Posts filed under 'Weirdness'
I’m still kinda half-asleep, so maybe I’m just imagining this…
In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” less than nine months after he took office.
“He has created a new international climate,” the committee said in its announcement. With American forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama’s name had not figured in speculation about the winner until minutes before the prize was announced here.
Reporters at a news conference to announce the prize pressed the committee’s chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, to explain the reasons Mr. Obama had prevailed over other candidates who included human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa.
Specifically, reporters asked whether Mr. Obama might not become mired in a war in Afghanistan as Lyndon B. Johnson was in Vietnam.
But the committee said it wanted to enhance Mr. Obama’s diplomatic efforts so far rather than anticipate events in the future.
Mr. Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway, said that Mr. Obama had already contributed enough to world diplomacy and understanding to deserve the prize.
As to whether the prize was given too early in Mr. Obama’s presidency, he said: “We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year. We would hope this will enhance what he is trying to do.”
(…)
Looking back on the Obama presidency so far, Mr. Jagland said: “One of the first things he did was to go to Cairo to try to reach out to the Muslim world, then to restart the Mideast negotiations and then he reached out to the rest of the world through international institutions. “
He mentioned in particular the recent United Nations Security Council meeting on nuclear disarmament and the announcement of the prize noted the special importance the Nobel committee attached to President Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said.
That’s all well and good, but it still seems a little thin to be grounds for a Nobel Peace Prize, especially for someone who’s dragging his feet about withdrawing from Iraq, looking at escalating in Afghanistan, and appears to be in no hurry at all to close Gitmo. Maybe all the other candidates totally suck this year?
October 9th, 2009 at 07:16am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Foreign Policy,
Obama,
Weirdness
Umm… yeah. Good luck with that, dude.
An Xbox 360 signed by Sarah Palin has been re-posted for sale on eBay.
Curious? It’s yours just $1.1 million — and that’s with nine days and one hour of bidding still to go. (No word on whether the Xbox actually works)
Here’s the description posted by the seller:
The infamous Sarah Palin XBOX 360 was autographed at the governors picnic on July 24, 2009, in Wasilla, Alaska, just two days before her resignation as governor of that state. You can own this 60GB, perfect-condition, one-of-a-kind item before her expected run for president of the United States of America in 2012.
Although, admittedly, there is a part of me that’s not entirely convinced that this won’t sell. Hey, how much did Sarah get for her book?
(h/t Petrocelli)
October 6th, 2009 at 10:52pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Palin,
Weirdness
Oh noes! B of A is getting sued! For 1,784 billion trillion dollars!
Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
“Incomprehensible,” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
“He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a ‘Spanish womn,’” the judge wrote. “He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers.”
(…)
Chiscolm’s request is equivalent to 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world’s 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
“These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale,” said Sylvain Cappell, New York University’s Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. “If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense.”
They’re in big trouble now! Although it is a bit concerning that if Chiscolm gets his money, he’ll be able to buy the solar system, and possibly the entire Milky Way galaxy.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:26am
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Weirdness
I just looked through a great big gallery of photos from the Glenn Beck/Teabagger/9-12 rally in DC (all praise to MeetTheCrazies), and there really is something seriously wrong with these people…
September 12th, 2009 at 09:33pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Republicans,
Wankers,
Weirdness
Of all the many Republicans who fall into the gift-that-keeps-on-giving category, Michele Bachmann may very well be at the top of the heap. I just love this:
Also with women politicians, they want to make sure no women, no woman becomes president before a Democrat woman, and so they’re doing everything they can to, I think, sabotage women like Sarah Palin, perhaps women like myself, or similarly situated women, to make sure that we don’t have a prominent national voice.
Ah yes, surely that’s it – we’re all deathly afraid of the VERY REAL possibility that Michele Bachmann might be elected president someday.
You know, if this country ever gets to the point where a Michele Bachmann can be elected president of it, the fact that we have a lunatic in the White House will probably be the least of our problems.
