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Something From ACME Worked!
Long ago I had the idea that someone should do a film called “The End” where all of the serial stories finally get terminated. Batman gets killed by some combination of the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman, the Penguin, et al. The Roadrunner finally gets eaten by Wile E. Coyote. Tom Cat gets Jerry Mouse.
Here’s an exhibit displaying the ‘toon part of that.
Cool Stuff: Splatter Exhibition in London
The multi-media art show focuses on “the plausible impossibility of death in the mind of cartoon characters”.
A bit of gore, but it’s ‘toon gore.
I Know the Election's Over …
but there’s this
Mayor In Russia Says He Can See Sarah Palin Showering From His House
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, has said that she can see Russia from her house. Across the Bering Strait in Provideniya Bay sits the town of Provideniya, Russia and its mayor Dimitri Andropov. He says that he can see Palin showering from HIS house. “And it is very nice.”
Apparently, You Can Make This Stuff Up
Amazon.com (UK) user product reviews: Bic Crystal Ballpoint Pen, Medium Point, Black
OMG, this is TFF. Beverage-through-the-nose caliber. (sorry, calibre)
You’d think, with all of the new anti-obscenity laws, that this pen would have a V-chip installed. It DOESN’T!!!!! You should see some of the filthy words and drawings that my children were able to write with this product. I am going to file a formal complaint with the FCC.
Buyer (with young children) Beware!!!!
This product has NO included manual and NO CUSTOMER SUPPORT! You are on your own. I have used these in the past, so I was able to figure it out, but it took a while. Another caveat: If you lose the cap, there is NO way to attach it to anything because the retainer clip is inexplicably attached to the cap. Also, the caps for the different colors of ink all fit each other, so it is far too easy to misplace a cap on the wrong pen. Very confusing.
I also especially like the A4 vs 8.5×11 compatibility comment. Go read.
An Investigation of Kinetic and Potential Energy
Faulty Transformer was a Ruse — the Real LHC Update
Large Hadron Collider spitting out lost socks
“It started on Tuesday, when a single white gym sock was found inside the collider,” said Dr Thomas Engelson. “At first, we thought it was a prank or something left behind by one of the construction workers. We removed it, and, following our next high-energy collision, the accelerator was found to have filled with more than one hundred thousand socks. They had popped out of all the tiny black holes the collider produces.”
Immediately following their appearance, the socks were warm to the touch. Engelson said that it was probably the result of the energy dispelled at being burped from the black holes, but scientists are investigating the possibility that they have come straight from people’s tumble dryers.
“They were also full of static,” said Engelson. “It is absolutely conceivable that the socks have been transported directly from tumble dryers, via some undiscovered, invisible vortex created by the heat, static and repetitive circular motion of a tumble dryer.” The only thing confusing this theory is that the fibres on some analysed socks date back to the early 1900’s, a few years after the clothes dryer was invented.
Mmmmm. Peeeeople.
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I think it was the right call to re-shoot the scene. The original was, “Soylent Green is Green Dye #3 and peeeeeople! It’s dye and peeeeople!”
On the Other Hand …
Webcams of the LHC. Very interesting.
(h/t to Severian)
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Funny, because it’s true.
It's Not the LHC Black Holes That Will Destroy Us
Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute Ready to Start “Squirrel Smasher”
Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so much, and without the visceral enjoyment of seeing two squirrels collide at thousands of miles an hour.
Malwin said there will be controls in place to prevent new undesirable species from forming. “Only species of the same type will be smashed together, so you don’t have to worry about the flying rat, or poisonous Chihuahua nightmare scenarios.”
Wait, what about nanoevolution happening during the collision, changing the theoretical subbiological particles? Madness, I tell you, madness. It’ll be the end of the world. Biologists should be aware of the particle physics maxim: that which is not forbidden is mandated. Poisonous Chihuahuas and antiChihuahuas are inevitable. (Flying rats already exist. They’re called pigeons)
via Pharyngula