Video of a 1.4 BILLION dollar plane crashing.

The military has released gripping video footage of a February B-2 bomber crash in Guam that the Air Force has concluded was caused by moisture.

The crash was caused by distorted data in the aircraft's flight control computers, according to a report released Thursday. Air Force investigators blame the distortion on moisture in the system, which caused the computers to calculate the wrong airspeed.

What is your Asperger's Quotient?

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.

Politics

I want to get drunk so you can drive recklessly while I stroke the bear's head.

On June 3, engineers at iXs Research Corporation unveiled a robotic teddy bear designed to work as a talking car navigation system. The prototype robot stands 30 centimeters (1 ft) tall and has 6 joints in its arms and neck, which it uses to make gestures while providing spoken directions.

The robot bear is also equipped with functions to improve auto safety, such as an alcohol detection sensor embedded in its neck. If it smells booze, the robot confronts the driver, saying, “You haven’t been drinking, have you?” Other sensors detect reckless driving, so if the driver suddenly accelerates or slams on the brakes, the robot says, “Watch out!”

As a bonus feature, the robot bear provides information about nearby landmarks when you stroke its head.

Behavioral Analysis of People in 1974

My New Favorite Song

17. Lobsterdust - Walkin' Out Yo Girlfriend (Unk vs. Avril Lavigne vs. Toni Basil)

A Good Read

An urgent-care physician with a passion for the Lewis and Clark Expedition describes the medical challenges the captains encountered and treated using the primitive medicine and theories of 1803. Dr. Peck details how they dealt with illnesses and accidents including frostbite, severe cuts, and appendicitis, parasites, snakebite, a gunshot wound and much more.

It's A Miracle This Kid Is Still Alive

The Thing I Didn't Say

Last night I worked as an election judge. A 95 year-old woman came in and we asked for her ID. It's required to show ID to vote. She started to bitch about how she had never shown her ID before and my mind stopped my tongue before I said (innocently)

"Hey, you might never have to show your ID again."

I meant, what are the odds she's going to be around in another four years?

McCain: I'd Spy on Americans Secretly, Too

f elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president's wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday.
McCain's new tack towards the Bush administration's theory of executive power comes some 10 days after a McCain surrogate stated, incorrectly it seems, that the senator wanted hearings into telecom companies' cooperation with President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, before he'd support giving those companies retroactive legal immunity.

Australia - the only country with a government stupider than ours

Jokes about soup

My favorites:

Mummy, mummy, what's a vampire?
Shut up and eat your soup before it clots.

We were eating in this open-air café when it started raining. It took us an hour and a half to finish our soup.

DO NOT LET CHILDREN PLAY WITH FLIP PHONES

A new study has revealed that flip phones can cause very serious side effects to the reproductive development of young children.

Keep all flip phones out of the reach of children.

Please pass this safety warning on to everyone on your email list.

If it prevents even one injury to an innocent child, it will have been worth it.

The Unhealthiest Drink In America

Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz)
2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)

Let's look at America's Worst Drink in numbers:

73: The number of ingredients that go into this milkshake.
66: The number of teaspoons of sugar this drink contains.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal the number of calories found in one Baskin Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake.
8-12: The average number of minutes it takes to consume this drink.
240: The number of minutes you’d need to spend on a treadmill burning it off, running at a moderate pace.

Follow the link for 50 jokes

I was watching Gene Simmons' TV show, "Family Jewels." Or as it's known in the business, "'The Osbournes'Without the Talented Father."

For one day, this man was full of win.

Fun for my Mac friends

Using your Apple remote, click and hold the Play button and a “snoring” image of the remote will appear on screen. Continue holding the Play button and your Mac will go to sleep.


I'm going to have to resist the urge of putting that on screen when I'm presenting and someone asks a very long question.

The Difference Between Girls Softball and Boys Softball

(overheard in Butte at a game)

"Amanda! Amanda! Amanda come here!

Your dad needs a hug."

Make More Coffee

A Few Too Many

Of the miseries regularly inflicted on humankind, some are so minor and yet, while they last, so painful that one wonders how, after all this time, a remedy cannot have been found. If scientists do not have a cure for cancer, that makes sense. But the common cold, the menstrual cramp? The hangover is another condition of this kind