Monthly Archives: March 2009

Atomic Energy Lab

Take a look at this ridiculous toy from the early 1950s over on Gizmodo. It’s an Atomic Energy Lab, complete with source materials, a geiger counter, and a comic book. Very few were produced and it was obviously later banned by the government.

I’m wondering what kind of damage this may have done to the kids who did play with it? It was $50 at the time, which was a hell of a lot of money to anyone in the 1950s, but I’m sure that at least a few rich parents bought one for their spoiled brats for Christmas.

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High Resolution #0265

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Insanely Fast Electric Datsun

From 69 horsepower to 300. It destroys the competition. I never realized how much torque an electric motor can generate.

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An Homage to Wolfenstein 3D

I know you guys remember Wolfenstein 3D. The question is, did you know that somebody programmed it using only 20 lines of JavaScript? Things like this make me realize that other people are way better than I am at the Internet.

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Google Executives: $1 Salary

This article on CNET states:

Wall Street executives feeling harassed by taxpayers outraged at their pay might take note of how Google‘s ruling triumvirate fared in 2008: $1 in salary each, no bonus, no stock grants, and no stock options.

Google has offered co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt “market-competitive” salaries every year since 2005, but once again in 2008, the three turned it down, according to a company regulatory filing Tuesday.

It’s cool in my opinion that these guys aren’t guzzling millions of dollars a year like other Wall Street execs.  Though don’t let it fool these guys fool you, they still are LOHOHOADED.  The article later states:

Of course, Page, Brin, and Schmidt are certainly not paupers. The 29,148,614 shares of Google’s Class B common stock Page held at the end of 2008 are worth $10.1 billion at Tuesday’s closing price of $347.17; Brin’s 28,611,862 shares are worth $9.9 billion, and Schmidt’s 9,372,740 shares are worth $3.3 billion.

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Boobies Each Day Keeps the Doctor Away

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Burger King Robber Killed by Customer

A would-be robber at a Burger King in Miami was shot and killed by a customer in the store, according to this Miami Herald report. The customer was seriously wounded but in stable condition at the hospital with several gunshot wounds from what was apparently return fire.

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Retro Babes #0049

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Marco Polo

Wow, what a dumbass.

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World War II in Color

Take a look at this website. It contains a significant number of pictures of both Allies and Nazis fighting during World War II – only the pictures are in color!

They weren’t altered years later, either; color photography has been around in several iterations since 1861.

Some of them look almost like paintings as the process hadn’t been perfected yet, although some stand out as being particularly realistic.

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