September 4th, 2009 at 08:29pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Politics,
Republicans,
Wankers,
Weirdness
This is actually really cool and, I think, really real:
Fourteen years ago, Alex Queral was out looking for wood for a new sculpture, when he suddenly noticed all of the out-of-date phone books being thrown out. It dawned on him that these books could be put to better use, so he collected some and took them home to practice carving.
Queral has since made a reputation for himself for the uncanny portraits of celebrities he is able to find in the pages!
So how does he do it? He sketches the person’s face on a piece of paper and lays it over the phonebook. Using a razor blade, he then begins to carve away at the thousands of pages to create the 3-D portrait! Queral is now able to do about two per month.
Queral has had three solo shows to display the phonebooks, as well as a recent joint Obama display for his new portrait:
Wow. Now that there is an artistic medium that never ever would have occurred to me.
August 26th, 2009 at 07:40pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Art/Architecture,
Coolness,
Weekly World News,
Weirdness
This is totally awesome:
The young people laughed when the ATM asked them if they required “some moolah for ya sky rocket”. The machine, in Spitalfields, was one of five Cockney cash dispensers from East London to Barnet that began dispensing “moolah” yesterday morning.
Bank Machine, which runs 2,500 ATMs across the country, was aiming to amuse, but it has grander ambitions too. It hopes to follow the Cockney cash machines with Brummie, Geordie, Scouse and Scots ATMs. It hopes that ATMs will serve to keep these dialects alive in Britain.
(…)
John Strachan, 52, an IT worker from Dundee, found the experience troubling. When it offered to serve him in English or Cockney, he suspected a hoax. He selected Cockney.
“Readin’ your bladder of lard”, read the message on the screen. It asked for his “Huckleberry Finn”. Then more bewildering questions: did he wanted to see his balance on the Charlie Sheen? Did he wish to change his Huckleberry Finn or did he simply require sausage and mash, with or without a receipt?
After the concept was explained to him, he was so indignant that he resorted to slang himself: “It’s complete pants,” he said. “Using an ATM is a very sensitive moment.”
(…)
[N]ext to the Cockney cash machine in Hackney, Roy Parker, 62, a bona fide Cockney, was working behind the counter of a mini-cab firm. So, what did he think of the ATM outside?
“Real Cockneys don’t have bank accounts or all that palava,” he said. “They put it under the mattress.”
I would totally use the Cockney ATMs.
(h/t Yahoo, by way of Engadget)
August 25th, 2009 at 07:12am
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Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Technology,
Weirdness
This is a creative new twist:
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Police say a 24-year-old woman has been charged with carjacking and assault after taking a car and trying to rob a Southaven business, all while wearing swimming attire.
Police Chief Tom Long said Morgan Haley of Horn Lake forced a woman to give up her car Thursday.
Long said the victim gave up the car without a fight to a bikini-clad Haley, asking only for time to remove her young children from inside.
Long said Haley then drove the stolen car to a business, where she told employees she had a gun and demanded money. The employees did not believe Haley’s claim and restrained her until officers arrived.
Police said Haley appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the carjacking and attempted robbery.
It’s the spectacle of a woman in a bikini trying to convince people that she has a gun that elevates this from weird to brilliant.
July 28th, 2009 at 08:02pm
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Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Weirdness
Apparently, there may exist some alternate universe in which Walter Cronkite became Vice President of the United States…
It’s not even a long story. In 1972 I was political director for the presidential campaign of Sen. George McGovern. That July, just as a rather chaotic Democratic National Convention in Miami agreed to make McGovern the party’s nominee, I convened a group of top campaign officials to come up with some options for the candidate to consider as his running mate. Armed with a poll showing Walter Cronkite to be the most trusted man in America, I proposed that the senator put forward Walter Cronkite for vice president.
