Santorum: Obama “A Snob” For Wanting Everyone To Go To College
“Some liberal college professor”…
sounds like he’s never set foot on a college campus before. Is he really denigrating people that want to make themselves better people?
www.cynical-c.com/2012/02/26/santorum-obama-a-snob-for-wanting-everyone-to-go-to-college/
The Separation of Church and State Makes Rick Santorum Want to Throw Up
I think we got a winner here.
Filthy house of the day
This tenant rented from me for 7 years. She was not a hoarder when she moved in. The first five years everything was fine. She was a "cat lady" and the house smelled like a litter box, but she was still not a hoarder. Apparently sometime in the last 2 years of her tenancy she lost it.
Every time we arranged to make an inspection she would cancel at the last minute with a different excuse, "I’m sick", "I didn’t have time to clean up", "It’s not a good time can we reschedule?" etc. Since she paid rent on time every month and never submitted any maintenance requests, inspecting her house was not an urgent priority. Now we know why she was putting us off!
Enchanted Forest Theme Park
pening in 1955 (a month after Disneyland), The Enchanted Forest was a roadside amusement park in Ellicott City, Maryland that featured figures from nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
Visitors paid less than $2 to clamber through Cinderella’s castle, ride through the caves of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and take a teacup ride to the underground scenes from Alice in Wonderland. On a large excavated pond, guests rode the Little Toot tugboat and visited Mount Vesuvius and Jungle Land.
More pictures at Atlas Obscura but damn, that’s one creep looking place right there.
Rep Lamar Smith Can’t Hear You
Meet Lamar Smith, representative from Texas, and Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary. As Chairman he can kill any bill he doesn’t like by denying it a hearing while giving priority to the bills he wants to pass, Like SOPA. While addressing the massive outcry over SOPA he stated that:
“It’s a vocal minority. Because they’re strident doesn’t mean they’re either legitimate or large in number. One, they need to read the language. Show me the language. There’s nothing they can point to that does what they say it does do. I think their fears are unfounded.”
Above is a list of people that have pointed at the language, including law professors and computer experts. You have a civil war among video game companies, and the successful boycott of a company. How do you ignore that? It’s an election year. This November. Whatever happens, Texas, please kick this guy out of office.
Please, if you have the ability to, elect this guy out of office.
Hostess filed for bankruptcy
Hostess Brands, whose quirky full-page ads for Twinkies, CupCakes and Fruit Pies were a hallmark of American comic books from 1975 to 1982, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as early as this week.
this is what happens when you stop advertising in comics.
RIP Jerry Robinson creator of The Joker
“Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture’s greatest icons. As an artist myself, it’s impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.”—Jim Lee, DC Entertainment Co-Publisher and artist of BATMAN: HUSH
“Jerry Robinson was one of the greats. He continued to be a vibrant, creative force well into his nineties, with ideas and thoughts that continue to inspire. Jerry was a great advocate for creators. It was my pleasure to meet and work with him. He will be missed.”—Dan DiDio, Co-Publisher, DC Entertainment
“It’s impossible to work at DC Entertainment without feeling the impact of Jerry Robinson’s contributions to the industry. His influence continues to resonate today.”—Bob Harras, DC Entertainment Editor-in-Chief
“Jerry Robinson was an innovator, a pioneer in storytelling. His artwork was always astonishing, but his contributions to the Dark Knight mythology go far beyond art. The streets of Gotham City are a little lonelier today…Jerry will truly be missed.”—Mike Marts, BATMAN editor
Universal Orlando To Close JAWS Ride
Hey fans, we want you to be the first to know… JAWS! and the Amity area will officially close on January 2 to make room for an exciting, NEW, experience we’re planning for you. We know you love JAWS! and we do too. It has been an amazing attraction and after terrorizing the waters of Amity here at Universal Orlando for 20 years, it’s a VERY important part of our history. So, we’ve got a couple things planned to ensure we always remember and honor it. We know it’s hard to say goodbye, but we can’t express how EXCITED we are about the new, innovative & amazing experience we’re going to be bringing you.
I never got the chance to go on this, guess I never will.
via Universal Orlando To Close JAWS Ride | nerdbastards.com.
LEGO Universe to close operations, lay off 115 employees
1 – this sucks
2 – I’m desperately wanting to start up a company that archives these types of games and sets them up as archives that you can still visit from time to time. Wish I knew who to contact with LEGO to offer that. How much could it possibly be to run the servers?
