Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
This is the first known photo of a human being.
This is the first known photo of a human being. It is a Daguerreotype that was taken in 1838 in the Boulevard du Temple in Paris by the inventor of the process Louis Daguerre. This process involved exposing a chemically treated metal plate for 10 minutes. There were other people and carriages in the photo but because they were moving, they didn’t show up.
Only this man and a shoe shiner be seen in this picture as they stood long enough without moving a lot during the time of exposure.
Rule 5 - Girls with Guns. Hot, Hot Girls with Guns.
Oh my, do I see High Capacity Clips? Can I Discharge Them for You?
Burrito Bomber: open source hardware-based drone autonomously delivers Mexican food
It works like this:
We built Burrito Bomber using a handful of open source projects and some new bits we created ourselves. All the code and 3D models we created for Burrito Bomber are on our GitHub page so you can build one too!
- You connect to the Burrito Bomber web-app and order a burrito. Your smartphone sends your current location to our server, which generates a waypoint file compatible with the drone's autopilot.
- We upload the waypoint file to the drone and load your burrito in to our custom made Burrito Delivery Tube.
- The drone flies to your location and releases the Burrito Delivery Tube. The burrito parachutes down to you, the drone flies itself home, and you enjoy your carne asada.
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John Kerry - The Next American Secretary of State
It is amazing that Barack Obama can continue to nominate new candidates with the same level of professionalism, talent, integrity, honesty, and just plain proper thinking individuals that he has nominated since his election. Clearly, the Democratic party has a large pool to these amazing individuals to pull from.
If Gun Free Zones Are Good Enough For Our Children....
THEN THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Obama has a Parasitic Lesbian Worm named after him!
THE OBAMA WORM IS A PARASITIC LESBIAN WORM THAT CAUSES THEIR HOST TO COMMIT SUICIDE. So life is just as strange as American Politics!
Paragordius obamai
Sex is one of the great mysteries of evolutionary
biology - why do organisms have it? It has numerous costs associated with it,
including the two big ones, which are that only half the population will produce
offspring in the next generation (technically really a problem more of anisogamy
than sex, per se) and that successful gene combinations can be broken up via
recombination. There are other costs as well. For instance, finding and wooing
mates can be costly to an organism.
Nematomorphs, sometimes called hairworms, are parasites that live inside arthropods as larvae, but then exist as free-living aquatic adults. They often induce suicide in their insect hosts, by causing them to jump into water, where the worms then escape (see this previous post for another example). The adults typically seek out the opposite sex and can form "Gordian knots" of mating worms. Today's species, however, is found in larger and faster-moving waters - and in these big, complicated habitats, finding a suitable mate can be really tricky. So, today's parasite, has solved this problem through the evolution of parthenogenesis. Meet Paragordius obamai, (named after President Obama, in honor of it being discovered in Kenya, where his father was raised), a species of nematomorph that has completely given up on males. When brought into the lab, P. obamai only released female worms and nowhere inside these stringy parasites could male reproductive organs be found. Because bacterial symbionts can sometimes produce severe sex-ratio biases or even male-killing in insects and other invertebrates, the authors used pyrosequencing to look for evidence of these micro-manipulators, yet found no sequences similar to the taxa that have been observed to cause these biases in other hosts.
The authors now plan to use this new species, in comparison with a sexual congener, to test hypotheses on the evolution of and genetic mechanisms responsible for this novel parthenogenetic situation.
Source: Hanelt B, Bolek MG, Schmidt-Rhaesa A (2012) Going Solo: Discovery of the First Parthenogenetic Gordiid (Nematomorpha: Gordiida). PLoS ONE 7(4): e34472. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034472 Susan Perkins
H/T http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com
Nematomorphs, sometimes called hairworms, are parasites that live inside arthropods as larvae, but then exist as free-living aquatic adults. They often induce suicide in their insect hosts, by causing them to jump into water, where the worms then escape (see this previous post for another example). The adults typically seek out the opposite sex and can form "Gordian knots" of mating worms. Today's species, however, is found in larger and faster-moving waters - and in these big, complicated habitats, finding a suitable mate can be really tricky. So, today's parasite, has solved this problem through the evolution of parthenogenesis. Meet Paragordius obamai, (named after President Obama, in honor of it being discovered in Kenya, where his father was raised), a species of nematomorph that has completely given up on males. When brought into the lab, P. obamai only released female worms and nowhere inside these stringy parasites could male reproductive organs be found. Because bacterial symbionts can sometimes produce severe sex-ratio biases or even male-killing in insects and other invertebrates, the authors used pyrosequencing to look for evidence of these micro-manipulators, yet found no sequences similar to the taxa that have been observed to cause these biases in other hosts.
The authors now plan to use this new species, in comparison with a sexual congener, to test hypotheses on the evolution of and genetic mechanisms responsible for this novel parthenogenetic situation.
