Tin Foil Soldier

The water utility in Edmonton, EPCOR, published the most incredible graph of water consumption last week. By now you’ve probably heard that up to 80% of Canadians were watching last Sunday’s gold medal Olympic hockey game. So I guess it stands to reason that they’d all go pee between periods.
via What If Everybody in Canada [...]

As you journey along the path you meet an old man.
He tells you that modern neuroscience has proved that all our actions and decisions are merely the machinations of a predetermined universe and that our concept of ‘free will’ is naught but a comforting illusion.
If you agree with his hypothesis, turn to page 72
If you [...]

Probably Bad News: News fails, because journalism isn’t dying fast enough. » The Guy With The Scythe?.

I added a new category of links, the Lulz selection of links is obviously here for the lulz.
Additional Lulz:
Hacked IRL – Word To Your Mother
Hacked IRL – Meh.
Oddly Specific – Can You Blame Them?
Oddly Specific – Curved Yellow Fruit
There, [...]

Make: Online : Melting table.
Creepy

Kudos to back2root, I definitely don’t have the patience for something like this awesome wood carving.

A woman admiring the sunset on a tourist webcam in northern Germany spotted a man who was lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting authorities, police said Wednesday.
via German man saved on frozen sea by webcam spotter – Yahoo! News.
Definitely his lucky day.  It had to have been crazy [...]

Fancy professional cameras have giant pixels, relatively speaking, whereas a point-and-shoot has to shrink its pixels to smaller and smaller sizes as it keeps upping the megapixel value. There comes a point where the diffraction caused by the lens creates an Airy disk that’s much larger than the pixel. Post-processing by the camera can compensate [...]

HYPOCRISY « Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more.

There are lots of lols on Pundit Kitchen and they are almost all hilarious.

CHICKENS

I always think Admiral Ackbar jokes are funny.  You might not.  But you should.

They make an unlikely trio, but Baloo the bear, Leo the lion and Shere Khan the tiger have forged an unusually strong bond.
…
Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time at barely two months old.
via Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! [...]

This blog chronicles photos of Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009 by Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson. When the project is complete, it will be a traveling show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier's Centennial.
via 100 days in Glacier National Park.
Zoey spent the summer in Glacier National Park as [...]

So you’re heading down the interstate with a car full of hungry bellies and the endless neon lights of dozens of eateries are setting your retinas ablaze. Where do you stop to satiate the beast within? You no longer have to leave it up to your tired exhausted brain…with this helpful chart we’ll get you [...]

This is how an American soldier is made.
For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below.
via Captured Photo Collection [...]

You’d have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.
via Bald bears baffle vets with mystery condition at German zoo | Mail Online.

Check out the full size pics on the article, but the female bears who are baring it all are definitely a lot scarier lookin than the ones with fur.

A Softer World: 421

People (read Harry) send me links @ work to comics, they are usually awesome, hilarious, or both.
I totally want the shirt they made out of this comic.
TopatoCo: We’re All Going To Die Shirt

Sky watchers across North America witnessed a strange event on Wednesday night. As space shuttle Discovery glided silently overhead, the orbiter sprouted a flamboyant comet-like tail.
“The shuttle put on a major light show,” says Perry.In Madison, Wisconsin, photographer Abe Megahed witnessed a similar display: “The shuttle was sporting a massive curved plume. What could it [...]