The Meat Guide – Blue Rare to Well Done
| November 24, 2011
Month: November 2011
Have you ever had your car stuck in the snow? Snow Extricating Traction Mat
| November 24, 2011
This is the molded grip track that provides the extra traction needed to extricate a car mired in slippery conditions. Unlike common plastic models, this stainless steel-reinforced mat has meaty independent treads made of 100% all-butyl rubber for grabbing the most traction on tires spinning in snow, sand or mud. Simply slip the track under any powered tire, and the superior rubberized treads will provide enough bite to get a car rolling again. Afterward, the track rolls into into its storage bag and takes up less than half a cubic foot of trunk space.
Click here for more information…The LED Matrix Watch
| November 24, 2011
This is the watch with 72 LEDs that display the time in a grid of arcane lights. Inspired by the puzzle-like, light-display clocks that debuted decades ago, this watch uses six columns of 12 bright blue LEDs arrayed on a 15/16″ x 1 1/2″ display to convey the time through a mesmerizing grid system. The left column is numbered from 1 to 12 for the hour, while the rows to the right fill up according to the number of minutes.
Click here for more informaiton…OMGWTF: A guide to Internet acronyms
| November 23, 2011
LOL. It’s handy shorthand for laughter, or the harbinger of an intellectual apocalypse, depending on who you ask. Its part of speech is also debated: spelled out, it’s an initialism, but if you pronounce it as a word, it’s an acronym.
“But I don’t use it at all!” you might say. “I am too smart to use an asinine word like LOL!” Maybe you are, but you might be surprised by how many acronyms and intialisms you do use on a daily basis—and by their origins.
Some are fairly straightforward. For example:
BRB: Be right back
FWIW: For what it’s worth
HTH: Hope that helps
IDK/IDEK: I don’t know/I don’t even know
IIRC: If I recall correctly
IMO/IMHO/JMHO: In my opinion/In my humble opinion/Just my humble opinion
KWYM/KWIM: Know what you mean/know what I mean
OTOH: On the other hand
TMI: Too much information
TIA: Thanks in advance
TTYL: Talk to you later
WTG: Way to go
Aurora Pictures: Rare Northern Lights Seen in U.S. South
| November 23, 2011
A cloud of charged particles from the sun slammed into Earth Monday, setting off an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned northern lights across the U.S.—even in the Deep South. Sky shows were reported in more than half the 50 states, including Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas, according to Spaceweather.com.
The strange and curious history of lobotomy
| November 23, 2011
It’s 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as “putting in a brain needle and stirring the works”. So how did it come to be regarded as a miracle cure?
