October 04, 2010, 11:59am

Anti-beardism in advertising?

June 02, 2010, 2:32pm

Hardiman was the first attempt to build a practical powered exoskeleton by GE in 1965. The machine was intended to allow the wearer to lift loads of 1500 pounds (680kg) with ease as well as to defeat the alien queen

The project was not successful. Any attempt to use the full exoskeleton resulted in a violent uncontrolled motion, and as a result the exoskeleton was never turned on with a person inside. Further research concentrated on one arm. Although it could lift its specified load of 750 pounds (340kg), it weighed three quarters of a ton, just over twice the liftable load. Without getting all the components to work together the practical uses for the Hardiman project were limited, and in 1968 aliens overran a GE laboratory in the Rochester, New York, with massive loss of life. The resulting firebombing and coverup left the Hardiman project in permanent hiatus.

July 19, 2009, 10:35am

“If you’re hearing this, you are the resistance.”

June 05, 2009, 12:39pm

Sweet vintage adds from when government contractors were real patriots and bragged about the crap they were doing instead of just keeping secrets and killing and dying for them. (ca. 1964-69)

December 07, 2008, 2:31pm

Kid… KID! you seriously do NOT want to do this. I’m not your father.         I will totally smoke you.

December 06, 2008, 12:45pm

“Hey dude, do you guys have lonestar in bottles or do i have to drink my draught out of this egg-sack chalice with this spine-straw?”

“Sorry bro, that’s all we got. Also, we had to take out the new pool table already. You know how ol’ Sting likes to hold court.”

Just in time for the Trail of Dudes show.

December 05, 2008, 2:09pm

Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world’s oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.

A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ancients only grew the plant for hemp in order to make clothing, rope and other objects.

It’s big big news to the SMJ staff because we’ve all been snorting mummy since junior high. Maybe now we can get our hands on a dude who died while he was still high in the Gobi Desert hunting for herd animals with his armored battle-cat.

Sweet laced mummy powder dude!

from @amber, via @discovery.com

December 03, 2008, 3:58pm

He does not know it, but Babu Sassi, a fearless young man from Kerala in southern India, is the cult hero of Dubai’s army of construction workers.

Known as the “Indian on top of the world”, Mr Sassi is the crane operator at the tallest building on earth – the 819m Burj Dubai. Sassi’s office, the cramped crane cab precariously perched on top of the Burj, is also his home – apparently it takes too long to come down to ground level each day to make it worthwhile.

via BLDGBLOG

December 02, 2008, 1:49pm

Sometimes, on nights like tonight, I feel like this guy…

November 30, 2008, 1:53am