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December 27, 2010

Lightening X-Rayed

Scientists recently built a way to take photos fast enough to shoot lightening reliably, enabling them to capture it with x-ray photography for the first time.

"The pictures suggest a lightning bolt carries all its x-ray radiation in its tip." Re- the cool-looking, straight green flame: "[t]he lightning bolts were triggered by launching small rockets into the thunderstorms. . . . The rockets trailed wires behind them to direct the lightning through the camera's field of view."

More at National Geographic.


November 11, 2008

Guess It'll Be a While Before We Take a Decent Prez for Granted Again?

You can now buy "Ojamas" to help you "[s]leep soundly and awake to a brand new day for America!"

February 20, 2008

Suck My Fish Cakes

What got me about this story is, "[t]he cost of the meal came to £284.68, including a 10% service charge." Per the first currency converter that popped up, that's $554.23, so the server's tip was automatically ca. $55.42.