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Forgot your password prank

So, y'know when you forget your password from some telephone related thing, you have to give them a "phrase" or "secret question" or whatever, and the related answer?

Or, they'll provide the question, like "what was your first pet's name?" and you can answer "a ford mustang".

Well, this prank would ideally be for the ones where the question itself is something you provide, and ultra ideally where there is a large character limit.  But, if you just provide the answer, you could still have some fun with it.

Either copy and paste, or, write your own erotica into the secret question section.  Then, call them up and let them know you've forgotten your password.

They'll have to read you the secret question.

Bonus points:  Put in brackets at the beginning (use sexy voice)

hhehehe.

"Hello, this is Ahmed how can I be helping you today?"
"Yes, hello.  (breathing deeply) I seem to have... been a little naughty."
"Okay"
"You see, I've gone and... forgotten my password..." (sound of a spank in the background)
"O...kay, I can help you with that.  Did you provide us with a secret question and answer?"
"Yes Sir, please say it to me..."
"...Okay."
"Please... please hurry..."
"Alright.  Here is your...  ques.... tion..."
"Oh God yes, use your accent..."
"My...  oh... kay.  Its... um...  there is some brackets...  use your... sexy voice... then..."
(deep breathing)
"er...  John removed his... throbbing mem...ber... and..."

Boy would that be some funny.

And, you could have an answer that was either "related" and equally as awesome... or, you could have an answer completely unrelated like "fresh scabs" and then he'd REALLY have a story to tell.  All day, he'd be wondering "what... what is the relation?"

So yeah.  That's the idea I woke up with this morning.

Video Editing with Corel VideoStudio

Okay, the program is great.  I like it way more than premiere.  But it really has some strange quirks.

Like, for example, the video encoding process.  Randomly, many settings will distort a high quality JPG beyond recognition, while leaving the rest of the video intact and pristine.

Other times, to avoid this, you'll need to use a high level encoding process... which is fine, but then, again, seemingly without cause, it will take HOURS AND HOURS to encode a basic movie... when that same movie took about 20 minutes to encode previously.

I suppose what I'm saying, is that the program itself is good... editing: superb.  Ease of use: superb.  But, when it comes time to actually export what you've made...

pain in the ass.

Invisible Treehouse

Well now, this is just a neato-riffic thingie.



Without an ounce of photoshop, they have created an invisible, bird-resistant, super house.

Now, I know what you're thinking:
And yes, there will be SOME secret lairs created for the occasional super villain.

BUT, there'll also be some pretty neat (apparently very eco-friendly) homes for people made as well.


But wait, who made this wacky contraption?

Good question imaginary person.  The answer is these people.  (BEWARE: BIRD NOISES ACCOMPANY THIS LINK!  THOSE ALLERGIC TO BIRD AUDIO BE WARNED)

But wait, how does it work?

(why do I have to wait?  Can't I just answer right away)
Well still imaginary person... who...

hey.

Why am I underlined?

There.

Now where was... oh yeah.


It works via some interesting, apparently bird-proof (meaning they won't fly into it, not that they'd be defeated by its impenetrable wall), reflective glass.

For more neat photos, check this place out

This is even cooler than meat house!

Cell phones kill bees and people

If Cell Phones Are Behind the Bee Decline, What Are They Doing to Humans?
Well heck, I bloody well knew they were bad news.  Didn't I say they were bad news?  Well, they are.

People have been trying to figure out what the heck has been happening to the bee population.  For those of you present-minded people, less bees does not equal "less stings" - it equals no trees.

No trees = no animals.

You're an animal.

So anyway, we've figured out that cell phones are doin' something to the bees.

Specifically, in a study at Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India, researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day.

After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the queen bee halved, and the size of the hive dramatically reduced.

Some kinda frequency vibrational thingie, I'm guessin'.  Seriously, the waves coming off those things are interfering with hive minds.  (I wonder if it affects ants too?)

