Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
When George Lucas came up with The Force, he was just looking for a plot device for a story. But I’ve often thought that he’d tapped into an idea whose power even he didn’t realize. Now there’s some evidence for that theory.
The old joke goes: “lucky rabbit’s foot? It wasn’t so lucky for the rabbit!” But it looks like having four of them is lucky for at least one. 😉 But the owner… $16,000 in plastic surgery, just to look like a character from a one-off eighties movie? I guess she thinks it’s worth it… (Hm, …
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I have little interest in skateboards, and never learned to ride one, but that headline certainly grabbed my attention when I saw it. And apparently it’s true too.
That explains a lot about politics.
Malware authors are always trying to trick you into opening their craptastic payloads, often using the latest news headlines. But it seems that they didn’t care for the volcano story a few weeks ago: Eyjafjallajökull, despite being arguably the biggest news story of the year so far, is simply too difficult to spell for most …
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Thus proving that it’s a good thing that life sucks. 😉 (Seriously, I can’t wrap my head around the idea that suction like this could help wounds heal faster. I don’t know of any mechanism that could possibly explain it. And as Isaac Asimov is quoted as saying, “The most exciting phrase to hear in …
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More of science emulating science fiction: in Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series (the second book, if I remember correctly), the protagonist is shot several times at point-blank range with a large-caliber handgun. He survives with nothing more than extreme bruising and a wound to his arm, thanks to a set of “bulletproof underwear,” which …
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Ever since we moved a few months ago, something has been getting into our trash can at night. We’d often find it on its side in the morning, with the lid off and trash strewn everywhere. Kitchen trash, of course, which means smelly, slimy, or both, so this was obviously something we’d prefer to stop. …
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Oh, these had me howling with laughter… I can just imagine some poor bank employee having to ask a customer some of these questions. “Go forth, and kill. Zardoz has spoken.” 😀