Hai guise! These are my snacks right now.I don't know how you eat your mangoes, but I cut them vertically into 3 slices before cutting the flesh on the skin sides into cubes.
I had thought that the Wheatables were either sweet or tasteless, but these are actually salty. They're thin wheat crackers with salt sprinkled on them.
Mmm... mangoes.
Okay, I found something that kinda scared me today. I found a thread on 4chan in which an anonymous hacker dumped about a hundred emails and their corresponding passwords. I tried a few and some did work. Seriously, I logged into one Facebook account right when another guy was using it, talking shit. Presumably I wasn't the first to use it.
Some have reported that they had posed as the FB users and announced that they're really homosexuals. Changed their status and opened chats with the friends and told them in a realistic way. Others were worse. One said he/she convinced the friend of a FB user that he/she was having some personal problems and wanted to commit suicide. This friend promised to drive over the next day and bring her to a counsellor. GG.
So guys, do remember to delete any emails containing your personal information if they're important. Not everyone is immatured enough to be so obvious. Others keep quiet and read your old emails, and I know because that's what some people suggested in the thread - scan the old emails, note the personal info and have fun with them.
And try not to use the same passwords for both emails and facebook accounts.
NASA has revealed the new spacecraft that will be replacing the current space shuttles in 2010. It really isn't very big. Since none of the pictures in Reuters show the insides of the Orion, we'll have to guess what it'd be like to live in there. I'll bet the actual living space is very small compared to the spacecraft because machines will occupy much of the volume.
And they're planning to put 6 people inside and fly them to Mars someday using this. A one-way trip to Mars would take about roughly 8 months (6-9 months according to Reuters). Imagine 8 months of living in a small room without a moment of silence because you're basically living in a hole within a gigantic machine.
Once they're on Mars, they may be able to live outside the spacecraft. Maybe they can dig a hole and fill it with air. Who knows?
Without a thick atmosphere and a magnetic field, living on Mars would be dangerous. Unless you're moving around in a lead tank, the almost unfiltered solar radiation (hence probability of cancer) will shorten your life with every moment you're in the light. And navigation will require help from satellites (no magnetic field, no compass).
Anyway, the Orion will definitely be improved upon before they actually send it to Mars. Like they said, there's the problem of parts that cannot be repaired but can breakdown during the estimated 3-year round trip. A huge obstacle. At least one of the astronauts will need to know the whole spacecraft like the back of his hand.
Left: A dark chocolate rose with a tinge of gold, filled with softer chocolate.Right: Two hearts overlapping each other to form a piece of milk chocolate filled with some sort of dried fruit. Orange, maybe. Can't tell. I suck.
Dessert.
NASA is being forced to name its new room in the space station after an American comedian, after Stephen Colbert successfully campaigned for it via his TV show. The first runner-up was NASA's own suggestion and was over 40k votes behind.
They should be glad that 4chan wasn't involved, or they'll be naming the room after the founder of 4chan, "moot", or worse... They wouldn't want to have a "CP Room" in the space station.
Phishing websites these days appear so legitimate. Just recently I found one that tricks STEAM users into typing there STEAM IDs and passwords to "login". This website was very professionally designed using the same colour scheme as most STEAM stuff - black, orange and etc.
Its links work too! All the links like "Community" are linked to the real STEAM website sections, all properly done. Only the choice of language is fake. They have a list of many languages but clicking on them doesn't do anything.
Using STEAM IDs and passwords, anyone can download the games that the original owner had bought online, because this is the way STEAM works. For example, I downloaded my copy of Half Life 2 legally via STEAM. All you're really paying for when you buy games online is the CD-key. The rest can be downloaded anywhere.
And I believe if you legally own a game, you can download and possess the pirated version of the same game without legal consequences. As long as you aren't found to be distributing them, it's totally fine.
This does happen sometimes, like for Left 4 Dead. Because it's not popular in Singapore, many legitimate players have to get a cracked version to play in Garena. Not enough local players in legal STEAM servers.
Flying may produce large amounts of greenhouse gases, but driving the same distance is worse unless you own a hybrid. Best alternative - stay home and explore the virtual world.
Beware the Conficker worm. Its infection causes your computer to become part of its botnet. Try not to download everything your friends send you before asking. If in doubt, google the filename. If still in doubt, trust your virus scanner. I recommend using NOD32 for that.
