Friday, August 8th, 2008
by Chris
Reminder: Have Sex, Don’t do your home work, because the world ends tomorrow.
Remember CERN’s Large Hadron Collider that probably won’t form a black hole and envelop the Earth? Yeah. They’re turning it on in less than 24 hours…
So prepare for the end, prepare for physics class to get a whole lot easier under the Grand Unified Theory or prepare perhaps to see relatives from the far future. Nobody’s really sure…
Update: So I woke up today in normal space and time. Wondering what had gone wrong (or right) I see that the apocalypse has been postponed until October 21st. As you were.
Monday, August 4th, 2008
by Chris
From BoingBoing:
William Lamson’s art-project is delightful: a helium balloon artfully positioned so as to blind a CCTV. This could be a lot of fun for real-world shenanigans or for a piece of fiction. Just got to hope for a windless day.”
CCTV vs Helium Baloon
Cool, but in the comments is a much cooler story…
In the UK we have long been playing with ways to disable CCTV. We have had people use climbing equipment to shin up poles and cover them with black plastic bin bags. We have experimented with running up a daisy chain of helium filled mylar balloons on a collar around the post and I even know of one instance when a couple went along to a car in full view of the cameras with one of those cans meant for holding small amounts of petrol, poured it all over a car in the street and stood back laughing and lighting smokes till they heard a siren and diligently started a random act of kindness and washed the car with the water they had poured over it. Street theater still has the best style.
THAT IS AWESOME!
