-
The suit’s rigid outer armor layer, the first and most important defense against this threat, is composed mainly of aramids: high-tech synthetic materials that are “strain-rate sensitive.” In other words, “the faster something hits them, the harder they become,” says Borkar. (via How blast-proof suits work - Boing Boing
)
-
-
Consumers also may want to reconsider parking their recalled Toyotas until repairs have been made. “Replacing driving by walking really increases the risk of dying,” Fischbeck said. “Walking a mile is 19 times or 1,900 percent more dangerous than driving a mile in a recalled Toyota. Driving while using a cell phone would increase risk much more than the chance of having a stuck accelerator.”
-
Which brings us back to Johnny [Weir]. Here is a queer public figure who…proposes not that it is fine for men to sleep with men, but that it is fine for men to act like women, or for women to act like men, or…that there is really no such thing as acting like a woman or acting like a man, except insofar as it’s all just acting.
-
…though the living memory may be fading, the Dutch have got to figure, “Hell, we were occupied by the fucking Nazis, and we managed to survive as a people and a culture, so perhaps we’ll manage to tough out the occasional subway bomb by a gang of revanchist malcontents without totally losing our fucking minds.”
—Who Is IOZ?: Don’t Run Away From This, Dude! Goddamnit! This Affects All of Us!
-
Darkroom Timer: For old-school photographers with new-school phones.
-
-
Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.
