Heaven

"When it comes to heaven, I'm gonna be a fall tap."
-The Admiral

In Philly for the Summer?

Philadelphia Weekly just published their annual summer guide to Philly. It includes stuff about concerts, art exhibits, food events, etc. For "teh crazy," it even contains a guide to having sex in public and info on masturbation month... uuuummmm right.

Oh, and if you go to the link it'll ask you to sign in. The following username and password will work:
Username: bloopa
Password: bloopa1234

http://issuu.com/reviewpublishing/docs/051309_pw_opt

Reposted from Under the Button

Let's Rank the Presidents!

Lolz at Johnson, Filmore, and LBJ.

The tomato is a VEGETABLE!!!

The Supreme Court says so:

Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed whether a tomato was classified as a fruit or a vegetable...The court unanimously decided in favor of the defense and found that the tomato was classified as a vegetable...

Of course, their rationale is much more logical than I made it seem. I just found it funny that the Supreme Court deliberated on whether or not tomatoes were fruits or vegetables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

lol wtf?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html

Good thing they didn't use cows. They wanted a "low carbon" approach, and apparently cows fart alot. Like A LOT. Enough to be a contributor of global warming.

Second link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/Story?id=2723201&page=1

X-Factor

I just got an email from an email address formatted Firstname.Middleinitial.Lastname. Only the person's middle initial was "X".

So really, it looks like Firstname.X.Lastname, with the X looking like it's supposed to stand for X-Men, or X-factor, or something X-treme along those lines.

Hey, it's better than Nicholas.W.Eng, where the W might stand for something dumb, like "wuss" or something like that... =/

The Big Bang Theory

This post is actually regarding the actual Big Bang Theory and not some joke or TV show, and comes from my studying for my Astronomy final:

Describing both the follies and the achievements of the human race, Carl Sagan once said,

"These are the things that hydrogen atoms do--given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution."

(PS-BTdubs, the actual age of the universe is now refined to 14 billion years. Sagan died before scientists claimed us all a bit younger)

The Cosmic Perspective, 4th Ed., pg. 690.

Broadband's gonna be the next Cellular

Cellular providers suck. There are essentially only 4 major companies, all of which charge insanely inflated prices, force people into plans with minutes they'll never use, and destroy you on overage fees if you happen to choose the wrong one.
The one saving grace argument for them is that they need to generate all that revenue to raise capital to upgrade their networks to 4G.

You know what that reminds me of? Broadband service providers.

Let's see: there are essentially only 5 major companies (Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision, AT&T), they charge inflated prices which are constantly getting higher (especially if you're getting TV from them, sheesh), and are beginning to destroy people with caps and metered billing.
The one saving grace argument for them is that average data usage per person is going up (due to things like YouTube, watcing shows online, etc.), and that they need to generate large amounts of revenue to raise capital to upgrade their networks.

But wait, is that true?

ArsTechnica reviews such a claim and finds that it's just not true. Even in the wake of upgrading systems and adding customers, revenues are going up while costs are going down. And it's not just average cost per customer that's decreasing, it's total costs.

So, are the major ISPs charging high prices just to generate increased profits? Most likely. Are the data caps and metered billing neccessary for them to stay competitive and solvent? Probably not.

Are they one day going to be worse than cellular providers? Probably. Afterall, ISPs are essentially natural monopolies since the fixed costs of entering an area are so high. So the incentives to generate competition (which leads to better services and more affordable pricing for consumers) are much less.

I'm interested to see what happens with all of this in 10-15 years.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/isps-costs-revenues-dont-support-data-cap-argument.ars

That looks like an awful device

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Chair

To: http://gizmodo.com/5239173/stake-chair-makes-my-delicate-parts-quiver-in-terror

I want one. (The 2nd thing! Not the first!)

Please tell me this is a joke...

"I don't think it is. Way too much effort for a joke..." - Ribnick

http://www.revengecrabs.com/