Archive Listing
February 5, 2006 - January 29, 2006
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Alright Already!
Please, just go away. You're 73+ years-old. You're going to die soon. Go and repent of all your sins. Enough. Bye-bye. See ya . . .
Friday, March 04, 2005
Scary Situations Created by Nuclear Weapons
You might remember, a little while
back, they were talking about a dropped Hydrogen bomb someplace
down South -- Savannah, GA, 1958.
Well, we were doing a little relocation research for HQ when we came upon a fine product -- Keyhole.
Keyhole is a mapping and satelite imagery service and provides high definition views of a number of locations
around the world with resolution down to 1 meter.
We certainly would encourage you to take a look at Keyhole -- you can get a 7-day free trial, but after that, you've got to pay. The annual subscription seems well worth it to us . . .
Anyway, we came across a link from a Keyhole image that provided information on the possible location of the Savannah Broken Arrow. This website also provided details on a whole bunch more (the Savannah bomb is No. 12 on the list). We thought we'd pass it along to you before your big weekend blowout so you can, along with us, be amazed at humanity's astounding ability not to think about something.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Modern Love Letters
Wow. Running a blog is fun. People send us all kinds of stuff. Unfortunately, sometimes they lack the
nerve to bring things to your attention.
What we got was a letter from a 15-year old public school student that was delivered to his sweetheart along with a copy of a magazine article with various sexual positions described -- his favorites dutifully noted with the express hope of hooking up at some point and giving them a whirl.
We also had the reply which was in the affirmative.
We thought you should be able to read these little missives -- a kind of cultural artifact -- but concerns by our reader over the propriety of releasing such personal information, even in the annonymous setting provided here at InstaPunk, was just too much. So, we thought we'd honor the request to withhold the letters and join in the hand-wringing -- "The harder question is what to do - if anything - about it - for real - it's really horrible."
Yes, whatever it is . . .
An Old-Fashioned Exclusive Sexual Preference
Harvard developing multi-cultural immunities to "heteronormative" thinking -- HERE.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
QUOTE. A lot of you may remember the guy who led the charge to explore the so-called "Face" on Mars. His name is Richard Hoagland, and he's been pretty successfully slimed by NASA, and his own politicking, with regard to his claims about the Red Planet.
But now he's back with a new astonishing assertion, this time about a tiny Saturnian moon called Iapetus, which is incidentally famous for being the final, mystical destination of Arthur C. Clark's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Hoagland has analyzed some recent photographs taken by the Cassini space probe and believes that Clark must have been onto something because just like the Face, Iapetus might be an artificial structure. In fact, he thinks it's a geodesic dome, just like Buckminster Fuller used to make. To prove his point, Hoagland draws on the NASA pictures and outlines the "anomalous" features. For example, here's what he sees when he looks at the edge of Iapetus illuminated by Saturn:
Do you see it? Fortunately, he has lots of photographs to choose from. Here's another view:
Hmmm. That one's actually a little eerie. He also finds it strange that Iapetus has a perfectly straight mountain range aligned precisely on its equator, which suggests to him the following comparison:
One thing you can say about Hoagland -- he knows how to attract attention. But when we went googling for all the excitement about his newest discovery, we found that most of the astronomy dudes have gotten pretty blase, if not downright nasty, about Hoagland's evidence. They don't seem to believe much of what he says.
We feel kind of bad for him. The article he wrote on his website was all long and lavishly illustrated and everything, and people still don't seem to care. So we studied the materials ourselves and came up with a "smoking gun" that Hoagland unaccountably missed.
Don't you think that about clinches it? We do, and we don't even own a telescope. Help yourself to our discovery, Richard, and run with it as far as you can.
There Isn't Any God (Wil.25.5)
We received an email with a reference to this brief
rebuttal to the pompous Usher's post over the weekend. Our headline link expands upon THIS.
If you don't do well with pictures, there are a bunch of words -- HERE.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Things Happen a Little Bit at a Time
What do you know, Paul Krugman was right. Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ did stir
anti-semetic ideas -- last night, when it was completely ignored by "The Academy" (people
actually say that with a straight face, all night when they get their statues).
Well, not ignored completely. Chris Rock noticed that nobody wanted to make Passion of the Christ -- Police Academy 6?, "Yes," but Passion of the Christ?, "No." We thought it odd and thought we'd mention it. Not a big deal, but it seems like it's just another point on which Americans are picking sides, and not in a friendly, kind of intramural way, either.
Look Out for Your Corporate Culture -- Follow-Up
Prof. Bainbridge is sounding more like a distributist
than he did before . . .
One error he makes in the post is saying that a Max Sawicky made "one of the most interesting responses," when clearly that was us. Perhaps he meant to say, "most interestingly wrong responses."
