Have you ever heard of liquid armor? Well here is a demonstration of principles behind the idea.

H/T The Belmont Club

Berkeley Breathed is being censored by many news papers. From his web site….

Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus’ host paper The Washington Post. The strips may be viewed in a large format on their respective dates at Salon.com.

According to the website Little Green Footballs this censorship is happing because the newspapers feel that these comics are offensive to Muslims. I don’t think that they know this for a fact. I think they are just saying because of the sample panel that Berkeley Breathed posted on his website.

But the sample frame does support their theory…..

Read this post if you want a good laugh at someone else’s pain. A small sample….

What really concerned me was when the doctor mused, matter-of-factly, “Looks like it’s already been used” just before something smelling strongly of fuel oil clamped onto the jig.

One would tend to thing that an ER would have a set of side-cutting pliers on-hand — so to speak — rather then having to pilfer the janitors tool box, but that’s a minor quibble.

I don’t like all the u-tube videos floating around making fun of Muslims. But this one was so funny that I just could not help liking it in spite of my principles. Somebody has way to much time on their hands.

These are stories from the staff of the FDIC about bank shutdowns that they had to do. A sample….

At the Penn Square Bank closing, FDIC closing personnel were assigned portfolios of large, complex, distressed oil and gas loans to evaluate for potential recovery. A certain wildcat drilling company, whose owners were notorious for both their wild and extravagant lifestyles and their lack of success in the oil patch, had an $18 million loan outstanding. The loan initially was valued at a complete $18 million loss. A few days later, a local newspaper ran a front-page article proclaiming in the headline that the drilling company had hit an “Elephant Well.” As it now appeared that the borrowers were rich and their debt would be paid in full, the valuation estimate was changed to reflect full recovery of the $18 million loan. Nearly a week passed before it was discovered that the company had drilled into the Oklahoma Gas & Electric underground storage facility. Both claimed that they had no idea.

H/T Calculated Risk.

We have been dealing with to much serious stuff lately. This ought to brighten your day if you like to read about the sufferings of others…..

Being your own boss, setting your own working hours, working locally. Can you achieve a more relaxing lifestyle? There was a time, just a few days ago in fact, when I might have agreed with you.

On Monday we got an emergency call. Their driveway was flooded and the water was running downhill to fill the garage. But not to worry, it looked like rainwater not sewage. We leapt into the Plumbmobile with a happy heart and a rodding kit.

A few minutes later we were stood at the edge of a driveway, watching a glutinous brown river of mashed up tissue paper and ominous brown squidgy things snake past and pool in what was once a nice double garage.

The client appeared on the opposite bank of the River Stinks. “I think it might be sewage after all!” He cried.

Read the rest here.

Vova made a new video while he was visiting his parents in Russia, and it’s incredible to see how much he has improved since his last video. This is Vova at his best.
You should really download the high quality quicktime version Here, however, there is a YouTube version available:

His sister is also finially getting Click Here to continue reading.

This is a video of the French police training their attack dogs. I am surprised by how agile the dogs are. They practically fly.

Online computer games sure have hit the big time. Now top rated players are in danger of being kidnapped for their password.…

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.

Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn’t talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word

You can read the rest here….