John Carter: the full trailer. Oh. Yes.

Trailer Premiere - Video -IGN

Zombie Attack Barbie

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Carpe Nocturna: night people are smarter!

Morningness-eveningness and intelligence: early to bed, early to rise will likely make you anything but wise!
Roberts RD, Kyllonen PC.
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Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia.
Abstract

Research examining various psychological correlates of circadian type (also known as diurnal preference) has been, over the years, quite expansive. A notable omission within this research program would appear a systematic exploration of the relation between intelligence and morningness-eveningness. The present study redressed this imbalance. 420 participants performed two self-report inventories assessing circadian type, as well as measures of intelligence from two psychometric batteries: CAM-IV and the ASVAB. The results indicate that, contrary to conventional folk wisdom, evening-types are more likely to have higher intelligence scores. This result is discussed in relation to current theories concerning the nature of human cognitive abilities.

Here's the abstract and link via US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, pubmed.gov

Robot Prison Guards: they're so cute!

Never has impersonal, automated evil been so cute!!
South Korea is about to implement an army of robot prison guards. 
Don't worry.  Nothing can go wrong.... go wrong ...go wrong ...go wrong.....
Click here for the full story via the BBC News Service

Just what the doctor ordered

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The Duellists: a tragically over-looked film.

NEW Ultraman trailer. What do you think?

DANGER 5: THE DIAMOND GIRLS Part 2

Mind Games: Japanese Girls Prank

Paradise Circus

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh, well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip

Love is like a sin, my love
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with her eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly and never love you again

Eminent Domain: fine article from Reason.com

This is an amazingly thoughtful article on the subject of Eminent Domain Reform.  Eminent domain laws are bad for property rights and social justice alike

Click here to read the full article at Reason.com

read e-mail on digitally enhanced contact lenses

"Researchers at the University of Washington and Finland's Aalto University have developed a prototype of a contact lens that would project digital images onto the retinas of its wearer. And, for the first time, they actually tested the lenses on live creatures - in this case, rabbits that underwent anesthesia. That may seem like it's out of left field, but researchers for years have been working on the idea that we should somehow overlay digital information on top of the real world. Lots of smartphone apps, including Wikitude, Spyglass and Golfscape – as well as some prototypes for "Terminator" glasses - are trying to do this."

full story here

John Carter image!

John Carter (2012) - Official Trailer [HD]

am SOOOOO looking forward to this film.

Web Site Tragedies

The latest of my Tech Republic articles: 10 Web Site Tragedies.
These ten websites represent some of the worst design tragedies on the Internet -- from sites of the well-known (J.K. Rowling and George E.R. Martin) to the obscure.

Prepare for web site pain.

Read my full article (with links) at Tech Republic

Hottest Batgirl Costume Almost Ever

Hottest Batgirl Costume Ever (with exception of Ms. Yvonne Craig of course).

boy shoots mom's attacker in face with BB gun

This article should be the new ad-copy for BB guns. 
"BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A 10-year-old boy with a BB gun saved his mother’s life after she was attacked by a man renting a room at their home Tuesday. The homeowner, 46, told police that the 45-year-old man renting from her came home, allegedly kicked in her bedroom door, attacked the woman and started choking her. Then her son came to her rescue with his trust BB gun and shot the attacker in the face, driving him off."

You know secretly this is what every 10-year old boy was living for when he first saw a, "Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time."

link to full story here

Portable Zombie Shelter

I don't know about you, but this isn't exactly my idea of a safe zombie shelter.

Link to full story from the Daily What

Space-saving Vertical Chess Game

Funny thing, I used to do this with a magnetic chess set with friends back in the 80's.

 Link to article

The Fall trailer: an amazing film.

I can not recommend this film enough.

Is that a USB key in your pocket or a dual-core computer?

Norwegian company FXI Technologies showed off an amazing USB stick-sized portable computer prototype on Friday, Nov. 18. Code-named Cotton Candy, the tiny PC enables what its inventor calls "any-screen computing": the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into a dumb terminal for its Android-powered operating system.  Packed in its tiny  body is a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung Exynos ARM CPU (the same processor as in the Galaxy S II), 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-out and even a microSD card slot for memory.

FXI hasn't set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit. That's not bad for a full-fledged computing device the size of a cigarette lighter.

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The Grey Trailer 2

The Grey is an upcoming action-drama film directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson. It follows a number of men stranded in Alaska after a plane crash, and forced to survive using little more than their wits as a group of wolves come after them. The film will release on January 27, 2012.