November 4, 2011 – The LEGO Group today announced that it will close LEGO® Universe, an MMOG massively-multiplayer online game that has been in operation since the autumn of 2010. In spite of very positive player feedback and a large number of players in the free play zone, it has not been possible to convert a satisfactory number of players to paying subscribers. It has therefore been decided to close the game as of January 31, 2012. “The LEGO Universe team can take pride in having developed and launched a great LEGO experience that many players will miss,” said Jesper Vilstrup, Vice President, LEGO Universe. “Right now, we have almost 2 million players in LEGO Universe, and we get extremely positive feedback from players. Unfortunately, we have not been able to build a satisfactory revenue model in our target group, and therefore, have decided to close the game.” Despite the change, the ambition to develop and run a digital business remains. In future, it is the intention to further pursue cooperation with partners. The LEGO Group has a strong and continuing partnership with TT Games Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to create digital LEGO experiences within video games. A further expansion in the digital area will mainly be based on similar partnerships. “The development of our digital offerings continues to be a very important element in our strategy,” said Mads Nipper, Executive Vice President, LEGO Group. “We have more than 20 million visitors on www.LEGO.com every month, and LEGO video games are among the bestselling children’s video games with sales of more than 60 million units in the last five years. Through our experience developing and running LEGO Universe, we have gained a lot of valuable insights, and we have a very strong foundation for future development in the digital area.” As a consequence of the closure, the LEGO Universe staff has today been informed that the ‘Play Well Studios’ in Louisville, Colorado and the game’s marketing function in Billund, Denmark will be closed. This will affect 115 employees. All affected employees will be offered assistance in finding new jobs inside or outside the LEGO Group.
Faster Than Light? Not Quite!
the GPS satellites used to measure the departure and arrival times of the racing neutrinos were themselves subject to Einsteinian effects, because they were in motion relative to the experiment. This relative motion wasn’t properly taken into account, but it would have decreased the neutrinos’ apparent journey time. The Dutch scientists calculated the error and came up with the 64 nanoseconds. Sound familiar? That’s because it’s almost exactly the margin by which CERN’s neutrinos were supposed to have beaten light.
Mind you, if this is the ultimate answer to the problem, it won’t be a “gotcha!” moment, because as they were announcing the ‘faster than light’ particles, they were throwing all sorts of qualifiers and asterisks in their explanations, and for anyone that was paying attention, the real question was “how did these results come back wrong” and not “how did we go faster than light?”
via Engadget.
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
PRESS RELEASE: Letter from Steve Jobs
August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
via WSJ.
Fatal collision leaves Amtrak train in flames
CHURCHILL COUNTY, Nev. — A semitrailer plowed into an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing on a rural northern Nevada highway on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, authorities said.
The truck driver and at least one person on the train were killed in the 11:25 a.m. accident on U.S. 95 about 70 miles east of Reno, said Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez.
Holy fuck, it’s like that one movie that just came out.
via msnbc.com.
Alamo Drafthouse: “Don’t Text During Movies” PSA
people like this girl should not be in public. When I went and saw x-men: first class there was a gal right next to us that had to check her phone ever couple minutes, though hers wasn’t very bright, it was still a distraction.
www.thehighdefinite.com/2011/06/alamo-drafthouse-dont-text-during-movies-psa/
Mars: NASA gives up on attempts to contact Spirit rover
The stuck in the sand Mars rover reached a point where there was inadequate energy to run its survival heaters. That being the case, the rover likely experienced colder internal temperatures last year than in any of its prior six years on Mars. Many critical components and connections would have been susceptible to damage from the cold. Today, a transmission from Earth will be the last in a series of attempts to reawaken the robot.
Not too bad for a little robot that had a life expectancy in months, not years.
via Boing Boing
The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse
Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode?
I gotta say, in my professional experience with the usps, nearly half of the mail I get ends up in the trash/recycle bin. Perhaps they should start charging more for the bullshit mailings that go out?
via BusinessWeek.
SETI suspends search for alien life
Our progress toward intergalactic fellowship has suffered another blow, as SETI suspended operations of its Allen Telescope Array. Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the array is a collection of radio dishes that scan the skies for signs of life; now it’ll be in “hibernation” mode until 2013, when the institute’s new round of funding begins.
Truly a sad day for science, what if E.T. happens to reach out to us while SETI is sleeping?
via Engadget.
Mubarak resigns, hands power to military
CAIRO – Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands.
A massive crowd in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square exploded into joy, waving Egyptian flags, and car horns and celebratory shots in the air were heard around the city of 18 million in joy after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV just after nightfall.
via Yahoo! News.
Sanford Airport to opt out of TSA screening
The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm.
Orlando Sanford International Airport has decided to opt out from TSA screening.
Hey, isn’t that the same city that they’re giving away guns with the purchase of a truck?
via wdbo.com.
F-22 Raptor Missing in Alaska
NBC News reported earlier today that:
The advanced stealth fighter jet was about 90 miles northeast of Elmendorf Air Force Base when it “dropped off the radar.”
There was no mayday or any other communication from the pilot that would have indicated the plane was in trouble, the officials told NBC News. There have been no distress calls from the pilot since the plane went missing
U.S. military helicopters and at least one C-130 have so far failed to turn up any sign of the missing fighter jet.
EVERYONE HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE:
A “stealth fighter jet” dropped off the radar? No shit dude. Maybe you should have been concerned that you could see it on radar. All kidding aside, I hope the pilot made it ok, and he just made a pit stop for some slim jims.
via Defense Tech.
EDIT:
aw fuck, they found wreckage, but luckily no pilot yet. He may yet be found in an Alaskan bar having a strong drink after his ejection from his jet.
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