Breakfast Links: Truffle, Topless Men & Robot Cannon
Huh. So… truffles. No, not those truffles - the fungus. Apparently it’s a bad year for the mushroom and so a very large one has just sold for $7000. For a mushroom. Apparently it’ll make maybe 70 dishes at Le Cirque. 70 dishes. Oh well, the chefs at Le Cirque seemed pretty psyched about it, look at that dude on the right (you know the one next to the guys taking snaps of it with their phones). It’s like they won the championship game. Which, I guess, if you’re a chef, maybe that’s what it was. (via)
Hm… you know what would be a good Improv Everywhere skit? Send in a mob of 70 to Le Cirque and order up all 70 dishes with that bad boy. Then, when you’re done eating it? Run the hell out of Le Cirque as fast as you can! Hysterical! Or, if you’re more wussy and not into eating felonies then you could try and send your 111 man strong mob into an Abercrombie and Fitch store, all topless. You gotta admit, that’s a pretty good one. See the funny thing is that in my head because I always read about them on the internets this group is nerdy, so I was surprised to see how cut most of them were. Then I remembered, there is a nerdy section of that venn diagram, but there’s a large section of actors. Ahhhh..
That’s right, I’m blogging about venn diagrams. How cool am I? In the venn diagram which shows good and bad, this robotic cannon that went crazy and killed and wounded many during a live fire training session, falls squarely in the latter part. As technology gets more and more advanced how will it be possible to avoid stuff like this? I mean even when humans are in control, their control is very abstracted and filtered from the actual actions the machine is taking. I hear Skynet’s due to come online soon.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:33 am
If the Bible got anything right, it’s the day of judgment, only the things judging us will be machines. Your right, terminator style. Hear about the recent accidental transport of nuclear pimped cruse missiles on a B-52? Yeah, flown right across the country. Apparently the problem stemmed from some army genius signing a permission slip of sorts that allowed REAL nukes to be stored with dummy nukes. Fun for everyone! “Give your family a permanent orange afro” (Spies like us.) So in essence, we are still very much dealing with the technology of yesterday in a large, extremely ungraceful way.