Have you ever wondered how best to destroy the whole planet? Me neither, but some other people have and they have created a list with instructions (did they have the rage?). After giving it a rough read through I have concluded that in most cases, building something from ikea is easier. For example (slightly edited):

Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation

• You will need: a light bulb
• Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too.
• Feasibility rating: 5/10. Slightly possible.
• Earliest feasible completion date: 2060 or so.

More examples can be found at Sam’s Archive if you are interested. Its some good reading but a little light on details for those of us who may be supervillians.

So yesterday, while driving in the car I was listening to talk radio, AM640 in Toronto. At the time, they where reviewing the events of the week, one of which happened to be this story:

Man Sets Himself on Fire During Toronto Protest
Wed March 9, 2005 5:20 PM GMT-05:00
TORONTO (Reuters) - A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a stand-off with police on Wednesday during a protest by several hundred farmers in front of the Ontario provincial Legislature in Toronto. The man drove a white rental van into the demonstration area and then held off police by telling them he had doused himself with gasoline. The incident was carried live by Canadian television crews monitoring the farmers’ protest.

A sad story no doubt. The even more sad and disgusting part is what AM640 did while trying to wrap up the story and ’segway’ into the advertisements. The guy they were interviewing (I forget who) was going on too long I guess so they started to play some music in anticipation of the commercial break. The song was “Burning down the house”. How callous to play this while also commenting about the ’sadness’ of the fire event.

Similar to this event in the states I guess.

Oever : Well hi Joey.
Murdock : Come on up here, you can see better.
Oever : We have something here for our special visitors ( takes out a model airplane for Joey ), would you like to have it?
Joey : Thank youuuuuuu! Thanks alot!
Oever : Sure. You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey : No sir, I’ve never been up in a plane before.
Oever : You ever . . . seen a grown man naked ?
Murdock : Do you want me to check the weather Clarence?
Oever : No, why don’t you take care of it. Joey, did ya ever hang around a gymnasium?
Elaine : We’d better get back now Joey

Link to the full script

Beershots features, “digital images and photomicrographs (photographs taken through an optical microscope) of the World’s most famous beers.” Various beers of the world are organized by country. After reviewing Canadian beers, I can confirm that indeed Moosehead still beats blue hands down.

Source: Molecular Expressions: The Beershots Photo Gallery

A campaign fund controlled by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has lost almost $460,000 in stock market investments since 2000 and now does not have enough to cover a sizable bank loan, according to federal election records and the manager of the Frist account.

Frist is the GOP Majority leader and main proponent of the plan to move money from Social Security to personal stock market investments. Frist’s investing abilites is proof that stock market investment is a wise and safe alternative…

Source: Frist Political Fund Can’t Cover Bank Loan via linkfilter

Bugs bunny is going EXTREME! If you can tolerate extreme language, and swearing and cussing and general nastiness (but funny) then check out this satire of the new bugs bunny. Seriously, its not for kids. The terrorists are winning.

Bugs Bunny gets an extreme makeover

If max power can cook this recipe, then so can you! This Garlic chicken dish was very tasty indeed! Garlicy and cheesy, Max choose to serve it over some linguine with an alfredo sauce. Here is the recipe (originally found at allrecipes.com):

What you need:
- 2 teaspoons crushed garlic
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves

What you do with it:

• 1. Preheat oven at 425 degrees F.
• 2. Warm the garlic and olive oil to blend the flavours. In a separate dish, combine the bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Dip the chicken breasts in the olive oil and garlic mixture, then into the bread crumb mixture. Alternatively, cut the chicken up into bite size chunks before dipping. Regardless, place in a shallow baking dish/ cookie sheet, the important thing is that it is shallow.
• 3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until no longer pink.

It is very tasty.

When something is cool, its often hard to define why it is cool. It just is. In the beggining of IRC writing h4xx0r and 1337 was probably pretty cool. Now it isn’t. And the reason? Because it has been defined by microsoft. Perhaps it all went down like this.