My idea met with instant, and unanimous, disapproval. He’d never accept, and we’d look bad, colleagues said. Our candidate would seem to be grasping at straws, I was told. McGovern was still very much in the race: Polls showed us five to seven points behind President Nixon. The consensus was that we needed a mainstream political figure, acceptable to most of the Democratic constituencies. We came up with a few names, led by Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Eagleton had a lot going for him: He was antiwar, Roman Catholic, supported by labor, had a good record in three or four statewide elections. He was also free of scandal.
(…)
I had no allies among the top McGovern operatives. We settled on Eagleton, an ideal nominee by all the normal standards. The senator, alas, had neglected to tell us he had been hospitalized three times for what he termed “melancholy,” a condition for which he had received electric shock treatment. He had to leave the ticket, and the resulting crisis over a replacement cost McGovern heavily; indeed, pollsters said it doomed his campaign.
Decades later, at a meeting of a corporate board on which they both served, George McGovern mentioned to Walter Cronkite that his name had been proposed as the vice presidential nominee at that stage of the campaign but was rejected because we were certain he would have turned us down. “On the contrary, George,” the senator told me Cronkite replied, “I’d have accepted in a minute; anything to help end that dreadful war.” At a later board meeting, Cronkite told a larger group that he would gladly have accepted the invitation to run with McGovern.
My suspicion is that if the ticket had been
McGovern-Cronkite instead of McGovern-
Eagleton, McGovern might well have won that 1972 election, or at least have made it close. Had the latter happened, after the forced resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, McGovern probably would have been triumphantly renominated — and elected — president in 1976, with the most trusted man in America at his side.
Sigh. If only.
July 25th, 2009 at 02:28pm
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Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Democrats,
Media,
Politics,
Weirdness
Apparently it is now defamatory to “accuse” someone of being a mere multimillionaire. Or at least the Donald thinks so:
A judge in New Jersey dismissed on Wednesday a $5 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Donald J. Trump against an author whose book placed Mr. Trump’s personal wealth far below his public estimates.
Superior Court Judge Michele M. Fox in Camden, N.J., found there was insufficient evidence to allow the case to go to trial.
Mr. Trump sued the author, Timothy L. O’Brien, in 2006 after his book “Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald” placed Mr. Trump’s wealth at $150 million to $250 million, citing three confidential sources. Mr. Trump argued it was in the billions.
Mr. Trump failed to demonstrate “clear and convincing evidence to establish malice,” Judge Fox ruled, according to Bloomberg News.
Mr. Trump vowed to press further legal claims, insisting that his wealth was more than $5 billion when the book was released in 2005 and is more than $6 billion now.
“The libel laws in this country have never been fair,” he said. “We proved our case 100 percent. We’ll appeal and see what happens. Unfortunately, the court’s decision today condones the gross negligence, and lack of professionalism and bias on the part of a reporter.”
Gee, I don’t know how he could show his face in public if people thought he was only worth $250 million. Then again, it’s not like that would be a bad thing.
July 16th, 2009 at 01:20pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Wankers,
Weirdness
It’s just too expensive.
A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
I particularly like how it took him two hours to convince Bank of America that a pack of cigarettes does not cost 23 quadrillion dollars.
July 15th, 2009 at 01:49pm
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Entry Filed under:
Weirdness
This week, I have not one but two commercials by David Lynch:
An anti-littering PSA for NYC.
A commercial for, um, cigarettes. Apparently.
July 13th, 2009 at 09:24pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Monday Media Blogging,
Weirdness
This is just too awesome.
Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today, Brooks recalled how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time”:
BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
You underestimate David Brooks’ sexual magnetism at your peril.
Also: Pleasepleaseplease let it be Lindsey Graham.
July 10th, 2009 at 08:35pm
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Media,
Republicans,
Weirdness
What.
Should I even ask why the ref is wearing a giant scary rabbit head?
(By way of Picture Is Unrelated)
June 29th, 2009 at 07:46am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Monday Media Blogging,
Weirdness
On the NY Daily News homepage:
‘You have urinated on my jacket,’ said the president to the monkey
June 25th, 2009 at 07:19am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Great Headlines,
Weirdness
Today the New York Mets became the first team in baseball history to put three Fernandos on the field at the same time (1B Tatis, LF Martinez, P Nieve). Truly, this is a proud moment for Fernandos everywhere.
