Breaking Terror Update!

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his friends are going to stand trial! It's taken about six and a half years for this to happen, during which they were all presumably kept waiting in the parlor of a sumptuous mansion along with the Colonel, the Countess, the jewel thief, the butler and the maid while a brilliant but eccentric sleuth attempted to discern the identity of the true culprit through

60cm Knit Cap w/Pompon Grey

  • Nov. 15th, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Price:1,400 yen
Series:Azone SAR Series
Manufacturer:Azone
Release Date:Nov 2009
Type: 60cm Doll Clothes and accessories
Description:A soft, stretchy knit cap in basic heather gray, with a perky pompom on the top, is ready to help your 60cm doll face the winter weather with a smile! Made to fit 60cm dolls by Azone and may not fit dolls by other manufacturers.

1/6 Cat Ear Cap Black

  • Nov. 15th, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Price:1,000 yen
Series:Basic Selection
Manufacturer:Azone
Release Date:Nov 2009
Type: Doll Accessories
Description:Your 1/6-scale doll will be super-warm and extra-cute when she wears this cap! Knit of soft, stretchy black yarn, it's got adorable cat ears and big pompoms on the ties. Made to fit 1/6-scale dolls by Azone and may not fit dolls by other manufacturers.

They Loved The Myth

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 3:00 PM
It's still deeply depressing just how willing and eager our mainstream media people were to swallow and propagate the obvious lies told by the Bush administration about 9/11, and that years later they aren't filled with revulsion at these truly horrible people.

Yet both Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney, Farmer says, provided palpably false versions that touted the military’s readiness to shoot down United 93 before it could hit Washington. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Northeast Air Defense Sector had been informed of the hijacking, United 93 had already crashed. Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad rec­ords to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that “fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney.”

Farmer further observes that the Bush administration wrongly asserted that the chain of command functioned on 9/11; that President Bush issued an authorization to shoot down hijacked commercial flights; and that top officials at F.A.A. headquarters coordinated their actions with the military. Farmer’s verdict: “History should record that whether through unprecedented administrative incompetence or orchestrated mendacity, the American people were misled about the nation’s response to the 9/11 attacks.”


Hard Work

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I dunno, I'm not sure I worry too much about a Lou Dobbs candidacy. I don't think he's especially appealing, and he doesn't strike me as someone with the fortitude to actually stick with it. It's hard work to run for president.


The Ruben's Tube: Proving that basic science concepts are more fun to learn when you add open flames since 1904. Want to build your own? There's an Instructables for that.

Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user tom_adams, via CC.



Bye Bye

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Pool club gone.

THE SUBJECT LINE on the e-mail simply reads, "The End."

As in, the end of the Valley Club, the small, sleepy Huntingdon Valley community pool that was thrust into the national spotlight this past summer, allegedly for discriminating against minority campers who'd signed up to swim there for 90 minutes each week.

Yesterday, Valley president John Duesler announced that the club's board of directors had voted 5-1 to file this week for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.


Check it Out; I’m an Elephant!

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 12:59 PM

Guys, guys, lookit!  I got the big head, with the long nose thingy!  Wait, I’ll make the funny noise: Phhheeeaaaauuuuuuummmmpf! Hey, somebody throw me a peanut!

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Peanut!  Because I’m an elephant, ya get it?  Guys?  Where’d everybody go?

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Shot and submitted by Tod B., who was sooo in the right place at the right time.

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Nov. 14th, 2009

  • 8:49 AM
I hate having dreams where I wake up, go to work, come home, etc.

Maaannnnnn, now I gotta do it all over again :(

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My visit to Purdue

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 7:48 AM

Jen has the full account, complete with a video, of my talk. I was a rude boy.

Right now, I'm in Bloomington, at the "Current Frontiers in Evolution, Development and Genomics" conference. I gave the keynote last night — which means I am now free to sit back and simply enjoy the meeting without fretting over a silly talk any more. I think I'll be able to get online in the auditorium, so you may be subject to more live-blogging of evo-devo over the course of the day.

I see we've got events scheduled all day long, up to 11pm. I might die.

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a tweet a day keeps the boredom away

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Updates from Twitter.

Most of these are dolly related, or related to the dolly community, however since some of the posts are getting log, I will now be sticking them under a cut.

Yesterday's Tweets Uploaded To LJ )

Homemade globe

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 3:27 AM
Davesbit made his own globe using maps from the Generic Mapping Tools project; he used a beachball for a mold and cast the sphere with fiberglass and foam.

here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold...

the stand was made from scraps of red oak from a computer table i built...

globe with stand (via Make)

TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 3:18 AM
The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.

TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate the volume of a object by measuring its displacement. If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint. It would be a lovely counterpoint to your other scientific tests, such as the ducking stool and the spirit-rattles.

"Snow globes are not permitted to be carried through security checkpoints," said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird.

The reason is that the globes contain liquids, and TSA rules say that only liquids, gels or aerosols in containers of three ounces or less are allowed through security in carry-on bags...

"I would think they would just say 'no,' because they can't really determine how many ounces are in there," Baird said.

Snow globes? TSA will likely just say 'no' (via MeFi)

The Manhattan Bridge Turns 100

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 10:53 AM

Often overlooked and certainly overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, the Manhattan Bridge will, this December, become a centenarian.  Quite a feat, all told, as the bridge’s history has been full of issues to say the least.

Gustov Lindenthal’s first design was thrown out purely for reasons of aesthetics. He came back with another idea – incorporating two thin-profile steel towers. This idea was retained but his main plan – four cables made of immense chains of eye bars (lengths of steel at least ten foot long joined at each end by steel pins) was again rejected. Perhaps the thought of what was essentially a gargantuan bicycle chain put the chills up the spine of the city fathers.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.

My Parents Were Awesome

  • Nov. 14th, 2009 at 10:42 AM

My parents are awesome has to be one of the best tumblr accounts to date – the simply concept is it posts retro pictures of parents, who are looking awesome. Your parents were awesome, too, so why don’t you send in an awesome picture?

Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome.

Link – via cakeheadlovesevil

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.

LeVar Burton Out and About

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 11:26 PM
LeVar Burton (TNG's Geordi La Forge) attended/gave a panel with his BFF and business partner at "Breakthrough Brit Week" in West Hollywood last week.



Actor LeVar Burton attends Breakthrough Brit Week roundtable discussion With Mark Wolfe And LeVar Burton at The London Hotel on November 3, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

Breakthrough Brit Week )

He also tweeted some awesome photos from (I assume) the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation benefit dinner and memorabilia/autograph thingy on the 7th.



Michael Dorn, Buzz Aldrin, LeVar Burton, and Marina Sirtis

Awesome.

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IDEK. I'm giggling like a little kid. I think that Reading Rainbow episode where they visit the TNG set is the reason I'm a Trekkie. I can't be the only one.

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Whoa, guys. BoingBoing just linked to this auction item at CharityBuzz:



Enjoy a Private Tour of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA with Leonard Nimoy!

So far, the highest bid is just over 5K. Anyone got enough extra shekels lying around to top that?

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