IDF Rocks

Funny Isreali music video. Chorus: "yalla ya Nasrallah, we will screw you inshallah, we will send you back to allah, with all the hezbollah"



Gun camera footage: IDF takes out katyusha launcher. See ~1:05, you can see the guy manning the launcher start running for his life, right before--kaboom.

[Humor] Steakhouse Story

This is so funny it hurts. It is a piece of college aged potty humor, finely honed into a dangerous weapon. I warned you.

http://shtick.org/Misc/ryans.htm

Interesting transmission design

I saw a writeup on an interesting new transmission design in the SAE magazine being developed by an R&D company in the UK named ZeroShift.



Basically, the way it works is that gears are linked together by sliding "bullets", which can lock gears together in one direction, but if one gear outspeeds the other, the bullets disengage. These sliding bullets would replace the synchronizing components on a manual transmission. It is hard to describe, but the animation here illustrates it.

Supposedly, this technology allows very smooth quick shifts, and eliminates many parts of current transmission.

ZeroShift is testing a prototype unit which is installed in a V6 Mustang.

They're Shoving It...

... right up Hezbollah's ass. A hearty HOO-AH to the IDF.

The Yates Abomination [culture]

Andrea Yates, the monster who drowned her entire brood of small children in her bathtub a few years ago, was given a new trial on appeal. Why? According to the AP:

Prosecutors have said they plan to once again call Dr. Park Dietz, the psychiatrist who testified at Yates' first trial that one episode of "Law & Order" depicting a woman who drowned her kids in a bathtub and was acquitted by reason of insanity aired before the Yates children died.

But no such episode existed, and the mistake caused an appeals court to overturn Yates' conviction.

This is amazing. Her conviction was overturned because a witness was mistaken about a television show?

Why does it much matter? There are two major issues in the case: first, did Yates kill her children (she did, and no one disputes it); second, was she ill at the time or not?

How could the existence or non-existence of aTV show episode be that important?

The New Sebring

So what happened to Chrysler? They used to be all about style, since they had terrible quality due to putting cost cutting above all else. Now that Daimler has apparently hammered some quality into Chrysler, they seem to be pumping out ugly-mobiles.

First, they dropped the Jeep Compass on us. Bleh.

Then, the Imperial, "I can't believe it's not a Rolls!".

Now, the new Sebring, which looks to me like an over-inflated (overfed?) Crossfire. Other comments I have seen compare it to a crossbreed between a Crossfire and a Saturn Ion.

The hood has rake lines, the headlights look Korean-angry, the sides look busy, and the rear looks like any generic Asian family sedan's. I like GM's G6 (taught, sport) and Ford's Fusion (angular, edgy, clean) much better. Chrysler is bucking the cleaner, simpler trend here and moving more towards Kia faux-luxury.

The Miami 7 [Politics]

Maybe a little "domestic spying" isn't such a bad thing, after all?

I am sure the ACLU will step up to defend these poor, spied-upon fellows, who obviously had their civil rights trampled by the racist, xenophobic FBI. I'm sure Louis Farrakhan will explain to us that this is anti-Muslim, anti-Black entrapment, and that these peaceful fellows never meant to blow up the Sears Tower.