Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has been on trial for corruption for awhile. He had tried selling Obama's old Senate seat. He was recently sentenced to 14 years. [link]
A toast defibrillator. [link]
Drifting, or Hagawlah, in Saudi Arabia.
Medial marijuana laws reduce traffic fatalities. Possibly by reducing drunk driving. [link]
A wasp smaller than an amoeba. [link]
We've seen flames burn in null gravity before. Recently, a more in depth study of the stuff was done. [link]
Feed a word into this and listen to the music it makes based on the word. [link]
How to build a great paper airplane. [link]
We've been waiting for some time for this, but with this new woolly mammoth discovery some scientists claim to be only 5 years from a successful cloning. [link]
Paypal turns out to be dicks. [link]
Pictures of baby weasels in the wild. [link>]
Mythbusters is a safe show and a welcome addition to any neighborhood: BUSTED! [link]
The LA Times is a photo thief. [link]
What the opposite of helium does to your voice (and other science).
Cooling canals for a nuclear reactor proves to be a good home for endangered crocs. [link]
The Kepler telescope has found 2,326 potential planets in 16 months. One appears to be in the Goldilocks Zone. [link]
Bent wire still lifes. [link]
Crocheted tie fighters. [link]
A collection of photos of low flying aircraft. My favorites were when you see where planes flew too low and took damage but still managed to limp home. [link]
A trailer for a sci-fi movie that is just a concept. With all that's in this trailer the movie would have to be close to 3 hours long.
The alleged Ark of the Covenant is going to be moved. I'll let you look at it first. [link]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reached one billion dollars in sales faster than "Avatar" did. [link]
Picture: Gingerbread Weasley house. [link]
A gift of peace in all good faith. [link]
Richard Thompson, I know you're reading this! We have footage of Dill's brother's in action!
Trailer for "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe."
50 tons of corn stolen from a train in Brazil. [link]
How Elvis Costello got banned from SNL. [link]
Rats will free trapped rats. [link]
How chicken wire is made. [link]
An old Woody Allen stand-up bit about the time he shot a moose. [like]
John Updike's rules for reviewing books. It means I'll have to start taking better notes in the future. [link]
That's what my manger scene needs! A statue of a guy taking a dump! [link]
We recently saw lawyers in Florida using strippers as para-legals to drum up business. In Illinois a law firm pretty much came out and said they want a shapely secretary who puts out. Not for criminals. For the lawyers. She puts the perky in "executive perks". [link]
Louis CK is trying an experiment to see if people will buy the sort of stand up act that cable channels used to run. [link]
The biggest box office bombs. Some are good movies, some deserved to bomb. Yeah, Battlefield Earth, we're looking at you. [link]
Sweet new free program from AutoDesk (makers of AutoCAD). [link]
Really loud TV commercials will soon be a thing of the past. [link]
Mitt Romney's slogan is also a KKK slogan. Yeah, it happens. But why does the press apologize for mentioning that when it'd be headlines from now until the election if Obama said it? [link]
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