For total protection, switch to a Mac. No one gives a f*ck about Macs, not even virus authors.
In my ideal life, nothing big ever happens. When something really good happens to you, something that makes you feel like you're reaching the peak of your life, only one thing can follow: the downward slide. If you're lucky, it'd be a gentle slope. If you're not, it'd be a cliff.
Or if something really bad happens to you... well, there really isn't much to say about that right?
Therefore a life in which nothing ever happens will never harm you. No childhood traumas, no memory scars, nothing. No longing for the past, no stubborn belief in outdated methods, nothing.
A life of nothingness.
Airlines are cutting the number of flights as demands fall. Now they're trying to make it sound good by saying that it reduces carbon emission.
It's like Muslims saying that their religion protects pigs because they don't eat pork.
The penalty for not cutting enough carbon emissions for countries who have signed the Kyoto Protocol is to have to cut even more during the next period.
I'm not so sure if that is exactly useful as a form of motivation.
Macdonald's is going to try to cut the level of pesticides in its potato supply. Because it uses the most potatoes in the US, the effects will be huge.
Hey, I've got an idea. To reduce the pesticide amount by 10%, just use 10% less potatoes in your fries!
I mean, that's what they do for other foods, right? "Less MSG in instant noodles" translates to "add less water when cooking". "Less sugar in Vitagen" translates to a more diluted product (less bacteria = less sour = less need for sugar). It's the trend!
Then, you can charge more for your fries because they're simply "healthier" than other fries, which in turn is because you use less potatoes! Blessed be the concept of capitalism.
Another big step for genetics research! They've found the group of genes that tells butterflies to fly towards the south. Now they just need to find the group that tells dolphins to sleep with half their brains, then transfer it into humans.
North Korea is a prime example of how the law is merely a shield that protects you only from those who use the same shield. Obviously Mr Kim doesn't give a flying f*ck about who he's pissing off with his next Taepodong. He's still going to show the world that his successful missile export industry is successful for a good reason. As long as he doesn't blow up our beloved Animeland, I don't care if he turns Kimchiland into a wasteland.
More chocolates.Left: Dark chocolate enclosing a piece of sweetened banana.
Right: Expected it to be walnut coated with chocolate, but found a macadamia nut within instead.
At first, I was like, wtf?
Oh octopus...
Today is April Fools' Day. That's why all the news are phrased in the most misleading way. And I got fooled.
Anyway the diamonds mentioned in the line above the suckers were really tiny. 3.9kg of rocks filled with 280 tiny bits of diamonds. But these fell from the sky, so the size is not the issue. Sky diamonds, man! Sky diamonds! This must be some girls' dream come true.
Who said diamonds don't just fall from the sky???
Remember, on October 7, 2008, at 02:46 UTC, in the Nubian Desert in Sudan, it rained diamonds.
This is also how Wikipedia celebrated April Fools' Day.The 1631 Bible was printed with a typo. In the commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery", the "not" was omited. Today, copies of this Bible are called the Wicked Bible.
Sonia Chang-Diaz was accused of taking bribes and stuffing the cash into her bra. After the scandal she went on to win the elections mentioned.
"Hobbits" refers to the Welsh unit of measuring volume or weight.
Asleep in the bread aisle is really the album "Asleep in the Bread Aisle" by Asher Roth, a rapper.
For the Love of Ray J is a dating show and the 3 names are the names of 3 contestants.
King Lear here refers to Charles Bernard "King" Lear, a professional baseball pitcher.
Egypt here refers to a village in Pennsylvania, USA. The Holy Land is a region in Wisconsin.
Sir Winston Churchill here is a schooner, a type of ship.
Everything is also a concept in many fields including theoretical physics and philosophy. Wikipedia now has an article on this.
Strangely enough, Blizzard didn't do anything for today. On every April Fools' Day in the past, Blizzard Entertainment always made some fake announcements and elaborate jokes. I remember they made an advertisement for an Atari computer version of WoW last year or the year before.
This year, I expected something for Starcraft 2, but all is silent there. Their last update was for Valentine's Day cards.
They must be working their asses off on the game, rushing for the deadline that isn't announced outside of the company.
That's what I'm hoping for anyway.
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