Truth (Plus Lies)

As of this posting, a signed picture of Jesus is worth about 2 cents. Must be very disappointing.

[via Bunnies]

There aren’t any more hurricanes these days than there were in the past, but they do seem to be more intense. Which may or may not have anything to do with global warming.

Play with the Pollock paint dripping simulator.

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Titus Groan from the House of Dave is no match for my bloodthirsty minions. His fate is sealed.

While some are amazed at the genius of “Stuck on Stupid,” Exploding Aardvark points out that it’s an established military backronym for SOS. Wikipedia has a list of that and other backronyms.

My favorites:

• H₂SO₄ (sulphuric acid) - Hot Hot Searing! Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch!
• Yugo - You’ll Usually Get Out
• Nike - Needs International Kids Employed
• KMFDM - Kenobi Made Farmboy Do Magic
• RESPECT (George Galloway’s party)- Recently Expelled Scottish Politician Endorses Communist Tyranny
• USA - Unbelievably-Sized Arsenals

[via Wonkette, Instapundit]

Google Advanced Operators Cheat Sheet

Tell this site a book you liked, and it will recommend a book for you to read next.

If a musical instrument has never been built before, how can you know what it will sound like? That’s the question UC Berkeley graduate student Cynthia Bruyns is answering with Vibration Lab, software she’s designing to simulate the sound of any percussive instrument, real or imagined, in a computer. Her system could someday enable musicians to play instruments that exist only on the screen, enable the interactive design of new physical instruments, and even boost the realism of immersive virtual environments for education and training.