May 30, 2004
smart bullet
A "smart bullet" that can be fired at a target and then wirelessly transmit back useful information has been developed by US researchers.
The projectile, created at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is 1.7 centimetres in diameter can be fired at from an ordinary paint-ball gun. The front is coated in an adhesive polymer that sticks it to the target.Inside, the elongated projectile holds a sensor, a tiny wireless transmitter and a battery. This enables it to report back its findings to a laptop or handheld computer up to 70 metres away. It can also reusable, because compressed gas within the gun provides the propulsion.
found at newscientist
May 28, 2004
Yellowjacket Hive Size of Minivan
A huge hive was found inside an abandoned mobile home in Hillsborough County.
No one knows how long it was there, but the yellow jacket hive was about the size of a minivan and growing.
Authorities estimated the hive held some 200,000 yellow jackets.
Once an exterminator calmed the insects with chemicals, the hive was cut up and removed.
May 27, 2004
May 20, 2004
Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move
It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that "the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level"—this to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we're not supposed to know the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.
The e-mailed meeting summary reveals NSC Near East and North African Affairs director Elliott Abrams sitting down with the Apostolic Congress and massaging their theological concerns. Claiming to be "the Christian Voice in the Nation's Capital," the members vociferously oppose the idea of a Palestinian state. They fear an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza might enable just that, and they object on the grounds that all of Old Testament Israel belongs to the Jews. Until Israel is intact and David's temple rebuilt, they believe, Christ won't come back to earth.
The Riddle of Nine
Sandman tribute
by Margaret de Heer
found at Neil Gaimans'Journal
May 19, 2004
nanobacteria
Some claim they are a new life form responsible for a wide-range of diseases, including the calcification of the arteries that afflicts us all as we age. Others say they are simply too small to be living creatures.
Lawsuit Alleges Religious Coercion
A Hillsborough County woman filed a religious discrimination lawsuit last week against the Lakeland company she left in June, claiming that her former bosses pressured employees to become Baptist and frowned on those who didn't get right with God.
May 18, 2004
Dante's Inferno Test
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | High |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Very High |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Extreme |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test
May 14, 2004
The Diner
Short movie by South Park Director of Animation, Eric Stough and Starring Matt Stone.
here
May 12, 2004
US soldiers gang rape iraqi women
This is just fucking great. Just what we need to win the hearts of the Iraqi people. From a historical stand point we are all living witnesses to one of the biggest cluster fucks in history.
I'm so goddamn proud. (for people with no wit this is exteme sarcasm)