by Chris Barrus
So with all the “Evil Overlord” lists out there and the “Evil Overlord” writing guide from a couple of days back, it was inevitable that someone would put together an Evil Overlord Random Plot Generator. Reload the page for a new plot!
It’s a hypersonic weapon *and* a propaganda device. It’ll turn up in cars and nu-metal concerts too I’ll bet.
Once aimed at the enemy, a focused beam of the familiar noise, played backwards, will be painful enough to make enemy soldiers run for their lives, according to its developers. They call it the “sonic bullet”.
There are 50 soundtracks to choose from, and they are played at 140 decibels. That is akin to standing beneath a passenger jet as it takes off. Hardly surprising, then, that the weapon causes an intense headache in its victim.
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But the “hypersonic sound system” beams sound along two ultrasonic signals to produce noise only when they hit the target. The weapon’s user doesn’t hear a thing.
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A hand-held version of the weapon – a thin tube about a yard long, dubbed a “directed stick radiator” – might in theory be used against hijackers in a plane cockpit, though the bouncing beams could deafen passengers as well.The firm which developed the system, American Technology Corporation, has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to market it. It also hopes to offer the device for use in drinks machines. Someone in front of one would hear the sound of a can opening with an enticing fizz.
This is just so damn sad and depressing that I feel like I’ve been kicked in the stomach.
This is the coolest album ever (not to mention the coolest album cover) and was single-handedly responsible for me to pick up a bass guitar… I was 15 years old and had never voluntarily picked up any instrument, but Entwistle’s bass solo in “My Generation” caused me to obsess over the bass – and a bright red P-Bass clone that cost me $75.
When I was 16 the following year, I blew up my stereo speakers to Entwistle’s bass solo in “Trick Of The Light” – just too damn loud…
*sigh* R.I.P…
The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.
They’ve got flyers already, but what I really want is a t-shirt.
Part 2 of Kuro5hin’s acoustics series is now up.
A radio scanner enthusiast in the UK posted the frequencies for police and security forces on the web. Now he’s “imperiling national security” and there’s a drive to prohibit all scanners. Never mind the fact that the police could just have easily encrypted their communications.
On the anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, Pravda looks back.
As featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day (your #1 source for cool-looking desktop pictures).
What an amazingly cool idea! Taking a cue from the hobo-runes that trainhoppers used, warchalkers are creating a set of runes that indicate the presence of a wireless access point.
Craig “Peter Gunn” Stevens shows you how to fly a B-26 in this 1943 instructional movie. (RealPlayer format only, *sigh*)