x-rays from scotch tape?!?!

this is very very cool….very very interesting….come on, what’s in that scotch tape?

Peeling Scotch Tape Powers X-Ray Machine

Peeling a roll of ordinary sticky tape can generate 100 milliwatt pulses of X-rays, enough to capture a human finger on X-ray film, according to a new study by UCLA scientists. …

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Their kit consisted of a vacuum-enclosed machine, reminiscent of a video casette player, that peeled a roll of Photo Safe 3M Scotch tape at a rate of 3 cm per second. …

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This type of energy release is known as triboluminescence — the same principle behind the fun trick of crunching on Wint-O-Green Life Savers to produce blue sparks.

… the idea of peeling tape to emit X-rays was first suggested by Russian scientists in the 1950s…

crazy, no?

garfield minus garfield

here is something that may make you chuckle.

what happens when you remove garfield from the comic strip?

FIND OUT.

some of these are hilarious.

hey, i posted something somewhat positive! not a rant!

BOYCOTTING CHRISTMAS/XMAS/THE HOLIDAYS

another site i came across randomly, while perusing stuff completely unrelated–the christmas resistance movement.

but i feel the same way. not only am i already pretty poor during the winter months, but then i have to spend money on gifts? and hope i make it back with monetary presents or stuff i can return given to me? whatever. isn’t it much more fun to give spontaneously?

i also hate obligatory visitations. ’cause it’s always me doing the driving. and i see these people often enough. why doesn’t somebody come visit me for once?

so yeah. oust the “holiday season” once and for all!

PRIMARIES COMING SOON!

vote RON PAUL in your local primary.

find out the deadlines for voter registration and when your primaries are at DECLARE YOURSELF.

let’s just hope it’s not too late for america!

SICKO

i saw this movie last night (for $2.50 and 25 cent popcorn, hell yeah!), and i have to say, i think it’s the best yet of michael moore’s films.

it kind of just reinforces the urgency of getting the hell out of this country.

being one of the 50 million or whatever americans that does not have healthcare, well, i just take care of my problems myself. hoping of course i won’t ever need to go to a so-called “doctor” or “hospital.” i don’t have any crazy conditions that wouldn’t let me get healthcare, i’m just poor. oh wait, i did have a yeast infection once….does that disqualify me?

i’m not going to say it’s perfectly grand elsewhere, but, it does appear to be a lot nicer, even saner, more reasonable.

the sickest i’ve been was when i caught some crap while working at a coffee shop in a hospital cafeteria. no joke. that was horrible, i thought i was going to die.

i also had a bladder infection once. it took me ALL FUCKING DAY to spend 5 minutes with a doctor to get a prescription. that’s it–ALL DAY FOR 5 MINUTES. doctor was closed for just that day only, couldn’t go to the clinic because i didn’t have a doctor’s note, waited about 5 HOURS (on top of all the other running around that day) in severe pain on the emergency room floor. yes, on the floor. sitting hurt far worse than lying. it came back after a couple months and when i went to a clinic in another town, the male doctor tried to tell me that i had pulled a muscle. ummmmm, sure that’s it. but that did get me a bunch of fun prescriptions i didn’t necessarily need…

and they also convinced my parents that i needed both my tonsils & adnoids taken out when i was 8. that pisses me off too. i did get to keep them in a jar. wish they were still in me though. they’re really nasty looking now.

but luckily, i don’t have problems like those nowadays. really, the yeast/bladder infections i caught from my boyfriend at the time who had started sleeping around with some skanky girls and i didn’t catch on right away. luckily that was the worst of it.

i hate the medical business. the insurance business. the government business. lots of business.

COME ON EVERYONE! IF WE ALL OR ENOUGH OF US JUST STRIKE LIKE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, WELL SOMETHING WOULD CHANGE!

THINK OF IT–WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE ALL JUST STOPPED GOING TO WORK FOR A WEEK, OR STOPPED BUYING THINGS FOR A FEW DAYS??????!!!!!!!

LET’S DO IT AND CHANGE THIS HELL!!!!!