In case you missed President Bush’s State of the Union address last night (or turned on some awful SciFi channel crap just to make it go away), NPR has gone ahead and fact checked his speech for you. Hey, thanks dudes.
Hugo Chavez calls for an anti-US alliance. His (not-so-outlandish) claim is that the US is and has been practicing imperialism throughout the world, and he doesn’t want to see the same crap go down in South America. Or, as he puts it: “If the US threatens one of us, it threatens all of us,” … “we will respond as one.”
Wanna know about the upcoming tax refund? Here’s a little primer for ya. It’s kinda like back in 2001 when Bush gave us all $300, except it may be a little more than that. Big freakin’ whoop.
MythBusters are taking on perhaps the most-argued-about problem in the history of science: can a plane take off while rolling on a conveyor belt? No matter what the outcome, this will probably continue to be fought over. My guess is that it doesn’t work, because no air is flowing above and below the wings, aside from the breeze. That said, it would be cool to be proved wrong, too!
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 will take tourists to space for around $200,000. Thankfully, it’ll get cheaper over time. The design of this thing seems a shitload more sturdy and sensible than NASA’s current shuttles, if you ask me. Do we still need to fill up those huge fuckin’ tanks each time if we can get ‘er up there with commercial jet-like vehicles?
Google Maps gone wrong. I think nicodemia will appreciate this… what with all his big brother notions and such.
Look people, Wesley Crusher wasn’t just dicking off when they made him acting ensign. Despite this obvious fact, some guy recently tried to outwit Wil Wheaton using treknobabble. Come on, man. Even Captain Picard himself knows less about warp cores than Wesley does.
This page is no longer loading properly, but: someone has figured out how much wireless phone companies are REALLY charging us for each text message. I’m going to let his data explain itself:
COSTS OF TRANSFERING 2,560 MP3s:
TCP/IP: $1
TCP/SMS: $61,356,851.20
TCP/USPS: $307,072.00 (Bits written out on paper)
Haha! Well, that settles it. Text messages are a total ripoff. (Although, I get unlimited messages to my bro Echanos, so what the F.)
