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Text Kills Suicide Bomber by Accident

Josh — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:20:44 +0000

If this is real this is awesome!

Check out: “Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake“.

Security sources believe a spam message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her but nobody else.

Wow.

UK UFO Cover Up

Josh — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:05:38 +0000

Did you see this: “Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show?”

Key quote:

Prime minister Winston Churchill ordered a UFO sighting be kept secret to prevent “mass panic”.

It got me thinking about that Keep Calm and Carry On poster, so I made this:

How BP might be the cause of the Apocalypse

Josh — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:51:12 +0000

I’ve never heard of this Helium (the publication, not the noble gas) but the headline is quite striking: “How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event.”

Key quote:

The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.

They compare it to Permian–Triassic extinction event. You know, the one scientists affectionately nicknamed “the Great Dying”.

In that case? I’m going back to bed. And when I wake up? Real bacon instead of this turkey bacon malarkey.

Area 51 in the News

Josh — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:25:23 +0000

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the Area 51 article in last week’s Los Angeles Times: “The Road to Area 51.”

New Coke

Josh — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:30:55 +0000

It was twenty-five years ago today that Coca-Cola revealed “New Coke!”

Twenty-five years!

There are articles (and books) out there that’ll point out every nuanced flaw in completely replacing one’s flagship brand, so I won’t get into that here. Everything written about the New Coke brand either begins or ends with, “How could a major corporation be so dumb?”

I don’t know the answer to that, but I will ask one question, though. When exactly did Coke switch from sugar to the much less expensive high fructose corn syrup?

Think about it.

LHC Works; We’re All Going to Die

Josh — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:03:24 +0000

I feel the New York Times is missing half a headline today: “Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly; Black Hole Imminent.”

Ten bucks says they create a strangelet and we all blink out of exist–