If you ever find yourself evaluating your relative worth in the worldwide economy, and exactly how much you should care about your contribution, keep in mind the following fact: Hewlett Packard printer ink costs almost twice as much as human blood.
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Boston Globe - 11/11/2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –An absentee ballot was mailed with what may have been a rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 — the famous Inverted Jenny — but the envelope is in a box that by law can’t be opened.
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom discovered the stamp while reviewing absentee ballots. There [...]
Headline of the week: Naked Man Arrested for Concealed Weapon
EL CERRITO, Calif. –A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors — naked — and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said.
The man was lying on a tree stump, masturbating beside a nature [...]
Oh Internet, I love you so. Without you I would never have realised that Winger - yes, that Winger. ‘Beavis and Butthead’ Winger - are still around and releasing albums with gloriously, life-affirmingly terrible artwork.
How did I ever survive without you, Internet?
For some reason, I find this video of a panda sneezing disproportionately hilarious. The panda looks even more confused than a post-sneeze Labrador, and Labradors can be some mighty confused lookin’ beasties.
Gentlemen, I believe we have just found Lisle’s Xmas present: The workings of a Guitar Hero controller transplanted into an ‘Elmo’s Rock and Roll Guitar‘. (Although, as the guy who created it points out, the toy only has 4 fret buttons, so is only suitable for the ‘Medium’ difficulty setting.)
BBC News - 02/11/2006:
The Ministry of Defence has admitted that a fault at a radar dome was responsible for causing electrical problems with dozens of cars.
Engines and lights cut out and speedometer dials swung up to 150mph as motorists drove past the dome.
At the time the MoD said there was no guarantee that the Trimingham [...]
The picture below apparently shows: “a first of its kind unmanned aerial system (UAS) “cockpit” that revolutionizes operator awareness and efficiency, while providing the ability to control multiple unmanned aircraft, reduce potential accidents, improve training, and decrease costs.”
I think what they mean is that they wanted an excuse for buying a really expensive Flight Simulator [...]
Some incredibly lovely paper sculpture/negative-space-ish creations:
The final part for a while, fashionably late. All of these were strangely hard to write about, partly due to a three day long headache which feels like an angry badger trying to burrow through my right eye, but mostly cuz im dum.
Glasshouse - Charles Stross
(Sorry for the U.S. link. The book isn’t out in [...]