Sunday, April 11, 2004

"The Tesla coil, and latter the tesla magnifier, were designed by Nikola Tesla as devices for Global communication. His aim was to produce a 'World Service', unlike Marconi's vision of using radio as a point to point wireless telegraph system, Tesla saw radio as a way of globally broadcasting a radio signal that could be picked up by anyone anywhere with the right equipment. His failure was due to a lack of funding when Marconi demonstrated his inferior but vastly cheaper radio, based on Tesla's patents and designs (note as of 1947 Tesla holds the patents for radio).

His eventual aims for the Tesla coil were even grander - he desired to use it to transmit electrical power throughout the earth so that electrical machinery could be run anywhere without batteries just by tuning into the right frequency with the right equipment.


He tested this and was able to transmit some 2000 watts 200 miles to power fluorescent tube lights in front of a small audience. Whether or not this would have worked on a global scale was never proven, and whether it could be done safely, without electrical circuits resonating by accident and picking up kilovolts of unwanted power, was a major concern. The important thing is that it looked damn cool when the test station was powered up and producing 140 feet of man made lightning."
[ Monday, March 31, 2003 ]

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)



"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)



"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)



"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins


Blake at 3:44:00 PM

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

A naked, samurai sword-wielding martial arts expert screaming, "I'm God! I'm immortal" hacked his wife to death yesterday in a blood-soaked Bronx rampage, police said.
Fear of new things shortens life
A New Zealand man who built a cruise missile in his garage claims the New Zealand government forced him to shut down his project after coming under pressure from the United States.
Commercial Alert Asks Emory University to Halt Neuromarketing Experiments
Blake at 6:41:00 PM

Monday, December 01, 2003

Family Trees of Disney Characters
Vatican defends anti-condom stand on AIDS Day
Disney devotee designed, lives in facsimile of Haunted Mansion
Roy to Eisner
NEWS.com.au | No bodies found after Iraq gunfight (December 2, 2003)
In Uganda, 1.7 million children have been orphaned by Aids - a tenth of the world's total. Florence Namukwaya was one of them - now she looks after 13 others. To mark World Aids Day, she tells her story
"We were all in these outfits. My sisters date was dressed as a Pirate. We were sitting at his table, a very elegant dinner. Harry Morgan was holding his stomach and choking. All of a sudden the Pirate jumps out of his seat. No one knew if this was real or a joke. It looked like a scene from a movie because he was dressed like a Pirate. He takes his sword out throws it to the ground. He then tries to resuscitate Harry Morgan who was choking on a piece of Steak. He turned totally Purple! The Pirate in real life was a doctor. "
Blake at 5:36:00 PM

Sunday, November 30, 2003

HOMELESS ISLAND: They live - and die - on a traffic island in the middle of a busy downtown street, surviving by panhandling drivers or turning tricks. Very intresting article.
Internet mapping project weaves colourful web
And for the gamers: a 2,000 year old d20.
Blake at 4:08:00 PM

Saturday, November 29, 2003

I think that I should mention that 'Seattle, Washington' is an anagram of 'Lots eaten: shit, wang'."
Blake at 11:53:00 AM

PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: A Machine to End War "A Famous Inventor, Picturing Life 100 Years from Now, Reveals an Astounding Scientific
Venture Which He Believes Will Change the Course of History" "It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. I announced the cosmic ray and my theory of radio activity in 1896. One of my most important discoveries--terrestrial resonance--which is the foundation of wireless power transmission and which I announced in 1899, is not understood even today. Nearly two years after I had flashed an electric current around the globe, Edison, Steinmetz, Marconi, and others declared that it would not be possible to transmit even signals by wireless across the Atlantic. Having anticipated so many important developments, it is not without assurance that I attempt to predict what life is likely to be in the twenty-first century."
Blake at 11:33:00 AM

Thursday, November 27, 2003

"AMAZING LIFE OF PORN ICON RON JEREMY" His mother was an agent for the OSS. I did not know that.
Video game toilets
Gold "nano-bullets" shoot down tumours
The maiden has a well-formed butt, by the Much-Mixing One, the calvaryman Oh yes.
A CHINESE scientist tried to kill a rival by hiding radioactive materials in his office.
Video games consumed my childhood. Lessons in life, love and the English language:
Lesson no. 1: If someone gets between you and your woman, you should either stomp on his head or light him on fire.

Lesson no. 2: Look before you leap into that green pipe of commitment, or else the piranha plant of emotional baggage might bite you in the butt.

