8-bit goodness

OK Now this is actually scary

Looks like even dorks can be hacked. Still no black holes though.

Slalom

Truly California Radical Extreme.

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel
p.s. Vimeo blows away YouTube.
p.p.s. nice Che Guevara poster douche

Greco-Roman Training

Great NYT article about The Incline in Colorado Springs. Training like the first Olympic athletes.
“The mountain is the mountain,” Fretta said. “It doesn’t move. There is no way to cheat.”

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Babies and protons

We’ve had a baby so posts have been slow. Had to drop this Large Hadron Rap in between changings and holdings.

Always Sunny

I love this scene from Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Cataclysm imminent?

Not to be too ignorant and paranoid but please don’t turn it on. Please.

Most physicists believe the risk of a cataclysm lies in the realms of science fiction. But there have been fears about the possibility of a mini-black hole – produced in the collider – swelling so that it gobbles up the Earth.

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This is not a drill

Looks like the idiots over at the National Institute of Standards and Technology were making a plutonium mojito and forgot to not wash the mint down the drain.

Traces of plutonium from the June 9 spill were found in a laboratory sink, where the radioactive chemical may have washed into the city’s sewer system, NIST announced [...]

Yeast?

How not to make bread

Tags: gross

Skynet

Looks like a little over ten years late but Skynet is about to become self aware.