Missing Mary Road

a little geek humour here. hap tip to hugh. click to biggie.

“Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else’s property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.”

- Jack Valenti, MPAA

“If you design your own machine, you can’t fuss at people, because you’re one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?”

- Jack Valenti, MPAA

CERN to morons, the LHC will not destroy the Earth. This is alluding to the previous story on how it could.

Contrary to the somewhat feverish claims laid out in an recent lawsuit, when our favorite particle-smashing, Force-finding Large Hadron Collider is switched on soon it will not result in the destruction of life as we know it. Such claims are “complete nonsense” say the scientists at CERN (and everywhere else,) in response to the suit. They should know: it’s their machine, they designed it and they’ve been telling everyone for a while that their research shows it’s safe.

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lemme know if you like this new look. or not.

what if charles schultz wrote watchmen. well you’d get something similar to this.

previously what if it were written by stan lee?

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alfred e. neuman. that name may mean a lot to a lot of you, or pretty much nothing. if it’s the former, you have to check out the MAD fold-in back covers over the decades. the new york times has a special.

The annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, known as the Hajj, has on occasion been marred by deaths from trampling in the huge crowds that gather for the rituals. But scientists studying how pedestrians move around think they have made such crowd disasters much less likely. The science of pedestrian motion meets the annual Hajj in Mecca.