And, most importantly, lesson no. 3: You can search all you want for the girl of your dreams – you can brave the dungeon of vulnerability, avoid the fireballs of embarrassment and dodge the dragon of apocalyptic, life-shattering rejection – but seven times out of eight your only reward will be a midget in a vest saying, “Sorry, your princess is in another castle.”
Blake at 11:12:00 AM

Saturday, October 11, 2003

I was busy. Here's what you missed:

Plasma blobs hint at new form of life
From Fart Sniffer to Prison Rape Researcher, The Worst Jobs in Science
The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus A fun little comic by Al Franken.
Pirate to Gangsta Slang
Everything you always wanted to know about Television
U.S. Solders Kill Rare Tiger in Bagdad Zoo Why you ask? Because they were getting drunk in the zoo and had a little "misshap" feeding the tiger.
Going Wild in Urban America:To be an individual hunter-gatherer in America is to lead a lonely life Man decides to live off only what he can grow and catch in the suburbs. What a guy.
New Terror Laws Used Vs. Common Criminals Well, that's not good.
Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001 "1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
What the hell is Grimace supposed to be? and Where's Mayor McCheese?
In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf. But now it's back!
How MIT students Broke the Bank in Las Vegas
Passengers and Air Marshal Subdue Unruly Traveler With Duct-Tape on Flight From Hawaii to L.A.
Anarcho Dictator of Death, 1947
Atari industrial design drawings
A prototype pair of sunglasses with a camera built in to them has been created by Hewlett Packard researchers. Funny, that guy dosen't Look like Spider Jerusulism...
Build a Nixie Tube Clock
Family Guy: The Movie!
The Jesus/Darwin Fish Wars
Radiohead Rorschach "Mitsi has consented to a simple experiment: We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don't even give them the name of the band. They don't know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique. They are also extremely bizarre."
Federation of American Scientests
Fun with fusion: Freshman's nuclear fusion reactor has USU physics faculty in awe "Spanish Fork High graduate Craig Wallace created a working nuclear fusion reactor, based on the plans of Utah's own Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of TV"
dance, Dance, DANCE!
The most depressing Penuts ever.
Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. Film school isn't what it used to be. Why no one learns anything usefull in film school anymore.
Dr. Doom attacks 12 year old boy at Theme Park. Hmmm...the kid's name is Richard..... CURSE YOU, RICHARDS!
" The Disposal Services Agency "" With its history of providing complete disposal solutions for the armed forces, The DSA uniquely offers a comprehensive portfolio covering everything from advice and consultancy, to the provision of a total managed service."
Kim Jong II comic selling well in N. Korea
Overview of Copyright Law
Russian Utopia Dipository
The ability of planarian worms to run a maze more successfully after being fed the remains of a successful worm
United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademark Maunual of Examining Procedure
Evolution series
Governor Jeb Bush Sends Lawyers to Represent a Fetus
Jack Kirby Zine
The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency
MTV's Clone High site is back up. What could it mean...?
Swaziland's King Mswati III has chosen a 17-year-old girl to become his 11th wife, alarming health workers
Lisa died needlessly at the hands of Scientology.
A two-and-a half-year-old girl from Wolverhampton is believed to be the youngest child to be excluded from the education system.
Solving it like Sherlock "The science of geoforensics - using particles of rock, dirt or soil to help solve a crime - is now one of the most frequently used methods at the start of any police investigation.
But the practice is based not on the brainchild of any university professor or crime expert, but in fiction - the character of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. "
Buzzwords includes a Buzzword Dictonary
Bill O'Reilly Wants You To Shut Up Also, Al Franken, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Rosie O'Donnell, gay people who talk about their sexual orientation, atheist Scouts, peaceniks, both parties …
Swimsuit issue stars Albert Einstein
Data Mining into the Amazon
Celeberties without makeup
Make your own vaginia out of a dollar bill!
