An Australian inventor created a machine gun that can fire 1 million bullets per second. Multiple bullets are put in the barrel and they\’re all fired at the same time.
In a test firing of 36 barrels, lashed together and firing full bore, the gun reduced a series of 15 wooden doors to toothpicks in just two-tenths of a second.
Pretty neat stuff.
DVD FIle reviewed the Godfather DVD collection. It sounds like a very impressive set. All 3 movies spread across 4 discs, and a 5th disc for all the extras. The packaging looks nice too.
So Enterprise premiered Wednesday night. I thought it was pretty cool. Hopefully, since it\’s set before the original series, they won\’t rely on crazy technological explanations to resolve plots. No more \”we\’re stuck in a plasma cloud, but if we reverse the polarity of the warp engines and generate a multi-phasic shield frequency we should break free.\” Yes, I watch a lot of Star Trek.
I like the look of the show too. I especially like all the little screens and actual buttons on the bridge. No more of those featureless slabs of instruments like on Voyager. It would be even cooler if the pilot had a joystick.
Girl Dies After Seeing Magazine Freaks
Odette Coulson, 14, lost consciousness as a magazine showing pictures of human grotesques was passed around by school friends. She collapsed and hit her head on the concrete floor of the cricket pavilion at Ripon Grammar School, North Yorkshire, in April.
[ From Catherine\’s Pita ]
Heh heh, you gotta love those Unix geeks.
Some reassuring news: Return to Military Draft Unlikely. I always thought the draft was the stupidest thing. What\’s the point? You\’re just going to have a bunch of people in the military who don\’t want to be there. They\’re obviously not going to be good soldiers, so there doesn\’t seem to be any benefit. Who do you want protecting your country: highly trained, voluntary soldiers, or a bunch of draftees who were forced to join the military?
Microsoft: An Interesting Case Study is well-titled article about the two opposing sides of the Evil Empire. It looks at the good things Microsoft has done, such as the Office products, and the bad, like their anti-competitive business practices. Overall I\’d have to say the bad outweighs the good.
Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell
\”I was promised I would spend eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden, if only I would fly the airplane into one of the Twin Towers,\” said Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, between attempts to vomit up the wasps, hornets, and live coals infesting his stomach. \”But instead, I am fed the boiling feces of traitors by malicious, laughing Ifrit. Is this to be my reward for destroying the enemies of my
faith?\”
Nice to see the Onion still has their sense of humor.
Similar to Dack\’s web economy bullshit generator, the buzzword generator also creates meaningless marketing drivel. They also have a German version, though it\’s not as funny if you don\’t speak German.
In other Simpsons news, the Season 1 DVD set is out today. I guess if you want to see the New York episode again you\’ll have to wait till that season is released.