This video absolutely made my day. Just hilariously good. British soldiers being tested on LSD. The deadpan commentator brings it to a level that can only be achieved in something that's non-fiction.

Tags: LSD, British Army

To go with the above article, I thought I'd include this one. It doesn't sound fully confirmed, but it hasn't been refuted by anyone I've seen yet. Francis crick was on LSD when he discovered DNA?

Excerpt:

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.Crick, who died ten days ago [2004-07-28], aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD, then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy, to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

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Don't hole yourself up in the basement just yet, this is a humor piece (and freaking funny it is), but with the slightest hint of truth. Be afraid. Very afraid.




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Tags: Zombies, Apocalypse

I had a real hard time with it at first, but then I came up with a system that worked pretty well. I'm not going to ruin it for you by telling you it though. Try your hand yourself!





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Tags: Faux News, Porn Star

Intelligent design is such an easy target, but that doesn't mean it's not worth taking pot shots at.

Tags: Christofascism, Republicans, Stupidity

Ground effect hovercrafts are nothing new, but they don't get enough press. Basically they float above a special buffer of air pressure which exists above the ground, so they only fly a few feet above the surface of water. They are especially cool since you can get them classified as boats and go flying around without a pilot's license. If I had some water nearby and a few hundred thousand in loose change, I'd certainly pick one up. But I have a feeling they have some drawbacks we don't hear about, like when flying over choppy water..





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Pretty funny, and of course anything that takes a piss out of faux news is something I can get behind. This one especially relevant considering their laughable blaming of the California wild fires on Al-Qaeda :




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Tags: Faux News, History

And now for something completely different.... Anus shaped chocolates! Don't ask me, I just report the news. What'll they think of next?







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Tags: Chocolate, Edible, Anus

Lolcats aren't exactly a new phenomenon on the old interwebs, but they sure do make me happy every time I see them. Basically the formula is this, take a picture of a cute fuzzy animal (usually a cat), and add a caption in extra cutified IM talk (or leetspeak for nerds). If you haven't looked into lolcats yet, you need to check out ICanHasCheezburger? Once you feel like you've got what it takes to get involved in the lolcat community, you can go translate a passage of the bible into lolcat (also incredibly funny to read). So committed to lolcats am I that I translated all of Proverbs 2 .

Here's a couple to get you started:

Tags: Lolcats, Bible, World Domination

This cracked me up!

Tags: Child, Actor, youtube

Pictures of nuclear explosions have a way of finding their way to me, so I'm quite the critic. But these are some of the most amazing ones I've seen.







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Tags: Nuclear, Test, Pictures

So many urban legends are just legends that I was starting to lose faith in the weirdness of the world.. Until I read about these...


Excerpt:

The Funhouse Mummy

The Myth:

A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be made of the usual combination of papier mache and carni spit, but human skin and bone. All the little kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and giggling at a real, mummified dead body.

The Truth:

Apparently the smell wasn’t just coming from the convict manning the corndog stand. Back in 1976, a camera crew filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man began to set up in the haunted house at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, Calif.As they were moving aside a "hanging man" prop, they accidentally knocked off its arm and discovered human bones inside. Bionic, this poor sap wasn’t.

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Tags: Creepy, True, Urban Legends

Go squirrel!

Tags: Extreme, Spy, Squirrel

Although the article was discredited even by it's own author, I thought it was still a very interesting attempt to quantify the world's carrying capacity of human beings by energy consumption. I found it quite flawed even before the author turned on it (which was a very refreshing act of true intellectual integrity). In the end he was trying something which is more or less impossible for a single person (or even many people) to do. Much like a perfect climate model, the factors are far too numerous to take on.

However, it doesn't stop the paper from presenting a lot of interesting data in one place, and making some very scary conclusions. Personally I think the market forces will prove more efficient in solving the energy crisis than anyone ever imagined. Whether we can stop global warming is another story, but there are just too many possibilities for how to get energy for some alternatives to take hold and be successful. I'm personally rooting for fusion and solar to save the day. Ethanol is for suckers.

