The same day I receive an email from Geoff Osmond, Connect Magazine telling me that he is not Colin Kelly's chauffeur, I notice that Colin has him wearing a dog collar for this article on non-compete agreements.
You may not recognize him but that little 'soul patch' is a dead giveaway. (You can't see it in this image but it 's defiantly him.)
Live Science has a list of the ten most popular scientific myths.
What you'll learn:
- The 5 second rule doesn't work. (but we already knew that.)
- A headless chicken has lived 18 months without it's head.
- Men don't really think of sex every 7 seconds.
Wikipedia is just chock full of usefull tidbits.For those of you who have been know to invoke the 5 second rule there comes this sage advice from Wikipedia:
The five-second rule is rarely applied to other people's food, although many instances have been documented.
If a food falls in feces, the five-second rule is never used.
The five-second rule was also featured in an episode of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters. The results they got from their tests confirmed Clarke’s findings: time was not a factor when food is exposed to bacteria; even two seconds' exposure is more than enough time to contaminate it.
From the same crew that brought you the hair hat...
For the voyeur in all of us. Now you can purchase that famous French spy contraption that helped keep Inspector Custeau from being seen on urban stake outs.
This is just the thing for scared tourists in New York. Just stop, drop, and set up shop. (This is not a plan by NY's mayor to address the homeless problems by spray painting their cardboard boxes.)
The key to making this plan work is to prevent the intended targets from seeing you set up. That just breaks the whole concept as most people are quick enough to be suspicious of a human transformer peeking at them through the intelligently designed observation ports. (Everythings in wide screen.)
Of special note is the ability to use this for what appears to be an observatory or pidgeon hunting lodge .
Of course if you get caught doing something you shouldn't, you can expect to have some rather unhappy subjects exact their pound of flesh.
This has got to be a showstopper in a crowded singles bar. This guy must get chicks like crazy making kopff covers out of the stuff you sweep off the floors of hair salons. I especially like number two with it's faintly Egyption warrior fez feel. But you can see how stylin they are. Makes you wonder how the Canadians can do without?
Via: arstechnicaFormer intelligence officer Robert David Steele recently appeared on the Alex Jones show to make the provocative claim that Google is currently cooperating with secret elements in the US government, including the CIA saying, "Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government. That is a huge mistake and I'm hoping they'll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off."
Steele has made these claims for some time; back in January, he said the same things at a conference organized by his company at which several sources came forward and spoke about the alleged cooperation. According to security site HSToday.us, which had a reporter in attendance at the conference, one unnamed security contractor "said three employees of an intelligence agency he declined to identify are in Mountain View, Calif. where Google is based, working with the company to leverage the search engine company's user data monitoring capability in the interests of national security."
It's clear that the company is not opposed to working with the intelligence and defense communities in principle. Products such as Google Earth are explicitly marketed to such industries, with Google claiming that its products allow "analysts and operatives to get the job done effectively and in record time."
From the BBC: Evidently Briton's can't legally copy their own CD's.
According to research from the National Consumer Council, more than half of British consumers are infringing copyright law by copying CDs onto their computers, iPods or other MP3 players.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a "private right to copy".
It would decriminalise millions of Britons who break the law each year by copying their CDs onto music players
Seems like it might be time for an cross-species intevention. From NPR:
"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.
Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.
"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."
It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.
What followed was the Mirsch family's quest to stop their cocker spaniel from indulging herself. But it wasn't easy. Lady was persistent, and resourceful.
The situation seemed to resolve itself when the toads went into hibernation for the winter.
But when they returned, so did Lady -- and with a vengeance.
"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer," Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."
In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.
"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."
Tank paintball. Now this looks fun. (Hey, is that Michael Moore in the turret?)
Stuart had the guns removed and contacted Jez Smith, 26-year-old local engineer and serial inventor, to make the biggest paintball gun ever seen. Their chosen ammunition, fired by compressed air, would be paint-filled ping-pong balls.
The first attempt blasted a ball into orbit. Jez lost sight of it after a mile-and-a-half when it passed the church spire. It also sent a small potato through the sound barrier. Over time, he calmed it to a legal and relatively modest 200mph. Jez then designed a 40mm, 8ft steel barrel to slot into the turret and the company now has five. "Obviously, these aren't proper guns with rifled barrels or they'd be illegal," says Stuart, 38. "But a ping-pong ball full of liquid doing 300ft per second is lethal. That's why we operate with sealed hatches."
I was flattered when Connect Magzine called me and asked if they could send up a writer and run an article on my. (Connect article) I prattled on for an hour at least before Lisa felt she had had enough.
But that's not what this post is about.
Geoff Osmond called me later and asked if they could come up to Park City and take a picture for the article. Fine with me. Everyone at Connect is great to work with. So Kevin Kiernan proceeded to snap a few pictures. I was happy enough until he showed me a few of the shots on the back of his camera. Who the hell is that fat guy standing in front of me? That was my first thought.
Here's the picture that Kevin took. What the hell's happened to me?
Now I'm not totally wrapped up in vanity but hey, that's not nice.
Especially since this is how I think of myself. (This is a promo shot for my publisher and it's about 10 years old.)
Startups take their toll. I used to be something of a gym rat. I ran the NYC Marathon. I was in really good shape.
Seven years of startup hours have left their mark. Now I've got Married Mans Disease.
I'm going to the gym.