November 2011
21 posts
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants,... →
Shabbat elevator →
A Shabbat elevator is an elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, a way to circumvent the Jewish law requiring observers to abstain from operating electric switches on Shabbat. […] There are several ways the elevator works (going up and down); stopping at every floor, stopping at alternative floors, or rising to the top floor and stopping while going down. […]...
October 2011
22 posts
Watch(via War on Halloween - Costume Swapping & Jesus Ween - The Colbert Report - 2011-26-10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central)
“Unlike many people who have enjoyed success, [Steve] Jobs is not saying that he...”
– Steve Jobs and drug policy - Salon.com
Where Are the Jobs? →
A person born in 1900 began with horse-drawn buggies and died with men walking on the Moon, but the last few decades have seen nothing like that sort of technological advance.
“As anyone who listens to me for even two seconds can tell you, I’m no...”
– Nation Finally Breaks Down And Begs Its Smart People To Just Fix Everything | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Police arrested 51 people at the plaza and at Children’s Park in the...”
– Occupy San Diego protesters vow return to plaza despite ouster - latimes.com
Samuel L Ipsum →
Occupy →
“Are Occupy’s protesters prepared to go the distance, something that didn’t happen with Cindy Sheehan’s movement or the large Wisconsin protests against Scott Walker? And more importantly, are Americans who are sympathetic but sitting aside willing? What are you prepared to do? Are you prepared to fill up the jails, over and over, as the civil rights movement did? Are you...
Video said to show a wounded Gaddafi after his... →
Hotel Workers, What's The Weirdest Thing You've... →
Pepper Spray Cop Tony Bologna Punished With More... →
As punishment for pepper-spraying two penned-in Occupy Wall Street protesters without provocation, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna will… pick up some extra shifts. The Internal Affairs Bureau reviewed the infamous incident (which was caught on video and eventually spawned a Daily Show parody cop show, The Vigilogna) and determined that Bologna violated NYPD rules. As punishment for spraying...
David Hahn, The Radioactive Boy Scout →
The world's most dangerous yard sale - Dept. of... →
Swedish Man Arrested For Trying To Build Nuclear... →
