"Creation Science" for kids...
Amusing as hell.

OBJECTIVE: Creation Education: Creation Science Fair 2001: "1st Place: 'Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life'
Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.
- posted by slaughts @ 3:32 PM

 
"Improving" Billboards
Love it. The latest "action" is their best so far.

Billboard Liberation Front: manifesto: "Each time you change the Advertising message in your own mind, whether you climb up onto the board and physically change the original copy and graphics or not, each time you improve the message, you enter in to the High Priesthood of Advertisers. "
- posted by slaughts @ 1:26 AM

 
Snarky overheard conversations...
Haven't laughed like this at a website in ages...

In Passing...: "'Let's go see the Tom Hanks one. Whassit called? 'Road to Permission'?'
'Perdition!'
'...Or 'Road to Preventive?''
'Perdition!'
*(Continued ad naseum, with options such as 'Road to Redemption' and 'Road to Partition.')*
--An oblivious guy talking on a cell phone in the security line, and the crowd around him, at the Oakland airport. "
- posted by slaughts @ 1:35 AM

 
Software defined radio...
A very cool idea... even if the Guardian did steal the headline from the name of our old project at [V]. (More proof -- if it was needed -- that there is no such thing as an original idea.)

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Radio active revolution: "Instead of specialist radio hardware, a software radio uses a simple receiver to throw the entire contents of a range of frequencies into computer memory, where software - and not hardware - does the signal processing. Vanu Inc, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took an ordinary, off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard iPaq personal digital assistant and, using only a simple radio receiver and an upgrade to the Linux operating system, was able to demonstrate the device working as an FM radio. "
- posted by slaughts @ 7:48 PM

 
Onion: New Zep
Jim Anchower is my favorite Onion columnist.

The Onion | Here Are Reviews Of Some New Shit: "I didn't think it would ever happen, but there's not just one but two new Zeppelin CDs out. Actually, one's a video. The CD's called How The West Was Won, and it isn't just one CD, it's three. That's right: three CDs' worth of gettin' the Led out. And, get this, it's got a 25-minute live version of 'Dazed And Confused.' Whenever I listen to the original version or see it on The Song Remains The Same, I wish it wouldn't end. Now, it almost doesn't! I always hate it when I go through a whole album before my buzz wears off, but now there's so much Zep, I have to light up again midway through."
- posted by slaughts @ 9:58 PM