Dystopia Then, Dystopia Now

Just as now, the wasteland of popular culture promoted a sort of "unilateral disarmament" against the world's evils. Otherwise we were to still enjoy the misery we were deserving.

Another Blog Reviewing Techhie Crap

Apps are ubiquitous. Apps are everywhere.

It's as if all blogs have to review things to look edgy and technically adept, so I'll apply those years in teh High School A/V club to good use.

Someone here needs to do a review of apps, and there ain't nobody but me, so here goes:

I track my bitches wit da Cellsnithes.

See? Just like that I entered that new-fangled techy world of Apps in a faux-ironical kind of way.

Paranoid and Mulleted is no way to go Through Life, Son

Worried? When Your Do is a Don't

This time around, I managed to get past the dreaded "growing it out over my ears" stage, and the "looks a little like a Billy Ray Cyrus Mullet"

So don't. Or maybe get a haircut, and stop making us listen to you talk about yourself.

Achtung, Baby!

They’re coming for your vapid Hello Kitty memorabilia!

Random DX Report

A number station of undetermined origin was heard 15 June 2011, 0135 GMT on 6767 khz. 5 digit cifer was read in multiple languages by what sounded like a computer generated female voice.

It went off air at 0140 GMT.

The use of number stations is an ‘old school’ method of communicating with your spies from the home land to the nation where they are doing their surveillance without being detected.

The strength of the signal and the use of this reliable but primitive method of messaging suggest that it likely originated in Cuba, Venezuela, or transmitted from sea.

Oiks!

Crazy Mixed Up Pup, 1956



An animated fillum directed by the criminally insane Tex Avery, inventor of characters like Screwy Squirrel, Chilly Willy, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. Find me JUST ONE of those characters that isn’t struggling with their inner demons, why dontcha?

The Future, as Always, is Bleak. Almost,

Large Asteroid to Almost Hit Earth in November

Let's hope that 2005 YU55, the 400 meter wide monster headed our way this year and forecast to be near Earth in November, doesn't slightly change course and become one of the asteroids that actually hit Earth.

Let's also hope monkeys don't ALMOST come flying out of my butt, so long as we're at it.

The Swedish Miracle Mullet

"I have been trying for ten years to get this classified as a handicap," Tullgren told The Local.

"I spoke to three psychologists and they finally agreed that I needed this to avoid being discriminated against."

Whenever you see news coming out of Sweden, why do feel compelled to ALWAYS ask "is this a joke"? It’s a stupid question, because it never is.

Sweden: Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction

A Swedish heavy metal fan has had his musical preferences officially classified as a disability. The results of a psychological analysis enable the metal lover to supplement his income with state benefits.

So on the occasions where he DID show up to work, he employed psychiatry to try to compel his employer to listen to metal for what is likely a 6 hour a day job. This despite the fact that he was getting paid at all.

Eventually his last employer tired of his absences and Tullgren was left jobless and reliant on welfare handouts.

But his sessions with the occupational psychologists led to a solution of sorts: Tullgren signed a piece of paper on which his heavy metal lifestyle was classified as a disability, an assessment that entitles him to a wage supplement from the job centre.

"I signed a form saying: 'Roger feels compelled to show his heavy metal style. This puts him in a difficult situation on the labour market. Therefore he needs extra financial help'. So now I can turn up at a job interview dressed in my normal clothes and just hand the interviewers this piece of paper," he said.

Winners and enterpreneurs seem rather hard to come by after 6 decades of deprogramming people of common sense.

Save the Bears!

Not So Distant, Not so 'Ago'

Shortwave listeners... yes, both of you, will enjoy this. A British group has been refining software that harvests what remaining SW transmissions are still being broadcasted out there in the murky land of spookdom.

Building on the huge successes of previous editions, Version 3.5 delivers to users a vast array of signals intelligence gathering tools and provides far more comprehensive functionality to cope with today's dynamic signals collection environments. HARVESTER just got better.

In a rapidly changing world where major events impact on all our lives, you need to keep one-step ahead of the news. Signals Intelligence can give you that edge but valuable time can be lost sorting, storing and searching through collected intelligence.

The HARVESTER family of SIGINT database applications provide unique and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of collection requirements. From a network enabled multi-user collection system to the standalone radio enthusiast, HARVESTER provides real-time solutions for all COMINT, ELINT or FISINT signal intercepted between 0 Hz to 100 GHz.

My next radio indulgence will be this dandy little trifle:



Frankly, I have too many of the groovy old ones to keep up with. Owing to their vintage, they may start getting the attic treatment, where they are cleaned, boxed, and forgotten for another decade.

Post-Nuclear Germany, Beware

Beware of fooling yourself most of all:

However, without these subsidies not one of the "world famous" Danish wind farms would be profitable. But not even the government largesse, courtesy of the taxpayers/consumers seems to be enough to keep wind power profitable in Denmark; Scan Energy, one of the major wind and solar energy companies, with production also in Germany and France, has finally called it a day. Among the major shareholders are a number of the biggest Danish farming estates. Now there is, according to the Danish daily Jylland-Posten, a real risk that some of these family estates, built up during centuries, will have to be sold as a consequense of the Scan Energy bankruptcy.

"That was Quite an Outburst"