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Don't tear a movie apart without them

MST3K glasses, the coolest things ever or just the coolest things ever? You decide I'm gonna go here and learn how to make them. It's going to be sweet.

Sense: This Movie Makes None

So, play live action silent hill, get pringles from middle of the floor in spooky abandoned dust and cobweb filled building. Eat said pringles hoping against all reason that they didn't expire when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. And a Lara Croft lookalike will abandon her guns, spatula and rubics cube, oh and after some more random items her shirt. I think the message here is, expired Pringles you'll like your dying dreams. I think this is one of those evil brain eating monsters that gives off happy thoughts and images so you wont fight the inevitable horrible crunchy death. Or maybe a japanese commercial.

Under Water River

http://thechive.com/2009/11/surreal-underwater-river-4-pics-1-vid/

In a cave in mexico about 60 meters down. A river of hydrogen sulphide makes its way past an island with a tree and fallen leaves. Typically when asked about diving I say it is as close as you can come to flying like superman. I never dreamed it was this close to true. I wonder where the hydrogen sulphide is coming from. And should you be sitting in it like that.

Oh my limited goodness...

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What pray tell was that? Did anyone just see that? With the blood and the "dancing" I think that some of that was something like dancing I guess. Ninja Sex Party is a band name now?

Another Rejected Saw Trap

Pigeon Impossible

Loading Ready Run

The reality show where you root for the undead flesh eater because he's the best of the lot, and the rest of them know it.

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

Now this, this is how you make a horror movie. So slow so inevitable that there is no conceivable reason to ever watch more than the trailer. That way no one ever has to actually watch a horror movie. My goodness do they ever suck. Also this is a pretty scary premise. I mean the villain just kinda inconveniences the guy to death. How much does that suck.

This Cannot Exist

And the Awesome thing of the day is

Street Magic part 2

College Humor on Street Magic

The Alien Abduction Lamp

It looks like that, it can be bought here for 100 dollars. American. Because cheesy kinda silly 50's sci-fi lamps go with everything else in your house and add that wonderful touch of class and style that you so desperately need.

Golden Age of Video

Russian Superhero Movies

Freaking Rock.

Mish Mash music video remix competition.

Humans vs. Spiders. The song, the art, the little spiders of death, the ending. This may well be the greatest music video of all time. And I've seen, like maybe three music videos so I know.

Zod Kitchens

SocWall

This Is SOCWALL! It has awesome background pictures of ultimate doom. Vote on your favorites or whatever.

Star Gate Universe

So I got around to watching Star Gate Universe recently. It's not that bad. But, it does contain some of the problems that SG1 so often managed to avoid. For example, one of the things that made SG1 so great was that if there was a simple solution to the problem you could expect one of the characters (O'Neill) to at least mention this solution. In Star Gate Universe they find these little remote piloted flying camera dealies they find a problem that must be solved by remotely pushing a couple of buttons. And they immediately conclude that the only viable solution is to send someone in on a suicide mission to manually push the buttons. They do this because they need to kill off a character that could have died minutes ago and so they can establish the similarities with the new Battlestar Galactica that have already been clearly established by lighting, directing and camera use. In short, it's just stupid.

That was just the most prominent use of random stupidity to accomplish dramatic tension that quite frankly doesn't need to exist. Like in the beginning they load a problem into a video game, why? So they can have a regular geek dude on hand to help suck random geeks into the show. That was not at all patronizing guys thanks. I did not at all feel like abandoning the show just out of principle at that point at all. This is extra bad because they could have worked around it just fine. They could have had a recent college grad get a job for some firm that the Air Force subcontracts Ancient device maintenance/reverse engineering/ whatever out to and had the new guy out there for orientation. It would help to be on an alien planet at least once, make it real for them. Then be stuck out there like the rest of them, with the advantage of having a few weeks of studying the ancient language and there useful character without as lame a backstory.

They fail to dial out the first try. That's fine, they do dial out, while under fire, and proceed to run in without checking if there is even air on the other side. One character even shouts "It can't be worse than here" before they charge through. In SG1 if they did that there would be a black hole on the other side. Or a planet that is completely uninhabitable, or has no DHD, or a thousand other fates that are either worse or just as bad.

