It's Official, it was the hottest summer in NYC since 1966. Global Warming Naysayers, care to comment?

Crickets…

;)

From a September 1, 2010 article at NYTimes.com:

With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York City.

Shade was hard to come by in Carroll Park in Brooklyn. The average temperature for June, July and August was 77.8 degrees. The previous record was 77.3, set in 1966.

Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in 1966, when more than 1,100 deaths were attributed to heat that repeatedly exceeded 100 degrees. Hotter than 2006, when a heat wave set off a blackout in northern Queens that left more than 100,000 residents without power for days.

Ah, but it wasn’t just a hot-as-hell summer in the Big (Fried) Apple. Apparently, it was quite the ???? (moushoubi, or fiercely hot day) all summer long in Japan, too, as SeattlePI.com reported on September 2, 2010:

Across Japan, temperatures soared higher than historical averages by 2.96 degrees Fahrenheit (1.64 degrees Celsius) from June through August, the highest since 1898 when records began, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

That’s higher than the previous record set in the summer of 1994. In Tokyo, temperatures have climbed as high as 99 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius).

Yowza.

So, when the “Snowpocalypse” was happening last winter, there were a lot of conservative, anti-science types who were wondering aloud what had happened to Global Warming.  I wonder what they’re thinking now.

Special thanks to my pal Jeff for emailing me about the hottest summer in Japan. :)  ?????????????? (I hope I spelled your name right!)

alexleefitz:

(via waftist)

I just want this on my blog.

Yeah, me too.

I’m really done mentioning Glennensie Becken by name from here on out. Fuckhead gets enough fuckin press from the mindless newsmedia.

This Blade Runner tribute video (not what it sounds) made my eyes well up for some reason.

This Blade Runner tribute video (not what it sounds) made my eyes well up for some reason.



BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

BTW, originally, I found it here: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/blade_runner_revisited/

WANT (even though I live in Manhattan and would get arrested for using it).

This is the Parrot AR.Drone:

It’s a remote controlled (remotely controlled?) quadrocopter that has a both a front-facing camera and a bottom facing camera—what, no rear-facing camera? Yeah, that’s lame—it’s got to Crazy-Ivan just to see if it’s being followed.

From a September 6, 2010 post at TouchArcade.com:

The Parrot AR.Drone is a quadricopter that is piloted using an iPhone, iPod touch, or even an iPad. When the device is powered up, it starts broadcasting its own WiFi network. Using the companion Free Flight [Free] app, you connect to this wireless network and begin controlling the unit. The network it creates isn’t encrypted at all, but the AR.Drone does bind itself to the first device that connects to it to prevent other people from hijacking your flight session. Unpairing your phone is as simple as pressing a small button on the underside of the device.

NICE!

Alas, I live in Manhattan and would likely get arrested if I tried using one of these around my neighborhood, but still, that doesn’t stop me from wishing I owned one.

Read more about it at TouchArcade.

666cast episode 22 from website666.com! This week’s rant is about more troubles in the Gulf of Mexico, more lousy leaders on the national stage and how we’re supposed to change things. The podcast feed might be a little wonky for a bit thanks to me switching hosts from CinchCast.com to Archive.org, so be sure to click the linked text above to download the mp3. The regular 666cast feed should be back to normal pretty soon, though… sorry for the confusion!

666cast episode 22 from website666.com! 

This week’s rant is about more troubles in the Gulf of Mexico, more lousy leaders on the national stage and how we’re supposed to change things.

The podcast feed might be a little wonky for a bit thanks to me switching hosts from CinchCast.com to Archive.org, so be sure to click the linked text above to download the mp3.  The regular 666cast feed should be back to normal pretty soon, though… sorry for the confusion!

If you want to burn the Koran, get out of my country.

Saw this on CNN.com yesterday (via Google News, of course—I’d never willingly go to CNN.com):

Really? Is that the ONLY reason having a “Burn a Koran” party would be a bad thing?

Read more of this bullshit from the above article:

The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, plans to mark the anniversary of al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington by burning copies of the Muslim holy book. The church insists the event is “neither an act of love nor of hate,” but a warning against what it calls the threats posed by Islam.

