I always find it fascinating to see that the world was in color before 1960.
Here’s an exhibition of pre-war color photos that were commisioned by the government first to build support for the New Deal by showing the ravages of the depression, then to show Americans unbowed by the war.
Those biscuits look really good.
I’m working on some coding changes to the Rollerfeet.com main page, building on my six-wins-streak-come-back-from-behind in my fantasy football league and learning to use the powerMac (simple, my ass) so my posting is a little light these days. So, to wish you all a happy holliday, here’s a couple daily funnies from the last few days:
We caught a preview of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this weekend and it’s a must for fans. It’s not quite perfect due to trying to fit the massive tome into one consumable film — leaving it feeling rushed at times — but it is gorgeous and well-acted (with at least one new cast member who is phenomenal in a key role) and the special effects are top notch. See you die-hards in line Thursday night!
The $100 laptop is all the rage over at an IT conference in Tunisia; the big scandal is that Steve Jobs offered to give them OS X for free; the developers turned it down in favor of Linux.
Naturally, Jeff’s all in a tizzy about this.
Read more!I know that the true movie connnisseurs will be waiting in line at their local DVD outlet tomorrow to get The Triple B Collection: The Films of Andy Sidaris so it seems only appropriate that I provide this link showing all the movies that have Shreveport listed as a filming location. (You will probably notice a high number of 2006 release-date films that were moved to Shreveport after Katrina halted filming in New Orleans.)
This is cool.
Meet FLIP, a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment used by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. FLIP isn’t a ship, even though researchers live and work on it for weeks at a time while they conduct scientific studies in the open ocean.
Their Web site is pretty excellent too. It’s aimed at kids, but it gives me the impression that Steve Zissou is actually behind it.
No, seriously.
The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ‘‘radio location’‘ (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.
How cool is that? The VRWC owns the spectrum that tin foil hats amplify.
I wasn’t going to outright praise the voters of Dover, PA for voting out the 8 (of 9) school board members who installed intelligent design into 9th grade science curriculum. I think it’s great that the community so overwhelmingly made their voices heard with the most powerful tool available to US citizens. Even though I’ve argued that the question is moot regarding ID(intelligent design) vs. evolution, this is a real bellwether that the voters did the right thing: they are being threatened by God’s doddering blathering idiot, Pat Robertson.
This is for jank:
America’s gaggle of “Minuteman” long-range nuclear missiles went on line for the first time during the Cuban missile crisis in 1960. But the world was supposedly protected from mutual assured destruction by the “Permissive Action Links” (PALs) which required an 8-digit combination in order to launch. … For seventeen years, during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War, the code remained all zeros, and was even printed in each silo’s launch checklist for all to see. The codes remained this way up until 1977, when the service was pressed into activating the McNamara locks with real launch codes in place.
From Japan comes the invention of the heated bra as an effort to save on the rising cost of fuel oil.
So, ladies…how often do you find that your breasts are the coldest part of your body and need extra heating? Would heating your breasts make the rest of your body feel warm enough to leave the thermostat lower?
Remember the luge we discussed as a party ice breaker? What do you do if your party isn’t large enough, or your location roomy enough to support a full size block of ice? Ice Shots lets you freeze little shotglasses of water, juice or freezable mixer. You have to love invention. Our lives get better every day!
Look at this article from Think Progress.
There is a brewing controversy about what exactly was said at the White House press conference on October 31. … Congressional Quarterly and FNS both transcribed Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s answer as “That’s accurate.” The White House transcript lists McClellan’s answer as “I don’t think that’s accurate.” … If you listened to the clip, it’s clear McClellan says “that’s accurate.” Nevertheless, the White House is trying to get CQ and FNS to change their transcripts. They’ve refused.
I keep thinking they can’t get any worse. I shouli be ashamed for underestimating them.
Posted for the reference to Neal Stephenson’s book with the highest cool to neglected ratio.
Have you subscribed to Make yet? Magazine so much fun it oughtta come in a brown paper wrapper.
Don’t know why, but this struck me as inappropriately hot:
Catholic Schoolgirls Unravel DNA