I am not a hunter, but I have some relatives who are or used to be. I recall eating pheasant as a child and enjoying the taste, but keeping a wary tongue out for shot that may have remained in the bird. (Naturally, this isn’t a problem if you don’t hunt with a shotgun, but I understand it’s remarkably difficult to take game birds any other way.) I also recall hearing about how lead shot was being phased out in favor of less toxic metals, like bismuth, tungsten, and steel. Some clever people in Minnesota have figured out how to solve both problems at once, and to give hunters a head start on their cooking as well.
How is that, you may ask? They simply make the shot out of spices. Season Shot expects to enter beta this hunting season and to enter “full production by the fall of 2008.”
January 30th, 2007
I’m considering filing a Section 1983 lawsuit against LexisNexis. Why, you ask? Well, see here–they have abridged my Constitutional rights!
(Yes, I know the statute isn’t really on all fours here. I plead comedic necessity.)
January 28th, 2007
Came up with this one while out to dinner with Joe:
January 6th, 2007
One of my areas of low-level geekery is encodings (I say “low-level” because I usually decide to move on to something else in ten to twenty minutes), and I found a variation on the international maritime signal flags that at least a few other people will probably like. This is the sort of joke that could easily be carried to extremes.
November 14th, 2006
I got a rather macabre spam just now:
On further inspection, it turns out they’re referring to dead mortgage leads.
October 19th, 2006
Drew (of the dubious invention I blogged earlier) has made another comic that’s kinda about law. For my part, I don’t think the big table would have personal jurisdiction, but I am unfamiliar with the rules of civil procedure involved here.
October 16th, 2006
Here’s another list of law-inspired band names. If (for some inscrutable reason) you dig this sort of thing, you might find my prior post on the subject interesting:
October 3rd, 2006
So a while ago, Achewood ran this comic where the popup text said "You owe yourself a YouTube search for Klaus Nomi". Having no prior experience of Klaus Nomi’s work, I performed that search, and have concluded that Klaus Nomi simply can not be explained with science.
September 30th, 2006
This one is a really terrible science joke and an homage to xkcd. Did I mention that it was a really terrible science joke?
September 27th, 2006
Don’t know exactly how it happened (I guess I must have walked into something with it in my pocket), but my old cell phone’s screen got smashed on Monday, with the surprisingly pretty result shown above. Alas, it was not nearly as practical as it was beautiful, and so I went off to check CNet‘s reviews and then to the Verizon store to upgrade to the LG VX8300. I was thinking I’d change carriers, but a thread on the Metblog a while ago seemed to reach a consensus that Verizon had the best reception in SF, and I wanted to get a new phone as soon as possible. It’s been working out fairly well. My main complaint is one endemic to all Verizon gear–they lock out a whole bunch of interesting and useful stuff, with technologies like BREW and crippled Bluetooth implementations. But there is hope for the tinkerer who wanders in the strange land of CDMA: BitPim.
BitPim gives you read/write access to all the data on the phone, letting you transfer pictures, add ringtones, add contacts, and browse the filesystem, all via USB or Bluetooth. I’ve only started playing around with it, but it looks very promising indeed. Now all somebody needs to do is hack BREW so anyone can write apps for it.
September 26th, 2006
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