Category Archives: Oddities

Steorn insanity

Scienceblogs.com has an article up detailing how creationists have latched onto Steorn’s free energy device (which has yet to work) as “evidence against materialism”.

As quoted from overwhelmingevidence.com:

Steorn’s findings totally undermine the basic premise of materialism, simply by demonstrating a confirmed physical effect that materialists predict cannot happen. These clever Irish researchers have demonstrated that the principles of thermodynamics function in a manner far closer to the predictions of William Dembski and William Brookfield than the clearly flawed thermodynamic claims of Hawkings and Maxwell.

The same scientists who tell you that Intelligent Design is impossible also dispute the hard-facts of Steorn’s peer-reviewed findings. I predict that this humble contraption will show the world just how much materialists have misled mainstream-science.

Sweet zombie Jesus. Did I wake up in crazy town?

Steorn’s Orbo device was supposed to have been unveiled online on July 5, but due to technical difficulties which were “primarily due to excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area” the streaming video and public exhibition have been cancelled.

The streaming video — which showed the Orbo device on a table surrounded by five computers in an otherwise empty room — was up and running earlier in the week at this URL, but surfing there now redirects to the company’s news section.

My brain it is so squishy

Sometimes I spend so much of the day immersed in world events that blogging about them (at least in great detail) is impossible. I’m sleepy, lack focus and generally have trouble concentrating. Like I said in the title, my brain feels squishy.

There are many things I could easily have written about but did not. The recent terror incidents in Britain, Alan Johnston’s release (hurray!), the Australian crackdown on porn and alcohol in Aboriginal communities… I’m sure there are many more.

Some I simply did not feel like blogging about. Others I had read too much of other people’s opinions to have a coherent one of my own. Does anybody else have this problem?

There are also posts I have toyed with but never committed to the ether. I have shied away from some because I’m reluctant to reveal too much about myself, others because I have been unable to pin down a rational narrative. Perhaps this is procrastination. Perhaps it has a deeper meaning. (Perhaps it means nothing at all.)

My brain it is so squishy. Give me a couple of days and I’ll be better. In the meantime, here are some glorious examples of stop motion:

The Lego Millennium Falcon.

The Lego Trojan War.

Both of which I found while wilfing on Technorati.

I LOVE HER

Scripted or not, Mika Brzezinski is the girl for me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0[/youtube]

Paris Hilton’s release from prison was such a non-story. The way she sauntered out for the cameras, smiling coquettishly and milking every second of the attention was quite frankly nauseating.

Words fail me

A friend of mine described this as one of the cheekiest covers in the history of news reports… and I have to agree. From the Polish weekly Wprost:

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That’s German chancellor Angela Merkel with Polish president and prime minister Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, by the way. The headline translates as “Europe’s stepmother”. Read how the magazine (predictably) got in trouble with the German press here.