Optical Illusion

It's no Oregon Vortex, but this is pretty cool.

Beretta Extrema2 Shotgun

Here's a cute little clip of the Beretta Extrema2 shotgun in action. 12 shots in 1.73 seconds! You can have one for just over $1k, so ear-tag that profit-sharing now.

Chickens Make Leap

A chicken in Pennsylvania has taken the next step in avian evolution: four legs. The advantages are incalculable. With four legs, the Enhanced Chickens(or E-Chicks) will be able to cut their ground pressure in half. Imagine the implications, or don't, if you want to sleep at night.

Tactical Daddy

For those of our readers who have achieved some sort of agamogenesis, I bring you the Tactical Daddy.




From the web page:

The TACTICAL DADDY features 16 specialized pockets, sized for bottles, wipes, a changing pad, diapers, keys, toys and other items you need when out and about with your child. This vest is excellent for carrying all of your essential supplies, without having to schlep an extra bag.

Be sure to check out the videos on the web page to see the Tactical Daddy in action!

Politically incorrect alphabet

The politically incorrect alphabet found here. A sampling of a few (C is for cannibal, L is for lunatic, I is for Indian, Z is for zombie). I'll let you find the animated ones for yourself.

America: Unprepared

I know that sometimes this blog tends to focus a little too much on the myriad of disasters that are crouching over us, ready to pounce without warning and send us all to the next life, screaming. I blame Jason's rampant paranoia and Kendall's sad, quiet death wish for this unhealthy obsession. Well, I don't mean to pile on, but I found this important story that demonstrates just how unprepared we are for the coming apocalypse. Here are a few quotes from this chilling article:

Despite "more than ample warning" for the most likely means of worldwide destruction, less than one million American households have taken even the simplest precautions against nuclear shockwaves, asteroid impact, or a host of angels bearing swords of fire, the study concluded.

"Even assuming someone eventually developed an above-ground super-house able to withstand the 1,200-degree temperature and massive force of lava and ash rain that would result from a globe-shattering asteroid impact, its occupants would be unprepared for the ensuing radical climate change," Olheiser said. "By the same token, the average household lacks the 1.2 million gallons of heating oil needed to withstand the prolonged sub-zero temperatures of another protracted Ice Age—perhaps the most shocking of the public's many oversights."

"I just renovated my house with cantilevered leaden cofferdams for increased earthquake and radiation protection, and I'm working on a pantheistic altar to appease the god or gods most likely to return to this world with an insatiable wrath," said Seattle resident Tim Hanson, whose actions were praised in the study as a "highly rare display of prescience and vigilance."

Get started on your pantheistic altar today. Do it for the kids.

Short Book Review: Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds

A sequel to Reynolds' Revelation Space, Redemption Ark follows Nevil Clavain, a very old soldier on a race to recover long lost weapons of terrible power. The weapons are desperately needed to fight the Inhibitors (or wolves), a machine intelligence that has been destroying all intelligent life in the galaxy for billions of years and is very good at it. If this sounds like a plot from a particularly uninteresting Star Trek episode, don't be fooled. Redemption Ark is first rate hard SF space opera. Revealing a universe teeming with exotic human factions like the Cojoiners, who blend their humanity with advanced technology and Ultras, who crawl between star systems in their relativistic star ships, Reynolds' world-building is first rate. The characters are varied and well developed, although it helps to have read Revelation Space to better understand the motivations of some of them. Filled with action, far future technology, and great characters, I'm giving the Yoshirap seal of approval to Redemption Ark.

How Star Wars Should Have Ended

This made me giggle a little:

A Little Something for the J-man

Makes Fembots Seem Kinda Lame

Behold the Femtrooper:

This Post Is Not a Veiled Reference to My Co-bloggers