I haven't felt led to comment much lately about the ongoing activities of local cult leader Johnny Robertson and his personal "Church of Christ" sect (which, I need to reiterate, is nothing like the real Churches of Christ that most people have respect for). For one thing, some have passed along the observation that Robertson and his followers seem to have slacked-off on their harassing of innocent people. Maybe the cultists are finally starting...
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Bruno Kammerl and the world's scariest waterslide
Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe ain't got nothin' on Bruno Kammerl and what has to be the biggest waterslide in the history of anything...Props to Matt Mittan for finding th...
John Hughes has passed away
John Hughes - who wrote or directed and quite often both some of the greatest comedy movies of the past few decades including Home Alone, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, National Lampoon's Vacation, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and a bunch more, has passed away at the age of 59.Thoughts and prayers going out to the family of this most talented...
Get your geek going at Sci-Fi Genre!
Nestled away on a tree-lined side street in Durham, North Carolina is one of the most rollickin' fun discoveries that I have made in recent months. And if you didn't know that it was there or were searching it out already, you could easily overlook it. But that seems to be such with so many good things in life, like a hole-in-the-wall restaurant or small bookstore.I first...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Rupert Murdoch to demand pay for ALL News Corp online content
Rupert Murdoch - who I will always think of as "the billionaire tyrant" from that episode of The Simpsons he did a cameo on - has pledged to begin charging for access to ALL of the content on websites run by his News Corp. That includes the websites for the Fox Network, FoxNews.com and others (perhaps even MySpace?).Apparently the move is to recoup from more than $200 million in lost revenue for News Corp during the previous quarter, including significantly...
Russia drilling for oil off Florida coast?
"In Russia we drink YOUR milkshake comrade!"That's the speculation from Investor's Business Daily. In recent days it has come to light that two Russian submarines have been found patrolling off the American coast. And now Russia is signing contracts with Cuba to develop the oil and natural gas fields in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico... which have thus far gone...
THE BIRDS Barbie Doll
For $29.99 you too can own Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds Barbie Collector's Doll! Complete with Fifties-style attire and homicidal feathered fiends.Gotta wonder what's next. Psycho Barbie perhaps? It could come with no clothes and multiple stab wounds!(Thanks to Lee Shelton for the great fin...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
"This country deserves a better class of criminal..."
"...and I'm going to give it to them."Right now the Intertubes are burning up with heated controversy about this poster appearing around Los Angeles depicting President Barack Obama in Joker-style makeup as Heath Ledger portrayed Batman's nemesis in last year's The Dark Knight.What particularly makes me chuckle are remarks made by Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable (whatever...
"Weird Al" Yankovic releases "CNR"... a song about Charles Nelson Reilly?!
If you're one of "Weird Al" Yankovic's many fans you're no doubt enjoying this summer and Al's "Internet Leaks" collection (one new song and video a month through September). So far we've had "Craigslist" aping Jim Morrison's style and then a number of weeks ago "Skipper Dan".And a short while ago Al released his latest "Internet Leaks" single: "CNR", spoofing the signature...
Monday, August 03, 2009
JERICHO: THE PROMISE FULFILLED makes Chris run out of verbiage to describe its awesomeness!!!
Some things in life are just too wonderful for words to do justice. But I'll give it my best shot...Take, f'rinstance, Jericho: The Promise Fulfilled, a 28-minute long film – done in stop-motion animation with LEGO bricks – about the fall of Jericho from the Book of Joshua in the Bible.I first wrote about this movie a few weeks ago. And also about Anthony and Jessica Rondina:...
Ohio town's traffic cameras send out 10,000 tickets in 1 month
If you can help it, I'd consider the town of Heath, Ohio to be a place to steer well clear of. That personal assessment comes after word that it's newly-installed traffic-enforcement cameras have sent out more than 10,000 tickets after just four weeks of operation. With the tickets being $100, after camera provider Redflex gets its cut that's $83,000 that the city government would put into its coffers.As you can imagine (and you can see it in the...
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Want to launch your own satellite into orbit?
For $8,000 you can purchase the TubeSat Personal Satellite from Interorbital Systems. Then you outfit your satellite however you like, and send it back to Interorbital Systems where it will be scheduled for orbital insertion aboard a NEPTUNE 30 vehicle (set to begin launch next year). Your satellite and 31 others will be hurled into an orbit 192 miles above the surface of...
About Barack Obama and his birth certificate...
I confess: this hasn't been the biggest thing on my radar screen for the past several months. There've been more pressing matters that have demanded my attention, and that's shown up in the relative dearth of politically-oriented posts on my blog lately.And besides: Barack Obama has to be a natural-born citizen of the United States to have even thought about running for President, right?Right?Here's what finally caught my notice and began raising...
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Building does somersault during demolition attempt
From Turkey comes this awesome footage of a flour factory, built in 1928, being imploded. Or it was supposed to implode anyway. Instead the support on one side of the base was destroyed, causing the entire building to tumble over "like a toy house".Watch it below folks. This simply must be seen to be believed...Look on the bright side: those wacky Turks have brought a whole new unprecedented scale to the old game of dominoes! ...
Toyota's running robot
Check this out: Toyota's new robot that briskly runs at 7 kilometers an hour:The biggest problem so far is that it can only run on level terrain. Give it a little time though, and these 'bots will be jogging all over the pla...
The Constitutional Calamity of Cash for Clunkers
It's awfully hard to disagree with the observation of car salesman Rob Bojaryn: "If they can't administer a program like this, I'd be a little concerned about my health insurance."President Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" program has proven to be a disaster after just six days. Under the program a person can trade in an older/less fuel-efficient vehicle for as much as $4,500...
Startup sets sight on piston-powered nuclear fusion
General Fusion, a new company based out of Burnaby, British Columbia in Canada, has raised almost $14 million in funding to research what is being called an ambitious effort to create viable nuclear fusion. General Fusion believes it can engineer a reactor that uses 220 pneumatic pistons to generate acoustical waves that will be aimed at a plasma target, which will theoretically...
