Archive for December, 2006
December 18th, 2006
Click for hi-res. (It’s worth it.)December 15th, 2006
Michael Crichton’s Weird Revenge
This is pretty heavy. Michael Crichton is a critic of global warming science, and Michael Crowley is a journalist and critic of Michael Crichton. So anyway, in Crichton’s latest novel, he has an aside about a child molester named Mick Crowley.
Coke Chilling
That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in a bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that ice, itd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you put salt in that water, youd reduce the chill time to just over 2 minutes. Agitating the can in the water, rolling it around, reduces the chill time even more.
The fastest possible way is to grab a CO2 fire extinguisher and unload that sucker on the can.
Whatever you do, do NOT bury the can in sand, pour gasoline on the sand and set the sand on fire. That wont do anything.
This is all empirically gained evidence, not third party.
Adam Savage of Mythbusters explains the fastest way to chill a warm can of coke.
December 14th, 2006
World’s Tallest Man Saves Dolphins
Dolphins at a Chinese aquarium were sick because they had swallowed plastic from the edge of their pool. Surgical instruments weren’t working to get the plastic out, so aquarium employees were reaching into the dolphins with their arms. Unfortunately, they couldn’t reach the plastic. They were finally able to save the dolphins by recruiting the tallest man in the world, whose arms are 42.7 inches long.
December 13th, 2006
Zombie Letters
Zombie Letters from e-zombie.com
via Link Bunnies
Why Teens Do Stupid Things
Teens do stupid things not because they don’t think about the risks, but because they value the benefits more.
Russian Spies Are Like Batman
Russia’s new spy headquarters has a batman symbol in the floor?
What?