Tuesday, September 30, 2008

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1300

http://depletedcranium.com/?p=338

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death


http://kottke.org/08/06/survival-tips-for-the-middle-ages

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 5:36 AM, Dale Swanson wrote:
After I read that last email about the selling the tech to the kings thing I started thinking a lot this weekend. First off obviously you would sell weapons and tech and not some crazy elevator system, I think that is assumed. But this is what I started to think about. What if you went back intime and had to live, what kind of things would you be able to do with your modern knowledge. Now I can think a few possible scenrios. You wake up and its the past, you had no prior knowledge that you were going to go back, so you are only armed with whatever you know off the top of your head. You have time to prepair, lets say a whole year. And last you had time to prepair and you could also take luggage. With the last one the luggage has to be small or else it really starts to take the fun out of it all. At first I said a carryon sized bag, but I decided on a cubic foot. It's an actual cubic foot, can't be 12"x6"x24", must be 1'x1'x1'. You are going back to the year 0 or so, and you are going to be the emporer of Rome, so you would have plently of resources and such.

First thing I'd do is post the situation on every forum in the world. Obviously as a hypothetical so people would post ideas and not just say yeah right dumb ass. You may doubt forums but I'm always supprised no matter how long I think about something as soon as a search it I find there are a million other ways of going about it that I didn't think about. It would be good just to read what people suggested first.

Next I would have to decide if I would be able to make power. I pretty much couldn't bring anything that would actually generate it back with me. At first I thought about flexible solar, but that would waste a lot of room, then maybe thought of something where I could provide a was to spin the turbine and it would make power. I could make a windmill or a water mill to spin it. But that would still be a pretty big waste of space. I think I could make a generator using tech of the time. Converting it to 60Hz AC would be the hard part. But I think I could figure it out. Then I'd bring a laptop and a 500 GB external HDD. Obviously that would greatly help things out. From there I think I could make some serious advancements and probably take over the world.

Monday, September 22, 2008

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/20/1513224&from=rss

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080811183321AAwgcoF&r=w&pa=AptqD2bwHTHc7.mOYaE_ttFKUFMrVB4sZbcUk2KFP95ngmjOfQh8htoX8PuEIkUwndt67ocad4rD6Q--&paid=voted

I can't remember if I already sent you one of these Georgia questions, but this time since it linked to the actual question and not just a screenshot I decided to see if this was fake or not. I know people are clueless, but to honestly think Russia invaded a US state, and there is little news about it seems pretty far fetched. Anyway, I found this gem of a question, which seems to also answer the question of who the people downloading that sweet XP keygen were:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnBhR8tx80FRCw12dskMWCnty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080907142130AAz1hrU

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/05/01/childs-toy-brings-panic-to-entire-city/

http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=486637

Thursday, September 11, 2008

http://images.spaceref.com/news/2008/LOX_tank_DSCF0556_640.png <- SpaceX is moving into a launch pad in Cape Canaveral. Notice the oversized load sign, without which people would have no idea he had an abnormally large object.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/203233&from=rss

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

So I'm sure you've seen these lists of dumb laws, which are mainly just old or out of context laws. But I stumbled upon this list and there's a lot of Indian related ones, which are always good. I won't bother with the states, if you want to know you can go to the link.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=390724

Shotguns are required to be taken to church in the event of a Native American attack.

Seven or more Indians are considered a raiding or war party and it is legal to shoot them.

It is legal to shoot an Indian on horseback, provided you are in a covered wagon.

If there are more than 5 Native Americans on your property you may shoot them.

No animal may be hunted for on Sunday with the exception of raccoons, which may be hunted until 2:00 AM.



http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/submissiongod.jpg

http://www.holytaco.com/2008/09/03/8-memos-from-gods-desk/

http://www.ninjapirate.com/newcomputer.html

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/jon-stewart-ann.html

http://bl.net/forwards/mnms.html

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t12.htm <- Oh how I wish I had been involved in this to skew the results.