Free Jessica Simpson Mask for Panthers Game Saturday

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Dec 212007
 

Being a Philadelphia Eagles fan, I truly hate the Dallas Cowboys so when I saw this, I put my support behind it.

Milwaukeeworld is offering a free Jessica Simpson cutout mask, for Carolina Panther and Green Bay Packer fans. This Saturday, the 12-2 Dallas Cowboys travel to the Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, N.C. to take on the 6-8 Carolina Panthers. The game will be televised on the NFL Network at 8 p.m. (EST).

DO-IT-YOURSELF JESSICA SIMPSON MASK

Twenty-first century siren Jessica Simpson threw Tony Romo’s game into turmoil last week because her boyfriend just can’t keep her off his mind. Even Romo’s teammate Terrell Owens said the pulchritudinous blonde should keep her distance so the man from Burlington, Wisconsin can win this game for the Dallas Cowboys.
Those of us who remain true to the Green and Gold feel it would not be fair for the young Rom(e)o to be deprived of the beauty of his inamorata, so milwaukeeworld offers you this do-it-yourself Jessica Simpson cutout mask. Make sure your friends in Ol’ Carolina print these beauties out and wear them to the game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Saturday at 8 p.m. (EST). You’ll help preserve the Panthers’ playoff chances, and you’ll guarantee home-field advantage for the Pack on the road to the Superbowl. Click on the link below for your very own Jessica mask!

If Someone Triple-Dog Dares You To Stick Your Tongue To A Frozen Metal Pole — Don’t

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Dec 202007
 

Anyone who has ever seen the movie “A Christmas Story” knows that there are two important life lessons in it.

1. Don’t stick your tongue to a frozen pole.

2. BB guns are dangerous.

“Are you kidding? Stick my tongue to that stupid pole? That’s dumb!”


Will Your Tongue Really Stick to a Frozen Flagpole?

The next time someone triple-dog dares you to stick your tongue to a frozen metal pole — don’t. Your tongue will be joined to the pole, and you’ll have plenty of time to ponder the thermal conductivity of metal while you await the rescue squad.

Your tongue is covered with moisture, which beings to freeze if its temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Your body counteracts the freezing by pumping warm blood to your tongue.

Heat from your blood warms the moisture through a process called conduction. Heat energy from the blood excites atoms in your tongue. The atoms absorb energy and vibrate. The more they vibrate, the more their temperatures increase. This incites vibrations in neighboring atoms, which take the energy and pass it up the line like a hot potato and eventually warms the surface moisture.

So why is the Fire Department on its way?

“It’s because of the high thermal conductivity of the pole,” explains Frank J. DiSalvo, director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future and co-director of the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute. “The metal is a much better conductor than your tongue (up to 400 times more powerful). The metal takes heat faster than your body can replenish it.”

The atoms in solid metals are packed tightly and transfer thermal energy more readily. They also have free electrons that boost conductivity. Free electrons are free to move from atom to atom. The electrons absorb heat energy and move through the flagpole, stirring up other atoms.

As your tongue touches the flagpole, the moisture on your tongue is robbed of heat. The temperature of the moisture drops. Water freezes inside tiny pores and surface irregularities on your tongue and the pole. You’re stuck.

So now your thinking, “Maybe if I just pull hard it will come off.” Yes, it will — a piece of your tongue, that is.

Kent Sperry is a 911 dispatcher at a place where people know about cold and snow — Boulder, Colorado. He offers a less painful alternative, assuming you happen to have the necessary remedy at hand: “Pour warm water on the area where the tongue meets the pole, and the tongue should come free.”

Windows Vista Has Fewer Flaws Than Mac OS X

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Dec 192007
 

All of those smug Mac lovers who point to Windows vulnerabilities now have something to worry about. A top security researcher claims that Windows Vista is more secure than Mac OS X.

In my opinion, one reason Apple has such a shiny reputation has nothing to do with its platform, and everything to do with its masterful marketing.

Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007

So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.

Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it’s something I am glad I don’t use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.

Mindless Arrogance On Display At The United Nations Climate Conference In Bali

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Dec 192007
 

Liberal elitism rears it’s ugly head again.

These mindless arrogant liberal communists have used more carbon footprints this year to promote the “Great Global Warming Swindle” than all the rest of us have in the past ten years. When are all the idiots going to wake up and see it for what it is – a money-making machine. Meanwhile Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.

Answer to hot air was in fact a chilling blunder

AMID talk of offsetting the hefty carbon footprint of the United Nations climate conference in Bali, organisers missed a large elephant in the room.

The air-conditioning system installed to keep more than 10,000 delegates cool used highly damaging refrigerant gases – as lethal to the atmosphere as 48,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, and nearly the equivalent of the emissions of all aircraft used to fly delegates to Indonesia.

With hawk-eyed representatives of more than 100 green organisations present, it was probably the worst place in the world to commit an environmental faux pas.

Staff from Australia’s Natural Refrigerants Transition Board and the London- and Washington-based Environmental Investigation Agency noticed the stockpiled cylinders of hydrochlorofluorocarbons – a refrigerant likely to be phased out over the next few years because it devours ozone in the upper atmosphere.

In addition, the refrigerant is a potent greenhouse gas, with each kilogram at least as damaging as 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Investigators at the Balinese resort complex at Nusa Dua counted 700 cylinders of the gas, each of them weighing 13.5 kilograms, and the system was visibly leaking.

The air-conditioning system, which used two kilometres of plastic pipe, serviced the European pavilion, the UN Secretariat offices, the media centre and other temporary areas.

After a fortnight of discussions with its Indonesian hosts and the contractors who installed the air-conditioning, the investigation agency proposed sending experts to safely recover the HCFC emissions by storing the refrigerant gas in sealed containers.

Australian officials were contacted and offered to help. The information was also sent to the staff of the former US vice-president Al Gore, and Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

By Friday the Indonesian Department of Environment decided to commit its own staff to a careful clean-up.

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