Seriously, STFU and GTFO of the USA if you think burning the Koran is something you should do.

This is enough to make me want to just give up.

They’re called “THE DOVE WORLD *OUTREACH* CENTER” and they want to burn Korans.

Dude.

Dove = peace

World = everybody

Outreach = reaching out to people

But they want to burn Korans.

This is a total fucking LogicFAIL

MoralsFAIL

BrainFAIL

StupidWIN

OK, I’m gonna type some amazingly obvious things now:

1) Hey, Koran-burners, how would you feel if I had a “Burn the Bible” party? Whatever happened to that whole “Don’t do unto others…” thing?

2) Hey, Koran-burners: remember that whole “freedom of religion” thing? Yeah, you’re kinda going against it.  You’re showing some serious intolerance that, if shown to you, you probably wouldn’t be too keen on (see point 1).

3) Hey, Koran-burners: Intolerance toward religious views is about as unAmerican as you can get. So, if you want to be so intolerant to Islam as to want to burn it’s holy book, why don’t you go find another country to live in?  Seriously. Leave my country now.  You don’t belong here.

Believe what you want, say what you want, but start harassing all Muslims for something a handful of them did and you’re pissing on the principles our country was founded on.  Anyone who burns the Koran (or any religious item) should NOT be punished by law—they should just be excluded from all of society.

And this is coming from an atheist who feels religion of any kind does more harm than good—but even *I* don’t go around burning Bibles and Korans.

Daleks...

alexleefitz:

ood-friend:

flavaflavs:

missblackeyeliner:

onthewing:

jayeemerrill:

There are Daleks in Rugrats.

Tommy Pickles is baby Doctor.  He travels strange places, fixes problems, and uses a screwdriver to get out of his playpen.  Thank you.

OH

MY

GOD

holy fucking shit

HOLY SHIT MIND FUCK.

I LOVE RUGRATS AND DOCTOR WHO omg.

so are all the Rugrats like…the Doctor’s assistants?

It must have been decided at a very early age I would watch Doctor Who, then. Don’t laugh, I think about that stuff all the time…

Mind. Blown.

I’ll see you your Dalek guest-starring on Rugrats and raise you one Dalek cameo on Better Off Ted:



Daleks are EVERYWHERE…

Sharks in the *Potomac*? Oh yeah, Climate Change is here.

From WashingtonPost.com:

Willy Dean was on the Potomac River in a 22-foot skiff Tuesday morning when he realized there was something both abnormal and enormous in his net. It was a deadly 8-foot-1 bull shark, a 300-pound-plus killer that had likely been feasting on cownose rays at Cornfield Harbor, just off the shores of Point Lookout State Park.

Awww, yeah!!  Sharks in the Potomac!  Next, I’m sure we’ll hear from the Republicans how Al Qaeda is recruiting sharks to travel up the Potomac to threaten the White House.

>_<

I wouldn’t put anything past those idiots.

But political stuff aside, this is nice and messed up.  I sure am glad so little money is being spent on combating Climate Change!  I’m sure terrorists are a MUCH bigger threat to the USA than bizarre changes in nature like sharks swimming up rivers they normally don’t.  Combine this with rising sea levels and we’ll have a real mess on our hands!

WANT: Carl Zeiss Cinemizer 3D Plus glasses

WANT: Carl Zeiss Cinemizer 3D Plus glasses: first cool looking wearable display that actually exists.

They only do VGA (640x480) resolution which kinda sucks, but still—these are the least dorkiest/coolest HMDs I’ve seen. In fact, they look kind of cool.  Since these were just announced at IFA, there’s not a lot of info out there about ‘em (though you can check out the previous model’s official page). As a result, it’s not entirely clear if they allow you to see your surroundings when you wear them or not, but I’d still love to add these to my gadget collection.  However, they price in at around $400, so I think I’ll be upgrading my cell phone and netbook first, since, that’s like WAY more economically responsible. O_O

I just wish they’d add cameras to these.

Holly Hop Drive Papercraft

 



Cut Score Fold And Glue: Papercraft Release! Holly Hop Drive from Red Dwarf!

Totally downloaded this. Ahhh, I miss Red Dwarf!