I Love the Smell of Wood Chips

If they made burning leaves scent I'd be on it like a numerator over a denominator.

Ever Do This?

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I used to do this all the time as a kid. Your puny gravity can't hold me, earth.

XKCD

Bajau Laut Girl Saves the Day

This Bajau Laut girl uses Newton's first law of motion to unsink a sunk canoe. (I think this should be Newton's second law; the first law should be: don't stand up in a canoe) Notice how she jumps into action while everyone on the dock uses the Obama Benghazi method of watchful waiting to see if the problem magically resolves itself.

This American Life

Wet/dry points to:

Adam Beckman tells the first part of his story, about how, back in the 1970s, he and his friends broke into an abandoned house in the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire. The home turned out to be a perfect time capsule, containing the furniture, letters and personal effects of an entire family...abandoned for decades. It seemed like the family just vanished one day, leaving salt and pepper shakers on the table, notes on the bedroom mirror, and a wallet with money still inside. Adam and his friends read the letters, saving some as clues, and never forgot.

King Me

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
-Kobe Bryant 

The bad guys have figured out that “leading from behind” isn’t leading at all. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is acting like a grandmaster of chess while Obama stumbles at checkers. 

-Michael Goodwin

 We're doomed.

It's Just Wax

There was a bit of excitement in Paris today:

A topless member of the radical protest group Femen used a metal chisel to stab and bash in the face of Putin's statue in a famed Paris wax museum on Thursday.

The activist, who had 'Kill Putin' written on her bare chest, reportedly screamed "Putin is a dictator" while destroying the figure at the Grevin Wax Museum, French daily Le Parisien reported.

 Even more distressing, for a time the police believed that the wax statue of Obama was the real man and was in danger.  "I should have known it was the wax figure," said one policeman, "but then I saw that he was reacting to the commotion in exactly the same way as he handled Benghazi, and I decided to err on the side of caution."

That Post

This is the post in which I give the president neck muscles and make Eric Holder's list of undesirables all in one go.

Net Neutrality

(language warning)

Raise your hand if you voted for the new hopey changey president because you thought he would end things like overpriced under performing  internet. Whoops, huh?

The EPA and the FCC are the tools Obama will use (and is using) to "fundamentally transform America." Grabbing the ankle now please. 

h/t: Lumberbrudi

Kids React (wanna feel old?)

I think I may still have a 5 1/4 floppy drive.
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It Seems We're Fast Approaching 1984

From the NYT:

The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.

The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal...

Did you hear about the missing child that was found through a facial recognition program? Yeah, me either. If there is any evidence that massive communication intercepts have made us any safer, I'd like to hear about it. Otherwise, I'd just as soon keep my privacy.

Even those of us who are freakishly handsome get nervous about government types pouring over our images.