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Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices - The Long Now
‎"Hoboes, as you know, are almost infinitely compressable."
failure  collapse  ha  doom  longnow  audio 
4 weeks ago by ignatz
Tachyon TV – Do You Believe in Rock and Roll?
When confronted by Animal Kwackers, an experience more like being dragged from wakefulness into a land of nightmares than a mere programme, I was reminded of a critic whose opinion of Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was that “the only analysis it deserves is psychoanalysis.”
television  doom 
5 weeks ago by ignatz
A Surfeit of Eels - Office of Naval Research
"Now we're almost to the point where theoretically we could begin building whole platoons of robotic lampreys and putting them on operational maneuvers in the water."
robots  lampreys  eels  doom  war 
5 weeks ago by ignatz
Globster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A globster, or blob, is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.
zoology  wtf  sealife  horror  doom 
7 weeks ago by ignatz
BBC News - Coke and Pepsi change manufacturing process to avoid cancer warning
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle.
cancer  doom  pepsi  coca-cola  poison  marketing  failure  villainy 
11 weeks ago by ignatz
On a Highway Near You: The Department of Energy’s Fleet of Nondescript Nuclear Transport Trucks | Public Intelligence
At a cost of $250 million a year, nearly 600 couriers employed by this secretive agency within the US Department of Energy use some of the nation’s busiest roads to move America’s radioactive material wherever it needs to go
weapons  usa  nuclearweapons  transportation  doom  failure  ha 
february 2012 by ignatz
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
map of how much it sucks if a nuke of particular size hits a map
bomb  map  nuclear  doom  geo  gis  gmaps  googlemaps 
february 2012 by ignatz
Dollars for Doctors - ProPublica
investigative series on payoffs to physicians by medical companies
medicine  commerce  doom  villainy  propublica  journalism 
january 2012 by ignatz
Underground call-centre for identity theft uncovered by security researchers
a call center that works for bad guys, filling in gaps in their info
risks  security  telecom  idtheft  doom  ha 
november 2011 by ignatz
McRib Locator
google map tracking McDonalds McRib sandwich availability
mcdonalds  food  gis  geo  gmaps  mapping  commerce  doom 
october 2011 by ignatz
RideAccidents.com
Welcome to the world's most comprehensive source of amusement ride accident reports and related news.
accidents  death  doom  fun  amusementparks 
august 2011 by ignatz
Starvation Heights
starving to death considered nonmedical
medicine  failure  quacks  doom 
july 2011 by ignatz
Action Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The park's popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged employees; intoxicated, unprepared visitors; and the subsequently poor safety record.
doom  amusementpark  carnival  failure  ha 
july 2011 by ignatz
We built Minority Report, not Second Life
"It is a fundamental misunderstanding of the net to treat the space as virtual, it is very real and very present."
theory  internet  doom 
june 2011 by ignatz
Dumpster Drive
Dumpster Drive is a file-sharing application that recycles digital files. Using dumpster diving as a model for recirculating unwanted objects, Dumpster Drive allows others to dig through files that you delete on your computer in a passive file-sharing network.
sharing  software  garbage  recycling  doom 
june 2011 by ignatz
Amazon.com: The Do-it-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook (9780873646758): Don McLean: Books
Learn how to make gunpowder from such items as dead cats, whiskey, your living room ceiling, manure and maple syrup with simple hand tools and techniques that have been used for centuries. This is a practical and safe approach to making the oldest propellant/explosive known. For information purposes only.
doom  books  amazon  explosives  acme 
april 2011 by ignatz
false dichotomy by charles davis: I don't know where I'm a gonna go
On the one hand, he offered to hook me up with some weed. On the other – through a combination of simple inexperience and what can only be termed sheer, unmitigated dumbfuckery – he almost got me killed, at least two dozen times, on the side of an active volcano.
travel  failure  volcano  doom 
march 2011 by ignatz
systemwise
Blog of an organizational sociologist studying the U.S. health care industry
sociology  healthcare  usa  research  blog  commerce  doom 
march 2011 by ignatz
Epigee On-Line Pregnancy Test
Test for pregnancy using a website. What could possibly go wrong?
badideajeans  failure  healthcare  obstetrics  doom 
september 2010 by ignatz
Carl’s Jr. testing foot-long cheeseburger
New signs of imperial collapse: the foot-long burger
food  doom 
july 2010 by ignatz
Paro Therapeutic Robot
Animatronic stuffed harp seal bot intended to make demented old people feel nice.
