Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
March 4th, 2010 | 
Author: As I said, this has been a dreary, damp, crappy winter. One thing I can be very glad of, though: I don’t live in the Arctic.
I like the cold. Love it, in fact. But, the darkness would really drive me squirrelly.
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Too bad it doesn’t exist any more.
You may have heard the outrageous story last week about a school vice-principal wetting his pants in terror and calling the bomb squad upon seeing an 11-year-old student’s electronic project? No, I’m not kidding. At a so-called technology magnet school. That’s bad enough, but the kid and his parents are now supposed to get “counselling” for, presumably, daring to let their child think for himself and experiment.
Murilee Martin posted a wonderful reminiscence of a prank that he pulled in high school that amounted to much the same effect: bomb squad and evacuated school. But for a notable exception: Read the rest of this entry »
Bridget and I were at the mecca of discount consumerism this afternoon (Costco) and I spotted something on the shelf that I’m a bit conflicted about:
The CBC is reporting that, just in time for the Olympics, the Vancouver police have acquired an LRAD. There’s nothing worry about, though: it’s “simply a new communications tool that will allow officers to address huge crowds at distances of up to 300 metres”.
Apparently the anticipated “huge crowds” are also deaf. This thing is capable of producing a focused beam of sound at 146 dB. The human pain threshold for sound ranges from 120-140 dB. It’s quite the bullhorn, isn’t it?
Tags: Well, I never said the the Scientologists were stupid. Just reprehensible scum-bags that take advantage of people in a weak moment and then proceed to extract every penny from them while separating the mark from their family and friends. But, they’re not stupid.
I was scrolling through YouTube’s CitizenTube channel and checking out video from the protests in Iran and guess who’s sponsoring the page?