But it applies very aptly here.
http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/bestoftv/2007/03/23/cooper.elephant.attack.cnn
Jeff Corwin's arm + an uncomfortable elephant's mouth = world of hurt.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
My Favorite Picture of Hillary
"... as the soldier pictured with Senator Clinton (who asked that we not identify him by name) told us that he employed the gesture to indicate that he was not a fan of the senators and was not as appreciative of having the opportunity to meet (and pose with) her as it might otherwise appear."
Am I the only one who thinks the soldier's statement above is using more than a little use of classic understatement? ;-)
Watch out for that first step; It's a dooozy.
This looks like a picture from a children's story book. When I was little we had a storybook about a steam engine that dug a hole for a new building but then found that it hadn't left itself a way to get out. Of course it was given a nice, cushy new life as the heating plant for the new building because children's tales should have happy endings. That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this photo.This two story building belongs to a Chinese couple who don't think they were offered fair compensation for their property and refused to sell. The developers called their bluff and started excavating around them. They're now thirty feet above the floor of the pit. While the individualist American has to admire their pluck, I also think they're fools for not taking the amount they were offered.
"Wu was offered 20 million yuan ($2.6 million) in compensation or two higher floors in the planned new building -- both of which she turned down because she wanted lower levels in the building so she could run her restaurant." Link
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Spy vs. Spy And a Trojan Horse "Computer Virus" From 1982
Awesome Cold War espionage story... even more entertaining considering that no deaths or even injuries were reported...
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=829
"KGB officials inserted an agent to abduct the [pipeline control] technology from a Canadian firm. Unbeknownst to the Soviet spies, the software they stole sported a little something extra: a few lines of computer code which had been inserted just for them.
"In spite of the massive energy that was released when the line ruptured and ignited there were no injuries or deaths reported. An example of a pipeline ruptureBut the Soviet economy itself was severely injured by the blast. When investigators in the USSR eventually discovered that the event had been triggered by sabotaged software, the KGB leadership were furious, but unable to lodge any official protest regarding the deliberate defect since that would also expose their own large-scale espionage efforts.
"Upon realizing that the CIA was serving imitation intelligence, the other recent problems with US-derived designs were no longer so mysterious. Given the dramatic results of the pipeline bug, all of the burgled Western technology was immediately cast under suspicion, a situation which mired the Soviet's borrowed progress in a pit of uncertainty and suspicion."
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=829
"KGB officials inserted an agent to abduct the [pipeline control] technology from a Canadian firm. Unbeknownst to the Soviet spies, the software they stole sported a little something extra: a few lines of computer code which had been inserted just for them.
"In spite of the massive energy that was released when the line ruptured and ignited there were no injuries or deaths reported. An example of a pipeline ruptureBut the Soviet economy itself was severely injured by the blast. When investigators in the USSR eventually discovered that the event had been triggered by sabotaged software, the KGB leadership were furious, but unable to lodge any official protest regarding the deliberate defect since that would also expose their own large-scale espionage efforts.
"Upon realizing that the CIA was serving imitation intelligence, the other recent problems with US-derived designs were no longer so mysterious. Given the dramatic results of the pipeline bug, all of the burgled Western technology was immediately cast under suspicion, a situation which mired the Soviet's borrowed progress in a pit of uncertainty and suspicion."
Those 5-Legged Frogs? Not Necessarily Caused By Pollution After All
Here's the article on the web site Damn Interesting, which is almost always pretty damned interesting.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=575
Here's an original article in Scientific American from 1999.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004B992-1F95-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
In neither of these do they say this parasite accounts for all the frog mutations, but it's comforting to know that at least some of them (hopefully many or most) are caused by a more natural phenomenon than our pollution.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=575
Here's an original article in Scientific American from 1999.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004B992-1F95-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
In neither of these do they say this parasite accounts for all the frog mutations, but it's comforting to know that at least some of them (hopefully many or most) are caused by a more natural phenomenon than our pollution.
Who Uses More Electricity... Al Gore or 25 Million Ugandans?
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmExOTNhMGI2MmM4MTQyZDBiMWM2NjJlYWE3YjE1MGE=
"Up to 95% of people in Sub-Saharan countries have no electricity, Al Gore personally uses more electricity in a week than 25 million Ugandans do in a year – and agitators are telling Africans the biggest threat they face is hypothetical climate change."
Tha's all 25 million Ugandans put together.
Do the math.
If his weekly use equaled (instead of exceeding) that of 25M Ugandans' annual usage , then his annual usage is 52 x that of 25 million Ugandans.
This mean (including his heated pool and heated poolhouse) he uses 1 Billion, 300 million times more electricity each year than each Ugandan has the privelege to access.
And he wants to keep these people devoid of electricity, because letting them gain even minimal usage would create the same exhaust gases he does.
Sheez.
"Up to 95% of people in Sub-Saharan countries have no electricity, Al Gore personally uses more electricity in a week than 25 million Ugandans do in a year – and agitators are telling Africans the biggest threat they face is hypothetical climate change."
Tha's all 25 million Ugandans put together.
Do the math.
If his weekly use equaled (instead of exceeding) that of 25M Ugandans' annual usage , then his annual usage is 52 x that of 25 million Ugandans.
This mean (including his heated pool and heated poolhouse) he uses 1 Billion, 300 million times more electricity each year than each Ugandan has the privelege to access.
And he wants to keep these people devoid of electricity, because letting them gain even minimal usage would create the same exhaust gases he does.
Sheez.
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