If you're killed by an act of terrorism, the newspapers and television stations will use whatever photo they can. From graduation... Your holiday snaps... Or if you're really unlucky, CCTV... None of these express the anger, the rage, even the disappointment your disembodied spirit will feel at having your life untimely snuffed out.

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Ganked from foenix: Why are there no 52x CD-ROM drives? Because some CDs explode at that speed. Witness digital media's breaking points: PowerLabs High Speed Exploding CDs! The video is great -- especially the fishbowl.

If you want to know what I was like in high school, well....

Like any red-blooded, masculine man of the male gender, I love PVC weaponry. You should too. If the concept of heading on down to the local Home Depot and transforming $100 worth of random pipe bits into a killing machine doesn’t appeal to you, you’re a frikkin' pansy. Also, you’re ( Read more... )

Lightning strikes airliner -- with animated .GIFs. Oh, good, because two of my favorite remaining anxieties needed to collide like this.

Here's hoping the Brits on my flist are all well and good after this morning. Take care, gang. Sound off, if y'all get the chance, too.

No pointless speculation on who/why from an intercontinental insomniac amateur analyst. Just best wishes.

Yes, I'm a hopeless geek, watching NASA TV for live coverage of Deep Impact -- but it was a hoot. After the loss of the solar sail, it was pretty neat to be riding along with the winning team, so to speak. Great to hear the excitement build as they were dead on course, as the craft hit, as the first (spectacular) impact image came in, and the ( Read more... )

Meteor, black hole, antimatter, whatever -- you're 10-15 megatons of enigma, 97 years old today, Tunguska event, and still perplexing.