Sound and image: Matrix No. 5

It's amazing how A: music can entirely change a scene without any editing, and B: how some music fits so well with a scene without any editing. For your consideration, The infamous lobby shootout from the Matrix, as synced up to Lou Bega's "hit" Mambo No. 5.

The most evil laugh ever!

This child is going to grow up to be truly evil.

Shock and AHW: they won't hear it coming.

Imagine a hypersonic ground-based missile capable of flying faster than Mach 5 +, capable of hitting any target on Earth within 1 hour.   Now stop imagining.  We have it.  Thursday the Pentagon tested a missile that does just that.  The "Advanced Hypersonic Weapon," or AHW,  was launched from Hawaii at 1130 GMT and flew over the Pacific "at hypersonic speed" before surprising the hell out of a target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.

read about it here

Why I’m ignorant, and so are you.

People are ignorant.  I often am.  The problem is, most people wear their ignorance proudly, like a fine cloak held tight against the wind of reason.  They wrap themselves in opinions and beliefs without actually thinking about why.  In our culture of instant information, media sound bites, and Internet viral marketing, we have too much data flooding in.  Rather than truly explore a subject, people take short cuts in their thinking, and rely on emotion, “reliable sources”, and dogma to guide their conclusions.

People choose ignorance over thinking because it’s easier.

Love's Gospel

You practice gospel with thy kisses.  Your lips a chalice holy and your language a sacred language of tongues.   But are your scriptures the same as mine? 
Eden may be tasted with faith and shared prayers in a passion play.  Heaven is together, always at one.  But behind every eternal promise is a fruit ripened with knowledge and reason. Taste and you doubt.  Doubt and you Fall.  Fall and you never rise up again. 

A high school teacher, a retired cop, and a porn empire walk into a bar...

First rule of a porn website empire: don't host it on your school-provided work computer.
Second rule of a porn website empire: don't host it on your school-provided work computer.


While one must applaud her work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit, one does have to wonder about her IQ.

Click for the sordid tale of a small home business gone "bust".  With SFW photos.

TOY FAIL - BARNEY

Touch Barney's "no no" place.

WTF video: Gordon Ramsay

If you're a Gordon Ramsay fan.... I dare you to listen to this video with your eyes shut, and not laugh out loud at least once.

Update on Weird Chinese Photos

Update: this "official" explanation has been released by the Chinese for those weird constructions in the desert. 
click here for the cover-up, er, I mean the official story.

Pilot locks self in toilet, causes mid-air terror scare

Pilot locks self in toilet and sends passenger 'with Middle Eastern accent' to bang on cockpit door for help - comedy ensues.  click here for the full story

Cool robot video: 50 ft long snake robot vs man driving giant spider robot.

Jane Austin Murdered?

I love a good literary theory.  Did Shakespeare write his own plays? (yes)  Was Van Gogh murdered? (possibly)  Just what happened to Edgar Allen Poe in his last days?  (wild debauchery and drinking).

The latest novel theory comes from

Crime writer Lindsay Ashford who believes Jane Austen 'died from arsenic poisoning'...  he bases hos claim on reading of author's letters.

Click here to read the full story.

Thoughts on Living Forever

Thoughts on aging research, highlanders, and living longer

Are we programmed to "die"?   Of course we are.  Think of our DNA as a spool of tape:  there are little "caps" or leaders called telomeres.  These "tick down" as you age, and when they expire, you age.

We've all been there.

The Morning After:

Are you prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse?

Are you prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse? Do you have 3 weeks worth of food and water? Hammer and nails to secure your dwelling? A P95 Full Face Respirator Breathing Mask? 10 gallons of bleach and disinfectant? A dozen heavy-rubber gloves? Rubber boots and 10 sets disposable cover-alls for when you have to go out to scavenge food? A firearm with at least 200 rounds of ammunition? 3 flashlights w/batteries? A CB radio and emergency radio? A well-stocked first aid kit? 20 cartons of cigarettes and at least 10 gallons of good booze? 10 battery-operated motion detectors for establishing a security parameter? A big bag of marbles to drop in the path of a zombie horde chasing after you? A pretty but emotionally distant companion who can be sacrificed if needed to zombies for your own escape? And most importantly, a Crovel? If you don't have these, I dare say you're unprepared.
Click here for The Crovel: Ultimate Survival Tool
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Damn you armor encumbrance! Blood On The Game Dice

Flashback Video: Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On

WTF video of the week: Parasite Doctor Suzune

Suzune: Genesis X Evolution is the latest adaptation of the erotic manga, "Kisei Jui Suzune." It's about a sexy doctor who battles evil parasites that cause their hosts to go insane with sexual desire and ... You've already clicked the video, haven't you?

