Hey everyone. Forget global warming. A giant floating infant choking hazard is spinning around in the pacific. I think we finally figured out where all the recycled stuff goes. Check out this multi-part documentary on it. I watched the whole thing. Amazing documentary!
I will someday build my own home. I am into the odd and modern homes. This is an example of a very cool house in Australia. via: Yatzer
Monaco House, 2008 | Melbourne
This is one of those stories you see on the history channel when they are not doing a Hitler special. The Howard Hughes movie “Aviator” didn’t really touch at all on this part of his life. It is a compelling read about espionage at the deepest depths of the ocean. The retrieval of a Russian Nuclear sub. Enjoy the timewaster.
Other good reading:
Project Jennifer / Hughes Glomar Explorer
Scientific American Frontiers . Mysteries of the Deep
You can listen to the ocean under the Antarctic ice via this research station feed. It’s called: PALAOA the PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean. Read more here.
It is usually just clicks and pops but I listened long enough to hear some ice collisions or what I thought were ice collisions and what sounds like storms occasionally. It also acts as a “white” noise generator. For other noise generators see my previous post on white noise machines.
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There are services that will convert your digital camera to an Infrared camera. The cost varies from $100-$500 depending on your camera. If you don’t want to shell out that cash you can achieve similar effects using photoshop. Here are a few sites that have some good tutorials on the effect.
http://www.tutorialelf.com/Infrared_Effect_Adobe_Photoshop_Tutorials.html
Our system of measuring days, months and years is completely insane. It was drawn up a dozen years before christ’s birth and is basically conjured up at the whim of Ceaser. It makes no sense. The month names are based on god’s and godesses and the days of the week are equally archaic. Check out this article on the origins of the months and days.
I really hope we switch to Metric time at some point. Star Trek has already brought “Stardate” to the lexicon. As humans, a species that is constantly evolving and pushing the limits of physics and science, we really cling to the deep past. I found this comparison of Metric vs. Decimal time interesting too.
I have always espoused the virtues of Jager. My friends would either agree or moan with disgust. True, it is not a drink for the weak and it’s requiredserving temperature of 5 degrees makes it syrup-like and some can’t deal with the medicinal taste.
Whenever I drink Jager I always wake up feeling fantastic and rereshed. Now surely this is something a raging alcoholic would state and I am not there yet but here is some interesting information about Jager I dug up on the net.
Jagermeister, is a alcoholic liqueur that was first made in 1935 in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. The name Jagermeister means “a master-hunter.” That is why Saint Ubert, protector of hunters, is the deer symbol on the label. This drink is a mixture of 56 plants, roots, and fruit peels, that is matured for 12 months.
Jagermeister is a highly sweet 70 proof German liquor supposedly containing minute quantities of deer blood. It is a reddish-brown cordial with a root beer-like flavor, and it is served extremely cold and syrupy.
In Europe it is imbibed primarily because of it’s supposed medicinal value, as an after dinner tonic. There are apparently 56 herbs incorporated into the formula, which was invented in 1935.
On the Actual Logo of the Deer with the cross:
The blazon of the deer on the label is derived from the story of St. Hubertus, a patron saint of huntsmen.
After the death of Hubert’s beautiful wife Floribana, he wandered the forest despondently, hunting deer.
On a Christmas Eve, he received a vision of a stag with a glowing cross betwixt it’s antlers. He renounced his position as Duke of Toulouse and became a priest, eventually ascending to the position of bishop before his death in 727 AD.The word Jagermeister means Huntmaster, and the text which flows around the label is a traditional
hunter’s prayer:It is the Hunter’s honor that he protects and preserves his game, hunt sportsmanlike, honors the Creator in his creatures.
My company is called Hivemind and we have a nasty Hornet as our logo and while I was checking for other hornet photos I came accross this video. It shows like 30 Japanese hornets killing 30,000 honey bees. Make sure you watch the end to see how the Japanese bees fight the hornets. Amazing stuff.
We need to get this thing in Iraq. It’s a new type of gun that has no recoil, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature and no jams are possible. It can fire up to 120,000 rounds per minute and it’s currently available. Read more about it here.
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. On April 11, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership. The search for the tank man reveals China’s startling social compact — its embrace of capitalism while dissent is squashed — designed to stifle the nationwide unrest of 1989. This policy has allowed educated elites and entrepreneurs to profit handsomely, while the majority of Chinese still face brutal working conditions and low wages, and all Chinese must endure strict political and social controls. Some of these controls regulate speech on the Internet — and have generated criticism over the involvement of major U.S. corporations such as Yahoo!, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google. (Airs on PBS April 11th at 9pm) More details here.
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