it's a bird? it's a plane? nope, it's a flying electric generator!
31 January, 2006 09:40
Holly flying electric generators! [bb]
What a fantastic idea. Just "1% of the jetstream's wind power could supply all US electrical demand". Combine this with the power of electrical storms and solar energy, this idea might be a solution to many of the world's energy problems.
So, how do we get this off the ground? This article describes three research projects with proposed designs for just this mission.
Sky Windpower, for example, has a peak capacity of 70-90% of time. Take this, and combine it with a 1.4 cent kilowatt hour expense (that would be the cheapest power source on earth), generating 2.81 megawatts, you walk away with a radical new way of powering the country.
One of the problems, however, is it IS radical. I find it funny how corporations and the US government can pour billions of dollars into projects that enable cleaner burning coal, and low emissions. I just don't think it will be easy for this proposition to be funded with the current office and its policies. Oil makes the world go around, and some think it will be an economical issue, rather than a global environment issue that kills us.
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Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
30 January, 2006 18:41
What the fuck?
Not all BS though. Some ideas for software are mentioned later in the article.
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This blog post sums up my reaction in its entirely magnificent disbelief.
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obesity is a virus, McDonalds rejoices
30 January, 2006 16:00
We once thought big macs and large shakes were the steming cause of obesity. McDonalds rejoice! We now have proof of a correlation with the heaviest obese people, and a strain of virus called Ad-36.
A physiologist at the University of Wisconsin Madison injected a group of chickens with three strains of adenovirus--Ad-2, Ad-31 and Ad-37.
"...chickens carrying Ad-37 were found to have nearly three times as much
fat in their guts and more than two times as much fat over their entire
body at the end of the three-and-a-half week period."
Certain strains of adenoviruses are responsible for pink eye and chest colds.
"I am not saying that all obesity is caused by viruses," Dhurandhar
notes. "Obesity has multiple causes and viruses may be one of those
causes." --Nikhil Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center
New fast food slogan, USDA certified adenoviruse and obesity free. [digg]
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Walmart movie, reminds me of something - my Best Buy experience
28 January, 2006 15:23
Best Buy in relationship to social
deficiencies, is that of third world child prostitution rings. Best
Buy in relationship to corporate responsibility, is that too Sony's
blatant attempt at a root kit. In no way is the company satisfying
the responsibility of using resources to better there employees,
customers, or the corporation themselves. They suck the money out of
consumers, the life out of employees, and take these necessities and
invest in communistic social structures such as employee moral
exercises, and insurance for customer purchased merchandise. Rather
than create a friendly environment for everyone, they are creating
community drones that cycle into work related depression and consumer
satisfaction woos.
Walk into any Best Buy and you are
immediately greeted by the service counter with a line of unhappy
customers using there rights to the insurance of there purchased
product. In a Walmart type fashion they are responded with
amendments; in return respond in frustration. Employee drones of
Best Buy manipulation camps, those that are in a hypnotic state of a
sick psychological and social structure mapped out by corporate Best
Buy employed social science majors, spread the joy they take home
from work. Broken relationships, debts, and abnormal mental
diagnosis's reminds me of the monopolistic Walmart corporation.
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Asahi - the beer pouring robo-slave from Japan
27 January, 2006 09:52
Most men dream of having a maid to pour your cold beer. There are a couple lucky ones, thoes with money
and a maid, and thoes with a subservient wife. Neither is very
likely. For the rest, don't despair! We have Asahi, a beer pouring
robo-slave from Japan.
At a push of a button, Asahi selects a beer from it's 6 can
beer chest, and a mug (it always has two at hand). It then pours the
beer in perfect style. Gizmodo claims a perfect head everytime.
I would try to obtain any device that gives perfect head. Don't say you wouldn't either.
Asahi is free! Just collect 36 seals from specially marked Asahi beer.
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this is the sound of your hard drive on acid
26 January, 2006 10:33
Hitachi has a few wav files with sounds of dreaded hard drive failures. Gizmodo created a contest to take these clips and turn them into "Dying Dance Tracks".
I must warn you, these are not for the faint of heart. I dread the sounds, and cross my fingers each day that my pictures and music remain intact.
This is one of my favorites: Tuhin_Mehta_-_DDT.mp3
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How to Survive a Robot Uprising
25 January, 2006 09:04
Bruce Schneier listed a few ways to survive a robot uprising.
One of the ideas, "use uncommon words to suss out robots on the phone. robots do not know how pronounce supercalifragilisticexpealidocious".
Listed were several other possibilities, such as "choose a complex environment. waterfalls, street traffic, and places with lots of ambient noise confuse the robots", but this, and the others are not necessary givin the first provision.
Here is what you do: make a diplomatic phone call to the robot world mentor. Start an intelectual conversating convincing them of your surrender on there logical conditions (that will get there gears spinning and there lights glowing). Then all of a sudden start using really large words, such as supercalifragilisticexpealidocious. This will confuse the central robot unit, which in turn will compell him to repeat the word in asking the question "why did you say supercalifragilisticexpealidocious?". As we all know, they can not pronounce this and will have to spell it out letter by letter. Before the robot mentor finishes the word, continue asking questions and making statements with several sylabil words. After several questions and comments of that magnitude, the robot will still be working on de-compiling supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.
Now, this is the key, tape the entire conversation and play it in a loop. There is not enough robo-flops in the world that would help these tin machines. Using there robo proprietary bubble technology, they will continue to sift through the information in an endless and deadly loop of error.
Next, rid the world of all robo technology and exterminate the evil monkeys that live only to be served by robo technology.
Case closed, problem solved.
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text messaging world record
25 January, 2006 08:31
A 28 year old Singaporean business student has broke the world record for the fastest words in a text message within a givin period of time
He typed a screaming 26 words in 43.24 seconds. With correct punctuation and grammer, he chocked out "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
Unbelievable. I send out one, maybe two text messages a month, and ALL of them are pre-programmed. It takes me a good 5 minutes to create my 5 or 6 word macro, and another minute when I actually need to find it and send it through my phone's lousy menu system.
I also read somewhere that a british company is going to be sending complete literary publications through phone text using the leet phone talk language. I can see phone speak as a second language for kids of this generation.
When I hear wuz or cuz, I shivver and give dirty looks. When I see it on my phone, it breaks, and I go broke for a month.
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