Don't get me wrong here. It was not at all bad TV, I'm just sick of supposedly smart characters doing completely mindless things. Or finding remarkably difficult solutions to easy problems. I don't like unneeded explosions that only serve to make the story more 'splody without adding to the feel in any way. I don't like writers who slack off with the logic. Sure most of the reasons for most of the characters actions made some sense. With only a little more effort however you could have much better reasons for those same actions. Then you go from a merely decent story to a great one. Without improving the effects budget. If you feel the desperate need to have better fx to tell your tale. You are doing it wrong. The effects being better should add to the goodness not compensate for the badness.

Star Trek: Beyond All Hope?

I just going to come out and say it, Star Trek is terrible. Voyager and Enterprise represent some of the worst of television series. With episodes like "Threshold" to make us regret even getting access to cable. While I admit to liking the new movie and kahn. None of the other movies have been at all worth watching. They are bad movies.

There are a few fundamental reasons why Star Trek sucks. As I go into them I intend to point out a redesign of the Star Trek universe that I think would allow a new show to carry on the ideals and basic concepts that hold Trek together. Without some of the more horrible features that lead to such boring movies.

First off: Star Fleet should not be and should never have been the Federation military. Star fleet ships and crews are obviously incapable of performing that task. They should be a coast guard type organization. The ships are built for exploration, diplomatic transport and scientific research. They have some weapons, on account of space being dangerous and exploratory vessels are often alone in unknown places. Seeing as being alone where no one has gone before is their job description.

But, there should be an actual Federation navy with warships and a far larger number of vessels.

The ships need smaller crews. The Enterprise-D has a crew count of 1017 fully staffed. This is preposterous. What do these people do? The ships functions can all be handled by machinery. We only ever seen maybe 3 dozen engineering people, what possible purpose could such a large crew have? The food and laundry are dealt with by the replicators. The ship is cleaned with automated systems. Ninety percent of everything is fully automated. No get rid of that nonsense and drop the crew count down to about 16-30 plus marines.

Ships security and Ships weaponry are two completely different unrelated jobs. Ever since Worf we have seen both of these disconnected concepts handled (terribly) by one person. This is idiotic. Knowing how to operate anti-capital ship combat and weapon systems is as different a job as is possible to get on a warship from knowing how kung-fu. These jobs should be kept as far apart as possible.

The ships need marines. It is a silly idea contemplating boarding actions on a space ship. But, plot requirements of a tv show will insist that these sort of things happen. So get people who can and do look like they know what they are doing. The old plan of idiots in primary colours running around corners and getting shot does not make the situation look desperate. It makes the heroes look stupid. Don't ever make your characters look stupid in dire situations. It sucks the drama out rendering the scene comical.

Phasers kill people. This is important. As Jack O'Niel once said in "This is a weapon of war, it is designed to kill your enemy." Phasers must have some stun settings as per default and they must stun. Maybe once per series you get an enemy on whom a "kill" setting only stuns. Only once a season and the vaporize setting had better darn well kill them. On vaporize the phaser should transform the person into a massive cloud of super-heated steam. Damaging and melting anything nearby. For that reason alone, never mind the moral difficulties, kill is not everyones favorite setting.

Patience is a virtue. Star Trek has become a nightmare of people rushing into stupid decisions, while the episode maintains an intolerable slow pace. The movies are even worse for this. Characters could spend days orbiting a planet with an interesting episode. With the virtue of decent character interaction and an interesting subplot of some of the features of the planet itself.

Offline, characters use this word all the time. It doesn't mean what they think it means. A device goes offline when either its power supply fails, or its connection to the network fails and you can no longer operate it. If a device stops working because somebody shot it, it is not offline. It is broken. While something can be 20% broken, that is not how you describe it. In fact measuring the point of 20% brokenness is distracting in its stupidity. Imitating Robocop II is not in any way a good idea.

Never use the word isotope either. Just don't.

If you must say quantum, please for the love of all that is good in this universe, do not ascribe it to anything larger than its own wavelength. Ie subatomic particles. If its bigger than a proton it has no quantum properties.

Back to the plan. Can not mention star trek without pointing out some errors.

