Gleeful Gecko

I For One Hail Our Future Quadrotor Overlords….

Brett — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:17:14 +0000

This is both very cool and a bit terrifying really.

Getting Medieval

Brett — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:48 +0000

I love the English, the are some of the nicest calmest people I have ever met, but when they do get angry the really get angry. Got medieval on him for sure. I always love watching the BBC seesaw between ‘Cat Stuck in Tree’ type stories and the beheadings.

Too Old To Be Hip

Brett — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:28 +0000

I am far too old to be hip, but I still find newish music I like now and then. This is the Fleet Foxes from their latest album released in May of 2011.

Two Types of Grownups

Brett — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:20:46 +0000

I often say one of the big problems in DC is the lack of grown ups but following the SOPA/PIPA debate yesterday I realized I have been wrong. DC has grown ups, it just has the wrong kind. I see there being two types of grown ups, the good ones are the ones who take their jobs seriously and get their work done. In DC this would be little things like passing a budget, planning for the country’s future, stuff like that.

The other kind, the kind we have tons of, are the type of grown ups who like to order people around. The anger of the SOPA supporters are people showed they were fed up with the bullshit was telling. ‘Why does America need to follow the Chinese and Iranian Internet censorship plan?! Because I said so!’ No appeal to facts, just bluster. These are a type of grown up we could easily do with less of in DC. Can’t pass a budget but fight like hell to censor the internet? Don’t expect me to be impressed.

Scaling Problems

Brett — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:53:09 +0000

Patents have a huge scaling problem. The fine folks at Frugal Dad put together a great graphic that demonstrates the issues, but the bottom line is that the patent system couldn’t scale when they allowed concepts to be patented. People have a lot of ideas, many of them may be impractical today, but everyone rushed to patent them anyway. The system is broken. We need adults to come along and fix it again, sadly we don’t elect adults anymore, we prefer zealots of whatever team we are cheering for in the election game.

Source: http://frugaldad.com

An Entire American Food Group In Peril!

Brett — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:28:31 +0000

This is serious business here, an entire American food group is in peril. If we can bail out the car companies and the banks we would be crazy to do nothing here. People will starve! This was half my food in college.

Lessons In Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Brett — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:43:48 +0000

The President signed into law the indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military, he said he has some objections, but signed the law anyway. If he were not lying there is an easy and quick way to end this nonsense. Detain every sponsor of the bill immediately and hold them until the law is revoked.

They are clearly supply lending support to terrorists by gutting the US Constitution and thus undermining the freedoms that the terrorists oppose. By detaining these lawmakers we would send a powerful message to others in the congress to think before they pass laws that grant the government powers with no checks on them. We could set up a web cam so we could watch the detention in a military work camp in North Dakota, it is teachable moment that the President should seize.

Internet Censorship. Bad. I would have thought this was obvious.

Brett — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:11:11 +0000

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Southern Hemisphere Summer of Fear: Witch Doctor Curse Shark Attacks

Brett — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:53:03 +0000

You know the sharks are making a big play for the Southern Hemisphere Summer of Fear contest when you get a story that says one theory for local shark attacks is Witch Doctor rites on the beach. That is killer Southern Hemisphere Summer of Fear material right there. Other theories, loud beach music, and cursed surfers. Witch Doctor Shark Attacks at Cursed Surfer Beach! This needs to be on Syfy as a movie of the week.

Cannons are Dangerous. Not A Myth.

Brett — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:06:58 +0000

So apparently the Mythbusters fired a cannon through a house yesterday. They did not do it deliberately but I think we can say that the cannons being dangerous is pretty much not a myth.

There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all – only awakening because of plaster dust.

Luckily no one was hurt.

Flaming Holiday Goat

Brett — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:50:55 +0000

It isn’t really the holidays until the Swedish Christmas Goat is in flames is it? Apparently this year’s cunning plan to protect the goat was to soak it in water to freeze it, but the weather has been too mild and goat met the same fate as 2008′s goat, shown below in the video.

Clarkson Apologizes

Brett — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:58:04 +0000

After apologies to almost everyone in the world at this point I am considering adding a ‘Clarkson Apologizes‘ tag to the site.

Block SOPA

Brett — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:19:37 +0000

Terrible law is terrible law. I have written my congress creatures. Please write yours and protest this terrible law.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Giving the Gangers Ideas

Brett — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:17:11 +0000

This sort of news story is just the sort that will have gang members out doing archaeological digs all over the place. Crashed Spitfire found in bog with working machine guns. ‘Yo homies, get me a trowel, shit just got real.’ The poor archaeologists out there armed only with their bull whips will have no chance.

The Last Bongthing is Dead

Brett — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:25:13 +0000

Samdup Taso, the last Bongthing of Sikkim is dead and leaves the world without a shaman of Kanchenjunga for the first time since the 13th century. In America we regard it as a cultural tragedy when the hardware store that opened in the 1940s closes.