Tin Foil Soldier

Gregory Peck’s star stolen from Hollywood Walk of Fame - Yahoo! News
“They just left a big hole out there,” said Johnny Grant, 82, who serves as Hollywood’s honorary mayor and oversees ceremonies honouring star recipients. “Somebody went out there with a cement saw and carved it out of the black terrazzo.” Peck’s star is the [...]

What’s the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don’t Want to Hear It - New York Times
Annoying sound emitter for areas where kinda loiter, because only young people can hear it. Sounds kinda stupid to me, its not fixing the problem, its just moving it somewhere else.
from the article
“It’s loud and squeaky and it just goes through [...]

The Last Page - Scratch that Metaphor
In the business world, 800-pound gorillas run with the big dogs, swim with the sharks and occasionally find themselves up to their asses in alligators. And if they are not crazy like a fox, they can get caught like a deer in the headlights.
You don’t want to be an [...]

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Phallic Logo Awards
i was checking on my webserver
(i had to shut them down because we were re-arranging power strips in the living room)
and i saw that the most recent post on my blog was not only posted @ the unheard of hour of 9 am, but that it [...]

B3TA : FEATURES : PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it’s a big spurting penis?
We asked our readers to send in the best cock logos from around the world for our team of experts to evaluate. [...]

Inside Bay Area - Tri-Valley Herald - Local News
Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng, best known for his Iron Crotch, attached himself not once, but twice, to a rental moving truck and pulled it several yards across a parking lot in Fremont. In lace-up leather boots and a black tank top, the 50-year-old tied a strip of blue [...]

Next Stop Big Brother
One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard [...]

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
16. Impress your friends!
Next time you’re at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He’ll resist. Now have him put one foot [...]

Panama Canal Miraflores locks time-lapse, 1 week compressed into 11 minutes - Google Video
its awesome to watch, hypnotic
via BB

More complaints - PittsburghLIVE.com
At least one passenger who traveled through Pittsburgh learned this the hard way. She had to remove her piercings in a restroom after airport security told her she couldn’t get on a plane with her hardware intact.
The pierced passenger filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration, which logs all claims against [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
happy thanksgiving and what not
headed back to Rochester later today
still sick, head cold
listen to Rascall Flats - Skin
and
Matchbook Romance - Tiger Lily

IOL: Mayor to quell ire of housing protesters?
A Romanian mayor has asked his personal assistant to follow him around with a fire extinguisher after irate locals threatened to set him on fire.
“I have now ordered my assistant to follow me with a fire extinguisher all the time, and I have a photographer with me to [...]

Why it’s a bad idea to be ‘huggy-kissy’ with llamas
The noise graduated to a high-pitched squeal, whereupon Charlie spit, flattened his ears back and bared his teeth, including the three sets of razor-sharp “fighting teeth,” which llamas use to rip the scrotum from male competitors in the wild.

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Nov 22 1963
President John F. Kennedy assassinated.
also dead
Nov 22 1980
Mae West is dead.
Nov 22 1993
Anthony Burgess, author of the ultraviolent A Clockwork Orange, dead. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and doctors gave him one year to live back in 1959.
Nov 22 1996
The actor who played Spock’s father Sarek, Mark [...]

yes, I have gotten busy recently, in more than one sense of the phrase
With the end of the semester (technically finals were last week) approaching, projects were due, the number of hours i needed to spend in the lab sky rocketed, and making time to spend with new friends I because very busy.
the quarter is [...]