Star trek episodes spend minutes at a time talking about made up space politics. Babylon 5 spends episode after episode showing made up space politics. Babylon 5 is good. If you are going to do politics you need interesting representatives of the governments and they must be reoccurring characters. We will care about the human-Klingon interactions. Those occur daily and have long lasting implications. We will never care about the Syadot Sresol and Ambassador Ricky who we will never see again.

Klingons should be more predator like. Big imposing alien creatures who value the hunt. But, who truly value hunting monsters, hunting things large enough or powerful enough to fight back. They should take this same combination of patience and ferocity to everything they do. Excelling in science and engineering and even farming. Hunting out weeds and bad ideas with an anger a vengeance. Make them alien, they have no males, no females, they have four eggs in their bodies and when they die the little klingons burst out consuming the flesh of their parent until they are large enough and powerful enough to survive on their own. Give them no upper age limit. But, after a certain age they begin to truly desire death. No cloak on their ships it doesn't make sense any more get rid of it.

Romulans should be sneakier, they should be more enigmatic and difficult to understand. They should be creatures of strange passion and desire. I think they should be like the rulers of a more serious Ank Morpok. With a proper thieves guild and assassins guild and a cold logic of collecting debts and arranging events. Every Romulan should always have an ace up his sleeve and a knife up the other one. We should see an overpopulated collection of worlds where life is cheap and death has very little paperwork. We should see cruelty and inhumanity to fellow creatures. To a Romulan human life should have no value whatsoever. But, human technology could be worth a decent price.

Vulcans have throughout trek only ever been straw vulcans. Not a one of them has ever even approached being a logical creature. Spock is the only one to actually say anything remotely logical. Here's a simple hint. If you say the word logic. You are being illogical. Logic is the process in which problems are solved. It is the set of tests used to find if a statement is true. Vulcans should be logical beings tempered by emotion. The emotion part is important.

Because the Borg are beings of pure logic. They are also space zombies. That should be the important part. Make them like space zombies or Daleks. People should be scared to death when a borg is on or offscreen. Blowing up borg cubes does not show how powerful your new toy is. It shows off how pansy you think the borg are. They should be used sparingly and they should be overwhelmingly scary when they show up.

The Federation itself represents Earth. In point of fact it represents the best that there is in humanity. It should be united and happy. There should be no fear of the government, no hunger, no want. The people should spread out and occupy the heavens and all should be good. It is important that this is not a thin veneer over a rotten core. The Federation represents all that we can hope life will one day become. To tarnish that is to destroy the very purpose of Star Trek.

But, we shouldn't be stupid. There should never ever be only one ship available. Particularly near Earth. There should be hundreds of space craft in the solar system at any given time. Same with Vulcan, Betazed and at least a dozen other major worlds/systems. If holodecks are rated for shipboard use on diplomatic transports, like the Enterprise so often is, it had better be safe. If a ship has little in the way of spare power the holodecks had better be the first darn thing they turn off.

Life support takes next to no power. In fact it takes less power than any other function on the ship. Cutting power to life support gets you nothing. So don't do it. It doesn't add to the tension any more anyways.

You can't have transporters on the ship. Transporters in the shuttles. Dozens of shuttles. More transporters in the ships cargo area. And transporters go offline. It doesn't work. All that does is raise legit questions with stupid answers.

When writing any story goal number one has to be: Raise no legit questions with stupid answers.

Outer Space

A quick note about something that has come to be very annoying to me about science fiction and a common misconception about outer space.

Space is not cold. Okay it kinda is. Here's the thing. Temperature is a measure of average number of particle collisions per unit volume per unit time. That's the proper definition of temperature. In space there are no particles. So therefor logically there are no collisions and so by definition the temperature is zero. It should be zero, but space isn't a perfect vacuum.

You change temperature as the particles in you collide with particles around you. If you are warmer your particles are moving faster. They collide with slower moving bits of your surroundings and both move away at the average speed. Yours slow down, the surroundings speed up. You lose heat, your environment gains some. You cool down.

In space there aren't any particles. Your particles never collide with the surrounding ones. Because there aren't any surrounding particles. Things never average out. You never cool down. Now because space isn't a perfect vacuum this isn't completely true. The average particle speed in space is in fact insanely fast so we can actually assume if it were purely particle collisions you would warm up the longer you drifted freely in the cosmos. You do however lose heat by radiation. You are an infra-red light bulb and that burns energy. Thus as time goes by you would slowly begin to cool down. Slowly, like tea in the greatest thermos it is possible to ever build slowly. On the order of, it would become uncomfortably cold after the first few dozen years, slowly.

Filler

FILLER! from Matt Catania on Vimeo.

A short film about a mad scientist who invents the food teleporter. A device with the sole, no other possible functions at all, purpose of placing food directly into the target creatures stomach. He proceeds to try to take over the world by solving the world hunger problem. And murdering a bunch of people. Seems you just can't make an omelet without murdering a bunch of people if your a mad scientist. This may put a damper on one of my career prospects.

WWII in a single JPG

http://fatpita.net/images/image%20%281036%29.jpg, I'm just gonna link to this one. It is larger and more awesome than something I could simply post in-line. Unlike mere youtube videos.

Echolocation

Halloween is Coming

Therefor Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has set up all of their previous projects for display. The crunchy frogs are a brilliant plan. One of these days I would really like to try some of those pumpkin projects. The dalek and cylon ones are particularly interesting.

PHB PSA Part 32

Browser Ball

This is pretty cool. It's a ball that can bounce between windows. Doing something I didn't know it was possible to do with browsers. I don't know if there could be any reason for this power. It's just a cool little technology demonstration with no practical or real entertainment value. I imagine Nintendo will base a console off the idea soon.

During WWII

The Americans felt the need to hide their largest airplane factory from Japanese bombers. This is their story. Or at least images of the attempt.

Next Time You See a Shooting Star

Remember it's probably made of astronaut urine.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090911-space-water-dump.html

Because that's what shooting stars are made of these days. Not like it used to be. Used to be just packets of dust or the odd rock. Remember those days? Before it rained pee. Those were the good old days.

Weightless Mouse Experiments

http://io9.com/5355779/a-mouse-defies-gravity-using-nothing-but-magnets.

In an effort to demonstrate how awesome science can actually be. NASA types have found a way to make mice fly. In a little specially built chamber. Efforts to make people fly, for the purpose of microgravity research of course, not some desperate attempt to play superman. Have yet to begin. Any votes on the next furry animal to set a flying?

Spy Films dot Com

The creators of that short Halo movie we all saw a while back. That was not the only thing they made. These shorts are incredible.

I Got You a Man Eating Pit

In the unending quest to find the perfect gift for anyone anytime I give you. http://www.igotyouamaneatingpit.com/. Sure the choices here are only between a lego man eating pit or a bouquet of flowers. Nonetheless I promote the awesome idea of death pits for everyone. Complete with a fantastic collection of potential victims and other delightful accessories the man eating pit is the best gift package on the internet.

It's not Youtube

Video Games | Naruto Ramen Commercial

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

how To Kill A Mockingbird

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird, Loading awesome, ready, run. It starts off kinda like a regular bad book report. Then it turns into pure hardcore awesome pilled on awesome explosions of death and flying sky pirates riding flying burning sharks with the aid of ninja and robot scout. Hardcore, with time traveling castle sauce. There was lens flare, and motion blur. Also as it turns out ninja and pirates are in fact literary techniques. Making me wish I had spent more time learning literary techniques. Alas poor army of the undead mockingbird/helicopters of spacey death, I knew you not well enough.

Another Awesome Jacket

Apparently Vash the Stampede is ready for action. This company seems to get by fairly well reproducing movie prop outfits in the real world.

Motorcycles

I now have a reason to ride one. I mean come on. Why else would I have a legit excuse to wear an honest to goodness batman costume during my regular day life. Also sweet ninja spikes. The question that comes immediately to mind is "What happens if you can only get part of the set?"

We Choose the Moon

http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/ It's been crazy busy so I missed the 40th anniversary celebration. For shame. Anyways this site spent the time to give a real time replay of the first moon mission. Now should you so choose, you can go there and watch the entire mission from any point to any other point.

It's the Youtube

Most Alien Landscapes on Earth

This is a photo essay of the strangest looking areas on the surface of our own world.

Monster?

