dig that...

sort of puts things in perspective....

Saturn Storm Captured By Spacecraft: Stunning Images Show Storm Eight Times The Size Of Earth

hooray...

Director Guillermo del Toro hasn't given up hope on the big-budget At the Mountains of Madness movie he was working on for Universal Pictures. Although he's since moved on to another project, he still has his sights set on the H.P. Lovecraft project

gotta respect the enthusiasm.....

Thank you, I Can Has Cheezburger user b_dizzle, for making this glorious caption. And thank you, Antinous, for sending it to me

I don't like this

Unsettling photos of monkeys wearing masks

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:25 PM Tue 

A photo gallery of monkeys in Indonesia wearing masks made from dolls' heads.
UPDATE: Xeni reminded me that she posted a much better gallery of masked monkeys in April

if you don't want to wear a helmet sign a f**kin wavier so I don't have you to pin ya down in the er has they drill a hole in your skull to relieve the pressure, ya wingnut....

Motorcyclist Dies On Ride Protesting Helmet Law In New York

ONONDAGA, N.Y. -- Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.
Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was

I am not as surprised as I should be...

‘Singing penis’ sets noise record for water insect

Just when you think you've seen it all...

If I could do that I wouldn't need a mate.

I wonder if I can get mine to sing with "voice" lessons?

A tiny water boatman is the loudest animal on
Earth relative to its body size, a study has revealed.

Scientists from France and Scotland recorded
the aquatic animal "singing" at up to 99.2 decibels,
the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play
while sitting in the front row.

The insect makes the sound by rubbing its penis
against its abdomen in a process known as "stridulation

creepy but cool..

Animated’ stereoview photographs of the Civil War

Commemorating the Civil War’s upcoming 150th anniversary, NPR is currently showcasing a nice collection of stereoview photographs—some familiar, some not—from the war. All the photos are courtesy of the National Museum of American History.

 

This might come in handy over the holiday weekend (better safe then sorry)

I think I have to agree with this well thought out insight.....

Some people are upset with the signing of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman for the next batman movie called “Dark Knight Rises” but I think her boobs are going to look boobtastic the entire movie so I give the hire two thumbs up

true that......

very cool...

Lego Barad-dûr: 50,000 Pieces, Two Months to Build, Pure Awesome

Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings, is re-created out of Lego bricks.

A group of 15 people from five countries set out to re-create Tolkien’s world with Lego bricks, and one man had the intense challenge of building Barad-dûr. This is how he did it

now we got that out of the way..Where's my flying car!!!!!!

Robot armpit

Cory Doctorow at 1:09 PM Tue 

Kevin Grennan created this Robot Armpit prototype. There's more good stuff about his work with robots that smell scary in this We Make Money Not Art interview and profile, in honor of The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust, which deals with smell and robotics.

oh my stars and garters......

Stocks Of Socialized Countries Have Outperformed U.S. Since Reagan Era

American traders aren't likely to take kindly to the suggestion that big government might be good for the stock market. But data from a paper on the job- and income-growth of top earners shows that stock prices in some socialized countries, relative to themselves and adjusted for inflation, have done considerably better than those in the U.S over the last two and a half decades.

Specifically, during the twenty five years after Ronald Reagan took office -- a pro-market honeymoon that Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review this week termed "the ascent of laissez-faire economic policies" -- French stock prices have performed significantly better than Americans ones, according to the report by Jon Bakija, Adam Cole, and Bradley Heim. A further examination of the 39-year period extending from the end of the Nixon administration until 2008 shows the Swedish economy, known for its high taxes and heavy regulation, growing at a significantly higher rate than the US. The authors conclude that big government might not actually stand in contradiction to a productive economy: "Countries with typically high levels of government involvement in the economy, such as Sweden, Denmark and Canada, do not appear to have experienced stifled economic growth relative to countries where government involvement is more limited, like the US," the report says. With bastions of socialism -- Sweden Canada and France -- outpacing American market prices, does this mean it's time for Wall Streeters to start calling croissants "Freedom bagels?" Probably not. According to Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a research fellow specializing in European economies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the disparity between the American and European markets might have more to do with the period in question than governmental forces. "In 1981, [Francois] Mitterand was elected president of France, and the first thing he did was to nationalize a bunch of French businesses and most of the banking system," Kirkegaard explained. "But going forward, France has moved quite dramatically towards a market-oriented economy, though not anywhere near the scope of market and economic freedom as perceived in the U.S."

I listened to it twice. I not really sure why he is so pissed. But great tirade anyway...

Zero Puncutation on Duke Nukem Forever

Cory Doctorow at 1:02 PM Wed 

finally, now lets get to executing children there is quite a back log...

 

Milton Mathis, Convicted Killer, Executed In Texas Despite Evidence Of Retardation

A man convicted of slaying two people and critically injuring a third in a drug house shooting was executed on Tuesday evening by Texas officials, despite evidence that he suffered from mental retardation.

Milton Mathis, 32, was sentenced to death in 1999, three years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of the mentally retarded violated the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Intelligence tests, including one given by the Texas Department of Corrections in 2000, measured Mathis's IQ in the low 60s, well below the threshold for mild mental retardation as recognized by almost all states. In 2005, however, a Texas court rejected his claims of mental impairment, siding with prosecutors who characterized Mathis as a "street smart" criminal whose behavior indicated near-normal intelligence. Federal and

I am fully in favor of summary executions for cretins who text while driving (roadside so I can see it driving by)

 

I do not trust this dog.......

I need this(really I do)

Flame throwing trombone

this better be what I am getting for father's day..