Today I swung by “The Davenport,” the century-plus old apartment building that partially collapsed a few days ago. Roads were closed off for a radius of a block or two around it so I couldn’t get very close in my car, and I didn’t have the time to find someplace to park and walk. Ehhh,…
A recent Mexican TV news piece showed a cartel member wandering about with a shoulder-fired AT-4 anti-tank rocket slung over his shoulder. A number of commenters immediately leaped to one or both of two wrong conclusions: 1: It’s a Javelin missile 2: It’s a missile we gave to Ukraine, which they then turned around and…
This tool seems singularly useless for it’s stated roles. Maybe it would be useful for something else… It’s unclear how thick that striking surface is.
Music based on applying notes to “Sierpiński Triangles,” a basic form of a fractal. To me the result sounds like “medieval music.” It also sounds far better than a lot of the drek that gets airplay these days.
Paralyzed man walks again using implants connecting brain with spinal cord Some sci-fi stuff here, with “it’s the real world, though” results… he’s walking, yes, but *real* *slow.* Not sure if he can feel anything.
There seems to be some interesting combat going on these days, with Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine invading a Russian border city and fighting the Russian military. Some suggest that this is actually a false flag operation… but wouldn’t that make it *worse?* The Russian government actually showing the Russian people an active resistance? Nah.…
A song from five years ago is now made relevant again by this news about the “Trump-Russia Collusion” narrative falling apart even more: Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe As the kids say, it’s a “banger.” It was produced by the same folks responsible for the Alex…
