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If You’re Green, You’re a Thief

“People who commit their lives to going green are just better people. They’re more moral, more honest. At least, they keep telling us that, and apparently many students believe it, say University of Toronto psychologists” as reported today by John Stossel and printed by Fox News. The Psychologist’s initially quizzed the students on their impressions of [...]

Think outside the Box

Indeed all of reality can be deduced through mathematics. More fascinating is the ability to transcribe an action through the clarifying lens of an algorithm used for replication. In the case of the movie, The Box (written and directed by Richard Kelly of Donnie Darko fame), the math becomes clearer if pondered from the [...]

Bovine Growth Hormone?

Interesting picture found during some research on a completely unrelated topic. Paris Hilton. Somehow she is now being tagged with keywords, such as; agribusiness and bovine growth hormone. Maybe I’m misssing something pertinent here? The Picture Post Commentary preserved for your reading pleasure: “I wouldn’t get withing 100ft of this chick without a [...]

Where do you go for your drugs?

Local Commercial for Butt Drugs – Watch more Funny Videos

Caravaggio Vindicated!?!?

Apparently a tiny iceberg the size of Luxembourg broke off a glacier and fell into the ocean. The wee iceberg is only 965 square miles. Best part? It is already altering some ocean currents. Realize what that means. Cue Jeopardy music. Yes! OCEAN CURRENT IS BEING AFFECTED – and where one current is affected so [...]

Newsweek Agrees with Blinkinblogs

It isn’t that they actually called us out, or even referenced us, but they are now posting things on Newsweek that Blinkinblogs brought up before and was dismissed as, well, crazy. We covered a long time ago how your cell phone can be used against you, and can be done so without your knowledge. According [...]

They Should be Executed

Again… WWSD? This is over the top and how someone, anyone, thought this would be OK is beyond me.

Did you know that Space Aliens laugh at us?

As reported initially by the BBC and then re-printed by Fox News: [The embattled ex-head of the research center at the heart of the Climate-gate scandal dropped a bombshell over the weekend, admitting in an interview with the BBC that there has been no global warming over the past 15 years. Phil Jones, former head of the [...]

I Dare Say Herr Professor… 40 Lashes Due Onto Thee

Admittedly, I was taken aback upon reading the following: A prominent US climate scientist at the centre of the ”climategate” leaked email controversy has been virtually cleared of professional misconduct by an internal university enquiry. Michael Mann, of Penn State University, featured regularly in the more than 1000 emails that were hacked from the University of East Anglia [...]

Avatar

So I took a rare Monday off and spent it at the movies on a date with my wife.  We selected the movie “Avatar” primarily because for over the last month I’d read volumes about its making as well as the varied offered critiques and interpretations. One of the most prevalent interpretations was that we, [...]

Four-Winged Dinosaur

Wired Magazine: Four-Winged Dinosaur As this particular subject relates to a recent thread (or moreso to a reply of mine within said thread, ref. AMNH), I thought I’d share the latest on the research. This article is in this month’s Wired. I’ve watched this research come into focus over the past two years. The flight tests alone [...]

In honor of my latest post (referring to Ungulate Emasculation)…

… after all this time, cocaine does make you smarter! Who knew?! Cocaine-induced alterations in gene expression cause changes in neuronal morphology and behavior that may underlie cocaine addiction. In mice, we identified an essential role for histone 3 lysine 9 (H3K9) dimethylation and the lysine dimethyltransferase G9a in cocaine-induced structural and behavioral plasticity. Repeated [...]

The Known Universe

If nothing else, something to push that “Jackson” pic down some

Ungulate Emasculation Pontification and Anna Nicole Smith

“‘…endothelial function of the penis in arteriosclerotic pigs’ is perhaps to a layperson as quizzically funny and irrelevant as Anna Nicole Smith’s autopsy citation of an ‘unremarkable’ anus. Unfortunately (or otherwise) the penile endothelium is a sensitive model for assessing the disfunction that contributes so much to arterial disease… Indeed, penile endothelium is a great [...]

Lessons

Although my children are too young to grasp the full weight of the human (and other sentient living things) suffering in Haiti, I’m instinctually-drawn to producing a list that I’d normally use as an “educational moment” to reflect on: 1) There are good, moral people involuntarily caught-up in this crisis (stated in opposition to a few [...]

Why Sweat the Big Freeze?!

