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By Hank Campbell | July 1st 2009 11:08 PM | 3 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Hank Campbell

A wise man once said Darwin had the greatest idea anyone ever had. Others may prefer Newton or Archimedes.

Probably no one ever said a website was the greatest idea anyone ever had, but a website... Full Bio

Tangential Science: It isn't necessarily science, but it's still funny.

1. Want a business card made out of meat and lasers? You're in luck! Meat Cards is having a contest to win one. All you have to do is recreate a classic Frank Frazetta poster and you can win, you guessed it, a meat card, which is basically beef jerky with laser writing on it.   I kind of wish I had thought of this first.



So "what's the catch?" you are thinking, "I will just photoshop in my old Molly Hatchett album covers and win big".   Not so.   The Frazetta recreations have to be done using real people.  And a camera.   So you can see below, it isn't all that easy.   I can be Darkwolf, no problem, but I will have trouble finding the girl.

frazetta fire and ice

2. In a landmark civil rights victory for women and men of all colors and creeds, the sports and recreation committee of Malmo, Sweden, the nation’s third-largest city, ruled that women at public pools should not be discriminated against for going topless.  Like the Frazetta re-enactment above, I am likely prohibited from Malmo, Sweden.

3. Want to know what a $138 million photograph looks like?    Sonar Technician (Surface) 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett snapped this picture of an F-22 Raptor doing a supersonic flyby over the carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).   Let's hope it's not so easy for the bad guys.

F-22 Raptor supersonic flyby

4.  The guys at CollegeHumor.com did an homage to modern social media in classic musical fashion, called Web Site Story.  I don't need to tell you any more than that, right? They seem to have left us out but that's okay, I had never heard of them before either.




5. Last but not least, Cracked.com shows us 7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics. Who knew my Genesis V6 ferrofluid-cooled speakers from the 1970s were so ... cool? Not me. Well, okay, definitely me, because if there's no distortion I can pretty much push a lightning bolt through them and none of you Bose wussies can say that. But I don't know how to make speakers using non-Newtonian fluids so maybe Cracked can teach you something too.

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Becky Jungbauer's picture
I can't get enough of this stuff. Science is so freakin' cool! I sent the beef jerky business card link to Mr. Becky, who loved them but acknowledged he'd never get any business because he'd eat all of his cards. The Web Site Story was actually pretty clever, despite the glaring faux pas in neglecting to mention us. And my favorite man-made substance was the aerogel - the description is classic.

Like the Frazetta re-enactment above, I am likely prohibited from Malmo, Sweden.

Bad experience in the past, or because Kim would slice and dice you?

LauraHult's picture
Business cards made of beef jerky - now why didn't any of you smart guys think of this before?  I mean it just makes so much sense (and it's Pavlovian!)

Man loves meat

Man uses business to buy meat

Man uses meat to buy business

Businesses begin to salivate when thinking about Man with Meat Cards

Man has more business than he knows what to do with

Man buys lots of meat


I'll be getting some of these for my husband...then woman does not have to work at job she dislikes.  Sounds like a win-win to me!

Hank's picture
Becky:
 Bad experience in the past, or because Kim would slice and dice you?

Yes!

Laura, I just like lasers and meat.   My appetite for jerky is finite but my appetite for awesome manly accessories that make people laugh is without known limitations.

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