Charlie Brown drawn in watercolour by one Tim OBrien. I haven't a lot to say on this one. Chuck there kinda speaks for himself. Maybe also Cthulhu or some other eldritch creature of the unknown cosmos. A strange twist on the human face distorted as per the view of some ancient indescribable horror in its unimaginable efforts to communicate with our lost race. Or maybe it's just because cartoon people look weird.

Cthulu Gone Even More Wrong

It's the Youtube

Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer

Yes indeed. He lies, his nose grows, he stab vampires through the heart with it. That's right Pinocchio kills vampires with his stake making face.

In Honour of the Great Nikola Tesla

A writer by the name of Samantha Hunt has created a fictional novel in the form of a biography for everyone's favourite real life mad scientist. As per most such attempts there is in fact very little fiction required. Telsa was so incredibly strange that it is borderline impossible to make anything up that sounds half as unbelievable as the things he actually did. Here are some excerpts from Telsa's life. Be sure to listen to the bit about death rays.

A Use for Twitter

The most awesome villain from Freakazoid, I'm not going to say his name, is on Twitter. Making him a twit. Which is awesome. The best part is from his episode. The part where we learn he doesn't have a plan he just kidnaps people drags them around tied to a rope for a bit. Then nothing really happens, I guess he lets them go or something. He gets distracted by some pie in a steel cage. I just didn't want to have a ten word entry here. Twitter. Get roped.

Economic Theory

This paper, by Paul Krugman of Yale University, seeks to explore the concept of interstellar trade. An interesting conundrum in that we have no idea how much it should actually cost or how to compensate for time dilation in cargo fees. At present for instance we could ship a freighter full of say, ruby, to the nearest star. At a cost of all the money, time, items of value and effort of every single human being who ever lived working for the next thousand years. Which would end up, should we encounter any aliens who would like to trade. So very expensive they would tell us to go home they'll dig up their own rocks. This happens regardless of the item we would wish to trade. In other words Han Solo would lose approximately one million trillion dollars in operating costs for every trip the Falcon took to sell cargo. Except in the Star Wars universe it only takes, at most, the better part of an afternoon to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other and doesn't seem to cost anything in terms of fuel.

Because Kill All Humans is Beyond Them

Current robots settle for kill all mice or kill all flies. This story about robots with biofuel power supplies. Except, by biofuel, they mean animals not the usual forms of hydrocarbon. No fermenting into ethanol variants with and simple burning like the biofuel found in a car. There's an idea, imagine a car powered by scooping up roadkill. Just kinda gives you the willies don't it. I'm gonna let the exterminators keep this idea. Machines designed to kill somehow come across as more palatable than ones that kill as a secondary function.

Transformers in a Nutshell

Also why explosions aren't the only awesome thing in a good movie. As opposed to say a Bay flick.

Boy Hit By Meteorite

The original story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5511619/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html

My own commentary: The meteorite was not traveling at 30000 mph when it hit his hand. The impact on ones hand and the ground from a rock the size of a bullet moving at roughly mach 30 will make a crater a little larger than a foot. No, the rock may have started it's descent at such a speed but by the time it hit the ground it is unlikely it was even approaching the speed of sound.

The Girls of Doctor Who

Just what it says on the tin. Cartoonish, and well done, versions of all the companions The Doctor has had over the decades. The idea appears to be to emphasis how strange the relationship Rose has with The Doctor compared to all the rest. I just think it's interesting with the one chick calling him Professor. Also there is something fantastic about the black and white versions.

Awesome Band Saw Skills

Link. Watch this guy carve with his band saw. It's amazing. Also it gives less then a second to look at the finished product what's up with that. You spend two minutes watching the dude carve out a 2 by 6 then bam a website address. I've seen lots and lots of urls before I wanted to look at the whatever it is that he is making.

Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions

Bollywood Takes on He-Man

Mustache! Who are you man? Why are you here? Do you make any sense at all or are you the only logical thing in the universe? I don't know!

Robogeisha

Warning this is not safe for work. It is not safe for human sight. Do not I repeat Do Not watch Robogeisha. It is only the most awesomely retarded movie in the history of bad ideas. It is everything Transformers 2 wanted to be with the aid of an extra dose of incredible. Every scene in this trailer is awesome incarnate. Except the one with the girl spraying blood out of her but and the shrimp eye stabbing bit. Those aren't so much awesome as kinda disturbing and wrong. Then the giant robot building from space shows up and AWESOME! ensues.

