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How To Hide An Airplane Factory |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
12:30 pm EDT, Jun 27, 2008 |
This Burbank airplane factory was covered with camoflauge netting and decorated to be a suburban subdivision in order to hide it from possible Japanese air attacks during World War II. How, how cool would this be to go to work?
How To Hide An Airplane Factory |
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An Interspecies Communication Problem OR Big Veiny Fin Chased Me Out the Water |
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Topic: Sports |
11:12 am EDT, Jun 27, 2008 |
I dragged my ass out of bed this morning on 4 hours sleep to dogs screaming for attention and pee and poo poo time and food. I took care of them, then screaming bloody murder put liquid bandaid (8% alcohol) on the big surf-related scabs on my knees and thighs from the last three days, donned tights and a rash guard to protect my wounds, threw on some board shorts and was out the door. Lots of people out this morning. Really nice 3-4 foot faces, powerful, and glassy. I paddled out to the sandbar, walk out the rest of the way then swim outside to the lineup. I am sitting on my board, legs dangling, catching my breath. There are some guys 200 meters north of me, but its very quiet. I relax and catch my breath. Looking down at my feet, I can just make them out in the murky water. I'm getting pretty used to it out there, and its really peaceful. Right about the time I was going through my talking-to-myself, "I'm all alone and okay in the water" confidence routine, an inter-species communication problem occurred. The big grey finned creature that appeared a few feet away, surfacing as it swam in front of me was probably just saying, "Hello human, I am dolphin. You are in my waves, and I am curious about you. Long have we tried to befriend you by saving drowning swimmers and attacking sharks and being cute, and long have you repaid our kindness by catching us in fishing nets, capturing us for dumb circus shows and eating our dinners. But that is the past. Let this contact be the beginning of a new future. Let this morning mark the beginning of a great bond between our two peopl... hey, wtf where are you going?" What I heard was, "I am the biggest fucking shark you've EVER seen." Because what I saw was a big, veiny bastard of a body and a big haggard fin. If that thing was a dolphin, and I'm not sure it was, then it was to sea world dolphins what my Cairn Terrier is to a big bad ass mountain wolf. It was a steroid abusing, shark killing, fast swimming ass whooping ocean machine. I saw no blow hole, but I was looking at the fin. The fin did have a moon shape going, but it was not pronounced. And the top was rounded all shark-like and not dolphin-like. I only saw one fin, and it looked exactly like the one shown here: I did not see the tail fin, but the angle it was at I'm not sure I would have. I'm not sure it wasn't there and I was too busy with my mental pan-and-zoom to notice. I paused for a second, weighed my options and then screamed like a woman and paddled for shore, laughing at myself half the time because I was running from a dolphin but willing myself to keep going because that thing was a big god damned shark. I'm still not sure what it was, but it wins. I'm out of the water. Its hard enough for us to communicate within one species, and I hope I didn't snub that dolphin. On the other hand, the shark can go fuck himself. Nany nany boo boo, I got away! Or rather, Mr. Sharkie, can't we all just get along? An Interspecies Communication Problem OR Big Veiny Fin Chased Me Out the Water |
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Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Press Freedom in Russia |
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Topic: Current Events |
2:30 am EDT, Jun 27, 2008 |
Thursday morning, Moscow time, four Russian government officials came to the office of my English-language newspaper, the Exile, and conducted an "unplanned audit" of our editorial content. They are carrying out an inspection of my paper's articles to see, in their words, if we have committed "violations." And they specifically asked to question me, since I'm officially listed as the founding editor-in-chief.nullnullnullnull
Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Press Freedom in Russia |
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Topic: Technology |
2:14 am EDT, Jun 27, 2008 |
You may have already heard that Chrysler is planning to provide in-car wireless internet access to its vehicles. If not, expect to hear more about it later this year when the requisite hardware becomes a sales-floor option, or next year when it becomes factory standard for some cars. null
Wow. American automotive innovation. In car WiFi - Hack a Day |
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THE EXILE - Save The eXile: The War Nerd Calls Mayday - By Gary Brecher - Editorial |
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Topic: Current Events |
6:25 pm EDT, Jun 26, 2008 |
I'm calling in an urgent request for reinforcements, before we're overrun. The eXile, my HQ since I started this column, has been sucker-punched by a bunch of squeamish bureaucrats and anonymous complainers. You know the type, the kind of people who'll poison your dog but don't have the guts to come to your door. Looks like this Fifth Column is winning, and we'll be forced to retreat from Moscow. And you know how messy retreats from Moscow can get. Ask the Little Corporal; he left the Kremlin with half a million men and came home with about enough for a high-school marching band.
THE EXILE - Save The eXile: The War Nerd Calls Mayday - By Gary Brecher - Editorial |
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THE EXILE - Eleven Years of Threats: The eXile's Incredible Journey - By (Anonymous) - Feature Story |
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Topic: Current Events |
6:25 pm EDT, Jun 26, 2008 |
From its very inception, The eXile has been under constant siege, always pushed to the brink of collapse by a nefarious alliance of Russian bureaucrats, aggrieved small-business owners, thick-ankled American women, thin-skinned Russian celebrities, seething Western journalists and politicians, and even members of our own staff, people whom we thought we could trust. Everyone, it seems, learns to hate us at one time or another, leaving only a small rump core to keep the flame of hatred burning. Is there a lesson to be learned in that? Yes there is: everyone but us is a worthless piece of shit. But if you’ve been reading our newspaper, you already knew that, didn’t you—you worthless piece of shit.
THE EXILE - Eleven Years of Threats: The eXile's Incredible Journey - By (Anonymous) - Feature Story |
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The American Conservative -- Save the War Nerd |
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Topic: Current Events |
6:23 pm EDT, Jun 26, 2008 |
The eXile, the Moscow-based alternative paper founded by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — and which has been home these past few years to occasional TAC contributor Gary Brecher, the War Nerd — has been shut down by Russian authorities. The website is still up (note: some racy content, which goes for most of the links that follow, too), though, and is fighting to survive. Ames has been blogging the story of the crackdown for Radar. (More here.) And here’s the War Nerd’s plea for help. As I said on my own blog, the eXile is as much samizdat for the West as it is for Russia. And funnily enough, a Kremlin lickspittle who recently debated Ames on air had nothing but good things to say about the Iraq War and the Western media’s failure to raise serious questions about the adventure before it began. As Ames blogs for Radar,
Those bastards! The American Conservative -- Save the War Nerd |
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www.centos.org - News - CentOS in the News - It's L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System |
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Topic: Technology |
11:17 am EDT, Jun 26, 2008 |
From: Jerry.Taylor To: Johnny Hughes Subject: Re: www.centos.org - Contact Us Form Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:15:17 -0600 I have four computers located at City Hall. All of these computers display the same CentOS page when attempting to bring up Tuttle-ok.gov. Now if your software is not causing this problem, how does it happen??? No one outside this building has complained about this problem. This is a block of public access to a city's website. Remove your software within the next 12 hours or an official complaint to the FBI is being filed! Third correspondence to this location.
Humorous thread in which the planet's dumbest man, mister Jerry Taylor, gets upset at the CentOS staff because his apache is misconfigured, and threatens to call the FBI unless they remove it. www.centos.org - News - CentOS in the News - It's L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System |
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