(Really, this ought to be reason #1, but it's the third reason I became aware of, chronologically speaking.) In the UK, the police can raid your home based on "unusual heat patterns" spotted via aerial infrared photos. Indeed, it seems that aerial surveillance is the order of the day over there. At least the Telegraph [...]
Seriously, every time I get an idea for a good post topic lately, I hear about something even more fucked up before I get a chance to write it. I can't keep up with all the fucked up shit going on in the world right now … if I did, I'd be spending so damn [...]
xkcd created a helpful "real world" guide to metric measurement for those of us still living firmly in the imperial world … but I gotta say, taking a good look at the temperature scale, it doesn't really resonate for me. So, in the spirit of the weather here STILL being too damn cold to start [...]
'Tis the season for top ten lists, and other unbearable retrospective articles about The Year That Was … and while I was rather tempted to write something along those lines, really, who needs to read another list of the best, or worst, or "most memorable" of anything? Sure, we could rehash the US presidential election, [...]
So, for the umpteenth time, I get to checkout at an online store. Their shipping policy says they ship to the "Continental US and Canada," so I figure I'm good to go, considering Alaska is BOTH part of the "Continental US" AND attached to the Western edge of Canada … … and once again, whether [...]
