God Awful Things

Slow news week thanks to.. thanks to… something.. anyway, over at copybot they have (well, their list) of the 50 most interesting articles on wikipedia. 1. Marree Man 2. War Plan Red 3. Vela Incident 4. Tybee Bomb 5. United States Numbered Highways 6. Wow! Signal 7. Tube Bar Prank Calls 8. Kola Superdeep Borehole 9. Back to the Future Timeline 10. Year Without a [...]

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The last time I tripped balls was an intense time.  I was out in Joshua Tree.. Yes, I know that sounds like something right out of Entourage. “Sure” you say, “We want evidence!”, well fine you grumpy little bastards… There you have it.  Anyway, here’s what happened….  I had bought some mushrooms from this person [...]

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As we discussed a couple weeks ago, those pesky Higgs particles being so abhorrent to nature, they are actually traveling back through time to prevent their discovery.  Well, further evidence to prove it’s really happening! From Popsci: The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in [...]

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Over at The New Scientist (which has just about made it to my browser bookmarks), they have an article called “Seven questions that keep physicists u[ at night.” Which is just another one of those lists of things we shouldn’t think about as it will make our brain hurt. It just reminds me of young [...]

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Weren’t we just talking about quantum tunneling a couple days ago in a manner completely unrelated to the subject?  Is it possible that I qauntumly tunneled that post? Posting it before I posted it? Buh. “We have broken the speed of light” proclaim a couple of German physicist.. Pretty short on details, and this is [...]

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This was going around the internets last week and I wanted to write something about it then, but I was busy at work (hence posting pictures), but now I am just trying to look busy as opposed to actually being busy, so there is time to write this up. Over at the New York Times [...]

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I hesitate to even type this up, I know I will have to come back many times and edit things as more and more discoveries are made and research conducted, but, by God, it’s time to tell them world.  You see, me and the ladies, well, the relationship can best be described as trouble.  I [...]

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I saw this last week on /. but didn’t have time to read it or anything, but as it is slow at the moment, I will spit this out to blow your minds.  For whatever reason, that reminded me of Lynda Barry’s  Ernie Pook’s Comeek.  There is one where Freddy says “Freak the man, freak [...]

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You know, there was a time when there was no such thing as wireless internet.. I remember when it gradually took off, I just couldn’t comprehend how it was possible.. Sitting there with a laptop, streaming tunes from a hard drive upstairs, and pumping them through the stereo.. it was Jetsons type shit. Over at [...]

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Your eyes are lying sacks.. we’ll I guess they aren’t, they just see, transmit the light to your brain, and then your brain becomes a lying sack.. Many years ago I took a color theory class which taught us about how you brain interprets colors, and how one color on different backgrounds can appear to [...]

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