Ladies, are you tired of unwanted attention from the gentlemen out there? Science has an answer: Make them smell your tears.
(The Splinter by Eric Stafford.)
Alright, ladies. So the gentleman in question has smelled your tears and is no longer interested. He makes a peace offering: a vibrator. Don’t take it! It could be a vibrator bomb!
Attention: One-armed flame-retardant Texan drummers! Somebody is looking for you.
We present to you: the incredible shrinking moon!
(via Things Organized Neatly.)
Now that jailbreaking is legal, Apple is working on ways to disable your jail-broken phone. The Big Bad Blog is starting to think that Apple does not think very highly of its customers — they seem to be out to break our shit.
Stats-heads: Here is an interactive graph about Lonodn’s cycle-hire scheme, looking at the time, weather, and number of bicycles in use.
We here at the Big Bad Blog do not have a lot of experience teaching science. However we do have a lot of experience in not teaching science. As such, we feel that we can freely give advice on what not to do. For instance, when a student is excited about their science project and showing it off to their friends, do not call the police and tell them the student brought a bomb to the school. Such actions do not reward or foster the student’s curiosity and enthusiasm about science.
At least the authorities have declined to press charges against the kid. For, you know, doing science.
(by Paula Arntzen)
A tower of power was built in August 2009, in Craigavon. Nearly immediately, people who lived near the tower started to feel ill, and attributed it to the electromagnetic radiation emanating from the tower. These people are suing — despite the fact that the (unverified) symptoms they complained about continued for six weeks during which the tower had been turned off, but the complainants had not been informed.
Question: Why have I never had a date like the one described here?
Following yesterday’s article regarding the new TSA security measures, we here on the Big Bad Blog got to thinking — how many terrorist attacks have been caught due to increased security measures?
With the high publicity surrounding security measures at airports, and the incentive the government has to show that their efforts to fight terrorism are successful, one would expect there to be occasional stories of terrorists being caught at airports and arrested.
This is not the case.
Instead, we have terrorists who manage to get explosives onto planes, like in this most recent example.
We also have plots that are foiled before the terrorists arrive at the airport, such as the terrorists who planned to smuggle innocuous-looking liquids onto a plane.
Try as we might, we here at the Big Bad Blog cannot remember such an instance. This would seem to indicate that the searches done at airports — particularly the extra measures we are now subject to — do little to prevent these attacks. The real work is done ahead of time, in stopping plots before they can be carried out and identifying those who require extra attention from security.
The inconveniences and intrusions we are subject to do not appear to make us more secure.
Can anybody out there in the world wide web provide an example to the contrary?
