Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ Category
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
It’s a house. It’s a very ugly house. It’s a very ugly house created for a competition by people who have no concept of aesthetics, let alone standard construction practices. Here’s a partial description justifying the brilliance of the design:
DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE
Faced with the typical house model of a “box construction” made up of standard industrialized components, we chose to build a clever house with systemic logic components, rising into what we call a distributed intelligence. This means that each component of the prototype contains the same level of technology, energy, structural, etc… With this we say that the logic of all is found in each of the parts, and not vice versa.
That is, distributed intelligence can be understood as the development in fusion research systems and materials, implying a change of procedures, multi functionality in the construction field. Opening the possiblities of digital parametric design from the traditional assembly of standardized industrial components of the home-computer.
In other words, they’ve not only designed one of the ugliest dwellings ever imagined, they’ve invented a brand new lexicon to justify it. Archibabble at its worst. Phew.
To be fair, the design is clever in one respect, that the shape was generated based upon solar tracking, that is, a computer model engineered a shape that maximizes the amount of surface area that receives direct sunlight throughout the day and throughout the year, thus determining the configuration of the solar panels. Win.
Unfortunately, the maximum efficiency is compromised by site orientation, its global latitude, and, um, unpredictable cloud cover. And it’s ugly. Fail.
[More info and images here via here.]
Tags:ugly, House, competition, design, solar, computer design, amateur, architecture, coprolite
Posted in Bizarre, Climate Change, Humor, Humour, Odd, Real News, Stupid, True Stories | 5 Comments »
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Nothing like a little innocuous innuendo in a post title to generate a cheap and sleazy traffic spike.
Speaking of the classic “Hot Rod Lincoln,” here’s the version that was covered by Johnny Bond, that was covered by Roger Miller, that was covered by Commander Cody, that was covered by Asleep At The Wheel:
Charlie Ryan & the Timber Riders hit the charts on 9 May 1960 with “Hot Rod Lincoln” even though it was recorded in 1955. Unfortunately the videonazi bastards prevent embedding it here, so you gotta click to hear it.
[Image from here. Crossposted here.]
Tags:Asleep At The Wheel, car, Charlie Ryan, chicks, Commander Cody, Hot, Hot Rod Lincoln, Roger Miller
Posted in Babe Magnet, Bizarre, Climate Change, Cool, Hot, Humor, Humour, Music, Odd, Retro | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
(via Strutts News Services, Washington D.C.)
H.R. 4997 (ih), currently under review, proposes a requirement that all cinematic movie theaters replace standard xenon arc lamps with energy saving fluorescent bulbs or tubes and to retrofit the projectors with “kinetoscope” discs, rotated via electrical motors powered by photovoltaic cells, to allow frame-by-frame illumination. Films that previously employed the standard 24 frames per second shall be reduced to 8 to 16 frames per second in order to shorten the length of the illumination power requirements.
[Source. Crossposted here.]
Tags:global warming, AGW, Uncle Fester, compact fluorescent, Anthropogenic Global Wanking
Posted in Bizarre, Climate Change, Humor, Humour, Like Not., New Snot, News Not, Not News, Odd, Politics, Retro, Stupid, logic | 2 Comments »
Monday, 22 February 2010
Tags:car, Climate Change, Climategate, Global Stupidity, mobile, snow, snowmobile
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Tyler Stevenson, an urban forester, measures barley that is growing in the fields at the Great Park on Friday morning.
Irvine, California (Strutts News Services, Opinion Section) –
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Tags:barley, bullshit, farming, Orange County Register, Sarcasm, Snark, subsidies, tape measure, taxation, The Great Park, Urban Forests
Posted in Bizarre, Climate Change, Douche Baggage, New Snot, News Not, Not News, Real News, Stupid, True Stories, logic | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Image found at “A Public Flogging.” We recently added Willzone’s site to our blogroll because it’s almost as good as ours. ;)
Tags:clown, pool, kid, AGW, Climate Change, Icee
Posted in Climate Change, Cool, Humor, Humour, Ignoseconds, Moronic White People, Odd, food | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 22 January 2010
This waterspout off the Huntington Beach Pier came ashore and flipped an SUV last Wednesday. The pier is about 1/2 mile from my office.
Because they’re laden with water, they’re smaller than tornados that touch down on land, but they’re still magnetically attracted to trailer parks and boat slips.
Tags:2010, HB Pier, Huntington Beach, waterspout
Posted in Climate Change, Cool, Real News, True Stories | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Norwich, England (Strutts News Services) – A long-debated archaeological mystery has apparently been resolved by researchers of the University of East Anglia.
The excavations of the River Yare floodplain in the early 1970s unearthed numerous fossils which gave creedence to the theory of reptilian insomnia. All fossils were meticulously labeled and their in-situ positions noted, allowing for a glimpse into the sleeping habits of the great reptiles. (more…)
Tags:archaeology, clamato, climate, Climate Change, Dinosaur, envirionment, global cooling, global warming, sleeping, yawn
Posted in Bizarre, Climate Change, Cool, Dinosaurs, History, Hot, Humor, Humour, New Snot, News Not, Not News, Odd, Politics, Stupid | 2 Comments »
