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it's a bird? it's a plane? nope, it's a flying electric generator!

31 January, 2006 09:40 CST6CDT

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 CST6CDT

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.

Bullshit  Article & Comments

obesity is a virus, McDonalds rejoices

30 January, 2006 16:00 CST6CDT

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]

Bullshit  Article & Comments

Walmart movie, reminds me of something - my Best Buy experience

28 January, 2006 15:23 CST6CDT

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.

Day to Day  Article & Comments

Asahi - the beer pouring robo-slave from Japan

27 January, 2006 09:52 CST6CDT

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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