Quantum of Solace: Alternate Theme

How Often Do We Get Video Evidence of a Darwin Award

Remember you don't have to die you "only" have to lose the ability to reproduce in order to qualify. Warning: language and severe nut shot with fireworks violence.

It's kinda like Michael Bay directs "Man Getting Hit By Football"

Moon Truck

So apparently this is very old news, but, NASA is sending men back to the moon. We must have finally figured out how to get at all the cheese. Like that comment! This is the cool new space type gear stuff for the 2020 moon mission. At least according to Telstar Logistics.

ZombieLand

The most exciting new zombie movie since Shaun of the Dead. Mostly for the little zombie kill of the week segment. I for one am big on the zombies cannot run rule. Generally to the tune of, I don't care what you call the movie if they can run they are not zombies. I might give this one a pass if it can contain that much awesome over it's full length. Oh the link.

The Island of Dr. Mystico Part 2

The Island of Dr. Mystico Part 1

Red Green on Coffee

The Girl Who Does Not Age

Brooke Greenberg, a sixteen year old girl who could be, and often is, mistaken for a sixteen month old girl. She has failed to grow or measurably age in all this time. Movie clip is overly simplistic and fails to provide any interesting information or relevant context. Also too much emphasis on the whole "quest for immortality" thing. Give it up guys if King Arthur couldn't find the grail you aren't going to either. Still weird kid.

An Interesting Way to Compete With ADSL

Can pigeons compete with standard information exchange techniques? Turns out they can. By attaching small flash cards to pigeons and sending them over long distances they can transmit large quantities of data faster than cables. There are some difficulties in this data transmission system. Including incompatibility with windows, difficulty in interacting with cat 5 or any other cat in around the pigeons and disagreements with the linux penguins. Great project though.

See Mike Draw

I don't know about the rest of his comics. This one would make a great reality TV show.

Amateur Transplants

Remember Freakazoid? That Guy was a Superhero.

In much the same way that The Tick was a villain or Spiderman came from Krypton.

Okay Enough About SCIENCE!

Time for some good old fashioned cheesy video game jokes.

Photonic Fence: Killing Insects with Lasers.

The Wall Street Journal, which is boring, wrote this article about an awesomely amazing plan to identify mosquitoes by frequency and then shoot them with lasers. It's brilliant giant frickin' lasers killing stupid evil vampire bugs. All based on the abandoned "Star Wars" project. I hope they start mounting the system in little portable spheres. Kinda "Death Star" shaped laser cannons for the defense of picnickers and campers the world over. Also to combat malaria.

Electric Coin Shrinking Machine

Exactly what it says on the tin. A capacitor powered machine that generates massive magnetic fields powerful enough to shrink a quarter down to the size of a dime. With an electric powered explosion. The high speed videos are particularly awesome as they show clearly that it is the magnetic field compressing the coin not the explosion that actually causes it to shrink.

I Don't Know Where It Came From.

In the Spirit of Achievement Unlocked,

Comes Upgrade Complete the game wherein you have to upgrade everything. The shop includes such luxuries as the game menu, sound fx and even the load screen. All must be bought and paid for. Fortunately cash is easy to come by.

Star Wars? What have you done?

It's like awesome and stupid in a blender ripping both into tiny ruined shreds of weirdness and terrible jokes. On the other hand you have different fingers.

Modern Pirate Ship

So apparently this is what pirate ships look like these days. I like the old ones more. This new thing is kinda crappy.

Ever Wanted to See Bill Nye Play a Superhero?

Mind Your Manners!

What Has Been Seen

Cannot be unseen.

Door Knobs

What? These are nifty. I can post whatever I want thank you very much.

Charlie the Unicorn

Not anything special I had never previously encountered this video before. Wherein Charlie the unicorn meets Rick Astley. Or however you spell his last name. Clearly I just don't have the patience to spend a tenth of the time it took to write this in order to google the man's name. Anyway Charlie the Unicorn.

