Oh, goody. It turns out the US drone fleet has been hit with a keylogging virus that the DoD has so far failed to eliminate.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/
“It’s getting a lot of attention,” the source says. “But no one’s panicking. Yet.”
It was bound to happen. Someday someone will manage to successfully hack a drone in flight, and either crash it or turn it against its owners. Won’t that be a fun day.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/10/06/harold-camping-predicts-oct-21-rapture-again/
Entirely successful Rapture-Predictor Harold Camping sez:
Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.
Snow seems to have come a bit late to this part of Utah this year, but it finally arrived in the higher elevations last night. Photo taken with the In-Car CrappyCam.
A Flickr photostream taken inside a haunted house. I don’t know what the gag is right there, but the reactions of these people to whatever it is are just *priceless.*
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightmaresfearfactory/with/6141529254/
And top it off with the relevant Fark.com thread.
Problems, problems. After numerous issues of late with blogs and such, a while back I decided to create spinoff blogs (such as the one devoted to my photos, started a month and a half back). I obtained several new domains, but before I could start copying stuff over, something screwy happened which cost me time, trouble and money, turning the Unwanted Blog into a blank screen. So once I got it back I’ve been devoting too much time and trouble to getting the new blogs up and running. The first of them is:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/
It is pretty much what is sounds like it’d be… aircraft and spacecraft project posts, along with APR updates. None of the humor or brilliant political analysis y’all have come to know and loathe about the Unwanted Blog. It looks different… because efforts to get it up and running using the “Suffusion” theme, what’s currently running on the Unwanted Blog, were surprisingly unsuccessful. The banner image wouldn’t come up, dashboard pages were blank screens half the time, so on. Efforts to close out suffusion and replace it with something else uniformly failed; I had to erase all the files and re-load the WordPress blog base codes. Ugh. So I’m assuming that something screwy is going on with the Suffusion theme… which I bet will eventually strike the Unwanted Blog.
The Unwanted Blog will – at least until it explodes – continue on much as it has. If you like the wide variety of utter bilge that I post here, then the UB will be the place to be. But if you come here only for the projects stuff… the APR Blog will probably be the place to relocate your bookmark. Right now there’s not much over there. Over time, I will not only copy over the new posts from the UB, but I’ll also go back through the “projects” category of the UB and copy over selected and re-edited posts.
So feel free to tell everyone you know about the APR blog. All projects, all the time.
Uuuunnnngggghhhhh.
Russia’s Putin says wants to build “Eurasian Union”
Some of y’all may be too young to remember the Soviet Union. Some of us do remember it, and its evaporation was a *good* thing. It was, in a word, a massive, massive relief, and one hell of a surprise. As a child of the 70’s and 80’s, I just sorta took it for granted that one of these days a full nuclear exchange would take place before the USSR would go away. It was a hell of a thing to watch live on CNN as the Wall fell and later as Yeltsin stood on that tank.
Putin, however, has spent quite a number of years giving me an uncomfortableness.
The NASA press release from February 7, 1963, describing the change in the names of the Saturn launch vehicles. The “”Saturn C-1” became the “Saturn I;” the “Saturn C-1B” became the “Saturn Ib;” the “Saturn C-5” became the “Saturn V.”
I’ve heard this evening that the Pluto 1/72 model from Fantastic Plastic got off to a good start in terms of sales. Now keep in mind that this is a “garage kit” model, albeit a very well produced one, so “good sales” mean something different than, say, a Monogram model kit. One of the upshots of this sort of kit is that production runs are typically measured in dozens, not thousands. This means that if sales are surprisingly good, the whole production run can be snapped up in a week or two. So if you were interested in one of the Pluto models, it might make sense to go sooner rather than later.
Heh.
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And because why not: