"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile." - Albert Schweitzer
Scott Valentine
Los Alamos, NM
USA
Michael A. Vickers
Portland, CT
USA
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Client-Side Session Variables
Brilliant. A javascript library that stores up to 2 MB of persisted data on the client through the window.name variable.

Hallelujah, It's Here
A bluetooth cassette adapter for those of us still using car radios made in the 80s. And it's for sale.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Unassisted Triple Play
You can probably go a whole season without seeing a triple play, but you may well go a lifetime without seeing an unassisted triple play such as the one which happened last night.

UPDATE

Thanks JR. I should know better than to post video from YouTube of anything related to pro sports. They seem to have an itchy trigger finger.

This link goes directly to MLB and should play the same video.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Defaced Cash Flickr Pool
The image

Hopefully these are erasable inks, because it looks like a good wad of cash was creatively "refaced" in this Flickr pool.



Saturday, May 10, 2008
Obama Has Campaigned in 57 States
What planet is this guy on?

Much was made of the lexical incongruities of Dan Quayle, but surely this is a little bit more of a gaffe than knowing how to spell potato.

Friday, May 09, 2008
Charles Barkley Gets Punked
The good, old, tweak the teleprompter trick.

Obama: War Monger
Thus spoke the messiah:

I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.
 
Excellent. Here's how Truman spoke with our enemies in WWII:

http://s3.lpsol.com/assets/images/scrapes/nagasaki.jpg


Storm Troopin'
The image

No description can quite capture the awesome awesomeness of this Flickr photo set.

Thursday, May 08, 2008
September 11 TV Archives
On the Internet Archives. Pretty comprehensive.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Candle Cannon??

Have you ever seen those "magic" ball-of-air cannons? You know, the ones that have a rubber diaphragm on the back of a largish conical tube - guaranteed to jam dirt and debris in your eyes at 20+ feet?

Here's a Much Bigger one.

This one was built to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of a sandwich shop, of course. What... you were expecting something relevant?






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