Side question: What is the major record for the most players on the field with the same name? Has a team ever fielded, say, five Johns at a time, or five Joses?
June 13th, 2009 at 07:26pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Sports,
Weirdness
Why Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus is The Awesomest Movie Of All Time:
1) The title.
2) See video above. The most WTF moment in movie history.
3) Debbie Gibson is probably the best actor in the whole movie.
4) Lorenzo Lamas. And he gets seasick.
5) Debbie Gibson and her scientist friends know their pheromone lure will work because it glows in the dark.
6) “Every scientist faces something like this sooner or later.”
7) Mega Shark is faster than a jet and big enough to eat the Golden Gate Bridge.
8) References to “The Thrilla in Manila” and Julius Caesar.
9) “Indeed, the laws of physics apply. Each possesses a strength that dwarfs our military might.”
10) Submarine helmsman freaks out and pulls a gun on his captain right in the middle of a dangerous and delicate maneuver, so Debbie Gibson knocks him out with a single punch.
11) Shark-octopus fight scenes OMG.
May 30th, 2009 at 02:03pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Movies,
Weirdness
So, to sum up: Bestiality and heterosexual sex do not cause AIDS, but lesbian sex does. I want to write this off as just one screwed-up kid with fundie homophobic wingnut parents, but she’s wearing a prize ribbon.
The future is doomed.
(From Picture Is Unrelated)
UPDATE: Oh thank God – it’s a fake. Thanks to Ol’ Froth for partially restoring my faith in humanity.
Picture Is Unrelated is still awesome, tho.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:25am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Teh Gay,
Weirdness
Awkward Family Photos.com.
Wow.
(h/t Wonkette by way of WT)
May 12th, 2009 at 07:43am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Blogosphere,
Coolness,
Weirdness
“Georgia candidate doesn’t think past sex with mule will hurt his chances for Governor”
No, seriously:
When you’re a reporter, you occasionally have to ask uncomfortable questions of someone. In this case, I landed an interview with the Georgia Creator’s Rights Party candidate for governor, Neal Horsley, who is running on the secessionist platform. During the course of my research, I stumbled upon the fact that Horsley had screwed a mule. (Horsely originally fessed up in an Esquire article, which was picked up by Alan Colmes.) At that point, the campaign, the crusade, everything else kind of takes a backseat to the fact that he screwed a mule.
(…)
Here’s a snippet of his confession on Alan Colmes:
NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”
AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”
NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”
AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”
NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”
Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and “and I don’t think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I’m saying?”
Horsley said, “You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”
Yep. There was no way we weren’t going to ask about that one….
(…)
“We’re talking about the mule now?”
Yes, he says. The mule.
“A small mule?” I ask.
“No, a full grown mule,” he says. “She loved me, though.”
(…)
“All I had to do was give her an ear of corn.” He laughs again. “She was a [prostitute] mule.”
….The kicker is, as soon as I was done she pissed all over me. It was embarrassing. I never told anyone that before.”
(…)
Not only that, but Horsley has had sex with men. He was in the Air Force, it was a cold night, yadda, yadda, yadda, he had sex with him, ahem, the way he did the mule. “It was gross,” he says.
Really? He hadn’t described the mule that way.
“I’ve [screwed] a watermelon,” he says. And that’s just for starters. He’s had sex with just about everything it’s physically possible to have sex with, and some that isn’t. “How many times have I masturbated in my life?” he asks. Now he’s 65 and orgasm-free for two years (his wife finally divorced him — too much “drama”, she said). “The bottom line is, I never treated it as if it were not a sin.”
Ho. Ly. Crap.
Also, he is willing to kill his own son to secede from the United States. What’s not to like?