moreorless short biographies and background notes on selected world heroes and killers of the 20th century
Sacramento is home to some of the world’s strangest Star Trek tribute bands.
Politics And World Events Of The Eighties Much, much more 80's information located here as well.
IIE Scholar Rescue Fund T"he Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) awards fellowships to support temporary visits to universities and colleges around world by scholars whose life, security or work is threatened in their home region." AWSOME!
PRISONERS' INVENTIONS MacGyver couldn't come up with better stuff.
Stripes are back in style in U.S. jails "Striped jail uniforms are becoming more common because authorities think solid orange uniforms are too easily confused with clothes worn by trendy teens or highway and electrical workers." Life Imitates Clone High!
Ever wonder how much a cloud weighs? About 200,000 elephants.
The language of heat How to say, "It's getting hot in here", all over the world.
Is Elmo Bush's secret weapon?
"New" Bill Hicks alblum.
Investigators trying to determine if man forced to rob bank. "ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A pizza delivery man told police he had been forced to rob a bank and asked authorities to help him minutes before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and killed him."
Compendium of Lost Words "The Compendium lists over 400 of the rarest modern English words - in fact, ones that have been entirely absent from the Internet, including all online dictionaries, until now."
Diner slang Do you know what your short order cooks are saying?
New Xaio Xaio, you know, that cool stick figure fighting dude? This one's an Origin Story.
Law and Order Coloring Book! Part of the Law and Order: Artistic Intent art exibit.
Jack Kirby Still Rocks
Mummenschanz
Quantum Mechanics Of Sandwiches In Lunchboxes: Sandwiches Are Actually Different At Different Locations
A Visit to The Hitler Bar, Hey a Nazi themed club, with Techno and Cocktails? I'm there!
ROBOTS LOVE THEIR MUMMYS TOO!
Bar Code Art
Slow Wave Dream Toons
You're going to die The first thing you must realize about Tetris is that there is no way to win.
"La Destreza" The Demystification of the Spanish School of Swordsmanship. Say it Ten Times fast!
RIAA keeps 12-year-old quiet with $2,000 bill
Terrorists recruiting Zombie Army to Invade U.S.!
'I MADE UP TITLES FOR PORN I HADN'T SEEN'
Why You Should Hate the 80's After listining to the midi, I started to hate the 80's too.
Film Moguls: Let Sex, Gore Stay
worldometers Up to date numbers on Food Production (tons), Millions of calories consumed this year, Protein Consumed this year (millions of grams), Underweight Children right now, and People going hungry right now.
Goofus and Gallant Choose your own Adventure
An Archive of Star Wars Tattoos
Infiltration: The Zine about going where you're not supposed to go.
He found himself sobbing uncontrollably, unable to work a sandwich dispenser and consumed by guilt. Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall had taken a psychiatric drug as part of an experiment. Add in personal tragedy and a spell of depression, and he could never see mental illness the same way again. Now he thinks diagnostic labels have no more predictive power than star signs and that plenty of people can live happily with severe psychotic symptoms.
Police call in the Ghostbusters
"We host THE LARGEST online selection of 1930 Shanghai style advertising posters."
More Human than Human A field guide for testing if the San Francisco mayoral candidates are human or not. Useing the Replicant Questioning from Blade Runner.
It's Good to Be the King "Tens of thousands of bare-breasted young maidens danced in front of King Mswati on Friday -- many hoping to catch his eye and become his next wife.
Britain's Channel 4 Sexes Up Fall Schedule "In "14 Alone," a group of 10 14-year-old boys and girls spends five days and nights in a house with no adults except a film crew" Does this sound like a good idea? Really? Oh boy...
G-8 and his Battleaces Good Ol' Pulp
Dungons and Dragons. Satan's Game. Your children, like it or not, are attracted in their weaker years to the Occult.... Whatever happened to the Dead Alewives?
Cards from Chicago Street Gangs
Doggie Diner Musuem of Photos
gang stories "I look up, and realize the entire party has gathered in the doorway, watching us with big eyes. The scene looks like something from Scarface: Me with a pistol in hand, Capone on all fours picking up shells, a half-dozen bags of llello and a roll of cash on the desk, and some random guy knocked-out on the floor.