The latest in the very funny series - Dicki

House Coffee

'True 3D' hologram: we live in the future.

Divorcing Couple Ordered by Judge to Swap Facebook Passwords

"Most divorces require spouses to part with some of their property..... but Judge Kenneth Shluger ordered that the attorneys for Stephen and Courtney Gallion exchange “their client’s Facebook and dating website passwords.”



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Jedi Squirrels!!!

Frank Miller Is Apparently Saner Than I Thought

Says Frank (The Dark Knight) Miller, "..... “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves."

Read the full article here!

Google hates me.

I was looking up my name on google, and check out how this link appears on Page 5 of a google search for C Todd Fluhr

Hopeless - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hopeless
... of good or success : despairing b : not susceptible to remedy or cure c : incapable of redemption or improvement. 2 ... Todd Fluhr · Louisville, Kentucky ...

link
http://www.google.com/search?q=c+todd+fluhr&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=Zbn&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=991&bih=606&prmd=imvnso&ei=bbfBTqzwKYP1ggeAl43fCg&start=40&sa=N

Want to know a secret? Women can only keep a secret for 32 minutes

Researchers found that women are overcome by the desire to gossip and can typically wait no longer than 32 minutes before spilling the beans. Depending on who the gossip is about, their husband, mother or best friend are most likely to be the initial recipients of the information.

China is building some weird-damned stuff in the desert.

This is weird, mysterious, and ominous.  China is building very strange, extremely large structures in remote deserts that appear to be some HARP-like structures and very large targeting sites with destroyed cars and tanks around them.  Check it out.  Weird stuff.  Where's Scully and Mulder when we need them?

click here to see for yourself.

Evil is on the Rise

Flashback Sunday Video: Berlin - Metro

Johnny Depp gives Ricky Gervais a piece of his mind (Life's Too Short)

The funniest thing you'll see this week! Liam Neeson - Life's Too Short

The meaning of life. So true. So very, damnably true.

This is from the very funny webcomic Mr. Lovenstein by J.L. Westover. - Link

I have a Dexter Theory

Dexter question for those who watched last Sunday's episode. No spoilers here, just a theory posed as a question. Does Professor Geller really exist? Or might Travis have murdered him a few years back, and now Geller only exists in the mind of Travis, the way Dexter's father and brother appear to him? Consider, we've never seen Geller interact with ANYONE except Travis. And we know from last Sunday's episode that Travis is an exceptional artist (according to his sister). Is it possible Travis killed Geller years ago, and Geller now exists only as Travis' own Dark Passenger?

You shouldn't think of her as a woman. That would be a mistake.

This is the new teaser for Steven Soderbergh's HAYWIRE. It features an AMAZING cast! It's a straight-up action film from Soderbergh and looks simply incredible.

The Life and Times of Clerkenwell Kid

terminally ambivalent over you

If this isn't an emergency, what is?

Man arrested for calling 911 five times to report his iphone was broken.
Link to story

The Big Tits Dragon: Hot Spring Zombies vs Strippers 5.avi

WTF video of the YEAR!! Words fail me. NSFW. Seriously. NOT SAFE FOR WORK PLACE, NOT SAFE FOR SANITY, AND NOT SAFE FOR ANY VIEWING AGE. View at your own risk.

OCCUPY DENVER ELECTS LEADER SHELBY

Dog elected as Occupy Leader in denver. Really?

No Cain Do.

Evidently, asking a stranger out to dinner is harassment. Good bye romance, good bye common sense.   (politico.com)

click here to read the story

Justice Breyer warns of Orwellian government - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Hello Mr. Police State.  Good bye privacy.   Justice Breyer warns of Orwellian government - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Cool website alert (and it's for a pretty cool web series!)

This website is for the new web series, DANGER 5.

Check out the retro coolness of the website for the new web series, Danger 5. 

Click here for the website! 

Danger 5 Trailer

Danger 5 Trailer:

All-new ASIMO (Nov 2011)

How long before we see battlefield asmo units?

Threesome goes wrong: East Naples man accused of attacking wife and other woman

 A sexual threesome turned violent Sunday, resulting in an East Naples man's arrest — accused of punching his wife, swinging a big-screen television at her and whipping her with a belt.