(h/t Phoenix Woman)
April 30th, 2009 at 10:24pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Republicans,
Weirdness
Just a little something I stumbled upon at Stumbleupon:
I always wondered where my kung fu gland was located. And whether I even had one.
April 9th, 2009 at 07:58pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Comics,
Coolness,
Science,
Weirdness
For those of you who appreciate fine, quality literature, this… is not it. This is quite possibly the least sexy sex scene I have ever read.
Full review of The Professor And The Dominatrix here. It sounds… spectacular.
(h/t Phoenix Woman)
April 8th, 2009 at 07:19am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Books,
Weirdness
It’s ironic that at least in this one small way, schizophrenics have a firmer grasp on reality than the rest of us.
Schizophrenia sufferers aren’t fooled by an optical illusion known as the “hollow mask” that the rest of us fall for because connections between the sensory and conceptual areas of their brains might be on the fritz.
In the hollow mask illusion, viewers perceive a concave face (like the back side of a hollow mask) as a normal convex face. The illusion exploits our brain’s strategy for making sense of the visual world: uniting what it actually sees — known as bottom-up processing — with what it expects to see based on prior experience — known as top-down processing.
(…)
This powerful expectation overrides visual cues, like shadows and depth information, that indicate anything to the contrary.
But patients with schizophrenia are undeterred by implausibility: They see the hollow face for what it is…. Some psychologists believe [their] dissociation from reality may result from an imbalance between bottom-up and top-down processing — a hypothesis ripe for testing using the hollow mask illusion.
(…)
When healthy subjects looked at the concave faces, connections strengthened between the frontoparietal network, which is involved in top-down processing, and the visual areas of the brain that receive information from the eyes. In patients with schizophrenia, no such strengthening occurred.
Dima thinks when healthy subjects see the illusion, which is somewhat ambiguous, their brains strengthen this connection such that what they expect — a normal face — becomes more influential, overpowering the actual, though unlikely, visual information. Schizophrenia patients, meanwhile, may be unable to modulate this pathway, accepting the concave face as reality.
It makes sense. The brain uses all kinds of behind-the-scenes processing and shortcuts to (usually) simplify and manage our perceptions – anyone whose brain is unable to do that is necessarily going to experience the world in a very different way. In some cases malfunctioning filters might make someone more perceptive, but it’s more likely that they’ll be flooded and overwhelmed (the filters are there for a reason, after all). This was actually the explanation for the Joker’s insanity in the Arkham Asylum graphic novel: He’s mad because he perceives everything.
April 7th, 2009 at 08:34pm
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Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Science,
Weirdness
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
I suppose it’s not that shocking that jello could be used as an artistic medium, but I never imagined it could be taken quite this far:
SAM BOMPAS and Harry Parr have built painstakingly correct models of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge, and a Madrid airport terminal complete with tiny airplanes.
(…)
Shimmering, brightly colored gelatin is the chosen medium of Mr. Bompas and Mr. Parr, two young products of Eton and University College, London, who have quickly become England’s leading jelly artists, or as they call themselves, jelly mongers.
(…)
Mr. Bompas, 25, said: “We’ll do pretty much anything. We’ve made an entire jellied Christmas dinner, hundreds of layers, each a different course, for television as the ultimate Christmas jelly.”
For Hawksmoor restaurant in London, they created a ziggurat inspired by the steeple of an 18th-century church.
(…)
They make their own molds, designing them on a computer in the workshops of University College that translates them into three-dimensional models and transfers the specifications to a machine that makes plaster casts of the molds, called plugs. Once the plug is made, thin, malleable high-impact polystyrene plastic is applied to it in a vacuum to form the individual molds.
(…)
Although they work in a traditional medium, some of their projects verge on the avant-garde. In collaboration with a chemistry professor at University College, they used food-safe quinine to make jelly that emits a bluish glow under black light. Other experiments are in the works, including growing crystals inside the jelly.
Besides chemistry, they have had to learn engineering and also cooking. At the end of the day, or rather at the end of the meal, a jelly has to be tasty.