robots  medicine  uncannyvalley  harryharlow  plushies  doom 
june 2010 by ignatz
New Menu Item Archive | βurgerβusiness
Track the decline of civilization through fast food new menu items
food  doom  commerce  failure  burgers  marketing  slurm 
june 2010 by ignatz
My Hazards Awareness Map
Enter your California address to find out what's going to kill you.
california  disasters  mapping  geo  doom  earthquakes 
may 2010 by ignatz
Creepy Robots
It's only a matter of time before one of these things kills someone.
robots  doom  friends 
february 2010 by ignatz
The J-Walk Blog: Who Wants Nutra-loaf!
recipe for prison punishment food CONFINEMENT LOAF!
oppression  food  recipes  doom  grimmeathookfuture 
january 2010 by ignatz
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
The author of The Debt To Pleasure summarizes the big dumb moneycrash
books  financialcrash  ha  economics  doom 
january 2010 by ignatz
HealthMap | Global disease alert map
disease outbreaks gmapped with ProMED mail integrated
disease  health  map  geo  gis  gmaps  promed  H1N1  doom 
november 2009 by ignatz
Marketers Get Valedictorian to Plug Movie in Speech
FOX marketers pay a high school valedictorian $1800 to promote "I Love You, Beth Cooper" in the graduation speech.
via:kcetlocal  commerce  education  edutainment  marketing  doom  advertising  yeesh 
july 2009 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Technology | Snooping through the power socket
Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.
security  news  grid  privacy  doom  oppression 
july 2009 by ignatz
x-treme_eating.pdf (application/pdf Object)
the CSPI awards for over the top deadly chain restaurant food (PDF)
health  nutrition  cspi  restaurants  usa  doom  food  pdf 
june 2009 by ignatz
Super-laser fully operational at last - Innovation- msnbc.com
"After more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself."
lasers  science  government  usa  weapons  nuclearweapons  doom  madscience  wmd 
april 2009 by ignatz
Yoga with Melody Biofeedback, Reiki and Yoga with Melody - Healing People and Pets
"The EPFX/QXCI is the first of its kind to use a Double Blind approach. By dealing on a subconscious level, only the system is aware of the thousands of items being tested. Neither the operator nor the client can influence the scan." WAT
failure  doom  psychoceramics  psychiatry  computers  biofeedback  wat 
april 2009 by ignatz
TheQXCI.com - Worldwide EPFX Broker
'The Latin word EPFX/USB (pronounced: ski-o) comes from the Greek meaning "to know."' WAT
failure  psychoceramics  biofeedback  mesmerism  computers  psychiatry  doom 
april 2009 by ignatz
Chlorine trifluoride, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water, with which it reacts explosively.
chemicals  doom  wikipedia  poisons  explosives  irritants  hypergolic  incindiery  chemicalweapons  beverages 
april 2009 by ignatz
Strobe Weapons Go Black After 'Immobilization' Tests | Danger Room from Wired.com
The most ambitious project is the "immobilization device" built by Peak Beam Systems for the U.S. Army. Fitted to a small unmanned helicopter, "the Xenon based searchlight [can] be pulsed with a unique modulation (strobe) effect that results in immobilization to those within the beam," according to a contract announcement.
oppression  bigbrother  doom  weapons  sublethal 
march 2009 by ignatz
ANR | Radium Face Cream, 1918
Let's all smear ourselves with deadly radioactive isotopes.
history  via:splodinvark  death  doom  cosmetics  radiation  radium 
february 2009 by ignatz
Weaponized Sentry-Tech Towers Protecting Hot Borders
remote controlled droid tower with sensors, machine guns, missiles
robots  doom  war 
december 2008 by ignatz
Multi-Purpose Mini Robotic Platform
Smallish death robot. Carries rockets that kill at 30 meters and can hop over a 1 meter obstacle.
robots  war  weapons  doom 
december 2008 by ignatz
LAist: Classical Musicians Drive Through Wildfire on Freeway
Musicians drive through fire on the freeway, later set video to Shostakovich
fire  music  video  doom  shostakovich  california  wildfires 
november 2008 by ignatz
Pandora's Box Opened Wide: Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles Carrying Genetic Weapons
Biomimetics, and genetic research may enable the creation of very small (inch or less) MAVs carrying powerful and precise genetic weapons, possibly within twenty years
war  biologicalwarfare  usaf  uav  doom  biowar 
november 2008 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Expedition set for 'ghost peaks'
It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition - to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. And then go mad, babbling about THOSE THINGS...
leng  lovecraft  science  madscience  doom  antarctica 
october 2008 by ignatz
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