The primary science-related “buzz” of the past month has been frozen upon the “big freeze”. Alas, I’ve been the target of a few verbal barbs coming from some self-assured climate change sceptics. To which I’ve managed a half-hearted smile attempting to avoid my native impulse to expand their knowledge of statistics while utilizing prose [...]

Attention Spammers

Our comments on our articles don’t allow for spam. You may try and try, however our spam catcher is fairly decent, thus your spam will not make it onto the site. If one happens to get through we will delete it and flag your IP block as a spammer, report the IP block to other [...]

What?! Sorry… I was daydreaming.

Culturally we are all sensitized to relating the act of daydreaming to that of a lazy mind. School-aged children are repeatedly encouraged to stop daydreaming and to “focus” upon the task at-hand. Additionally, a wandering mind is often cited as a leading cause of traffic accidents in adults. This theorized lack of discipline in mental [...]

Overpopulation, Carrying Capacity, and Quality of Life {HXR5U9GYP3SA}

Video Interview of Garrett Hardin – Author of the “Tragedy of the Commons” Overview: Increased population makes things worse. There are various ways to influence population growth: tax incentives and government policies. More people mean more congestion and demands upon arable land. Discussion of energy, solar power, desalinization. Aesthetics and standard of living. Ecology, wilderness. Carrying capacity [...]

Anthropogenic Climate Change and Belief

At a time when humanity is now both empowered by a blizzard of information and stunned by its effect, we seem to have come to an inflection point. Our genetic composition allows us to learn from experience in an orderly manner. See fire. Touch fire. Fire hurt. No touch fire. No hurt. And when there is [...]

The Zygomaticus Truth

Peace Prize and Obama At 0:27, Obama flashes a micro-expression that offers an honest glimpse into how he feels about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The President (like any other human) offers small, yet detectable leakages in the social veil that we all establish when communicating to our fellow beings. His brow resets from a [...]

Lipstick on a Pitbull. You betcha.

“Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature,” Sarah Palin recently tweeted. Ahem. Regardless of my (or your) particular political bent, the tweet was extremely offensive via the sheer degree of ignorance it conveyed. Human history (and its impact upon nature) didn’t begin with a patriotic opening chapter showing an illustration of the American Revolutionary War trio, donning assorted bandages [...]

Climate Debate, Swiftboating, Adam Smith and People Wearing Diapers

Personally, I’m growing more and more despondent to the entire Global Warming/Change topic the more I’m witness to the buffoonery offered from both sides of the debate over in Copenhagen. Let’s begin with the side I reside on. Obviously, Climate Scientists are human. Thus, my hypothesis is slowly defining itself as “human beings are not [...]

Zombie Apocalyse – Alive and Well

According to MSNBC.COM  the ZA is alive and well… digitally speaking. So if you see someone walking your way, head in their digital device, they could be a zombie. I am just saying.

Wow! Your Yogurt Tastes like Primoplantae…

Given one of the more popular discussion themes on BlinkinBlogs remains on global climate (change), here is a post regarding something quite interesting yet unprovocative. J. Craig Venter, best known for his work on the human genome, recently gained some nice lettuce from the petrol industry to underwrite his promising research in genetics and energy [...]

Comcast Buys 51% Stake in NBC Universal for $6.5 Billion Cash

So Some rich bastard company bought out another one big freakin’ deal.  However I was sitting here thinking If I asked for the 6.5 billion dollars in $1 dollar bills how much space would that take up. The initial idea was to turn the office space in front of me into a swimming tank full [...]

Yep He Says it all

See more funny videos and Technology Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

The World of Tomorrow ok so its retro 2000

Can you say T-1000?

Awesome article. Basically robots will eventually be the end of us.

Little People REALLY BIG world!!!

While reading through my RSS feeder this morning I ran across a very interesting set of photos. You can view the blog here. Close up Shot The real size

Something new and green…

An evolution in the standard Carbon-Offset Business Model: http://www.us.grevox.com.  Sounds interesting!?   50g of CO2e- per search The average desktop computer consumes 120Watts of electricity per hour. An external monitor uses an average of 80Watts of electricity per hour.  Therefore, every hour you are on your computer, you use an average of 200Watts of electricity (200W). One tonne of CO2e- offset is the [...]

Hardcore Mario 2.0

This shit is massively hard and toad gets it big. See more funny videos and Technology Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

Computational Knowledge Engine

My current entrepreneurial endeavor is fundamentally based around developing algorithms that require what would be considered “advanced” computational power in the form of linguistic and multivariate, unstructured data sequencing. Seeing that I’m linguistically-oriented in this venture, it bothers me to no end with the lackadaisical utility of sophisticated terms, such as, “computational linguistics”, “semantical parsing”, [...]

