As one page quoted, “You sank my productivity!” Battleships is online and is quite addictive.
Here’s a history of Mountain Dew, my caffeine beverage of choice in the morning. I like one of the original slogans, “It’ll Tickle Yore Innards!”
Take a look at this cool picture of the space shuttle Endeavour being transported aboard its modified Boeing 747as it takes off from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert en route to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Take the Political Compass quiz to see where you stand. Apparently I lean towards the “Libertarian Left” (as opposed to the “Authoritarian Right”). I suppose that’s not too far off; I usually consider myself pretty moderate, but a lot of the questions in this quiz dealt more with sociological than geopolitical issues. Those issues would’ve brought me more into the right, I think.
Britain’s Oddsocks Production has substituted “bellringer” for “hunchback” in its production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” because it “did not want to upset people with scoliosis.” This is another example of PC going way overboard. To paraphrase another person’s comment on another site, “What’s next, Moby Richard?”
Some guy has modified his microwave to melt and cast “bronze, silver, gold, and even cast iron.” OK, I know that the Hacker Spirit is to play with things to make them do a lot more than they were intended to, but this is going a bit far.
Update: I’ve migrated from the dedicated blog page to my main page incorporating the blog. However, this morning it appears that Blogger isn’t working nicely with my template, so I’m getting all kinds of screwy layouts. Hopefully this will clear itself up, but in the meantime, things probably look kind of crappy.
John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, was found dead in his Las Vegas hotel room yesterday morning. Initial reports are that he died of a heart attack, somewhat surprising since he was apparently in good health. His death came just a day before The Who launched their national tour in Las Vegas :-(.
Brazil is starting to package medicine as candy so that children that have trouble swallowing pills or are just stubborn will be more likely to take it. I just see this as a gigantic accident waiting to happen; the first time some child OD’s on “candy” we’ll hear about this. In fact, as usual this reminds me of a Simpsons episode: they went to a candy convention and the sign outside read “Welcome Candy Convention Room 1! Also Candy-Shaped Rat Poison Convention Room 11.”