Andrew Goldsworthy, a biologist from Imperial College, London, told CNN that the reason may have to do with radiation from cell phones and cell towers disturbing the molecules of the chemical cryptochrome, which bees and other animals use for navigation.

Now, I know you probably focused on the whole cryptochrome-bee thing, so I'm going to say part of that again:  OTHER ANIMALS USE FOR NAVIGATION.

The "other animals" part there is key: it includes humans.

Cryptochrome apparently also plays a role in controlling circadian rhythms. (sleeping/energy)

If cell phone and tower radiation disturbs cryptochrome molecules, it could have serious consequences for our circadian rhythms, Goldsworthy wrote in a briefing for an independent, British radiation research group last year. Circadian rhythms follow a roughly 24-hour cycle and play a key role in physically, mentally and behaviorally regulating our bodies. Mess with your circadian rhythms and you screw with, among other things, your ability to be well-rested and the associated health benefits.

Goldsworthy argues that the link between phone radiation and cryptochrome could then explain the sometimes-found link between cell phones and cancer:

AAAAH HAH!  I so told you so.

Surreal

Y'know, if you watched Rambo backwards, it would be really interesting to see him run around and heal everyone with his magic bullet vacuum.

I'm just sayin'

Computers of the "future" (about 5 years)

I don't know if you've seen Minority Report, but, it turns out that, in the interest of believability, the director had them design the cool computer interface like a design doc.  Meaning, it had to (at least sorta) work.

Since then, its been refined and... it does work.

In fact, our current vision of the future is that in about 5 years, we'll have exactly that.

They don't mention it in the presentation, but, with the advent of 3D televisions (especially 3dH technologies, which, if you haven't heard of, has created 3D TV without glasses (very cool) via a spherically polarized screen. I was at their investment hearing 4 years ago, when the technology was still in its infancy.

Since then, many people have likely crafted a similar design, so I don't know who'll end up being the next VHS/BETA (or, for you younger pups, BLUE RAY/...that other one)

Amazing, how marketing plays such a key role in product choice.  The other one was better, as was beta, but people just didn't like the name...

Anyhoo, off topic:  Imagine, the future of children born in about a year or more.  Imagine how they would look at a mouse, after growing up using...



Imagine the educational "play boxes" and toys for babies...  Very cool world.  Almost makes me want to delay the birth of my own child by a few years just so we can see the neat baby toys that'll be created...

The Problem With Galactus

I have a problem with Galactus.  The planet-eater, who doesn't want to eat planets, but has to.

Introducing 3 Characters and some vague understanding of the power cosmic, and I think you might, too.

Galactus:  Able to do preeetty much anything, including, but not limited to, converting matter into energy for consumption.

Wolverine:  Able to heal from preeetty much anything, including, but not limited to, being reduced down to nearly nothing but arteries, veins, bones and a few scraps of flesh (depending on what comic you read - sometimes he's a bit more mortal, but, you get my point about the regeneration thing)

Ego, the living planet.  It is uncertain where he gets his lifeforce from, but, presumably it would be from something ambient in space.  Solar... kinetic/friction maybe... something like that.

Okay.  So:

First question is: Why doesn't Galactus simply harness solar energy to feed his voracious apatite?

Okay, we're going to let that one slide, and say that he can't.  (for some reason)

Okay, but, he CAN re-arrange molecules of creatures to give/take abilities, or restructure genetic material altogether.

(And even if he couldn't, I'm sure he could convince somebody to help him out in exchange for NOT EATING THEIR PLANET)

So, what you could have, is Ego, the regenerative planet.  You splice Ego and Wolverine together, and heck, you could even breed them so you had more than one.  (perhaps in different flavors?)

So, Mr. Older Than the Big Bang...  spend a little less time on your magenta fashion ideas and a little more on the solution to your "ever growing hunger" mkay?

Mkay.

(I couldn't find a link to Omnipotus so, you're stuck with The Big Nothing instead)