Tin Foil Soldier

The Making of a LEGO Brick
The production of LEGO bricks is so accurate that only 18 out of 1 million LEGO elements produced is considered defective. It’s an astonishing number, considering that 15 billion LEGO components are made every year. We take a look at how classic LEGO bricks are made.

the crazy part is how [...]

RedOrbit - Oddities - IHOP Changes Policy of Asking for IDs
QUINCY, Mass. - John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped. “‘You want my license? I’m going for pancakes, I’m not buying [...]

AlterNet: Crap of the Future
DNA DRM: The latest solution to the problem of media copying is a digital rights management (DRM) scheme that relies on identifying the DNA of the consumer. When you purchase a piece of media, your licensed copy is encoded with 13 unique sequences of nucleotides from your genome. Each time you [...]

/dev/random » WordPress and /server-status
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
I don’t have this problem, since I don’t use the root directory for my blog, but I know others who do.
its an easy fix

I needed to go to the eye doctor the other day.
So I looked it up on google maps
my dad was looking at the computer and was like
“if you go this way, go 3 stop lights, turn left, then right, 2nd stop sign, take a left”
and i was like wow
I never have any idea where I [...]

apparently i broke tinfoilsoldier/blog earlier today when i edited my .htaccess file to add a block for someone who was hammering the site
all fixed now

Breakfast :: M·T·O® :: Sheetz
I am thankful for Shmuffins at 4:20 in the morning
with pepper jack cheese

A Turducken isn’t anything like tofurkey
Turducken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A turducken (”TURkey-DUck-chiCKEN”) is a de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken
I want to eat a turducken, or @ least be served part of one

yay! food!
happy thanksgiving, I hope you had plenty of whatever kind of food you like to eat on thanksgiving
I made a apple cherry raspberry pie that turned out great
pictures are on my camera, but no way to get them on my laptop while im @ home.

Hero & Kickflip cell phones
from a cell phone company
I hate their commercials, they aren’t funny, they are stupid
end of message

I am thankful for wood stoves, they are so nice and toasty to sit next to while I watch TV
I am also thankful that I don’t have to get up early during break week

BBC NEWS | Wales | Name warning for dragon sausages
A food company has been warned it could face legal action over the name of its Welsh Dragon Sausages.
Trading standards said Black Mountains Smokery in Powys must also include the type of meat used in the sausages - pork - to meet labelling regulations.
Jon Carthew said: [...]

Duncan Wilson - Pixelnotes
A wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing. Each layer is perforated in a grid format and backed with a tacky adhesive similar to ‘post-it’ notes. Pixelnotes is inspired by the way we work within a space. The walls become functional, an integrated noticeboard that [...]

Home in PA for a week and some.  might not be posting as much, but chanced are I will get bored and still have time to read the internets
I am thankful I made it home safe, and that so did all of my friends

Luise2
A characteristic touch is that every corner and angle is outlined with a thin, hand-drawn, black line – whether on the ceiling, on the bed, or around a plug. The result is a dollhouse-like, comic book room with papaya green walls, a sunny yellow rug, a lilac bed and a pink cupboard. Graphics and decorations [...]