Do the Earth's Oceans Create the Magnetic Field

The study described by this IOP article suggests that the conductive salt water in the oceans could be an alternate explanation for the existence of the Earth's magnetic field. With the power source being the tides and therefor the moon. I doubt it. But, on the other hand nothing on Earth is a simple single piece system and the oceans are a constantly moving conductive fluid. This could certainly be an explanation for part of how the north and south poles are constantly migrating. For less condensed linkage here is the article address in full: http://www.iop.org/News/news_35352.html

Happily I Qualify For Some of These

I am of course writing of the SCIENCE SCOUTS. I feel their ought to be an exclamation point after SCIENCE. Anyway, the scout badges for scientists and those who think or act like them. I should be delighted to hear the many tales of adventure and daring do performed by anyone person who has all of these. In particular because of the contradictions that would impose.

Immature Quantum Entendre

Okay this is probably not safe for work, definitely NSF liberal arts majors and amazingly immature, childish and silly. Like the sort of thing you're supposed to get out of your system in your teens. The Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction. Because someone somewhere couldn't get the idea that "exited states" or "stimulated emission" could be mistaken for something dirty out of their head.

It's the Youtube

Worst Day Ever?

I guess this one came from "I am Bored" at some point. I just found it laying about on my hard drive. That or the little comment and bored looking smiley face are meant to convey the dudes attitude towards his situation.

Why So Serious?

I have no idea of the copyright information of this picture. Or any explanation as to why it exists. Fun project for the world: Try to create a story wherein this picture makes sense.

Nanotube Supercapacitors

The world has been waiting for the electric car for over a century. In the beginning these cars had many wonderful advantages over a hydrocarbon fuel propelled vehicle. With only one major distinct disadvantage: range. Even the newest and best electric car can only travel a couple of hundred kilometers before requiring an eight hour stop to recharge. This makes them perfectly functional for a day to day use for someone who only drives to work and back with maybe a couple of stops. Said person still needs a gas powered vehicle for any unplanned or long range trips. Leading everyone to wonder why have an electric car when a small regular car can perform that same function plus be actually useful. The cause of this most prominent problem is batteries. Hydrocarbons are an amazing energy storage medium just fantastic. Batteries on the other hand. Hold only limited supplies, charge slowly and wear out quite quickly. Add to that the idea that battery weight does not diminish with power drain and the idea of using electricity to power any portable system seems odd. The answer has always been capacitors. The problem there is that capacitance is proportional to surface area. Meaning that any viable capacitor with enough power to be useful in a car would be larger than said car and far to heavy to move. Hence carbon nanotubes with the power of smallness and the ability to have a massive surface are to size ratio. The ability to actually build a useful capacitor means a nigh instantaneous charging which is all the car really needs. Imagine pulling into the station plugging the car in and having it charge faster than it would normally fill with gas. Even only having an effective range of three hundred km wouldn't be to bad. Anyway these capacitors are the goal at present for one Joel Schindall, Ph.D. at MIT. The outline for his project is here (pdf).

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Is the new MMORPG by Bioware due out sometime in the near future. It manages to look amazing. As a Bioware game it will be polished and delightful to play. Bioware is one of few companies to consistently make a good game. But, it's an MMORPG which means it is going to be chock full of the sort of people who play WOW. It's going to cost x per month to play. And worst of all it is only going to be useful to people who can devote hours per day of every day to playing it. I post this for the trailer and so I can say that if the minds behind this and the KOTOR games had made the new trilogy episodes I-III would have been better than the original trilogy.

Class of Nuke Em High

The movie itself can be viewed here. Class of Nuke Em High is a true classic in the bad low budget horror movie genre. A genre defined by the lack of actual horror and a devotion to strange monsters. Like many in this special breed of movie the director tacks certain pains to insist that we see the special effects failure that is this creature far more often than any sane man would. It has a plot that can only barely be described. I will make no effort to detail the plot here. It isn't very good and this film isn't really about telling a story or making any sense so the plot description would be both long and painful. The true beauty here is the moral at the end. This movie has a clear message: Teenagers who live in a pit of radioactive ooze should not have sex after smoking a plutonium enriched joint. I don't know why anyone thought this particular message needed to be brought to the general attention of the world. Anyways enjoy, it's better with a friend and please talk during the movie. Talking makes the movie harder to hear and that is a good thing.

