Tin Foil Soldier

so terrible, but kinda funny cause i hope its not real

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Blog Archive » Kircher’s Cat Piano
In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were [...]

YouTube - Microsoft Project origami
Microsoft Project origami
i want one

about the religious right “they turned jesus into a republican and he is not one!”

Video/Imaging DesignLine | Video compression artifacts and MPEG noise reduction
MPEG-2 first exploits temporal redundancy through motion estimation and then proceeds to spatially subdivide the image in 8×8 blocks upon which the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) is applied to exploit spatial redundancy. Compression is done by quantizing resulting DCT coefficients and re-ordering them to maximize the [...]

Where those driving directions really come from - Feb. 27, 2006
Navteq supplies the raw map data that underlies those directions. That data isn’t as raw as you might think, though. Unlike paper maps, Navteq’s digital maps have to include details about which roads are one way, which way, and things like whether left turns are [...]

Tin Foil Soldier was hanging because I had a “what am i listeing to” type section pulling information for last.fm
Apparently last.fm’s servers went down, and since my page was pulling data from them and rendering it in php before the page gets sent to the browser it was just hanging waiting for a response from [...]

OBJECTIVE: Creation Education | Creation Science Fair 2001
2nd Place: “Women Were Designed For Homemaking”
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry [...]

Good Eats
I was watchin Good Eats (it was on flounder) but there was a commercial for Cooking with Your Kids.
It made me want to call my mom and thank her for always cooking with us as we were growing up.  “Food ties us all together” or something, and well, even the little things my parents [...]

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Remember the Name
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

TimesDispatch.com | Park’s 2 bears killed after bite
Both bears, ages 12 and 9, were euthanized because it was not known which one bit the boy, Maymont officials said. The child and at least one parent were apparently at the rear of the 2-acre bear exhibit Saturday when the child climbed a 4-foot wooden fence into [...]

CANOE — CNEWS - Weird News: Iran renames danish pastries
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranians love Danish pastries, but now when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”
um, i dont think they sound very good, these “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad”

talking about my nose bleed
will: blood is one of those things it’s better to have in your body

Tonight i am drinking for McKevin’s Job offer and
Feb 20 1980
After some heavy drinking, Bon Scott, vocalist for heavy metal band AC/DC, is found in a friend’s automobile choked on his own vomit.
tonights drink of choice is a home made bottle of riesling
So apparently my mini-fridge was set too cold still (i had just defrosted [...]

Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City - It Told Her to Go See a Psychic
Woman: I see you will be engaged by the end of the year!
Businessman lady: Great!
Woman: So can I give you a full reading?
Businessman lady: No thanks, I got a fortune cookie in my lunch.
–28th & Park
It’s to die [...]

Sicko Marriage Contract One For The Ages - February 17, 2006
This country, as you know, is filled with the deranged. And then there’s Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa man who is facing charges that he tried to kidnap his own wife (not to mention a separate child pornography rap). Frey, prosecutors contend, apparently is a [...]