Source: Hanelt B, Bolek MG, Schmidt-Rhaesa A (2012) Going Solo: Discovery of the First Parthenogenetic Gordiid (Nematomorpha: Gordiida). PLoS ONE 7(4): e34472. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034472 Susan Perkins
H/T http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com
Read Here About: Obama Gets Creepy Spider Named After Him
Awesome Late Evening/Early Morning Pic
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Obama Gets Creepy Spider Named After Him
The spider destroys its prey from the inside, after it injects its venom into the country prey.
Barack Husein Obama now has a creepy spider named after him. The spider is called Aptostichus barackobamai.
This spider subdues its prey by injecting venom through their fangs, which operate much like a pair of hypodermic needles. Besides the paralytic action of the venom compounds, the spider regurgitates digestive fluids onto the prey to digest it, working more or less like a meat tenderizer. Once the prey begins to liquefy, the spider uses its jaws and pedipalps to further masticate its meal. The “meat ball” is then slowly imbibed by the mouthparts, taken in mostly in liquid form. The Barack Obama spider destroys its victim from the inside. How fitting.
Vincent Price foresaw the future when he wrote this poem:
Leaving lepidoptera...Please, don't touch the display,
Little boy, aha cute! Moving to the next aisle we have
Arachnida, the spiders, our...finest collection.
This friendly little devil is the heptothilidi,
Unfortunately harmless. Next to him, the nasty licosa
Raptoria, his tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of
The skin (laugh). And here, my prize, the Barack
Obama. Isn't she lovely?...And so deadly. Her kiss is
Fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake.
You see her venom is highly neurotoxic, which is to say
That it attacks the central nervous system causing
Intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in
Breathing, loss of consciousness, violent convulsions
And, finally...Death. You know what I think I love the
Most about her is her inborn need to dominate,
Possess. In fact, immediately after the consummation
Of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the
Species she kills and eats him...(laugh) oh, she is
Delicious...And I hope he was! Such power and dignity
...unhampered by sentiment. If I may put forward a
Slice of personal philosophy, I feel that man has ruled
This world as a stumbling dimented child-king long
Enough! And as his empire crumbles, my precious Barack
Obama shall rise as his most fitting successor!
Read Here About A Parasitic Lesbian Worm Named After Obama
Barack Husein Obama now has a creepy spider named after him. The spider is called Aptostichus barackobamai.
This spider subdues its prey by injecting venom through their fangs, which operate much like a pair of hypodermic needles. Besides the paralytic action of the venom compounds, the spider regurgitates digestive fluids onto the prey to digest it, working more or less like a meat tenderizer. Once the prey begins to liquefy, the spider uses its jaws and pedipalps to further masticate its meal. The “meat ball” is then slowly imbibed by the mouthparts, taken in mostly in liquid form. The Barack Obama spider destroys its victim from the inside. How fitting.
Vincent Price foresaw the future when he wrote this poem:
Leaving lepidoptera...Please, don't touch the display,
Little boy, aha cute! Moving to the next aisle we have
Arachnida, the spiders, our...finest collection.
This friendly little devil is the heptothilidi,
Unfortunately harmless. Next to him, the nasty licosa
Raptoria, his tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of
The skin (laugh). And here, my prize, the Barack
Obama. Isn't she lovely?...And so deadly. Her kiss is
Fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake.
You see her venom is highly neurotoxic, which is to say
That it attacks the central nervous system causing
Intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in
Breathing, loss of consciousness, violent convulsions
And, finally...Death. You know what I think I love the
Most about her is her inborn need to dominate,
Possess. In fact, immediately after the consummation
Of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the
Species she kills and eats him...(laugh) oh, she is
Delicious...And I hope he was! Such power and dignity
...unhampered by sentiment. If I may put forward a
Slice of personal philosophy, I feel that man has ruled
This world as a stumbling dimented child-king long
Enough! And as his empire crumbles, my precious Barack
Obama shall rise as his most fitting successor!
Read Here About A Parasitic Lesbian Worm Named After Obama
DANGEROUS INFORMATION - Civilian Drone Warfare
You can build and arm your own lethal drone, but be careful of the legal repercussions of using it.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Mass Shootings Have A Long History
Although it sounds sadly modern, the account was published in the New York Times more than a century ago.
Dated April 10, 1891, the article described an elderly man firing a shotgun at children playing in front of St. Mary's Parochial School in Newburgh, NY.
"None of the children were killed, but several were well filled with lead," the report said.
Indeed, killing or trying to kill a mass of people is not a modern phenomenon. For as long as there has been history, there have been gruesome mass murders.
"The terms amok, a Malayan word, and berserk, a Norse word, have been used to describe individuals going on killing sprees. Both terms have been around for centuries, which reflects the fact that mass murder is neither a modern nor a uniquely American phenomenon," Grant Duwe,director of research at the Minnesota Department of Corrections, told Discovery News.
