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Everything you ever wanted to know about Claymores
The term "Claymore" was first used to describe a Scottish Broadsword commonly used to wreak bloody havoc in warfare from 1500 to 1700, a two-hander behemoth that could cleave a man in two under the force of it's own gravity, let alone when being swung at you. The focus of this article is not, however, about this monster of a sword, or it's sissy little brother of the same name, which was used after 1715 in Scotland, and had a basket hilt to "protect the hand while in use" (what a bunch of babies). No, this article is about the M18A1 Claymore Anti-Personnel Mine, a worthy successor to the name.
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Awesome news, it appears that somebody out there, if they haven't been listening to me, has at least had the smarts to figure it out for themselves- not only are oil companies now flocking to the Bakken to tap the veritable ocean of black stuff under North Dakota, but in South Dakota they're building the first new refinery since 1976.
Entertainment
Christian Bale, star of the recently released "The Dark Knight" turned himself in to a London police station after his mother and sister made allegations that he assaulted them. He was not charged, and continues to deny that an assault took place. Unlike in his role as the Batman, in which he completely kicked the asses of not only every evil-doer in the film, he also completely reigned over every other film out right now. Bale, known for intense performances such as 2000's American Psycho, 2006's The Prestige, and of course, Batman Begins, has cemented his ownership of the role that almost saved Michael Keaton's career, portraying what many are claiming to be the greatest Dark Knight to date.
Technology
To all the bastards who have tried over the years to ban smoking in public places and have driven the price of tobacco up with their whiney little lawsuits (gosh, your honor, no one ever told me that cigarette smoking was bad for you... how could I know that sucking hot smoke in my lungs would hurt me...) and threatened for years to try and put "Big Tobacco" out of business, I offer this little nugget: The BBC reported today that Tobacco is now being studied in the US as a possible treatment for cancer. Lemme give all you non-smokers out there a chance to process that, and all you smokers out there a chance to catch your breath. Is everybody ready?
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- Ever since I discovered Tim Wilson's implementation of a flash-based theme for Wordpress a few days ago, I've been a man obsessed, I must discover not only how it was done, but how to do the same thing with my own sites. Although I obtained a copy of his website's template, the code made little sense to me and I saw little use in only being able to use pages to display my posts. I instead saought out alternatives, and found a promising one in AMFPHP, a framework which allows one to make PHP calls from inside Flash. However, what the developers of AMFPHP fail to mention is that you need FlexBuilder to access the libraries needed to read the data AMFPHP returns to your Flash document. Bastards. #
- Y'all might've noticed the nifty bit of Flash at the top of this site that displays images linked to featured posts. That's a plug-in for Wordpress developed by a guy named Rich Christiansen, who I recently had the pleasure of corresponding with when I had trouble installing his work. Even though Rich gives away this awesome plugin for free to any blogger willing to try it, Rich was more than happy to devote quite a bit of time to helping me out with all my problems. Rich is a real talent, and gracious to boot; he even listed me as a debugger on Featurific's download page. Anyone who's got a Wordpress blog really ought to try it out, it gives a real flair to the site. #
- In my post two days past, I predicted that "Undertaker" Mark Callaway would be returning to the WWE in time for SummerSlam, next month's pay-per-view event. Tonight at the end of Smackdow, Edge met up with GM Vicki Guerrrero in the ring to apologize for cheating on her, spearing her at the Great American Bash, and teling the whole world about her granny-panties. Or, to make a long story short (too late!), for being a complete douchebag. #
- Jesus, can't we all just get along? I installed Opera, Flock, and Safari along with my default Firefox 3 and IE8 installs to test how a site I'm doing for work would look, and it seems that the inconsistencies never fail to keep right on coming. Safari, the default Mac browser, won't render hardly any css correctly, and won't display a .png file as a background image. Opera won't load all my images, no matter what I set the "load images" setting to. #
- After quite a long absence (over a month, with the exception of July 4th’s parade of self-pity), I’ve returned, and I’ve hopefully overcome my bout with writer’s block. I’m pleased to see that I’ve received a few comments while I was gone, and I’d like to thank those of you who were gracious enough to [...] #
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