More sad news from across the rainbow

‘Reading Rainbow’ Reaches Its Final Chapter Read Full Article

Let the PsyWar Begin – errr… Continue!

Fun loving post found over at TheRegister website about SOCOM getting some form of contract or another to conduct psywars online. The gyst of it from my perspective is funding attacks on web using people! As they say it : “The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract [...]

Fantasic Waste of Money — Friday Spectacular

I was browsing through my feeds tonight and ran across one titled 40+ Amazing Bus Graphics Wraps. You can visit the site at http://pelfusion.com/awesome-graphics/40-amazing-bus-graphics-wraps/ This one really caught my attention. Its a giant gas burnin motha of a bus that happens to not only be ugly as hell but also says  “STOP GLOBAL WARMING”   Last i [...]

Cool Site

Coolest web site design I have seen in years. Ska Beer. Their mix of old school print look and feel and web 2.0 layout and functionality is sort of awesome. turn down your speakers.

We are always moving

ZA – We have the technology. We can build it!

As we prepare for the “free for all fest” that will be the Zombie Apocalypse, news surfaces indicating we may already have the biological means to Get This Party Started!

eBay Gang = Not So Bright

According to this article, back when ebay bought Skype from JOLTID they got everything but the CORE SOURCE CODE – meaning the very technology that Skype is built on was not included in the deal – a 2.6 billion dollar deal. Man I wish I made that deal. Turns out, through some childish banter and [...]

ZA Watch 2009

We here at BB HQ spend a lot of time talking about very important things. Of which would be the Zombie Apocalypse.  It seems that geeks of every level have not only been plotting how to deal with the zombies but also how to make them. My guess is that the world population of geeks [...]

Truck Garden

In our ever changing world (mostly for the worse) I found this to be a clever idea. It shows that life can grow anywhere, including in the back of an old dodge truck. Inspiring. Reminds me of sites and ideas like this and Willie Nelson’s version. The grand daddy of them all is these guys.

Have We Not Learned Anything?

A Robot that lives on biomatter? Built by the military? REALLY!?!?!? Do I really need to list every single novel and movie that tells us this is a bad idea? We really do deserve to go extinct – and apparently the source of our extinction will be complete in 2020!

Facebook!!!!

Blinkin Blogs Joins Twitter

Do you have a twitter account? IF you have no Idea what twitter is than you suck go to twitter.com and watch the video it will explain it ALL.. IF you would like to be sent announcements of new posts as soon as they are posted just follow us at @BlinkinBlogs and you will get our [...]

Spam and You a education course

Cyber CZAR!!!

RAWR! Apparently Obama is set to create this new position: the Cyber Czar! Not to pick naming conventions too much apart here but THE CYBER CZAR?!!? Just wow. So anywhoo what is this dude allowed to do? Read About it here. That said – this is a picture of a dude that already works as [...]

Another Good Step Towards the ZA.

We keep joking about the coming Zombie Apocalypse (ZA) and how the swine flu could have gotten us a step closer – tragically we were wrong. That said some obviously bereft of intellect type individuals are now working on releasing some flies onto the North American Continent that turn Fire Ants in Zombies. NO SHIT! [...]

Real Life Twitter

No Such Thing as a Free Internet or Fans of Hugs

I must say something about hugs. I can’t really buy into becoming a “fan” of hugs. First of all, it is too all-inclusive. Who would admit to not liking hugs? It’s like being a fan of winning World War II. Second, and my main gripe, is that it is not specific enough. Now if you [...]

God Bless Google Maps

First came google maps. Then came Google Street view.  GOOGLE Introduces  …… GOOGLE BOOB VIEW!!!!!!!

New Human

I read about this a few weeks ago, and this morning MoMajic was nice enough to forward this video to me. Watch it. I believe this guy is right – why? A friend of mine has a daughter who is already classified technically as a cyborg as she has robotic ear implants. Turns out she [...]

The Official Rules of Facebook

Lightsaber battle + hot chicks = a happy geek

I dont think that this really needs any explination.. Spoiler alert ….. Underoos are shown On a more serious note who can go wrong with stop motion Lego’s Planet TR-57: Pilot from Valley Video Services on Vimeo.

But can it kick my ass?!?!