Defined as bloody events that occur within a 24-hour period and that involve
a minimum of four victims, mass murders have occurred all over the world, in
different times, societies and cultures.
Some of the earliest recorded cases include the 1893 killing with guns and swords of 11 people (including an infant) in Osaka, Japan, the 1914 shooting of 7 people in the Italian village of Camerata Cornello, not to mention the case of German spree killer Ernst August Wagner.
In 1913, he stabbed to death his wife and four children in Degerloch, near
Stuttgart, then drove to Mühlhausen an der Enz where he opened fire on 20
people, killing at least nine, leaving two animals dead and several buildings
burned to the ground.
In 1927, South African farmer Stephanus Swart shot dead at least 8 people and injured 3 others in Charlestown, South Africa, before committing suicide.
In 1938 almost half of the population of the rural village of Kaio, near Tsuyama city in Japan, was murdered as 21-year-old Mutsuo Toi killed 30 people with a shotgun, sword and axe, injured three others and then shot himself to death.
Between 1954 and 1957, William Unek murdered a total of 57 people in two separate spree killings in the Belgian Congo.
He first killed 21 people with an axe, then shot dead ten men, eight women and eight children, slaughtered six more men with the axe, burned two women and a child, and strangled a 15-year-old girl.
More recently in the bloody timeline of shooting sprees, some of the most
dramatic incidents include the 1987 Hungerford massacre in England, where gun
enthusiast Michael Ryan shot 16 people dead and wounded another 15 before
committing suicide, the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Australia, where 28 year
old Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded 21 before being caught by police,
and the 1996 school shooting in the Scottish town of Dunblane.
There, failed shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton opened fire at a primary school, killing 16 children and a teacher before turning his gun on his mouth.
"I could have been one of those children," tennis player Andy Murray wrote in his autobiography, "Hitting Back."
Britain's highest ranked player, Murray was eight when Hamilton burst into the school and began shooting. He and his 10-year-old brother Jamie escaped the fire by hiding under a desk.
In the United States, two mass murder waves characterized the 20th century. One appeared in the 1920s and 30s and another in the mid-1960s, following a tranquil period in the 1940s and 50s.
The two waves, however, were qualitatively different, according to Duwe.
The author of "Mass Murder in the United States: A History," Duwe researched 909 cases of mass killing that occurred in the United States between 1900 and 1999.
"The first mass murder wave in the 1920s and 30s was comprised mainly of familicides and felony-related massacres, which, then as now, are less likely to garner extensive media coverage," Duwe said.
On the contrary, the second mass murder wave from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s consisted of a greater number of mass public shootings, similar to the recent Aurora movie theater shooting and Newtown school shooting.
These incidents "have always captured a great deal of interest and concern," Duwe said.
Marked by the 1966 Texas Tower shootings where student Charles Whitman climbed a 27-story tower on the University of Texas campus shooting dead 14 people and wounding 31 others, the mid-1960s do not actually represent the beginning of an unprecedented mass murder wave in the United States.
"Since 1900, the highest mass murder rate was in 1929. Mass public shootings are one of several types of mass murder and generally account for roughly 10-15 percent of all mass killings in the U.S.," Duwe said.
According to the criminologists, the 1990s had the highest number of mass public shootings with a little more than 40 -- an average of a little more than 4 each year.
The number of mass public shootings dropped below 30 in the years between 2000 and 2009.
"This year, however, the U.S. has had at least seven mass public shootings, which is the highest number since 1999," Duwe said.
Hat Tip: Discovery News
The Cure to America's Obesity Problem: Unionized Government Farms.
It is time that America gets serious about the Obesity problem and socializes all farms, unionizes the employees and begins to thin the American population.
| New Farming technique to reduce the over-abundance |
| A New Government Farm to solve Obesity. |
Americas private farm system has created the problem of an over-abundance of food. Mountains of food are produced, way more than Americans can ever eat, unfortunately too many of us die trying. What is the cost to the valiant Americans that try to solve the over abundance of food that the private farm system is creating? Obesity.
Benefits of a Unionized Government Farm System:
1. Obesity Cured - the over abundance of food problem will be solved.
3. Less TV Time - Couch Potatoes beware! Your couch time will now be filled with healthier waiting in line time for the weekly food allotment.
4. Government and Union quality - Government IS the solution to all our problems, the innovation and forward thinking of Government Bureaucrats help to improve the quality of your life. You are welcome.
5. Proper Farm Management - Smaller crops and smaller yields will make Americans thin again and compliant to the Government Food Givers. People guilty of thoughtcrime will simply be allotted smaller portions. Thought burns calories, disallowing the deviant mind calories stimulates the conformity of obeyance.
Next Article: How Unionized Government Farms will solve the Squirrel Population Problem.
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