Seasons greetings from the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
[From Norway to you, via my inbox]
Related: Top Nerd-mail Dec 6-12
Seasons greetings from the Norwegian Coastal Administration.
[From Norway to you, via my inbox]
Related: Top Nerd-mail Dec 6-12
I invite you to take a quick journey with me. Experience something magical the way I experienced it. It started on the IM:
yokiro: am currently reading a blog post with this great bit:
“Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington’s wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?”
me: is that for real? obama is going to abort the next jesus?
yokiro: you haven’t even heard the best part.
it was written by chuck norris.
me: stop it.
yokiro: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34841
Go ahead. Click it. It’s worth it. But let me comment on a couple of my most favoritest parts:
In short, while President Obama was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, the Democrats in Congress drove a sword through the womb of the unborn.
Hold the phones! Through the womb of the unborn? Now even the unborn can have abortions? That’s an outrage! (And impressive!)
Washington certainly has reached a new low by forcing American citizens who oppose abortion to pay for abortions via their taxes in this massively comprehensive way. Is it intentionally trying to spark the next Boston Tea Party? When our greatest values are thrown under the omnibus, how do they expect us to respond?
Um, apparently by throwing aborted fetuses into rivers?
Tell your representative and senators to quit fast-tracking these momentous bills without periods for debate and during secret sessions on weekends, when America is least attentive.
For that matter, don’t do it during Giants games either. Or when NCIS is on. Or when my wife is talking – blah blah blah – I just totally tune out.
It needs to reopen the pages of its history to our Founders’ elevated views of and rights for all human beings (including those in the womb), as documented in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
(But excluding the blacks, natch.)
Don’t miss my Christmas column next week, titled “Away With the Manger,” about how the feds are whitewashing America’s Judeo-Christian heritage via a progressive, politically correct and pro-Muslim platform.
Oh, you better believe I’ll be there, buddy. Chuck Norris isn’t delivering blows to Islam, Islam is kneeling down and ramming its head into Chuck Norris’s fist.
Posted in Information Stupor Highway
Tagged abortion, chuck norris, healthcare, islam, jesus, obama
Did you read this article in the current New Yorker about a philanthropist revitalizing Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park? And did you find it strange when the writer, Philip Gourevitch, used the word “shit” in describing hippos’ important ecological role?
It really caught me off guard. Not that I think it’s inherently inappropriate to use expletives (fucking obviously), but it’s jarring in a quasi-scientific context. I studied wildlife management and ecology in East Africa, and I don’t remember ever discussing “shit.” (Unless we were talking Typhoid and pit toilets.) Just sayin.
Posted in Unhappy Media, Write and Wrong
Tagged gorongosa national park, new yorker, shit
How do you know that you rinse and spin among the intellectual elite? When this is on the magazine rack at your neighborhood laundromat:
As an added bonus there was also a recent issue of PopSci, so I could distract myself from the sad triviality of my days by perusing my own bylines. So easily salved, the tender ego of a writer.
Posted in Lab Results, Unhappy Media
Tagged biblical archaeology review, intellectual elite, laundromat, popsci
Click for a graphic time capsule of 40-odd years of videogaming. Who’da thought when Megaman came out talking about the far-off year 20xx we’d actually ever get here?
[from Online Education via Gizmodo]
As if fathers needed any help preserving the cause of the ubiquitous “dad joke.” In this week’s Google Game we stumble upon one more argument for instituting a maximum age for internet usage: the application to date my daughter.
What’s particularly remarkable about this painfully unfunny parody is that pages and pages (and pages) of search results reveal the same document over and over again, with almost no variation. It could potentially be the Web’s most robust document. Highlights after the jump.
Posted in Google Game
Tagged application to date my daughter, caddyshack, dad jokes, google suggest
Last week AT&T wireless head Ralph de la Vega revealed that dropped calls and spotty service on AT&T’s 3G network isn’t really the company’s fault: It’s yours. For using your phone in the first place.
Betraying a sinister Obamarxist agenda, de la Vega told the Telegraph that 3% of users account for 40% of the network’s data capacity, and that the only way to relieve the crunch is to dissuade the bandwidth bourgeoisie from using their phones so much:
We’re going to try to focus on making sure we give incentives to those small percentages to either reduce or modify their usage so they don’t crowd out the other customers in those same cell sites….What’s driving usage on the network and driving these high usage situations are things like video, or audio that keeps playing around the clock. And so we’ve got to get to those customers and have them recognise that they need to change their pattern, or there will be other things that they are going to have to do to reduce their usage.
Hear that, paying customers? Quit using all those apps the iPhone is specifically designed to provide you. (Ahem, please continue buying them, just don’t, you know, like use them.) Or else.
Or else what? Well, or else you’ll probably have to pay more — in a structured data plan, say — for service that will inevitably stay the same, or get worse. Or you can switch to Verizon, should they ink a deal to sell iPhones when AT&T’s exclusivity agreement ends. Then you can wait until the current self-proclaimed leader in 3G service nationwide finds itself overwhelmed with app-happy screen-touchers and turns the finger back on you.
Posted in Gadgeteering
Tagged at&t, data use, iphone, iphone app, ralph de la vega, verizon
I get a healthy handful of emails from tech companies and PR agencies with some pretty lame-sounding subject lines in my in-box each week — Large Display Industry Snapshot 2009, Interactive Toy Concepts at CES 2010 and WOORYWOOS TAKE OVER TV, to name a few from the last couple days. But then I get one like this that’s so over-the-top geektastic and it makes all the others fade away:
Futron! Space Competitiveness! Webinar! A veritable cavalcade of scitech buzzwordiness. I don’t even care what it means — sign me up.
Posted in Information Stupor Highway, Write and Wrong
Tagged futron, nerd-mail, space competitiveness, webinar
If you live outside NYC you’ve probably never gotten to enjoy the brilliant commercials for lower Manhattan’s J&R electronics superstore. If you’re here and you haven’t seen one today, it’s time.
yes.
yes.
and also yes.
They were produced by New York ad agency Toy, which has also done work for Virgin Mobile and Office Max. So simple. So good.
Just in time for Hanukkah, the perfect gift for the nerdy Jew in your life. The nerdiest Jew, that is.

The Deluxe LED Menorah kit from Evil Mad Science comes with a pre-programmed microcontroller, battery holder, nine ultrabright LEDs, an alignment guide for the LEDs, and a laser-cut acrylic stand, for $14. Or, for 3 bucks more, get the upgraded kit with white or blue LEDs.
Show them goyim gearheads how real men worship. You cut down a tree? That’s cute. I harnessed photons.
[via Make: Online]
Update Dec 10:
I think we found the ubergeek heeb I alluded to above:

Made from Evil Mad Science kit and Star Trek Pez dispensers. Baruch Uhura.
[via Make: Online]