Bad Astronomy Blog

So a long time ago I discovered a website called bad astronomy. No links google it if you want it. Now it is a blog; here. I could just re post every third article or so. I say that now because I have a hard time disagreeing with today's sentiment. This photo looks remarkably like martian space penguins. Sadly it is just regular penguins under the antarctic ice. Still an awesome photo. source: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/best-pod-may-09.html

Totally Not in Season

So I just discovered "Loading Ready Run" this may or may not be the first time I have just discovered them. That particular possibility is the entire point of the existence of this blog. I post a link to one of the halloween episodes "Trick or DOOM" Wherein Canadianman totally makes life inconvenient for some villain.

Lunar Surface

In 2007 a Japanese space probe began to orbit the moon. In one of those brilliant moves not available to NASA of the late 60's JAXA mounted high definition cameras on its spacecraft. This is actual footage of the lunar surface taken sometime this year.

What Game Shows Need

Is a little more choreography.

Oh the Sixties...

How we love to make fun of you. A video subtitling some random guy at that big sixties concert thing no one seems to shut up about, with what it sounds like he is saying. It's not so much clever as remarkably accurate and subtitle jokes are always funny. What with the moose and all.

Physics on Electric Cars and the Hydrogen Fuel Cell

In the world of physics things like the environment are taken fairly seriously. I feel I need to point that out because I am often against most of the "environmentally friendly" things in this world. But, as a counter point I offer this review of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car. From http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/. I am not against environmentally friendly ideas; I am against bad ideas. Especially bad ideas that have been rushed through because comic book science makes them sound like a solution. Remember in the real world gamma rays do not transform you into the incredible hulk.

So Art

Apparently this is it. I suppose if you asked the artist would say something along the lines of: "If you could have done it why didn't you." To which the correct response would be: "Because I didn't think it was a good idea."

The Impossible Puzzle

The Wikipedia Page.

The Puzzle itself:

Given are X and Y, two integers, greater than 1, are not equal, and their sum is less than 100. S and P are two mathematicians; S is given the sum X+Y, and P is given the product X*Y of these numbers.

• P says "I cannot find these numbers."
• S says "I was sure that you could not find them."
• P says "Then, I found these numbers."
• S says "If you could find them, then I also found them."

What are these numbers?

The Solution: X=4, Y=13

Look Around You

Ever had to sit through a video in school? Ever wonder how anything that pathetic could be transformed into pure awesome? Me neither.

Where's Waldo Bourne Parody

Because there are rumors going around that someone is actually trying to make a live action Waldo movie. The very definition of a bad idea.

Bourne Parody - watch more funny videos

Black 20 Trailer Park

The minds behind the 300 pg version and the Transforminators strike again.

The Guild

Joss Whedon the man behind the Buffy series and Firefly created Dr. Horribles Sing along Blog. The girl is played by one Felicia Day. Who is in a large part behind the creation of another episodic web series called The Guild. A brilliant parody of the culture of the World Of Warcraft.

One Does not Simply Walk into Mordor

Well yes in fact you do you totally do. If one wishes to be picky in ones description of these things one spends a lot of time wandering around in the rocks and the marsh and then spends a fair bit of time climbing a mountain/staircase. But, you aren't flying or riding robot dinosaur ninjas into Mordor. Oh the link providing the reason for this post.

Instant adventure gaming

The joys of the old sierra games. In particular the quest games. Games, to use the word again, that I never actually played growing up as my first computer was far to primitive and my next was a mac. Nonetheless I rather enjoyed "Peasants Quest" and these seem to have been more intensive versions of the same. So blah blah blah you can now play the old quests in your browser with a billion other hapless adventurers at http://sarien.net/.

A complicated piece of music

The Fairie's Aire and Death Waltz: http://www.well.com/user/bryan/waltz.html.

Be sure to check out the comments throughout. I am a huge fan of the "Balance chair on two legs" and "Moon-walk" portions as I feel both those actions are essential to the playing of any waltz.

Eyeborg Phase 2

A simple story about a man who lost his eye and is now planning to mount a camera in its place. A fantastic example of bionic engineering, people with strange taste and some of the worst video editing in human history.

Eyeborg Phase II from eyeborg on Vimeo.