Tin Foil Soldier

Summary
Based on these measurements and others, I found the following:

Shorter clearances tend to be labeled more accurately than tall clearances.
Sometimes the warning bars are posted higher than they are marked, sometimes lower.
Clearances marked in inches or feet and inches tend to be more precise than clearances marked in feet only.
Regular people don’t know how tall [...]

When it comes to food, all white people are either allergic to/or have stopped eating everything you consider delicious. It’s a good idea to come to grips with the concept, because it will save you a lot of headaches.
But when white people come to your house, you are forced to deal with the problem [...]

This morning there was a cop car on either side of the road on John street on the way to RIT, slowing traffic and making us go through their little road block one direction @ a time.  I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I bet they were checking Inspection and Registration.  Mine are [...]

Today a friend asked me a question that the folks at Stanley tell me they hear all the time: why does the claw — you know, the little catch at the end of your short tape measure — move back and forth? Is it just poorly attached? The short answer: no, the loose claw is [...]

This category contains articles related to the Global Positioning System (GPS).
via Category:GPS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I was reading a site on building a GPS data logger with a wireless trigger for camera location tracking (via Hack a Day) and they made reference to WAAS so of course I had to look it up.
GPS is [...]

Already by this time, local fishermen in the coastline of Somalia have been complaining of illegal vessels coming to Somali waters and stealing all the fish. And since there was no government to report it to, and since the severity of the violence clumsily overshadowed every other problem, the fishermen went completely unheard.
But it was [...]

When the reward for cooperation was increased to 300 cents from 3 cents, the researchers found, the level of cooperation went up. But when the reward went from 3 cents to $3, it did not.
While the test measured how bigger numbers increased cooperation, the lesson is also likely to apply to enticements to people to [...]

Depleted uranium – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depleted uranium DU is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 U-238. Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. Because U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, natural uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by [...]

AccuWeather.com
Fitness Weather
Running Index

They have indexes for damn near everything; mosquitoes, barbecuing, dog walking, hair frizz, in addition to the regular Air Quality, UV, Arthritis, and Pollen indexes.
Today’s Running index was very good, which was good because we ran on the track today to try to get some sun. Hopefully my farmer’s tan isn’t quite [...]

Velociraptor – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Velociraptor was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 2.07 m (6.8 ft) long, 0.5 m (1.6 ft) high at the hip, and weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb).

Craig at puntabulous taught me that velociraptors were much smaller than Jurassic Park led me to believe. In fact, [...]

VWvortex Forums: DIY guide to switchblade key remote replacement
Programming the remote…
If you have two (or more) working keys of your car, then you also the option of doing it without using a VAG-COM. Just do the following:
1. Insert any one of the working keys into the ignition lock and switch to the ON position without [...]

Words that start with N—The Devil’s Dictionary X™
non sequitur
the art of knowing precisely at what moment to describe an aardvark.
This isn’t the original Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce but it has some more current evil definitions.
There are other funny ones, I just couldn’t find any quite as hilarious as the definition for non sequitur [...]

YouTube – parkour soccer
It may or not be fake, and it definitely isn’t parkour, but it is awesome tricking.

Cyanoacrylate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generally, cyanoacrylate is an acrylic resin which rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions), forming long, strong chains, joining the bonded surfaces together. Because the presence of moisture causes the glue to set, exposure to moisture in the air can cause a tube or bottle of glue [...]

Drought could close nuclear power plants – Weather- msnbc.com
Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
If only we could melt some [...]