Jorge Daniel Silva, 22, of the 6400 block of College Park Circle, faces a felony battery charge after Collier deputies say he became enraged before a planned threesome with his wife and another woman Sunday afternoon.

Silva's wife told deputies that the three of them began kissing when Silva "freaked out" and started hitting her. The two women then ran into a bedroom and locked themselves inside, but Silva broke through the door, the report said.

As his wife curled up to avoid being hit, Silva punched her and "swung the TV at her like a bat," the report said. After hitting his wife with the television twice, Silva dropped it on her, then grabbed another television and threw it at her, deputies said. The second woman told deputies she tried to break up the fight but Silva would punch her in response.

Silva's wife was covered with blood when deputies arrived, her face was swollen and she appeared to have a broken nose, the report said.

Silva told deputies two stories -- that his wife attacked him after she kissed the other woman, and that he became jealous when the two women started kissing and wouldn't allow him to join. He also told deputies he broke down the door because he thought the two women were having sex without him.

All three appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, the report said. Silva remained in custody Monday afternoon.


- source

Who's watching the watchmen?

New privacy fears as police could track your GPS without a warrant

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether police use of GPS devices to track criminal suspects requires a judge's advance approval.
The case being argued Tuesday could have implications for other high-tech surveillance techniques in the digital age.
The Obama administration is appealing a ruling that threw out the drug conspiracy conviction of Antoine Jones of Washington because FBI agents and local police installed a GPS device on Jones' car and collected travel information without a search warrant.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059001/New-privacy-fears-police-track-GPS-warrant.html#ixzz1d8G93c38

PETMAN and BIGDOG - Stayin' Alive

WAY too funny. Skynet got rhythm!

Lightwerks Demo - Demo from 1994

pontypool Official Trailer of a very good zombie film

Dead SetOfficial Trailer of a very good zombie film

The Dead - Official Trailer of a very good zombie film

beer ad

Van Damn, coors light

MST3K - WHy Study Industrial Arts?!

testing again

another test

Dicki - Promo - Bathtub

Testing a blog post link

This is just a test.

zombies

Zombie questions

1st: most zombie films presuppose a massive incident of zombie activity literally overnight and globally. This all but rules out any realistic pandemic / virus model except the following possibilities: global bio-terrorism of co-ordinated virus releases, or magic. Can you think of any other explanations for a global zombie plague occurring everywhere at the same time?

2nd: Infection vectors are greatly ignored in the zombie genre. If it is a virus passed through bites, and supposedly highly infectious, shouldn't ALL zombie bodily fluids be considered infectious? Would you want to grapple or hack on an infectious Ebola victim? What about mosquitos transmitting the virus? Or the virus being airborne from the zombie's "breathing", like a contagious flu? Zombies moan, ergo they breathe. How might realistic infection vectors affect your zombie response tactics?Top of Form

I'd like to postulate 4 types of zombie infection for the above questions.
1. Super virus such as 28 days later: highly infectious super-rabies.
2. Weaponized Cordyceps. (http://youtu.be/XuKjBIBBAL8 ) A fungal spore infection responsible for wiping out entire insect colonies by infecting victims and turning them into violent zombies until the fungus "spores" and covers entire regions with microscopic spores that continue to infect individuals. Look up zombie ants to be afraid. Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife

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3. A supernatural / paranormal type of event that creates true "walking dead".
4. As Bw says, a latent "gene" or inherent condition in people triggered by non-traditional causes (the movie Pontypool is a good example: it's a meme wherein people are becoming zombies as their brains overload with too much information and a "God Virus" meme is triggered to reduce the over-crowded population. pontypool trailer: http://youtu.be/1PZkXgk4hZM

Assuming zombies "eat" the flesh and or brains of their victims, how do they process the meat? Do the zombies swell up like ticks and burst? Do they eliminate the waste as in zombie poop? Do they purge?

Another subject: how do zombies detect suitable prey, i.e. YOU? Do they "smell" you? Do they "detect" your electro neural activity? Do they hear or see you? I recently saw an interesting theory, that zombies detect prey by touch! They're drawn to the body heat of suitable victims: that's why they walk with hands outstretched and bump into each other and walk in groups: they don't eat each other because they're "room temperature" but go all zombie-postal when feeling the body heat of a living person. http://youtu.be/HCSxQXY406g

Zombie Preparedness 101: How to Take Down the Walking Dead

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