National Flashlight Day
Today is National Flashlight Day, or as it’s more commonly known, the Winter Solstice…
Tetsujin 28
(via Wired)
Having watched Gigantor when I was kid, I thought this was really cool.
Fun fact: Apparently, Tetsujin 28 was developed by the Japanese military during World War II. A plot point which was unfortunately dropped in the Americanized version.
Four ways to silence Christmas carolers
(via Captain Carl’s Daily Blarrrg)
Four ways to silence Christmas carolers:
- Turn off your lights
- Turn up your music
- Come to the door with a towel
- Come to the door with a phone
UFL
Sex Survey
(via Captain Carl’s Daily Blarrrg)
Hey, a new sex survey from the Portland Mercury!
29% of women want “rougher” sex.
19% of men want “rougher” sex.
49% of people have lube “at the ready.”
7% have nipple clamps.
76% have done it in public.
32% have walked in on their parents.
9% have walked in on their parents having affairs.
9% have walked in on their spouse having an affair.
49% have seen others doing it in public.
2% have done “something” with cops that have pulled them over.
5% have had some sort of incest (not necessarily Flowers in the Attic-type stuff).
25% are au naturale (look it up on Urban Dictionary if you don’t know).
12% of women are active with themselves daily.
9% have had more than 16 partners.
3% have used fresh produce.Top 10 Turn-ons:
- Salad tossing (Look it up. or don’t, really — don’t).
- Foot rubs.
- Watching.
- Exit area stimulation.
- “Safe” violence.
- Exhibitionism.
- Dirty talk.
- Porn.
- French kissing.
- Kissing.
Oh no, Not Again
First, there was the infamous Sauron: Offer and acceptance. Now there’s the equally brilliant Elf Love:
In the mostly-alternate-universe of Harry Potter, supposedly giving an enslaved house-elf clothing frees the elf. However, the rules for what constitutes “giving” a house-elf clothing are not at all clear. A brief attempt at elucidation over lunch failed, as we lacked a physical copy of the record. A few points of interest follow:
The giving of clothing appears to be strict liability. We don’t care about either the intent of the giver to free an elf (accidentally “passing a sock” frees) or the intent of the elf to be freed (Hermione can leave socks hidden under rubble in order to trick house elves into freedom). So it seems that there’s no intent requirement for the gift of clothing. Leaving aside the question of who does the laundry, what kind of delivery suffices? Clearly, handing a sock to an elf would free it, even if it was handed absent-mindedly. Dobby was freed when his master tossed a sock in the air and Dobby caught it, so the master doesn’t even have to intend to hand the sock to the elf.
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I dunno, I think most of us are better off with with minds full of mush 
Sauron: Offer and Acceptance
From Letters of Marque:
“As a small token of your friendship Sauron asks this,” he said: “that you should find this thief,” such was his word, “and get from him, willing or no, a little ring, the least of rings, that once he stole. It is but a trifle that Sauron fancies, and an earnest of your good will. Find it, and three rings that the Dwarf-sires possessed of old shall be returned to you, and the realm of Moria shall be yours for ever. Find only news of the thief, whether he still lives and where, and you shall have great reward and lasting friendship from the Lord. Refuse, and things will not seem so well. Do you refuse?”–The Fellowship of the Ring, in “The Council of Elrond”
It seems to me that’s really two, maybe three separate offers. The first seems to be unambiguously an offer for a unilateral contract (to find the supposedly piddling ring for three of the Dwarf rings of power plus the estate of Moria), to be completed by performance. D�in wouldn’t want to bind himself to produce a ring; it’s too risky. This seems like the straight-forward reward scenario envisioned as a prototypical offer for a unilateral contract.
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Kids, just say NO to law school…
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