3. Just Odd Stuff
The Grad Student Guide to Automatic Weapons
Those that take gun control seriously should not read this. The article is quite twisted...
"BBC News - New light on human torch mystery - Rather gross; they set fire to a dead pig to investigate the "spontaneous human combustion" theories. Interesting results appear to have been obtained.
An "anti-bear" suit designed to survive attacks by wild bears. Testing included:
Collisions with a 3T truck at 50 km/h
Shooting at it with a shotgun with "sabot" slugs
Shooting at it with a 100 lb bow with "armour piercing" arrows
Assault by three bikers armed with axe, planks, baseball bat
Jumped off an escarpment; 15m vertical fall
This page contains a list of oft-used invalid methods of proving things, such as "Proof by wishful citation," "Proof by reference to inaccessible literature," and such.
The "Tourist Guy" was one of the lighter "hoaxes" associated with the events of "9/11." A (Hungarian?) tourist took a photograph that had been taken atop the World Trade Centre, edited in an image of an AA aircraft about to strike the building, and passed it on to someone over the Internet, with the claim that the picture was developed from a camera found in the rubble.
When I first saw the picture, my own emotions reacted fairly strongly. The juxtaposition of "an ordinary tourist, admiring the view" with the impending catastrophe is a shock. My retrospective view is that it is funny; after such huge shocks, we need a laugh, a "lighter side" to things.
Later forgery efforts have involved grabbing the the "Tourist Guy" image and introducing it into images of many other historical disasters and other events. None are nearly as striking as the initial image...
The ill-translated text of this Japanese computer game is the source of the infamous "All Your Base Are Belong To Us!"
This has led to all sorts of hoaxes, such as when
Harper's Magazine: The radioactive boy scout: when a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor.
On the case of David Hahn who managed to secure materials and equipment from businesses and information from government officials to develop an atomic energy radiation project for his Boy Scout merit-badge. He wound up building his own breeder reactor.
Landover Baptist: Where The Worthwhile Worship. Unsaved Unwelcome.
A rather twisted view on Baptists...
Jorgen Stadje, Nonsens Page: The Case of the Exploding CD-ROM
Movieman Productions Unofficial Celebrity Bra Sizes
The fact that all it has is statistics is really bizarre...
TinyLittleWit - Harsh, Judgemental Humor at its Best!
Mean, but often funny...
The Most Complete and Most Useless Collection of Pick-Up Lines
THIS WEBSITE TELLS YOU HOW TO MAKE A THOUGHT SCREEN HELMET, THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE ONE, AND WHERE YOU CAN OBTAIN THE MATERIALS
The thought screen helmet blocks telepathic communication between aliens and humans. Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with them.
Beautiful radial symmetry and pristine mathematics, perverted into a revolting, horrible, yet highly amusing little optical toy.
Whats the Bloody Point? - Baiting the Nigerian 419 Money Scammers
COEHORN MORTAR - Hunt for Wisconsin Feral Cats. How to Hunt with a Coehorn Mortar