News to me, but apparently Barack Obama has a whole slew of long-lost brothers, offspring of his father and a local woman known only as ‘Jael’. The youngest sibling, George Hussein Onyango Obama, lives in a shantytown. He claims to exist on less than $1 a month. Whoa. He doesn’t admit to being related to [...]
Para·chute\ˈper-ə-ˌshüt, ˈpa-rə-\ noun. French, from para- (as in parasol) + chute fall. 1: a device for slowing the descent of a person or object through the air that consists of a fabric canopy beneath which the person or object is suspended 2: patagium 3: a device or structure suggestive of a parachute in form, use, or operation. NASA, [...]
David Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, has proposed an aggressive plan to use wind power to meet 10 per cent of the city’s energy needs. And how does he propose to accomplish this bold goal in North America’s most densely populated urban environment? Easy. Put the wind turbines on top of buildings, bridges, and in the [...]
We have confirmation: the Georgia bigfoot was totally fake. From Fox News: SearchingforBigfoot.com owner Tom Biscardi paid an “undisclosed sum” to Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two Georgia men who say they found the body, for their frozen corpse and the privilege of trotting them out in front of TV cameras. At the same [...]
In case you were feeling bad about yourself in the wake of Michael Phelps’ record smashing Olympic performance, fear not. Technology comes to the rescue once again, riding a shimmering white horse. That shoots lasers out of its eyes. Presented for your consideration, the Lunocet Monofin: This carbon fibre and titanium wonder can take an [...]
All right, now things are starting to get serious. I’m now doing 105-120 push ups per session, with about 60-120 seconds of rest time betweem sets. I’m occasionally taking slightly longer rests between the penultimate and final sets, mostly because my arms feel like they’ve been tenderized. Slight cause for concern there, but not too [...]
[Author's Note: to get the most out of this post, please listen to the following audio track while reading] [audio:http://nuncscio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/st_tos_ancientbattle.mp3|autostart=no|bgcolor=0x000000] If you’re like me, you vaguely resent your office job. You wonder, “why aren’t I zooming around the galaxy, saving humanity and occasionally making out with green space chicks?” Well, here’s a small piece of [...]