And everybody just starts laughing. No one is shocked. No one tries to help the kid. Just another neighborhood house party."
Steam Trek A perfictly natural combination of SteamPunk and Star Trek.
Flinstones promote Smoking! But can you really not see Fred lighting up a Stogie after work?
The Goddamn Rock Solid Ghetto Shiznit Name Generator
The 86th Floor, Doc Savage
Crazy Mind-bending Optical Illusions
Visit the skeletal remains of a cold war weapon With a VR tour!
Organ music 'instils religious feelings' People who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by some organ pipes.
50's Commerical Animation Art
George Rarey's Sketchbook Journals of the 379th Fighter Squadron
We Want Your Soul and we'll pay cash.
All of yellowstone is ontop of a GIANT FUCKING SUPERVOLCANO. That, if it did erupt, which it might, would crack the crust of the North American Contintnt and Destroy All Life. Hoo-Rah.
Key changes in the brain enable taxi drivers to remember the best routes.
Flotation phone cuts off the world Also looks freaky awsome.
Brontonic Weapons Rayguns and Robots from the future of the past.
Opus Returns To The Funny Pages
Natural bacteria may act as HIV blocker Man, what does bacteria not do!?
Amazing pictures of a Great White Shark breaching.
How many teaspoons are there in a cubic light year? I'll save you some trouble, and say "A lot."
Industrial Art Gallery
Love Boat vs. Star Trek
Bald Captain - Bald Captain
Black Bartender - Black Bartender
Ship's doctor is a main character - Ship's doctor is a main character
Actors stand in front of screen, upon which is projected background of open sea - Actors stand in front of screen, upon which is projected background of open space
A dumping ground for second-rate washed-up guest stars - A dumping ground for second-rate washed-up guest stars
The Pixies are Back!
What the world looks like at lightspeed. Or, what Barry Allen sees.
Japanese Scientists Begin Work on Possible Mammoth Clone Making us -this- much closer to the McMammoth burger....
Fire Bad! Kill Prehistoric Mammoth Beasties! Oh wait, Fire Good!
Iceland to resume whaling Guess they were tired about Bjork being their only valuable export.
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? I did super-bad on this one.
Wonderful Pictures of Freaks, Real and Fake
THREAT ALERT JESUS The Deity of Homland Security!
Robot Insects that Walk on Water! Maybe Jesus was really a robot insect? I think so... But don't get happy yet, after all...
Christmas willl Steal your Soul!
Robots will Steal your Job!
Last Words of pliots, taken from black box recordings after the crash.
Plane Crash Info
Octopus vulgaris Video "Camera approaching coral with no sign of animal. As the camera gets closer, an O. vulgaris that was camouflaged changes color to white and becomes visible."
Shadow Boxing
"Pussies are bullshit. Don't let them tell you any different."
Christmas willl Steal your Soul! 666 in all the Barcodes Blaaarg!
Big business pushes porn into the mainstream You may ask, why would they do a thing like that? Well, look at how well it sells on sleazy street corrners, think how well it would sell on brightly lit Shopko shelves?
New penis grown on boy's arm Inlcudes a bizzare picture
Do Penis Enlargment Pills Work? What a great idea for a blog...
Male Zeus Bugs are Natures Mooches
Times the White House has mentoned links between Sadam and Al Qaeda
South African right-wingers 'tortured by rap' haha
158 The God Machine Forbidian Science
free fallin' How Skateborad King Mark "Gator" Anthony was born again as a rapist and murder...
The beast of Mashhad Saeed Hanaei believed prostitutes were a 'waste of blood'. So he murdered 16 - and became a hero for Iran's Islamic militants. Dan De Luce on a shocking documentary.
Humming Bird Nest
'Phish' Bassist Arrested; Allegedly Found In Secluded Area With 9-Year-Old Did I menton that the girl was the Daughter of a local Hell's Angels' chapter? "The Hell's Angels, who detained Gordon for police, were not, the sources say, gentle with sensitive areas of the rock star's body."
Fantastic Four Screenwriter Spills Secerts Say it ten times fast.
DNA computer can play Tic-Tac-Toe
Gamma Ray Weapons could trigger next Arms Race. HULK SMASH!!
Sexy set-up for shifty squid This cannot end well...
Japan sets goal of designing a robot with the mental capasity of a five year old in the next 30 years.
Top 1035 Sound and Music Samples
Victorian Sex Cry Generator and Realistic Alignment Generator
Swimmers don't slow in a substance twice as thick as water. Intresting.
The Wooden Mirror
2Pak releases sixth posthumous album
Doctor Arrested for Selling Patients as Wives
Cool Baby Gecko
Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame
did you like Weapon of Choice?
Grotesque Crime Scene Photos "These photos are here so that those thinking of becoming a police officer can view the type of horrible crime scenes you will witness as a police officer. Members of the public should also be aware that we ask this of them. These are actual photos, they have not been enhanced or faked in any way."
David Kelly, the government weapons expert, predicted that he would be "found dead in the woods" if Iraq was invaded, months before his apparent suicide, the Hutton Inquiry heard today.