Yesterday I did a little diddy on computer hardware, costs, and the sexual effect it had on Enigma and I (I can’t really confirm his, I was merely jumping to conclusions). So today this website had an ad on Blinkinblogs so I clicked it. I then went to the top of the chain regarding their [...]

Sporting Technowood

My computer, albeit is functional, needs more oomf. I get these emails from this place called microcenter every so often that make me tear up a little bit as they show how cheap hardware is now. Well this morning I forwarded that email off to Engima who also started chompin at the bit and sent [...]

Supreme Commander: My new addiction.

Supreme Commander is beyond a shadow of a doubt the best Real Time Strategy game I have ever played or seen, and they are making a part two. for just $30 you can get both the original game and the expansion at GameStop (cheaper in stores than online oddly). Lately Enigma, FiveO’ClockCharlie and I have [...]

Very Cool.

This is awesome. Minority Report Technology made by MIT. Very cool stuff. I want three. The Scene from Minority Report.  

Drunk + Mario + Japaneese Narration = Weird Fun

The Woes of Internet Marketing Continue

I reported the other day that we were doing a new site design, loads of internet marketing and focussing on honing our ad placement. I opened up a Google AdWords account and made some key word buys that oddly enough worked amazingly well. To put things in perspective we had 300+ visitors in one day [...]

Worlds best VCR Hack

Facebook Unfriended

Today I got unceremoniously dropped as a friend from Facebook. I always wondered what would happen if I dropped someone. Would they be notified immediately? Would a little shock come through my keyboard as I dared to defy Facebook and its very reason for existence? Would the ex-friend be pissed? In real life you can [...]

Too good to be true.

This is a brief update on the web traffic purchasing scheme. We used these guys. We bought their 3 million unique visitor plan – guess how many amazing hits we’ve received?!?!?! NOT ONE. In three days since we went live with them we haven’t received any traffic. Isn’t that a bit on the odd side? [...]

GlazedNConfused on Location

In Hell, also known as Shreveport Lousianna. I spoke with him a bit yesterday and it turns out that he does have computer access only if he feeds and waters the hamsters. What did we discuss? I found this website that I can purchase unique web traffic from. Think about that. I can purchase PEOPLE [...]

Computer Hardware on the Cheap

Where I live there is this computer store called Microcenter that deals in basically everything computer oriented even Mac stuff. What gets me is they have loads of hardware on the crazy cheap side, and they are retail! Example? 1.5 terrabyte HD for 119 bucks! What gets me is if they are that cheap at [...]

Preconceived Bullplop Regarding the Automotive Industry

Disclaimer: Yes, I am talking about cars again. The Detroit Three on life support is a once-in-a-lifetime scenario, and can not be overstated. Imagine if Microsoft suddenly goes belly-up in 75 years and goes crawling to whatever black, lesbian, quadriplegic transsexual is running this country for a loan. “We could not predict that Red Hat Siamese [...]

Sweet Ride

I give you the Aptera. It would appear that at least someone is thinking outside the box regarding future forms of transportation.

Another reason to get the iPhone.

Google Drive

Read this. You combine that with the announcement that Google is taking Google Docs offline so that you may use Google Docs when not logged into the web and you get this: Owning a Netbook (which I just bought one) makes a lot more sense. I am now the proud owner of an Acer Aspire [...]

Interweb is a mysterious place.

Obviously we have a blog, you are reading it now, well hopefully. The weird part is that people can leave comments on  our blog, which we moderate, about practically anything. We receive comments as well as links, spam, linkbacks and other oddities. What gets me is just how much crap exists on the web now, [...]

Starcraft 2 – Just Damn

If you haven’t had your chance to see the screen shots of this new title, well go here. All I really have to say is damn – oh and good luck owning a computer that can churn out these graphics.

No Child Left Behind – Who are we Kidding?

An employee of mine is about to graduate from college, he is 19 years old I believe. We were talking yesterday about history, both world and American, and he expressed how little he knew. I shook my head and said “its tragic to me that your generation can use practically any technology based device placed [...]

Random Facts You May Not Know

In order of shock value: A few years ago, Abba was offered $1 billion to regroup and tour. Mamma Mia! Those sharp tips at the end of whipped cream cans? A lip wound takes weeks to heal, believe me. Holy water-seared undead recover faster. Be patient…the airy sweetness will be dispensed in a timely manner. Kinko’s as [...]

