Slave Tattoos: January 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

No Biggie

There have been a few reports today, in OregonLive, KGW and KATU, about a series of small quakes at Mt. St Helens over the weekend.

There were 15 quakes, mostly in the magnitude 1 range, with a couple around magnitude 2.5 recorded by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. They were about two miles deep just northwest of the volcano.

Small swarms like this are not uncommon under any of the major Cascade peaks and the surrounding area. All three reports appear to be based on the same AP source, and all agree that this shouldn't be taken as a warning of any incipient St Helens activity. On the other hand, if you're in the vicinity of Yellowstone, you might want to hightail it out of there. In fact, I'd like to recommend that any geological activity, anywhere on the planet, should be taken to indicate that the terror threat at Yellowstone has risen from red to at least crimson, and very likely ultraviolet.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

This is Cool

Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.

Though as the source notes, "Needs more Saturn." This embedding code looks like the style I was fighting with yesterday, so if the clip doesn't show up for you, follow the link to the source or to Scale, and you should be able to see it. It's only about a minute long, and quite impressive.

Followup: Yep. And as it turns out, Vimeo also offers "the old code," which is code for "the code that actually works." Hopefully, this is fixed now.

Today in Stupid

Which does Faux News not get: plate tectonics or geography? (Hint: I'm betting on both.) Hullabaloo

This Bunsen Boehner looks suspiciously like that other guy: (image above and awful pun mine)

SwansonTea: F*@&ing Bill O’Reilly — How Does He Work?

As long as there is one thing that science can’t explain (or he doesn’t understand), all is well with his world. It’s amazing to me that this argument makes sense to him.

EB Misfit points out that the designers of this logo have the Wright brothers the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft... backwards. Whether this bodes poorly for the competition remains to be seen.

Sunday Funnies

Sober in a Nightclub

Criggo

God Hates Protesters

PhD Comics, via Bits and Pieces

Darius Whiteplume's Tumblr

Fake Science

epic fail photos - Spelling Bee Trophy FAIL

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Married to the Sea

Saturday Morn ing Breakfast Cereal

Cyanide and Happiness

Via Propagating Waves

Digging a foxhole. See more Lolcats and funny pictures

EpicPonyz

This is an older one I posted two or three years ago, but it's still funny. BizarroBlog

funny pictures - They had never met a seal that knew kung-fu, and hoped this would be the last time they did.

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

funny pictures history - Little did baby Duffel know he would one day be a household word.

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Criggo

see more Hacked IRL - Truth in Sarcasm

My First Dictionary... the real punchline to this one is that the above are the actual illustration and definitions given in the original 10940's children's dictionary that Ross Horsely uses as his source.

All will be welcome in this new land, whether their skin be white, ivory, or beige!

And whether they come from London, Manchester or even Liverpool!

All right, who said that? Who's the wise guy?

The Daily Irritant

Joy of Tech

The Far Left Side

Slowpoke... speaking of bankers, here's a piece from The Guardian that just showed up: banker jokes! Just one to whet your appetite, but there are quite a few at the link.

A man is stuck in traffic. He asks a police officer about the hold-up and he replies: "The head of the Bank Of England is so depressed about the economy he's stopped his car and is threatening to douse himself with petrol and set himself on fire. So we're taking up a collection for him." The man asks: "How much have you got so far?" The policeman replies: "About 40 gallons, but a lot of people are still siphoning."