Monday, September 27, 2010

Beware of bread

Greetings.

Jewish date:  19 Tishri 5771 (Parashath Bere’shith).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Ancestor Appreciation Day, Banned Book Week, World Tourism Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Stand Up for Veterans - They Stood Up for Us - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Oats, barley, and some food products made from...Image featuring the insidious substance via Wikipedia
Today’s weird thing is “Bread Kills!”, which is a very silly illustration of bad epidemiological reasoning, specifically that fallacies of equating correlation with causation and the assumption that preceding alone is a proof of causation.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Beware of Starfleet kitchen utensils

Graph of the ratings of Star Trek Enterprise o...Image marginally relevant to today’s weird thing via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  18 Tishri 5771 (Parashath Bere’shith).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Banned Book Week, European Day of Languages, National Pancake DayGold Star Mother’s Day.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is the Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter, which is described in this short video:

(There is also a Star Trek Enterprise Bottle Opener, but the pizza cutter is cooler and more useful in a fight against Klingons.)  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and live long and prosper.

Aaron
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Beware of ballistic marshmallows

Greetings.

Jewish date:  13 Tishri 5771.

Today’s quasi-holidays:  World Gratitude Day, International Banana Festival, Elephant Appreciation Day, Miniature Golf Day, International Day of Peace, Independence Day (Armenia).

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is the Marshmallow Mforcer Semi-Automatic Pistol, a weapon which fires marshmallows.  This should be useful when fighting foes made out of tissue paper.

Stay Puft Marshmallow ManImage of hint via Wikipedia
Special bonus weird thing:  Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows.  Apparently life sometimes imitates corny movies.  (Hint:  Ghostbusters reference.)

Enjoy, share the weirdness, and DUCK!

Aaron
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Beware of period picnic tables

Front side of a 200GB Blu-ray DiscImage of the cracked media via Wikipedia
Greetings.

Jewish date:  11 Tishri 5771.

Today’s quasi-holiday:  International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Don't Build the Belo Monte Dam! - The Petition Site” and “Protect the Paradise Forests and the Orangutan - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:
Today’s weird thing is “Periodic table”, which describes a picnic table in the shape of a period table.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Beware of the Flying Alarm Clock

Greetings.

Jewish date:  9 Tishri 5771.

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Constitution Day.

Today’s news and commentary:
An old style alarm clock.Image of the wrong sort of alarm clock, which is likely to be sent flying through the air, via Wikipedia
Today’s weird thing is the Flying Alarm Clock, which is a novel approach to getting its owner up by forcing the person being woken up to do a nontrivial task in order make it stop making a racket.  See this somewhat lame video which demonstrates it:

Enjoy (or loathe this thing; your choice) and share the weirdness.

Aaron
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Beware of Firefox

Greetings.

Jewish date:  8 Tishri 5771.

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Collect Rocks Day, National Play-doh Day, Wife Appreciation Day, International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Mayflower Day, Women’s Friendship Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Got Science?”.
    Today’s weird thing is “Firefox rejects your”:
    funny pictures of cats with captions
    I hope your browser does not act like this in real life.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

    Aaron

    Wednesday, September 15, 2010

    Beware of Sam-I-Am

    Greetings.

    Jewish date:  7 Tishri 5771.

    Today’s quasi-holidays:  Felt Hat Day, Independence Day (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua).

    Worthy causes of the day:  “DemocracyForAmerica.com » Stand with Patrick Leahy”, “Save Darfur Coalition:  Give just 60 seconds for Sudan”, and “Tell Congress: Don't extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy”.

    Today’s news and commentary:
    Today’s weird thing, inspired from discussing the ownership of a number of Dr. Seuss books yesterday, is “Green Eggs and Ham Sam i am Jesse Jackson”.  (I apologize for not including the video directly on this blog, but embedding was disabled.)  As a special bonus, there is also a recipe for Green Eggs and Ham Recipe, in which the green color is due to scallions and spinach.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

    Aaron
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    Wednesday, September 8, 2010

    Beware of asteroids

    Mission: STS-41-B Film Type: 70mm Title: Views...Image of something sort of jetpack-like via Wikipedia
    Greetings.

    Jewish date:  29 ’Elul 5770 (Parashath Ha’azinu).

    Today’s quasi-holidays:  International Literacy Day, World Rabies Day.

    Worthy cause of the day:  “Protect us from toxic coal ash”.

    Today’s news and commentary:
    Today’s weird thing is “Asteroid Discovery From 1980 − 2010”:

    This should give some idea how much in the way of rocks there are flying around the inner Solar system.  If you feel worried about the prospects of collision, do note that the size of objects are not shown to scale.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

    Aaron
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    Tuesday, September 7, 2010

    Beware of secret agents¡

    Greetings.

    Jewish date:  28 ’Elul 5770 (Parashath Ha’azinu).

    Today’s quasi-holidays:  “Neither Snow Nor Rain” Day, National Thylacine Day, International Dadaism Month.
      Today’s weird thing is “Eagle”:

      Enjoy, share the weirdness, and please, don’t do this.

      Aaron

      Sunday, September 5, 2010

      May the Force be with Chew

      Greetings.

      Jewish date:  26 ’Elul 5770 (Parashath Ha’azinu).

      Today’s quasi-holiday:  Be Late For Something Day.

      Today’s (two-week backlog of) news and commentary:
      Original Winnie the Pooh stuffed toys. Clockwi...Image via Wikipedia of the original stuffed animals which inspired one of the things which inspired Wookiee the Chew
      Today’s weird thing (if Klingon Shakespeare was not enough for you) is “Chewbacca Illustrated as Winnie-the-Pooh”, describing the book Wookiee The Chew - The House at Chew Corner, with further illustrations at James Hance - Relentlessly Cheerful Art.  No description your humble blogger can give will truly do justice to this, so just click on the links and see this for yourself.  Enjoy, share the weirdness, and may the Force be with you.  Oh, and someone send me a copy of the book, please.

      Aaron
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      Friday, September 3, 2010

      Beware of alien cat

      Greetings.

      Jewish date:  24 ’Elul 5770 (Parashath Niṣṣavim-Wayyelekh).

      Today’s quasi-holiday:  Skyscraper Day.
        Today’s weird thing (after a break due to me visiting Israel) is “alien cat”:
        cat

        Enjoy and share the weirdness.

        Aaron