Exactly How I Feel

Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video

An Argument for Communism

CRT TVs finally explained for normal people by Bjork

Movie Madness Mondays

If you have not seen this movie I highly recommend it.

Are you ready for the Digital Revolution?

Don’t be like this lady. Know the facts. Get Educated. The Digital Revolution is UPON US…….

Palin brings out the classy people.

This brought to us by the nytimes.com

Ninja Baby And Whoop Yo Ass Baby.

Ninja Baby will rock Bush.   Serious baby doesn’t take any crap.

I salute you sir on what you believed in believing…

BB Reads the Business Rags – Special Edition

You know those scarab beetles, last seen as gawddawful CGI in The Mummy franchise? Well, Thraxxus has one firmly planted in his arse. This post is for him. In the August 18th issue of Fortune, the cover article is about bank analyst Meredith Whitney. OK, so I’m a little late with my magazines – they [...]

Well Done 2

I take back everything I said about Sarah Silverman. Well, almost everything.

Urgent Update from the Vice President Debates

I wish the Angels/Boston playoff series was on. Sigh.

The Difference is One of the Problems

Perhaps you’ve seen all the articles online and in business rags about “Main Street versus Wall Street”, or how “Main Street” has finally become fed up with corruption on Wall Street and is rejecting the greed that has fueled the system, or how blah blah blah. That Fortune article even goes as far as to [...]

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Currently My Favorite Political Cartoon Series

Chrome Colored Musings

So driving into the office today with Enigma we heard a strange little diddy on NPR regarding the “slip up” made by Google regarding pre-announcing via email the release of their completely open source web browser- CHROME. Word has it that Google created said web browser as they were concerned that the evil dark wizard [...]

Orangina – Balls of Steel, Brains of Mush

I like it when marketing departments take chances – I really do. If they bomb, then at least they went down swinging. Holy cripes, this ad goes down in FLAMES. Warning – this could haunt you.

Why didnt we come up with these?

While reading through my hundreds of RSS feeds I ran across these two rather profound greeting cards. I thought I would share them with you. Who can be as sarcastic as we are,  but have artistic talent to boot and then turn it into greeting cards? The folks over at Someecards.com pure brilliance I tell you.  [...]

The Programmer Pyramid

As some of you may have figured out many of us who write this blog are in one form of IT or another. This post will be a series of posts hoping to shed some light on the mystical world of programming / programmers. I have to admit much of this post is driven by frustration [...]

Blog Envy?

AVClub has some great content, but even better is the commentary. I swear half of the people are aspiring comedians, and when they are on they are hilarious.

Global Warming: Does it Matter?

If you have lived in Tucson Arizona since the 1960s, you have been witnessing that record low temperatures happen much less than they were from 1910 to 1960. The City of Tucson’s population is also growing and with an increasing number of people comes a proliferation of concrete and steal. As more buildings and roads [...]

Hancock Rebuttal – Spoiler Alert!

After reading Thraxxus review of Hankock, a movie that caused him to basically write off all critics as hacks, I was curious enough to check it out. Like him, I was amazed at critics’ commentaries. Not the concensus that the movie sucked, which was not 100%, but the consensus that Hancock goes off the rails [...]

PURE PORN POTENTIAL

Working in the web industry you tend to find some really strange things on the web. We all thought that second life was cool until it took you 20+ hours just to learn how to get to some stupid island to watch a tutorial and some wierdo wanted to to preform some act for [...]

Popper Video From “So You Think You Can Dance”

Latest performance from the guy from the earlier audition – especially awesome when he bends over backwards.

If you are in IT, then you can relate

Pick your poison!

How would you feel if you pulled up a chair and ordered up five fingers of scotch at this bar. this gives me new meaning to the phrase pick your poison. Next time you are in Switzerland check out this pace.

Hit Me Like a Ton of Pork

Let’s face it – most statistics force-fed the masses by the media nowadays fall into two categories: A. Well, duh. (ex. Bush approval rating) B. Who the hell cares? (i.e. the “MLB Stats Overkill” – did you know that Rich Ballplayer is the fourteenth player since 1975 to hit 25+ homers, have 20+ stolen bases, have an [...]

Smitten with a Badass

Lara Logan is my goddess now. F*ck the latest crack-smoking, crotch-exposing, anorexic, deluded with grandeur tabloid whore/actress. If you did not see yesterday’s Daily Show, go to the website now and do yourself a favor. This beauty accompanies green berets on assassination assignments, for crissakes! She fights networks to show more realistic war footage! She’s [...]