I just finished reading "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge. It was beautiful. I can't wait to read more by Vinge ( Read more... )

I wrote this back in 2000, and just found a copy digging through old files.

SNACKTIME APOCALYPSEIt was just one more time that I'd come damn close to killing myself, though it's by far the silliest of my many inadvertent brushes with oblivion ( Read more... )

...after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.


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There's no point in making any more music videos, you won't be able to top this one.

Mikhail Gorbachov saving big-breasted Russian babes from politburo zombies.

Also wins "best use of a twinkie" award.

I wrecked my truck a few weeks ago. I was rushing home to do some urgent Navy business, and never made it there. No injuries, but a trailer-hitch was shoved through my oil cooler and radiator. I wrote off the Amigo, and bought a slightly used Nissan Frontier ( Read more... )

This is the coolest thing I've seen all year.

A prosthetic finger that plugs into a USB port.


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Best. Nutjob. Evar. I love this video.

Satanic Jews Stole BET, and Denzel Washington is helping them! Farrakhan is still world class.

Metallic Oxide Salts create a rainbow effect in a sprinkler! This is obviously a secret military experiment gone horribly wrong.

Cynthia McKinney knows about those 5,000 people we executed in New Orleans.

Boys ( Read more... )

I am planning a bank heist.

Don't tell anybody.

This a cool (via Instapundit):

Ethanol Innovation Turns Wood Into Sugar at Room Temperature

Especially paired with:

New Energy-Efficient Process Turns Sugar into Gasoline

Corn ethanol is a scam, but this is promising. Between this sort of thing and GM bacteria for hydrogen production, we may have a winner.

How many raccoons would it take to kill a full-grown panda? I would really like to find out ( Read more... )