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CNN.com - Building the world’s most powerful laser - May 23, 2005

okay, bad joke title. especially since it’s not likely to conjure the powerade sports commericals, but still.

laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States

that is a ridiculously strong laser. way stronger than those lasers you can make/buy that can poke a hole in an aluminum can. but here’s what i wonder. say they do this, and it works. so do they have like a ministar in the lab? or is it not self-sustaining like a star? a quick glance at the rest of the article talks about it being like a nuclear explosion. so they have this tiny nuke? questions questions. i hope it works though. and not because it’s cost the government an insane amount of money, but just because i think it’s cool.

NBC.com > Hit Me Baby One More Time

happy that i’ll get to see some of the fave bands from my youth. sad that it’s come to this. haha, i didn’t really read the show info stuff, but i hope they forbid them from doing new music and only make them do the “classics.” arrested development - tennesee, mr. wendel.hahha… i think in a promo/commercial i saw that boyz ii men were going to be on the show. god they must’ve sold like 4 copies of their last album (came out last year). i didn’t even buy it and i’m a big fan.

“It’s the quiet ones you have to watch. China’s pretty quiet, but it’s also very great. When we’re all speaking Chinese in 20 years, people will say, ‘Well, I didn’t realize—they were awfully quiet.’

hmm, i don’t know how many people would agree with that statement. hell, in the U.S. it’s probably in 20 years when we’re all speaking Spanish. hahah

SI.com - Writers - TK - Monday May 23, 2005 11:31AM

4. I think one other thing the NFL will discuss this week is that horse-collar tackle thing. And if I’m a defensive player, I’m really ticked off about it. Tell me something: When you’re diving to make a tackle, and you grab onto a guy’s shoulder pads or something in the neck region, and you jerk the guy down, what’s wrong with that? A few injuries have happened, freaky injuries, because of these odd tackles, but you can’t ban a tackle because a defender is grabbing onto equipment or a jersey and happens to jerk the guy down awkwardly. This is football. It’s violent. It’s risky. Dumb rule, if it passes.

there. my list mentor PK says it all. with ALL the rules favoring offensive players. with as big and strong and fast as they are, if a guy gets by you, you find a way to bring him down. HELLO, the nfl said if you have long hair that comes out of your helmet, a defender is allowed to tackle you by your hair. but now grabbing the back/neck of the pads is going to be outlawed?

The Complete List - ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME Magazine

umm, finding nemo? bride of frankestein? all 3 LOTR?

look good movies, but the BEST of all time? LOTRs, i’m not a huge fan of the genre. i watched, thought the movies were okay, but really do the LOTRs (which count as 1 for purposes of this list) really merit this? is 1, 2, 3 SO different and each so influential that they should be lumped together? incidentally, godfather 1 and 2 made the cut as a single, but not godfather 3, which while panned by a lot of people almost universally, i still think has a few redeeming qualities about it. there are a lot of good, great movies on this list, but it completely seems like they pulled some titles out of their ass at time mag. i wonder what the criteria was to make this list.

Delivr Digital Postcards

search the flickr universe to find pics to send as digital postcards. hmm, so if you want to send your own, and maybe you can i don’t know i’m not a flickr user, i guess you’d have to make a unique (i almost wrote “very unique”, which would be dumb of me, as i was recently reminded by a west wing rerun because unique means “being the only one” or “being without a like or equal.” but in a true in-your-face-jed-barlett-or-more-specifically-aaron-sorkin, unique, according to merriam-webster, also means “unusual” and the example given is “a VERY unique ball-point pen” [emphasis added]. of course now that i think about it, maybe the line wasn’t specifically “very unique,” but the more important question is there really such a thing as a “very unique ball-point pen?” i mean i guess there are because you can buy nice ball-point/rollerball/etc pens) tag (wow that was a long parenthetical). okay, very unique tag so you can pull up your own flickr images in delivr to mail them. though i suppose if they are your own, you can just email them, so the whole delivr step would be unnecessary…. so regarding this post (and my perhaps mistake on the west wing thing) in the words of the bluth family: i may have just made a huge mistake. okay, mistake wouldn’t be the right word here for this, but how do you pass up an obvious place (okay, not so obvious if mistake is the wrong word) for an arrested development tie-in?

Steele Discusses “Stereotype Threat”

When the white students took a test after being told that Asians typically outperformed whites on that test, the whites performed significantly worse than they would have otherwise.

is it a stereotype if true? i kid. i know many smart white people and (perhaps just a function of places i’ve lived) many dumb asian people. should i be saying caucasian and asian? anglo and asian? white and yellow? man, it’s hard to keep up these days with what the correct name/label is….

top 10 words that aren’t really words

this isn’t like breaking news or anything, but i had to post this in honor of someone actually using the “word” “ginormous” in my presence the other day (you know who you are). i do have to say, of the “words” in the top 10, i’ve only used number 3, “woot,” and in specific contexts only, like referring to woot.com (which is a nice enough site). though i have friends who use “woot” a lot.

Blogebrity

i don’t know what’s sadder. that this site/list exists or that secretly (well not so secret anymore, or at least secret to my 4 readers), deep down in places i don’t want to admit exist, i wish i was on this list. (=

ESPN.com - MLB - Not-OK computer: Cubs tell Zambrano to cut back on use

man, if only this applied to the rest of us working stiffs who spend 8+ hours in front of computer for work. nevermind how many hours we spend on the computer not at work. yeah right zambrano, 4 hours a day “communicating via e-mail with his brother.” uh-huh, i believe that. if email is some sort of chat and his brother is actually some stripper with a webcam.