What's today? Holy Crap, its May? Wow, that means all these juicy stories have just been sitting in my out box for half a month. What a shame. Well, lets see if we can't make banana bread out of these spotty, smelly and sickeningly mushy articles.
Single people have too many choices and are constantly search for something better. The article discusses the effects of speed-dating and online matchups, but the real tidbit is for the short guys in the crowd. If you're 5' 8" and make $146,000 more than a 6' competitor, ladies won't know you're not as tall. Or they just won't care you're shorter. 5'2" guys, you need $277,000 more; sorry. And of course men don't care what women do- "Oh, you work in a slaughterhouse? That's great, what time do you get off work?"
I only like this article cause its titled "Dorks Ahoy." Its about a little pudge car you can rent in San Francisco that gets 60 mpg. The down side of course is that everyone will be laughing, pointing and yelling "Dorks Ahoy!"
Dodge shortened their slogan from: "Grab Life by the Horns" to simply "Grab Life" They're trying to make it appeal more to women. (And people not from Texas who have an IQ between 74 and 83) Of course to me it says "We're going to start selling energy drinks" Oh and also, if you'd have asked me what Dodge's slogan was before I read this I would have guessed "Please buy our cars. Our mom says they're good"
What do you do when you've got a really cool idea that's technically illegal? Well, if you're the US government, you find a loophole so you can say you're still following the rules while you break them. Take, for example, the Law of Armed Conflict which states that an automated weapons system cannot fire without authorization from a human operator. The idea here is to let the robots target weapons and let them attack at will to destroy the AK-47, RPG, or what have you. Of course if people are felled in the process that's a shame and designated ' collateral damage'. The Pentagon isn't admitting anything, but you can see the proposal from the Naval Surface Warfare Center . Wait, isn't this idea from RoboCop 2?
Guerrilla operations in London. Luckily these Guerrillas are just pissed off that there aren't as many public benches as there used to be. So they haul them to a spot, bolt them down, and have a sit. Seems more like community service than vandalism.
Most wind tunnels don't take into account the ground rushing underneath a car as it speeds along at 200 mph. Luckily now there's the Haas rolling wind tunnel so the boys can play hot wheels with their big cars.
Viacom sent out a bunch of DMCA takedown notices to youtube, some of which were for content they didn't even have the rights to. The EFF was about to make them cry like little girls in court, but they decided to do everything the EFF wanted before it got that far. Mostly because the EFF wanted them to follow the law and use business practices that wouldn't leave them open to being slapped around a courtroom.
Too drunk to ride home? Sleep in an ATM vestibule with your horse. The bank didn't really have any problem with it except for the horse's "deposits" which were apparently in a currency not accepted by that particular branch.
Screw pandas. Some species are sposed to die out. This is one.
The Cape Wind Project is continuing, despite the nearly constant barrage of opposition from "citizens" groups. They keep trying to figure out a way to keep this clean, beautiful energy farm from getting built. Lookit, this is going to happen; the more effort you put into opposing it, the more pissed off you'll be when it gets built.
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