Tin Foil Soldier

Tin Foil Soldier
balthasar / # uptime
03:53:35 up 111 days, 13:53, 3 users, load average: 1.05, 1.29, 1.41
I need to do a kernel upgrade because stupid smbfs mount wont work, but I have such awesome uptime…
there will be some downtime tomorrow, hopefully it is about 4 minutes, it might be more if I messed [...]

YouTube - iPhone Fun
the best fake iPhone commercial ever
its everything!

good_eats: This just takes the cake!
So apparently you can email an order to the Wegman’s bakery for cakes, etc… including what message you want on the cake.
The cake below was supposed to be a mix of English and Italian, but the staff apparently knew no Italian. The problem? Wegman’s email system also apparently did not [...]

YouTube - Jeep® Waterfall
basically it is 3000 computer controlled water droppers in a row.
check out the video

Escaped Chimp Gets Snack, Cleans Bathroom, Chimp Escapes at Little Rock Zoo, Gets a Snack, and Cleans the Bathroom - CBS News
Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, [...]

I was on Boing boing, as I often am, and on their post about the Top 100 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered animals I selected “Slender Loris” in firefox, right clicked and selected “Search Google for” because it looked like a tiny monkey and I wanted more information.  I clicked the first link, and when [...]

Ivanka Trump’s List of Qualifications
Rob at Cockeyed posted a complete list of Ivanka Trump’s qualifications

I accidentally clicked something that looked innocent on wikipedia about battlestar galactica . I think it was a spoiler.
must erase memory, must erase memory

new version of wordpress, i upgraded, but neglected to read the instructions that say you only need to replace a few files and I did a full upgrade / replace.  Oh well.
Development Blog › WordPress 2.0.7
We know it sucks to have a release only 10 days after our last one, but we think it’s important [...]

what is a limnic eruption you say ?
wikipedia to the rescue!
Limnic eruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A limnic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn or exploding lake, is a rare type of natural disaster in which CO2 suddenly erupts from deep lake water, posing the threat of suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans. Such [...]

apparently OPEC’s President thinks so!
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
OPEC President Mohamed al-Hamli yesterday said that oil below $53 a barrel was “unacceptable” and urged members to comply with the output cuts they agreed to last year.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Hexafluorid.
Sulfur hexafluoride. It’s 5.11 times as dense as air. It’s non toxic, although it’s byproducts can be extremely dangerous.
Another interesting point is that inhaling this gas will make your voice sound deeper.
I trust helium, and will inhale it and talk funny occasionally, but with a name like Sulfur Hexafluoride I [...]

FARK.com: (2527702) Nigeria can’t find $4.4 billion in oil revenues. Perhaps someone got help to spirit it out of the country?
Nigeria can’t find $4.4 billion in oil revenues. Perhaps someone got help to spirit it out of the country?
see 419 on wikipedia

also see 419 eater

WorldNetDaily: Soy is making kids ‘gay’
The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
combined with
Pat Robinson’s Protein Pancakes Recipe
2 Rounded tablespoons of Soy Flour
Pat Robinson is trying to turn our kids into the homosexuals?
the first guy thinks soy also causes [...]

Improbable Research
We knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental?
You know that any story that starts out like that is gonna be hilarious
apparently [...]