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If the pig you killed is bigger then one called Hogzilla, then you must be doing something right. That boar looks like it could eat the kid who bagged it.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP — Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stones trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.
Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.
Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which has a Web site put up by his father— http://www.monsterpig.com —that is generating Internet buzz.
Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than Hogzilla
That picture stills screams Photoshop fake to me. What do you guys think?
Update: The story has been featured in National Geographic, you be the judge as to whether this adds some legitimacy to the claims.
Update 2: Here are three more boar photos. They come courtesy of oneill.
The Puzzle is slowly coming together by Michael.DK
Think that you have what it takes to solve this logic puzzle created by George Boolos? He named the puzzle “The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever”.
Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are ‘da’ and ‘ja’, in some order. You do not know which word means which.
Boolos (1996) provides the following clarifications:
- It could be that some god gets asked more than one question (and hence that some god is not asked any question at all).
- What the second question is, and to which god it is put, may depend on the answer to the first question. (And of course similarly for the third question.)
- Whether Random speaks truly or not should be thought of as depending on the flip of a coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely.
- Random will answer ‘da’ or ‘ja’ when asked any yes-no question.
The puzzle has so many random elements that, at first glance, it seems next to impossible. I still haven’t looked at the solution on the wikipedia page yet… but I certainly haven’t come up with one either.
The hardest logic puzzle ever — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if they’d all been killed by a lightening strike – when lightening hits the ground it’s not unusual for animals nearby to be killed by the shock.Soon the man came upon a group of huts. He decided to see if anyone there knew what had happened to the animals. But as he walked up to the huts he was stunned to see dead bodies strewn everywhere. He didn’t find a single person still alive — everyone in the huts was dead. The man threw down his bicycle and ran all the way back to Wum.
Find out exactly what happened (and the science behind it) at Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century via Digg
While the architectural playground that is Dubai isn’t running low on innovative buildings, David Fisher is hoping to add yet another skyscraper to the mix with his self-sufficient and energy generating Twirling Tower. The 68-story “combination hotel, apartment, and office” would sport floors that each rotate 360-degrees in the span of about 90 minutes, creating a “constantly changing architectural form.” His claims begin to elicit suspicion, however, when a promotional video for the building claims that it can snag enough wind to not only power the building itself, but to energize ten other similar buildings just like it. Of course, we aren’t taking that too seriously considering that he actually mentions that supplying electricity to the floors would be “similar to how a moving train captures power by staying in constant contact with a power source, like an overheard wire or third rail.” Nevertheless, Mr. Fisher sure seems determined to get this thing up in the sky, but as with most big dreams in Dubai, moving beyond the drawing board is where things get tough.
Here are some other Dubai projects that I’ve mentioned.
Inhabitat via Engadget
Here is an interesting commentary looking at the past century’s advances and what they suggest about the future of technology.
I understand that you’re expecting a talk about where the next 20 years are taking us, how far technology will go, how people will use the net, and whether big shoulder pads and food pills will be fashionable. Personally, I’m still waiting for my personal jet car — I’ve been waiting about fifty years now — and I mention this as a note of caution: while personal jet cars aren’t obviously impossible, their non-appearance should give us some insights into how attempts to predict the future go wrong…
Read the article in full at Charlie’s Diary: Shaping the future
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90° by Angus_RS
Oh my. What have we here? A rainy night in the city has cleared the sidewalks of all but the most intrepid pedestrians, and those who didn’t brave the elements have no idea what they’re missing. Because there you are, gliding along on your bicycle, just a few feet ahead of me. You’re obviously not one of those tedious hard-core cycling enthusiasts — no skin-tight black spandex for you. No, just a simple white T-shirt (soaked through to the skin, clinging to the small of your back) and a long blond ponytail, whipping back and forth like the tail of a cartoon pony, as those long legs of yours pump the pedals and you raise your face to the sky, letting the raindrops freckle your cheeks with sweet diamonds of moisture. Dare I try to catch up to you? I’m on foot, carrying a bunch of shopping bags, but you’ve paused at a red light, and — what the heck? I don’t know what I’ll say to you, but even the clumsiest of introductions on these glistening nighttime streets will give us a romantic how-we-met anecdote that we’ll love telling for years to come.
Caught you! Here I am!
And there you are. I see now that you’re a dude. My mistake. It was the ponytail that threw me off.
(Duration of crush: thirty-three seconds.)
Read the other three shorts at Shouts & Murmurs: Four Short Crushes: Humor: The New Yorker
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Having spent my share of time complaining about inconsistencies in exam and paper marks, I find this very enlightening…
Step 3
The key to this method is a good toss. Without a good toss, it is difficult to get a good spread for the grading curve. It is also important to get the toss correct on the first try. Exams can get crumpled if tossed too much. They begin to look as though the professor actually read them, and this is definitely to be avoided. Additional tosses are also inefficient and expend needless time and energy. Note the toss in Figure 3 below. This is an example of a toss of considerable skill — obviously the result of years of practice.
Read the full how-to at A Guide to Grading Exams
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