Amazing. Be sure to check out the slideshow, and the Bompas & Parr website.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:22am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Art/Architecture,
Coolness,
Weirdness
ESA
This is cool but strange:
On Tuesday, six people will be voluntarily locked into a cloister of cramped, hermetically sealed tubes woven inside a Moscow research facility the size of a high school gymnasium. They will eat dehydrated food, breathe recycled air and be denied conversation with practically everyone else but one another.
And they must stay inside for 105 days.
In a small step in the direction of Mars, the international crew is embarking on a simulated flight to the planet to test the limits of human tolerance for the isolation and monotony of interplanetary travel.
“It is really like a real space flight without the weightlessness and the danger to our lives,” said Sergei N. Ryazansky, a cosmonaut-in-training who will lead the mission. “On the inside, we will have a lack of incoming information, so it’s the science of sensory deprivation.”
Called Mars-500, the Russian-led project based at the Institute for Biomedical Problems here will culminate in a 520-day simulation beginning early next year of a complete manned mission to the planet — a time frame that incorporates launching to Mars touchdown and back — that scientists hope will edge humanity a little closer to that next giant leap.
It sounds a little crazy, but maintaining crew sanity for a year-and-a-half trip is at least as important and perhaps even as daunting as the engineering challenges of making such a trip technically possible.
I just didn’t expect it to involve quite so much wood paneling.
March 31st, 2009 at 07:12am
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Entry Filed under:
Coolness,
Science,
Weirdness
Okay, now this is really weird. Eli’s Obsession With The Google makes a cameo appearance in this bizarre stream-of-consciousness thingy.
Did someone write it? Was it computer-generated like my weird spam? And if so, to what purpose?
If it wasn’t for weird publicity, I wouldn’t get any publicity at all…
March 30th, 2009 at 07:16am
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Eli's Obsession With The Google,
Weirdness
Robocop On A Unicorn.
It’s almost too much Awesome.
(h/t shadowy and mysterious Codename V.)
March 24th, 2009 at 06:31pm
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Entry Filed under:
Art/Architecture,
Coolness,
Weirdness
A whole bunch of kids are going to be messed up for life:
The correct (yet still inexplicable) answer can be found in the glvalentine comments, but I will not provide it here because the comments are too hilarious to miss. (I particularly like “Things found in the ocean. Some… more often than others.”)
(h/t shadowy & mysterious Codename V.)
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:34pm
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Entry Filed under:
Weirdness
This guy is so totally not getting a Christmas card.
Authorities said a 63-year-old man suspected of drunken driving crashed his pickup truck into a neighbor’s house, leaving a gaping hole and revealing a small marijuana farm inside. San Diego police got a search warrant after the Sunday afternoon crash and confiscated more than 20 pot plants from the house.
Police Sgt. David Jennings said no one was inside the house, and neighbors told officers the residents were gone on a ski trip.
Guys, if you’re reading this, you might want to extend that ski trip, and possibly take it to another country…
March 23rd, 2009 at 05:29pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Wankers,
Weirdness
This seems… inappropriate:
Joe the Plumber — real name Samuel Wurzelbacher — told a crowd of conservatives Thursday night that their love was getting him all hot and bothered.
“God, all this love and everything in the room — I’m horny,” declared Joe.
Wurzelbacher had taken the stage to a standing ovation at the annual “DisHonors” Awards, presented by the Media Research Center, to poke fun liberal media groups. But the “horny” declaration didn’t go over too well, according to the Washington Post.
Buzz immediately commenced.
“Did Joe the Plumber really just say he’s horny?” “Did you hear Joe say ‘horny’?” “Why is he horny and why is he telling us?”
Part of me wishes I had never read that, and part of me wants to Not-Joe to be the next entrant in the Face Of The GOP sweepstakes.
(h/t WT)
March 20th, 2009 at 11:10pm
Posted by Eli
Entry Filed under:
Quotes,
Republicans,
Weirdness
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