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Category Archives: Physics

Lambo whammo!

Plane vs car: guess who wins!

Now, it’s not really clear from the reporter’s description here, but it appears that a Cessna 172 (a delightful little plane, kind of the woody wagon of airplanes) full of FBI agents was taxiing to its hanger in Aurora, Oregon, when it collided with a Lamborghini Countach (an exquisite car, [...]

pic o’ the day: Venus and the Moon

It’s too bad we haven’t got a Dr Cornelius handy to interpret this auspicious-looking juncture for us. Does it mean that the werewolves will get laid tonight?
Photo from the ever-stunning Astronomy Photo of the Day. Click on the picture or the link to view it in full-size and astonishing detail.
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the seven stages of menopause

via Archie, from whom I ruthlessly rent this image. Sue me, O Patriarchal One (IF you dare!)!

four nuclear towers assplode! with video!

Am I being sensationalistic here? Perhaps a tad.
After all, the destruction of the 60 year old towers at the Chapelcross Nuclear Power Plant in Scotland was scheduled, professionally carried out, non-nuclear in nature, and the towers were out of commission not to mention enriched Uranium- and Plutonium-free.
But they blowed up good. They blowed up real [...]

dick will make you slap somebody

And we’re not talking Cheney.
This is public access tv host Alexyss K. Tylor discussing vagina power and penis addiction with her mother.
Seriously, would YOU talk to your mother like that? If I did, my mother would take notes!
Uh, this is really, really NSFW. Duh.

Lessons learned in this episode:
(Read AFTER you watch [...]

Scottish falsetto sock puppets vs darleks

Before you start hatin’ on my amazing-like spelling powers, click to view. Otherwise both I and the Scottish falsetto sock puppets will make fun of you. And the Doctor will be very disappointed in you as well.
And nobody wants that to happen, do they?

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Teeny Ted from Turnip Town: the Text

Click to enlarge: if only the actual book were so easy to read!
Here, ladies and gentlemen, with the permission of the publisher Robert Chaplin, is the entire text of the smallest book ever produced, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town. The book was produced in association with nanotechnologists Dr. Li Yang and Dr. Karen L. Kavanagh [...]

Shebeen Club: Teeny Tome is Livin’ Large!

For immediate release: see also World’s Tiniest Press Release below
 
What: The Shebeen Club : Teeny Tome, Living Large!
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, April 17 (3rd Tuesday of each month)
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: Celebrate Shebeen Alumnus Robert Chaplin’s publication of the World’s Smallest Book: Teeny Ted from Turnip Town!
Who: Contact [...]

crop circles, suburban edition

Digital image: “Applied Geometry” by Robert Wechsler
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another reason to hate Ford

The CEO of the Ford Motor Company forcibly prevented George W. Bush from blowing himself up last week.
It seems that plugging a live electrical cord into a hydrogen tank is not the wisest course of action, although why we should expect wise courses of action from the man who makes Gerald Ford look intellectual and [...]