindeer are farm-raised by Sami herdsmen in Sweden on a simple diet of moss and lichen, your dinner delicacy is delightfully hormone-free. Not to mention, this other red meat is incredibly lean, clocking in at a mere 2 percent fat content, making it one of the least-fatty meats in your cart. As an added bonus, there's no such thing as mad reindeer disease.

Food items of the day - part 1

For Emergency Use Only — Sue's Canned Whole Chicken

Canned meats generally don't put a rumbly in our tumbly, but in a pinch, perhaps in the event of a major cataclysm, we'd throw down with some Vienna Sausages. However, this canned chicken takes the canned-meat cake. The impossibly tiny chicken crammed into this 50-ounce can slides out with a generous portion of gelatinous goop, or rather, "delicious gravy."

Our advice? Keep a can on hand for emergencies, and ignore the serving suggestion to snack on the dish cold. Holed up in a fallout shelter during the aftermath of a nuclear war might be the perfect (and probably only justifiable) opportunity to scarf down a bowlful.

Picture of the day

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Internet Commenter Retirement Party

Iz on ur computr, captioning ur videeowzz!

Lots of language!

Internet Commenter Business Meeting

This is what happens when corporations change pwn3rship.

Lots of language!

Steve, Don't Eat It!

Here is another collection of foods that I myself would be reluctant to try, but Steve is willing to do so for all our sakes so we don't have to! Check out the goods here.

!!! WARNING !!!
Some adult material there!

Been a while...

I know it has been a while since my last post, but the excuse I am choosing to use is "writer's block". Perhaps I will post things here in the future, I am just not sure at this time.

6 Canned Foods We’re Reluctant to Try

"With hurricane season almost upon us, it’s time to start stocking up on bottled water, extra batteries and canned food. But why stick to just beans and corn? Here’s a look at some more exotic (read: disugusting!) canned foods we found..."

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Nintendo Sixty Fourrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

This video almost defies description. The maniac kid is definitely a basket case and will be needing intensive psychotherapy for years to come.
Comments?

What Your Cat Is Trying To Tell You

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Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Kodak - The Winds of Change

Rabbit in the back yard

I snapped this rabbit a few days before the Target incident and am just now getting around to posting it online. As you can see, I like my images black and white and contrasty as hell. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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Tanked by Target

To make a long story short, Target has decided to cut me loose two months into the deal. Keith, my ETL-Food said that Target is "excercising it's 90-day option" with me and that as of the May 31st, 2007 that my services would no longer be required.
Needless to say, I am a bit dissapointed and even more so unemployed.

Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong?

The original article from CBSNews.com is right here

Anakin Skywalker, Who Became Darth Vader, Had Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychiatrists Report

The news comes not from a galaxy far, far away, but from San Diego, where the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is holding its 160th annual meeting.

Experts from the psychiatric department at France's University Hospital of Toulouse told the APA's annual meeting that Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader could "clearly" be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental illness marked by instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior, according to background information on the Web site of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

The French psychiatrists — who included Laurent Schmitt, M.D. — based their diagnosis on original Star Wars film scripts.

Schmitt's team describes Skywalker's symptoms, including problems with controlling anger and impulsivity, temporary stress-related paranoia, "frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (when trying to save his wife at all costs), and a pattern of unstable and intense personal relationships," including his relationships with his Jedi masters.

Changing his name and turning into "Darth Vader" is a red flag of Skywalker's disturbed identity, note Schmitt and colleagues.

The researchers aren't suggesting that real people with borderline personality disorder are Darth Vaders-in-the-making. Skywalker's symptoms are an extreme, fictional case.

Borderline personality disorder can be treated through psychotherapy and with medication. But that wasn't part of Skywalker's script.

Tale from Midnight City

The new Maroon 5 CD is out and it is good!

The new Maroon 5 album It Won't Be Soon Before Long is out and it is good good good! You can use iTunes store to search for and listen to 30 second samples of each of the 12 tracks off this CD. It is well worth buying either the CD itself, or you can purchase the tracks from the iTunes store for your iPod if you are so inclined.

Here is a review of It Won't Be Soon Before Long from Amazon.com:
Sometimes it's O.K.--even important--to put aside your reluctance to embrace artists who make teenage girls scream. It happened in 2006, when Justin Timberlake scraped the sludge off pop and left something shiny behind, and it's happening again in 2007 with Maroon 5. It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the L.A. band's sophomore studio disc, rode in on a crest of hype and crumpled expectations--fan reports had it that Adam Levine & Co. scrapped their signature pop-soul sound for something harder and darker. Not so. Shades of Prince, Hall & Oates, and Sting still color the Maroon sound (check out the spectacularly fizzy "Little of Your Time," as well as the first single, "Makes Me Wonder," a song catchier than fire), but they're made ever fainter here by the clamping down of five guys on what is essentially the most distinctive pop sound to emerge from a single band since the Bee Gees squealed into the mid-'70s. It Won't Be Soon squares hip-hop sensibilities ("Wake Up Call") with rock ones ("If I Never See Your Face Again") and stormy moods ("Can't Stop") with bittersweet ballads ("Better That We Break"). It's a disc destined to defy detractors and go on to greatness, elevating the credibility of teenage girls for years to come. --Tammy La Gorce

Product Description
Global neo-soul rock superstars Maroon 5 are back with their much-anticipated sophomore album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long. The follow-up to the 10x platinum, Grammy-winning Songs About Jane will be "sexier and stronger," according to frontman Adam Levine, who looked to '80s icons such as Prince, Michael Jackson, and Talking Heads for inspiration. Recorded at home in Los Angeles with producers Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Eminem), Mark "Spike" Stent (Bjork, Keane, Gwen Stefani), Mark Endert (Madonna, Fiona Apple), and Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek), the album promises to be a louder take on the pop sounds of their first effort. "It's definitely aggressive, upbeat and pounding," says Levine.

Panasonic's 12 megapixel Lumix DMC-FX100: a wide-angle, "HD video" shooter

Note: The original article from Engadget is right here.

Oh boy, lookie lookie. Panasonic just announced their new Lumix FX top-ender, the DMC-FX100. Packing a 1/1.72-inch, 12.2 megapixel CCD, this compact shooter manages to squeeze in a 28mm wide-angle Leica DC lens with 3.6x optical zoom. The cam features VE III processing along with Panny's Mega Optical Image Stabilizer and Intelligent ISO control (up to a 6400 sensitivity) to reduce blurring. Shutter release is measured at 0.009 seconds while bursting 8 shots per second at full resolution. It even records WVGA (848 x 480) video at 30fps or 1280 x 720 at 15fps direct to SDHC/SD cards. Nice, should be a winner by the time the reviews roll around.