When a BSOD isn't enough: Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference. With pics, one in mid-eruption, another of the flaming debris.

Jesus. For one, if you're planning to gun down your cohorts and educators, don't organize it on MySpace. For two, don't try to kill your classmates and teachers. It's passé. Still, thanks for putting Kansas back on the map and giving Phill Kline a reason to go on the air other than to demand details of underage sex. Wonder if Phill has a ( Read more... )

Just got back from seeing V for Vendetta, finally. I think this makes up for the latter two-thirds of the Matrix trilogy. And, since I rediscovered Peter's Friends the other night (and half the cast has gone on to do Harry Potter roles), it's unofficially Stephen Fry week. Should be a holiday.

Slashdot article on a talk by Ron Moore, BSG guru, transcribed by the least literate nerd in the world who originally spelled "Cylon" as "Psylon," but managed to make his "fixes" even worse:

Boomer, very little thought. An extension of family and a second family unit. The part where Boomer was a Pylon suggested by co-producer....I must've missed ( Read more... )

No, I'm not being facetious. What's the upside of getting the government that the people want if the people want to wage war with their neighbors?

In a stunning development ahead of official election results, Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei said Thursday he and others in the Palestinian Authority government will resign in the wake of Hamas' apparent ( Read more... )

...Well, the pigs are happy, there's coffee brewin'...still feels strange to be up before ten (or, honestly, noon) on a Saturday.

Chemistry amusement: WOODRUFF, S.C. -- An experiment gone awry in a Spartanburg County classroom caused some scary moments Thursday morning, reported WYFF-TV in Spartanburg, S.C ( Read more... )

I was gonna make a snide comment on the outcome of the KSU-OU game, but...the hell?

Police were investigating an explosion at the University of Oklahoma late Saturday that apparently killed one person outside a campus building.Campus police Sgt. Gary Robinson said authorities believe the blast was caused by an explosive device ( Read more... )

On October 1, 2005, Florida becomes a more dangerous place. That's when the Shoot First Law goes into effect, giving the people of Florida the right to use deadly force as a first resort when they feel threatened, even in a public place. But the Shoot First doctrine isn't just staying in Florida - it's about to become a national disgrace.And life ( Read more... )

Dolphin assassins menace Gulf of Mexico | The Register

Heavily-armed, frightened, and confused. No, we don't mean the Bush Administration, but a group of killer dolphins trained by the US Navy and lately washed into the Gulf of Mexico by Hurricane Katrina, if The Guardian is to be believed.I know it's late, but it merits mentioning, perhaps even ( Read more... )

The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I'd only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video ( Read more... )