It’s a true story full of dead drops, secret passages, forged documents, and encrypted shortwave radio transmissions.
Werner opened the small latch and pulled a small bundle from the wooden plank. Tightly wrapped in plastic, to protect it form the elements, the bundle was approximately the size of a postcard and about 1/4 in thick. When the plastic was removed the package revealed several items. It contained 10 pre-addressed envelopes, an equal number of pre-written letters, it also contained invisible ink cartridges and a one-time use pad of cyphers in the form of small mircrofilms.
Speaking of shortwave… Check out Ears to Our World, a nonprofit organization that’s been distributing shortwave radios in developing countries. A set of batteries can often cost a weeks’ wages in some parts of the world, so the radios are also crank-powered.
The FR200 is definitely an entry-level radio, but they get the job done and Eton’s been supplying the radios for next to nothing – a $30 donation pays for two.
Season 6 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres September 16th. That gives you a little under five months to watch the first five if you haven’t already – easy!
The BlueLine PowerCost Monitor is a simple device that you snap on to the glass dome of your home’s energy meter.
It wirelessly transmits information about your current electricity usage to a handheld display that you can carry around your home to see exactly how much money it’s costing you to run certain appliances.
It’s a cool novelty item, but spending $109 to find out this information seems excessive.
It’d probably just be cheaper to turn shit off.
Come to think of it, if you have the cash to pay for expensive gadgets like this you probably don’t care how much your electricity bill is.
So, basically a bunch of grownups may have staged an elaborate ruse so the gay girl and her gay lesbian girlfriend and all their totally homo friends could stand around one place looking like chumps, while the real teens did real things like give birth in the bathroom and rape each other in limos at their own very special real prom. Terrifically done, everyone!
There’s a lot to like about Anaheim’s mayor, Curt Pringle. Here are my top three reasons!
He opposed that crazy re-zoning thing they tried to pull around Disneyland and the convention center a few years back.
He’s chairman of the board for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and wants to see a three-hour train route from Anaheim to San Francisco happen just as much as I do.
He hates red-light cameras and is trying to get them banned from Anaheim forever before he leaves office later this year.
I bet we’ll be hearing a lot more about Gelesis and their upcoming anti-obesity supplement, Attiva pretty soon.
Attiva is not a drug. It’s a pill composed of food-based polymers, so it’s basically a natural supplement.
You take Attiva with a glass of water before eating a normal meal. When the pill hits your stomach the polymers in Attiva swell to 100 times their normal size, turning into a gel that makes you feel full. Meanwhile the gel meshes with your food, creating a thicker-than-normal slush in your stomach which slows the digestion process. Once your stomach contents move on to your small intestine, sugar and fatty acid absorption into the bloodstream are also delayed…sort of a one-two punch.
The best part is that you just poop out Attiva with the rest of your waste. It never enters your bloodstream – it just passes through your digestive system. It’s essentially as effective as stomach-reducing surgeries, but without any of the risks or complications of surgery.
There are some videos explaining the process here.
The only other non-invasive obestity treatment with any real promise that I’ve seen has been hoodia gordonii, a rare plant native to South Africa. I watched the BBC documentary about hoodia a few years ago and was pretty impressed…however it’s been seven years since that documentary aired and a prescription drug which uses its active ingredient – the “P57 molecule” – has yet to hit the market.
There’s plenty of unregulated over-the-counter supplements that claim to contain hoodia, but many either don’t have any or just don’t work at all.
Attiva seems like a neat approach to a growing problem. Heh.
Wii Media Center has been released. It lets you consume your movies, music, and photos all in less-than-glorious standard definition. It’s unlike many console-based media players in that it’s been written from scratch and is not based on the mature XBMC platform.
The one thing it won’t let you do is play games. You’ll need to keep using the excellent USB Loader GX for that.
-- UPDATE 4/9 -- This IS being made into a feature film! The script is ready and the major studios are in a bidding war for it right now. Read more at Slashfilm
If you’re as old as I am you’re old enough to remember waking up at 6 AM on Saturdays to watch Nickelodeon’s Mysterious Cities of Gold / Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea power hour.
Well MCG has gotten cleaned up, special-featured, deleted-scened, and all dressed up for its DVD box set debut. It’s been 25 years since this show was last seen on TV in America.
Spartakus is a little harder to track down. It was originally produced in French; the English translation that appeared on Nick has never been made commercially available. A French DVD came out in France ten years ago, but that’s been it.
A guy on YouTube has uploaded a few English episodes that he’s been able to salvage from old VHS recordings, but that’s no way to watch a classic!
UK publisher Fabulous Films has had Spartakus on its “coming soon” page for about two years, so maybe something will happen there someday.
A lot of cartoons in the 80s had such grown-up writing. I miss them. Spongebob is a far cry from Danger Mouse.