"The weapons inspector slashed his wrist in Oxfordshire woodlands after being revealed as the source for BBC claims that the Government's dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been "sexed up" in the run-up to war."
Well. Shit.
A new book out reveils that Kenedy was really killed by Lyndon Johnson. Who knew?
The most Insanely high-quality Rescue Ranges ever.
digital watergun museum
How to not draw Crappy Breasts
Black Diamond and her All-Girl Posse Her uniform is a red beret, spaghetti-strap halter top and black jeans. Her weapons are Kalashnikovs and mortars.
Black Diamond, 22, is a Liberian rebel commander — known by her nom de guerre and feared by friends and foes alike in a war-shattered nation where women and girls are more likely to be victims than avengers (includes pics)
Shamelessly Whoring a 9-year girl. Bad, bad Rumsfeld.
The Danger of American Fascism
The Idiot's Guide to the Transmutation of Morals
Twister Bedsheet
Zombie Infection Simulation
BBC to open archives to public
A "mind-numbingly boring" propaganda film It is understandable that so little time is actually devoted to the president's true actions on the morning of 9/11. Because to show the entire 23 minutes from 9:03 to 9:25 a.m., when President Bush, in reality, remained seated and listening to "second grade story-hour" while people like my husband were burning alive inside the World Trade Center towers, would run counter to Karl Rove's art direction and grand vision.
Black copters over Oregon President Bush visits rural Oregon to tout his forest plan. Suddenly, huge fires burn. Now a small town is consumed by conspiracy theories.
Disney by Night Scary.
Ejaculation machinery a part of spinal cord
quantum chromodynamics Very Important
an Earth-18 Timeline
Bushisisms analyzed
Where was the center of the Big Bang? Nowhere! Ha!
Fractals
Historian of Things That Never Were
Top 250 Logos Hoo-Ra for Advertisment.
HOW TO DO THINGS WITH FOUR-LETTER WORDS: A study of the semantics of swearing in Australia
Hugh Hef and Joey Lawrence
Comparing the Bush commanders in chief
Vintage Erotica interesting how things change.
Transformer Mugshots
What if characters from the Simpsons mated? Scary.
Secret Service Test
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
Strings of Fate Holy crap, she's a good artist. Don't know if her writing skills are quite up to par tho.
The A-list: list of every celebity infraction ever
Geeks Live Vicariously Through D&D Don't they always?
Leagues of Extrondary Leagues For Fans of the Allen Moore.
Top Ten Albums of the 80's Includes many other top tens from the 80s
Women Swashbucklers
Strange 911 calls
"real world" examples of how differentdigital cameras work in their macro & closeup modes
Matrix mania in Japan Those Japs love to cosplay. En Masse.
Boxbots! Robots from Boxs! What could be greater?!
Escher Legos
Open government Information awareness
Chi-Chian Linked thanks to Evan
Art is the Antidote to Fear
The SUV of the Future
Thoughts Worth Thinking
Warrior of Love Rainbowman
Yesterday's Tomorrows
>Teen's account of time at Tranquility Bay
Lord of the Rhymes Hellz yeah. Download "9-Fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom RIGHT NOW!
Guess the Sitcom Character/Dictator
Killing the Buddha A very, very good website.
NIMH The unauthorized sequel. Better the "The Adventures of Timmy" Andy.
Nuke the Moon Just as a last resort
Looking Deeply into the Universe hoping it doesn't look back.
Skidoo A movie I NEED to see. With Grocho Marx as God.
Bruce Lee Kung-Fu Techno Remixer I know where Bruce Lee lives...
Storytime with Crabs
Tatu To Split Sad, since they were partially responsible for the recent pop lesbian meme floating around, but inevitable.
All about my vagina well, not my vaginia. Hers.
Giant Flavored Condums For Kids!
Little Robots in your Pants
Don't be that guy Yeah. don't.
Big Brother is Watching and Weapons of Mass Stupidity
Univerisity Robot deemed "Too Scary"
Professer Human Cyborg aka Kevin Warwick
Americans and Europeans
Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue Here's hopeing it belonged to a tribe of Were-Lions!
J-Dogg's Cybersek's adventures
"-Dogg: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears27: I slip out of my pants, just for you, J-Dogg.
J-Dogg: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears27: Oh, I like to play dress up.
J-Dogg: Me too baby.
BritneySpears27: I kiss you softly on your chest.
J-Dogg: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
BritneySpears27: Hey...
J-Dogg: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.
BritneySpears27: Funny I still don't see it.
J-Dogg: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty Fuk of the Beyondness.
BritneySpears27: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous.
J-Dogg: Don't fuk with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands.
J-Dogg: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.
BritneySpears27: Don't ever message me again you piece of shiat.
J-Dogg: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
J-Dogg: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
J-Dogg: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
J-Dogg: Baby? "
Blake at 10:26:00 PM