You Know It's Time To Move When...
…some jackass steals two of your hubcaps while you are at band practice.
Chicken-powered Nuclear Bomb
“One technical problem was that buried objects—especially during winter—can get very cold, and it was possible the mine would not have worked after some days underground, due to the electronics being too cold to operate properly. Various methods to get around this were studied, such as wrapping the bombs in insulating blankets. However, one proposal was sufficiently outlandish that it was taken as an April Fool’s Day joke when the Blue Peacock file was declassified on April 1, 2004—that live chickens should be included in the mechanism. The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so, which was the expected maximum lifetime of the bomb in any case. The body heat given off by the chickens would,it seems,have been sufficient to keep all the relevant components at a working temperature.” From wikipedia’s article about Blue Peacock, a 1950s British Weapons Project. In Soviet Russia, Chicken nukes YOU!
I hope by disseminating this info, i can help start a new sci-fi sub-genre called ‘chicken punk’ where all the technological development veered off from reality in the 1950s and fanciful machines were constructed using chickens instead of transistors and lasers and stuff. You know, chicken-powered automata, chicken-based computers, etc.
Once I was at a roof party/show at a gallery/living space in bushwick/east williamsburg and aliens landed up there. They looked around at all the hip kids with their clothes and their haircuts and their music and they said to me, “What happened?” So I pulled out my iriver and showed them this. “Ahhhh, I see…” they said. And they checked some things off on their clipboards, got back into their ship and flew away.
Check out this redesign of Craigslist from the Design Eye for the List Guy panep at SXSW. I feel like I actually had an interest in some of the panels this year, where as I never have in the past.
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i saw another SS of this that had some crazy javascript sparklines of house prices. somewhere.
i’d say more like you know its time to electrify your hubcaps Nautilus-style.
total savages.