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Tombstone stuffed with marijuana
This tombstone was shipped from Jamaica to Cincinnati, where US Customs and Border Protection at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport discovered it was filled with 50 pounds of marijuana. Officers questioned last week why someone would ship a tombstone from Kingston, Jamaica, to London. An X-ray machine revealed packages [...]
Gunman at Discovery Channel headquarters
A gunman has taken at least one hostage at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. There's no official police statements about who the gunman is or what he wants, but there's a list of demands circulating on Twitter... said to be the gunman's manifesto. I'm not sure what the original source of this list is, yet, [...]
StarChild’s DNA results show that it is definitely not human
Preliminary new DNA results from the 900 year old Starchild Skull, providing information that a percentage of the DNA in the bone may not be from Earth.
Smith & Wesson Tactical pens
I spotted the Embassy Pen (top image) over at Uncrate and really dig the minimalist Maglite-esque look of it. It's $38.50 from County Comm. I showed it to Rob and he hipped me to the bad-assness of the Smith & Wesson Military and Police Tactical Pen that's just $26 from Amazon. Now if only I could manage to hang on to a pen for more than [...]
Photos from China’s 10-day-long traffic jam
On Monday, the BBC reported on a 62-mile traffic jam in China, northwest of Beijing, where vehicles had been almost at a standstill for nine days. Naturally, the internet was fascinated. Doctor Who references were made. Personal commutes seemed less terrible by comparison. According to that BBC story, Chinese state TV reported that [...]
Man saws car in half to prove a point
Raymond Reeder's house on Kemp Lane has a sign that says, "Beware of bulldog." A "no trespassing" sign is posted at the entrance of the driveway. He considers himself a gear head and a mountain man. A week ago, Reeder, 39, sawed in half a 1998 Saturn station wagon. "Just to prove a point," he said. "This is what happens when you don't [...]
INEBRIATION: Inception Parody
"Inebriation" is a mock trailer created by Atomic Productions parodying the concept of Inception, in a dangerous and unstable world of shared drinking and drunk within drunk.
Is the www dead?
Wired uses this graph to illustrate Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff's claim that the world wide web is "dead." Their feature, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, is live at Wired's own website. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching [...]
A clever way to use a “worthless” currency
Foreign investment is a tricky game. Not only must a company profit, it also has to transfer the profits home. Companies have done creative things to convert currency, and my favorite example is Pizza Hut in the former Soviet Union: For example, consider the situation faced by Pizza Hut when it wanted to open a chain of restaurants in the [...]
Drilling robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid
Does the Pyramid of Cheops hide more secrets within its massive volume? A 1992 robot explored one tiny passage only to be blocked by limestone doors with brass handles -- and the next one drilled through only to find anther door behind it. (more...)
Secret knock detecting mechanical iris project
Chris Schaie's beautiful Mechanical Iris, Steve Hoefer's Secret Knock detecting Arduino code, and an engraving made with my scratch-built CNC-Router to make the entrance to my garage/workshop/lab a bit more special. (more...)
FBI claims no-one may publish its seal
The FBI ordered wikipedia to remove its seal from the article there about the bureau. It threatened to litigate. Unfortunately for the FBI, the law it cited is the one that forbids making counterfeit badges, and Wikimedia's lawyers mocked them in its response. John Schwartz in the NYT: "Many sites, including the online version of the [...]
Jersey Shore cast ring Wall Street’s opening bell
The Jersey Shore cast were on Wall Street courtesy of MTV's NYSE-listed owner, Viacom, to mark the debut of their second series in the US this week. They didn't hang around for a chat, though. On the business channel CNBC, anchor Mark Haines complained: "We often interview the ringers of the opening bell, but the Jersey Shore's handlers are not [...]
Fan wearing LeBron Heat jersey kicked out of Cleveland Indians game
CLEVELAND - A fan wearing a Miami Heat jersey of LeBron James drew the ire of the crowd at a Cleveland Indians game and was escorted out of the ballpark. Fans in the left-field bleachers chanted obscenities and pointed at the man Wednesday night during the sixth inning of the Indians' 8-0 loss to the New York Yankees. Hundreds of fans [...]
Tron Legacy score contributions by Daft Punk leaked?
What some are identifying as the Daft Punk score for Disney's Tron Legacy movie has been leaked. I blame Julian Assange. Like many of you, I nearly did a back-flip when I found out that Daft Punk would be writing the score for Tron Legacy (I say nearly because I ended up bashing my head on a coffee table and had to be rushed to the [...]
Inception’s musical secret
Inception is one of the two best science fiction movies I've ever seen (along with Gilliam's Brazil) -- in fact, it's one of two sf movies that I'd rank with the very best sci-fi novels. (more...)
Smoke bomb ingredient: potassium nitrate (aka saltpeter)
I learned how to make smoke bombs when I was 12 by reading a recipe in Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book. The recipe calls for two ingredients: ordinary sugar and potassium nitrate (also known as saltpeter). In those days I was able to buy potassium nitrate from the pharmacy at K-Mart in Boulder, Colorado. Here's Hoffman's recipe: SMOKE [...]
Herman Miller Embody Chair Review
Is a chair's purpose merely to furnish a place for us to sit? There are countless directions to discuss this subjective matter, but suffice it to say that a chair's purpose goes beyond a solid foundation for resting our weight. In an ideal chair, the design would be suitable for hours of comfortable sitting. The chair would accommodate healthy [...]
Herpes Boy screening today at Comic-Con
Comic-Con attendees, don't miss the screening of Herpes Boy, "an award-winning independent feature film comedy about a social misfit with a facial birthmark (not herpes) who accidentally becomes an Internet celebrity." (more...)