One of his graphs:





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Tags: Green Energy, Overpopulation, Peak Oil

Here's a new sport, or pasttime, or something... Rock balancing. I think I'd rather come knock them over personally, but that's just me.







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Tags: Rock, Balance, Sport

...Not to say they want to. It wouldn't do them much good. But it should be common by knowledge by now that they easily could. This article is the most comprehensive I've read on the topic.

Excerpt:

China has several economic “weapons” at its disposal for countering the US, ranging from the manipulation of its currency to the diversification of its burgeoning stock of forex reserves. It also has several less blunt options to choose from, such as enabling Chinese companies to compete more directly and effectively with US companies, and opposing the US in securing a domestic energy supply. On all of these fronts, the US is essentially being held hostage, since it has become so dependent on China as the world’s factory. Ultimately, it seems unlikely that China will deliberately butt heads with the US unless it is first provoked, but America should nonetheless be on its guard, since its economy hangs in the balance.

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Tags: China, US Dollar

If any of you wanted to know what the Czechs were into when it comes to sharing video, check out my buddy's new video sharing site for Czechs.




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Tags: Video, Sharing, Czech

Now, there are many of these out there in the world, and they are really freaking cool. But this one is even cooler because you can take the plans and make it yourself. And then you can make a 3d sex doll... Or whatever...



Excerpt:

"Hod Lipson didn’t set out to revolutionize manufacturing. He just wanted to design a really cool robot, one that could “evolve” by reprogramming itself and would also produce its own hardware—a software brain, if you will, with the ability to create a body. To do this, Lipson (below, center) needed a rapid-prototyping fabrication, or “fabber.” Picture a 3D inkjet printer that deposits droplets of plastic, layer by layer, gradually building up an object of any shape. Fabbers have been around for two decades, but they’ve always been the pricey playthings of high-tech labs—and could only use a single material."

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Tags: 3D, Printer

I say we make one!






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Really brilliant idea for developing nations. Maybe I'll get one to recharge my phone in the desert.




Excerpt:

If you’ve ever put a blade of grass between your thumbs and blown, you’re already aware of the force that drives Shawn Frayne’s ingenious Windbelt. A small amount of air passing over a thin strip of material can create frequencies that translate into sound waves or, in the Windbelt’s case, energy.Frayne’s device consists of a flat, taut membrane that flutters within its housing as air passes through it. At each end of the membrane are magnets that oscillate between metal coils as the band flutters, effectively creating an electric charge. According to the 28-year-old Frayne, prototypes of the Windbelt have generated 40 milliwatts in 10-mph slivers of wind, making his device 10 to 30 times as efficient as the best microturbines.

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Tags: Green Energy, Wind, Power

A bit old news, but I just love to see Faux News squirm when things don't go their way.




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Tags: Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize, Faux News

These graphs are always fun. Not quite so spectacular if you compare them to GDP, but always fun to see in pure dollar terms.

Tags: Current Account Deficit, America

Boy, new and creative ways to be evil appear every day. Now they cut off your student loan money if you are caught smoking a joint! But never fear, they're now accepting drug offenders in the military. You'll still be able to go fight wars of aggression for the country that wouldn't give you an education!





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Tags: War on Drugs, War of Terror

Okay, it's not actually a mirror, it's a monitor, that's rigged up to some spectre who hovers over your car and beams what's going on down there to the screen. Magic. This woulda saved me some cash on some dents.




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When was the last time you saw something this inspirational from a political candidate? I almost cried.

Tags: Ron Paul, Presidential Race 2008

Now this is just a wonderful idea for making a product that both gets you drunk and serves as a housing material for developing nations. This is the kind of thinking that the world needs. I think we should petition Heineken to bring it back-- I would buy a lot more Heineken, that's for sure. And I'd build a big wall o' beer around my desk at work. That'll keep them from bothering me.






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Tags: Green Technology, Beer,