Weird
Found here, a crossover between Warhammer 40000 and Hello Kitty: "inspired by the ever cute Sanrio character "Hello Kitty" ©, Katherine wanted to bring a little color (and a bit of snappy fashion!) into the male dominated (and admitedly gothic themed) gaming world of Warhammer 40K!".
Via the amazing hack a day, a good web resource about things you could do with a microwave oven is provided here. Some examples (safe/unsafe experiment as they say!):
Exploding Egg/Bubbling soap/Flash Boiling Experiment/Sparking CD/Putting Household globes in a microwave oven/Fluorescent tube in a Microwave/Microwaving high-pressure sodium vapor lamps/Neon Globes in a Microwave Oven /Valves in a microwave with video/Pins and Sparks /Putting Kitchen Scourer's in a microwave/A vacuum fluorescent display in a microwave with video /A foil lined chip packet in a microwave with video/Making plasma using a coil of copper wire. Melting Xenon Flash tubes in your microwave oven with video/Putting a LED in a microwave /Putting a pre conditioning lamp in a microwave /Carbon fibers in a microwave /Expanding Marshmallows
Fab pointed me this amazingly interesting resource about shoplifting research and best practices. It seems that they did not find anything so far. But they do have great ambitions: "A list of Best Practices for Theft Offenders is being established. It should be concluded by the end of January 2004.". There is also a non-profit organization that "provide counseling / classes for theft offenders, in person or over the internet!"
This morning I found this VCR gently put on this small table near the roundabout close to my appartment. Perhaps it has been used during the night by angry hobos trying to feel the pulse of a video tape without any display tool...
The dogone seems really appealing!
The Dogone - Dog Gas Neutralizing Pad is a comfortable and least intrusive means for deodorizing gassy discharges in a thong design. This will eliminate pet odors and dog odors from flatus or flatulence.Uses our famous activated charcoal cloth (washable and reusable)! A starter hole is placed in the cloth in order to help you locate the suggested tail hole. Carefully measure tail and cut-out hole to proper size. Elastic straps are used for flexibility. Suspender clips are used to make the garment totally adjustable. They also provide quick release for allowing the dog out to do his business.
Via fab, it seems that reality has imitated "The Simpsons."
Now a "Simpsons" fan in Oregon has crossed a tomato plant with a tobacco plant to create a new bit of weirdo flora he calls a tomacco (pronounced tuh-MACK-o). His inspiration: a 1999 episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer gets rich by creating a tomato-tobacco hybrid that tastes nasty but is wildly addictive. "I knew it was scientifically possible," said Rob Baur,
In Annecy, France there this nice shop where you buy cheese, whose boss has Gay as a name...
icta (International Christian Technologists' Association) is an incredible organization: "ICTA's primary aim is to assist cross-cultural ministries focused on those with little or no access to the message and love of Jesus.(...) Our mission is to unite the community of technology business professionals, and the work they do, with God's purposes, by gathering together to learn, train, inform, and collaborate. The result will be Spirit-led technologists and technology, transforming the Church and its witness in our technological world. " I don't understand why people would like to mix religion and technology, perhaps it is something related to some fear or angst toward the future... For a atheist person like me this sounds odd.
Strange map overlay found here: "it was an interesting coincidence that the storms spared Miami who voted for Gore in 2000. Just out of curiosity, I overlaid 2 maps: one of tracks of the hurricanes of 2004 and one of the election results of 2000", did by Bob Morris.
Thiswebsite explains you how to survive atomic attacks and how to build a nice shelter:
A conspicuous lack of media hype leads me to present this nice boombox:
Why pay 500$ for Klipsch's latest speaker system? You can make something that looks way cooler for the price of a DIY amplifier and some HDDs out of a dumpster. It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares! There really isn't much to say about this project... It's fun as hell to watch, easy to do, and impressed the crap out of everyone I've showed it to. Just download the movies already. The system, with woofer, midrange, and tweeter harddisks, lying on my favourite stolen cafeteria tray:
What an incredible project: projecttroy.com! Troy Hurtubise of North Bay, Ontario, created and personally tested a 147 pound grizzly bear-proof armor suit. He won the 1998 Ig Nobel in safety engineering.
A visual history of spam is cool, the author has "kept every single piece of spam and virus email since mid-1997. Occasionally, it comes in handy, for example, to add naïve Bayesian spam filter to my custom-written email filter. And occasionally I use it to build a chart of spam and virus email.".
For those of us who never quit listening to the justified ancient of mu-mu, the KLF manual is still online to remember how to behave ;)THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USE IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN (1988). This may be the agenda for any futuristic organization (start-up, electro band, ngo...) How much of this stuff could be used in PR?
It's been two days driedbloogers appeared on the blogosphere and I think this french-english blog really worth it! Absurd content, incredible posts, geeky crap.
Via waxy The following map shows where spam comes from:
Read in 43folders:
Man, nerds don't just use a computer for occasional work or to "look something up on 'The Interweb.'" They live on their laptop and take it anywhere they'd bring their wallet. They eat wireless like potato chips and crank out code for a living. They have an IM window and an IRC channel running all day. They're streaming conferences in and live-blogging conferences out.
It seems that the guy dressed like Batman who entered Buckingham palace is one of those ugly-outfitted freak (picture AFP).
Did he pick up his costume at Mark Newport's exhibition?
Stumbled across this All the Plants of the Bible. It is an impressive list of useless knowedge that I fancy. I won't learn them because I hate learning bloody latin name of plants (which I did once during my biology degree in a previous life).
