Y’know, in all my years in Catholic school, I don’t think I ever even thought to ask, “What would Jesus brew?”
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A few weeks ago, I posted this image and wondered if it was pro- or anti-Obama. Well, the guy has a new sign in the back window of his Honda CRV, and I’m guessing he’s anti-Obama.

He’s also a fucking retard.

He’s not a retard for his opinion. He’s not a retard for choosing to support McCain. He is, however, a retard for sticking a gigantic sign in the rear of his car which is almost certainly impairing his ability to use his rear-view mirror, and hence is endangering the safety of everyone on the road with him. Maybe his next sign will read: “IF OBAMA HADN’T RUN I WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO HAVE A GIANT RETARDED SIGN IN MY REAR WINDOW AND WOULDN’T HAVE BACKED OVER A LADY AT THE SUPERMARKET YESTERDAY. SORRY.”

As in … you can use it to “see through” things. No, really.

Peeling tape from a roll of Scotch releases tiny bursts of X-rays that are powerful enough to take images of bones in fingers and hands, researchers have found.

The unusual discovery was made by a team at the University of California in Los Angeles. They were intrigued after hearing that Soviet scientists in the 1950s found that sticky tape, when separated at the right speed, released pulses in the X-ray part of the energy spectrum.

Reporting in the British-based science journal Nature, the investigators used a motorised peeling machine to unwind a standard roll (25.4m by 19 mm) of Photo Safe 3M Scotch tape at a speed of three centimetres a second.

By placing the machine in a vacuum, they were able to measure X-rays that were strong enough to take images.

“We didn’t believe it. We really didn’t think it could be true,” co-author Carlos Camara said.

“We took some pictures of our hands to see the bones and prove that it was possible. We have a whole collection (of pictures)… it is absolutely remarkable.”

Cool!

Fuckin’ awesome.

(Found on Facebook with no attribution … so ….)

(Well, okay, it was actually e-mailed to me — and reprinted with permission, too:)

I was playing Fable 2, and saved enough money to either buy up the gypsy town or a 5 star blacksmith’s shop. My roommates were watching me play, and for the choice of slum lord versus businessman, one said “Besides necromancy, slumlord is my other automatic go to. Best part, you can work them to death, then raise their corpses to work for free!”

BLOG NOTE (11/3):

For some reason, my blog is not updating itself properly. I’ve written about a dozen posts since this one, they’re showing up on aggregator feeds, but not on the blog itself. Don’t know why, I think it isn’t updating itself.

Click here for the remainder of my October posts, and here for my November.

Good timing, too: the book club at The Office Job has chosen Watchmen as our next reading selection. This is the text of the notification e-mail the group’s organizer sent out:

Guy Fawkes Day Memorial Book Club Selection!

The next book we will be reading is Watchmen, by Alan Moore. It’s a graphic novel about superheroes, the Cold War, moral responsibility, and the end of the world, and is widely regarded as one of the classics of the genre. They’re also about to make it into a movie, so it is widely available from bookstores, libraries, and of course the faithful internet. The next meeting is at noon on the fifth of November. Hope to see you there!

I suppose it would make more sense to read V for Vendetta on Guy Fawkes Day … but, hey, nobody’s perfect.