“Cosmic Radiation Features Could Suggest Our Universe Is Not Alone”
Emphasis on the word could, as this is pretty vague. But if it turns out to be true, this could be very interesting.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Scammers ahoy! (NSFW for language)
I’m busy, so I shouldn’t be writing this, but it’s so funny I can’t avoid it. I got a call about an hour ago. The caller ID said “Unknown Name, Unknown Number.” Background noise of a busy call center, so I’m thinking a survey or a telemarketer. A survey I’ll just politely decline to take. …
“Detect Liars by Offering Them Two Choices”
I like this method. Easy to use, and hard to fool if the presumptive liar doesn’t know about it beforehand.
“The United States of Autocomplete”
One of the first things GoddessJ complained about, when she got her new iPad for Christmas, was that the autocomplete kept adding a ‘y’ to the end of her name. I call her ****y, and her family; no one else is allowed to, and she doesn’t refer to herself that way either. I had to …
Interesting…
I had an interesting e-mail yesterday, an offer from a software company: tap tap tap is back with the top photography app for iPhone, Camera+. And to celebrate the launch of the all-new Camera+ 2, with over 50 awesome new features, we’re giving away a custom engraved “TSA Grope-free Edition” iPad, every day for the …
Word of the Day
Comedogenic. Obviously from the same root as comedian and comedy. Presuming you don’t already know what it means, you’d think that it has something to do with generating comedy. Well, I suppose it kind of does. Humans can be pretty cruel at times.
“Tentacle Pot Pie”
A little creepy, but it looks delicious. And it just goes to show that you really can find absolutely anything on the Internet. 😉
Antikythera Mechanism Duplicated — in Lego!
The odds are that you’ve heard about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient (2000+ years old) mechanical device that was dredged up off of Greece more than a century ago. Four years ago, scientists finally figured out what it was for, calculating solar eclipses and other celestial events. It was really big news at the time, …
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Russian Viagra spammers, take note
The thought that girls like a big penis is not properly conveyed by the English phrase “big penis like a girl.” 😉 (Yes, I actually got several messages yesterday whose text was exactly that, claiming to be from “EnlargePenis.VeryGood4@yahoo.com”, to my great amusement. Somebody really needs an English lesson. Or a biology lesson, maybe. 😉 …
iGod?
Got any burning theological questions? Now you can get them answered… sort of. They really should put a warning on it though… “iGod cannot authorize crimes, crusades, or jihads.” 😉