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The problem with robbing someone who draws for a living, is that they don’t have to find time to get with the police sketch artist. A mugger in Australia picked on the wrong party when he robbed Bill “Weg” Green of Victoria, according to this story. The artist drew a picture of his assailant for the police, who compared it to someone they’d just caught for robbery nearby — and it “was the spitting image.”

Which is really funny when you look at the picture, here. Weg, you see, is a cariacture artist.

h/t to Howard Tayler, of SchlockMercenary.

A would-be thief picked on the wrong convienence store clerk in this video. Technique’s a little unorthodox, but I only saw him miss once on the clip. Definately a candidate to replace the coach of one of the worst batting lineups in the MLB!

Too. Damn. Funny. Niven was wrong, there is justice in the world.

After having their daughter give her life in a misguided attempt to assist Palestinians in keeping their weapon-transit tunnels open, Rachel Corrie’s parents might have labored under a perception that the Palestinians might have some gratitude for their sacrifice … or at least prove themselves worthy of her death on their behalf. Instead, to show just how civilized they can act when they have their own territory, members of the ruling Fatah faction tried to kidnap the Corries as they also blew up part of the Gaza-Sinai border, killing two guards:

I dunno, Steven… what do you do when someone you hate screws over someone you hate just as much?

Steven Den Beste slips up again and for the second time in a month, posts a semi-serious subject on Chizumatic. (Blogging is an addiction, isn’t it? Looks like someone’s slipping off the wagon.) Although this post is scientific, rather than political, it’s still an interesting look at why flywheels aren’t so great for energy storage after all.

Even though he said not to nitpick with “it would work if we tried. . .” suggestions, I just can’t resist. You see, I think it just might work– really! We simply need to use scrith for the bearings and flywheel. Nothing like a material that’s more frictionless than teflon and stronger than carbon nanotubes.

(Not to mention entirely fictional. So — in case you’re too humor-impaired to notice, this post is very much tongue-in-cheek.)

Captain’s Quarters alerts us to the fact that the NY Times, the AP, the Guardian, and CNN have all just made themselves the laughingstocks of the entire technical world. Hell, they’ve just made themselves out to be jokes to millions of people not in the technical world; anyone with the slightest bit of internet savvy. You see they all just carried a Very Important Story on the sinister spying being done by the NSA who have “accidentally” (on purpose of course…) begun using a tool to invade the privacy of computer users everywhere and track their moves by . . .

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But I guess this guy was really hungry. Remind me not to get between him and a hamburger! I mean anyone who can take down a 5-point buck, barehanded….

Edit: um, so did he need a license for barehanded hunting? And when does the season begin?