Not For Attribution

Every now and then when I’m bored, I do an ego search on the Google to see if there’s anything new. Tonight, I came across my  Zoominfo profile.

Here’s my employment history. Does anything look a bit off?

http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=726186001

Via Abu Muqawama.

This wins the award for ugliest thing I have seen today.

If you are wondering, yes, that is a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber motorcycle.

Northrup Grumman commissioned Orange County Choppers to build this abomination to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the B-2. God only knows why. But at least Victor will like it.

“Orange County Choppers brought to this bike the same level of engineering artistry that Northrop Grumman engineers brought to the original design and development of the B-2 bomber.” — Dave Mazur, Vice President of Long Range Strike and B-2 program manager, Northrop Grumman

Awesome, so 20 of these motorcycles will be made at $737 million a pop?

And, these guys are capable of the same level of engineering artistry as the engineers who built the USAF’s premier stealth bomber? I feel safer already.

Excellent, just keep them away from John Travolta.

It’s not Sunday, or whenever people do it. But why not, Tuesday is good enough.

I have never compiled a list of search engine queries that brought people here, so here we go.

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Another interesting post from Danger Room.

Attention those who don’t like the Air Force on the Internet: lurk moar.

The USAF approved a plan to counter bloggers who don’t like the Air Force or the U.S. by finding certain posts by such web personalities as “trolls” and “ragers” and correcting them through thoughtful posts that properly reflect the heritage of the Air Force.

It seems to me that the entire purpose of trolls is to elicit ridiculous responses. Much love to the airmen of this country, but is this really necessary?

It’s the Internet. Yes, there are people out there who still believe Loose Change. But c’mon, these are lummoxes bloggers. Ignore it and move on.

This program just makes me realize:

Yes, I know everyone is sick of the Bush/Iraqi shoe incident.

I got many-a-lol out of it, but now I’m all for putting the shoe-flinging behind us.

But today, Wired’s Danger Room blog (I feel, this is the best/most interesting blog evar) posted the history of shoe-based weaponry, and it is surprisingly interesting.

Some highlights.

• A shoe is classified as a “hazardous” weapon because “Within the nonlethal community, it is generally accepted that any impact exceeding 58 foot-pounds of kinetic energy will result in a potential fatality.”
• There are international competitions for shoe-throwing, known as “Wellie Wanging.” The rules are odd.
• German saboteurs planned to use the heels of their boots to hide bombs, and of course there’s Richard Reid. (In other news, saboteur is my new favorite word.)
• And of course there’s Rosa Klebb and the obligatory Random Task.

I was happy to see that after a few years, one of the best commercial characters ever returned for vote PSAs. For anyone who missed the originals, be sure to look up the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker Reebok commercials.

I put this up for the lulz, not for any political comment.

He accidentally the whole economy.

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