Depressed Borg
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last changed on November 26, 2008
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The simplest self-propelling device ever
Homopolar roller
Who knew a simple battery, some magnets and a piece of copper wire could produce so much nerdy fun? 
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xorbit,
last changed on October 22, 2008
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Fundamental laws of the universe
- If it's bad, it's possible.
- You can find anything you have lost, as long as you're looking for something else.
- The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the likelihood of being able to scratch.
- The lower your zipper is, the lower your credibility will be.
- There is no end to the amount a person can accomplish, as long as it isn't what they're supposed to be doing.
- Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
- Of all the fundamental forces of the universe, the strongest is the will of a woman.
- Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way (Murphy's law).
- You can have it cheap, fast or good. Pick two.
- All roads lead to McDonald's.
- Sometimes the best way to get through is to go around.
- The quality of the napkins at any given restaurant is inversely proportional to the messiness of the food.
- It usually takes at least three socks to make a pair.
- The better the shoe fits, the uglier it must be.
- Procrastination is the only thing guaranteed to get done.
- The probability of being watched is proportional to the stupidity of what you're doing.
- Entropy
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xorbit,
netentity
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last changed on September 26, 2008
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Marvin, the depressed web server
I usually don't intentionally put broken links here to send people to "404" error pages, but that is exactly what I'm doing now. But this is not your standard boring 404 page. This will be especially funny to people familiar with the hilarious Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
series. (If you're not, better go do something about this glaring deficiency in your culture! )
So, without further ado, I am sending you to a file that doesn't exist on a web server named Marvin
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xorbit,
last changed on September 24, 2008
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Airplane dangling from power lines
Sometimes reality is weirder than fiction. After the moose dangling from the power lines
, now here here we have an airplane performing the same trick.
Airplane dangling from power lines
The airplane had been approaching the landing field in Durach (Germany) when the 65-year-old pilot made an error and clipped the high-tension cables on his way in. The right landing wheel got caught and flipped the plane over on to its back.
The pilot and his wife were suspended from the 380,000 volt cables for nearly three hours upside down with aviation fuel pouring over them and dangerously close to the hot engine. A specialist crane weighing over 130 tons had to be trucked in to rescue them.
A video report called "Plane hits power lines
" can be found on the BBC website.
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xorbit,
last changed on August 18, 2008
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