“Holy Pressure Vessels Batman!” Don’t do this at home. Gas pressure is not necessarily your friend. Take this article for example. This guy was killed by the air pressure alone. 140 pounds per square inch across your chest (approximately 12″x12″ on me = 144 square inches) will come out to be 10 tons of force …
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Two (at least) Harry Potter Characters Die
According to the canonical source, Ms. J. K. Rowling, author of the series, Harry Potter and the *, two characters (at least) will croak in the seventh and final book. From an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution: During an interview broadcast Monday on Britain’s Channel Four, Rowling revealed that at least two characters will …
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Snakes on a Blog
The NY Times had a short blurb this morning concerning Snakes on A Blog, and I am sending you there because it’s highly amusing. The NY Times article was not about the Snakes on a Blog, per se, but about an experience that the fellow who runs it had with Comcast. Apparently, and this is …
Excellent Optical Illusion
Stolen from Bad Astronomy, check out this optical illusion.
Anatomical Inquisatory Acquisition
I recently responded to a post on Live Journal, explaining that I had ceased running for a month because I had tweaked my erector spinae and paraspinal muscles. Then I thought to myself, “Self, is it really those muscles, or some other set and you just made that crap up?” Off to the web! We …
Touch his belly!
I’m strangely fascinated by the concept of this blog. I think that this is something that would have been a good idea in college, at least to break the ice. This reminds me of the guy who showered with a hundred women.
Summer Solstice
Tomorrow is the summer solstice, known as the first day of summer to Americans. Why do we call this the first day of summer? Weather-wise, it’s more like the end of the first third of summer. Oh well… I trolled for some Solstice Superstitions. Most of them hark to druidish type things, and were too …
Acronyms (Initialisms) and You!
I run across numerous acronyms and initialisms in my job. It’s not as bad as the military, but there are plenty, let me tell you. I’m reading a report this morning and happen across the following quote, which lists an interesting initialism: The High Hazard Location System (HSP) is a flexible…* HSP? Where did they …
Animation Domination
Regurgitating more stuff from milkandcookies.com, here is a fight between animator and animatee. I heartily approve.
Does God exist?
Apparently, God does not exist. Here is the empirical proof.