X-Rays blasting from the tape dispenser!
Who here hasn’t used Scotch Tape to do impromptu X-Rays when creating unholy monsters in the laboratory? This is a simple trick employed by mad scientists across the globe, until one of them blabbed. Now I bet they will change the formula. Good going, blabber! I have to stock up on lots of Scotch Tape, too bad that when it yellows it gets 10% less effective. Don;t they know a recession is on? That even effects my wallet, as my trade in bizarre animal hybrids is down 50%. Thus I create less hyena men, as the current number of hyena men is more than enough than needed at evil lair employment hotspots. Luckily, I am starting a Goon Temp Agency to rent out employees of the crazed hybrid variety for temporary assignment to crazed madmen around the globe. I expect it will be quite popular with evil masterminds looking to cut costs and headcount reports. Then I can buy more Scotch Tape.Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape
By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer – Wed Oct 22, 7:33 pm ET
NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Who knew? Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says.
….He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.
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In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.
That’s where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.
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Upcoming movie news – 9th Circle of Hell edition
Don’t you ever think movies are just too high quality, and maybe we need more horrible stuff at the box office? Because Hollywood is there to rescue you!Kung Fu Magoo:
When supervillain Tan-Gu invites the world’s most notorious bad guys to his island fortress to compete in an Olympic-style tournament of evil, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. For the Anti-Evil Task Force there’s only one man who can stop Tan-Gu and save mankind: Kung Fu Magoo!
This feature length film stars the beloved Mr. Magoo and his 12 year-old nephew Justin as they dodge giant robotic spiders, ninjas on jet skis, and Tan-Gu’s mutant “Beasteens” (half animal, half teenage girl!) — and that’s before the Evil-lympics even begin! With competitions like the 100-meter Destructive Rampage, Laser Cage Wrestling, and the Evil Egg and Spoon Race, Justin must work double-time to help his uncle stay in the competition and avoid danger at every turn.
Featuring the voices of: Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Alyson Stoner, Chris Parnell and a special guest appearance by Kenny Mayne.
Great, the no-talent Sprouse twins from the Disney Channel aren’t doing the only thing they are good at, double suicide.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 is also likely. Mother Frak!
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel comes out Dec. 25 of 2009
July 2, 2010 will see the release of Ramona, based on those books you read as a kid.
And do you like the old Greek story The Odyssey? Well, like it in space starring Brad Pitt!
Brad Pitt is going for a Homer run, signing on to star in a big-screen adaptation of The Odyssey, following up his star turn in 2004′s Troy, an adaptation of the Greek poet’s other major work, The Iliad. This time around, the take won’t be quite as faithful to the text—according to Variety, the new version will take place in a futuristic setting in outer space.
It is true, God hates you.
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Future Cops coming soon!
Wong Jing will be directing Future Cops starring Andy Lau later this year.Wait, you say, didn’t he direct Future Cops with Andy Lau in 1992? Yes he did! Except this is a different Future Cops, who’s actual title is Future Cops (1992′s Future Cops literal translation was actually Super School Overlord)
Variety clears up the matter
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Director Wong Jing is teaming up with martial arts choreographer Ching Siu Tung on a loose remake of Future Cops, produced by Tsai Sung Lin. Future Cops (tentative) is budgeted at 150m yuan and Andy Lau and Barbie Hsu are playing leads. Andy Lau agrees to joining only after the script went through 19 revisions, and also picks Barbie Hsu, who showed excellent performance in Connected, as his co-star.
19 rewrites of the script. I smell quality!
The girl will be Barbie Hsu:
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New Review – Bikini Airways
Another Bikini film gets reviewed, because they are just too much fun!
Bikini Airways! Complete with clip and way too much plot analysis, as usual!
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Rudy Ray Moore is dead!
He’s fucking up mother fuckers in heaven now. Rudy Ray Moore died on October 19th from diabetes complications. It is a sad day. The only bright spot is there is still a new Dolemite movie coming out eventually, The Dolemite Explosion!
Dolemite will never die!
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Free Hulk RiffTrax~!
There is a free RiffTrax of an episode of The Incredible Hulk from the folks at RiffTrax.com, synced up for your pleasure thanks to Hulu! You have no excuse not to watch!
Watch it, you pansies!
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Star Trek XI movie photos shotgunned across the web
Entertainment Weekly is getting an exclusive look at the new Star Trek reboot, complete with exclusive photos. To celebrate, photos have been given to six websites, one apiece, to drive up the hype/noise. These pictures are problematic IMHO for several reasons, most notably that they killed most of my enthusiasm. And the road to box office success runs through TarsTarkas.NET!Most of the photo descriptions I will leave to the respective websites, but some are self-explanatory. And I saved the nerd rage until the end, so you can skip it if you don’t care.
Prepare yourself for a torrent of photos that you have probably seen reprinted all over the web:
EW cover:
UPDATE: FULL ARTICLE LINK
UGO photo:
Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Kirk (Chris Pine), Scotty (Simon Pegg), McCoy (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho), and Uhura (Zoe Saldana)
Other photos:
The Enterprise:
New USS Kelvin picture:
debuts in theaters May 8, 2009
New Trailer will be with Quantum of Solace November 14th
Nerd crap: Black uniform is stupid, the new bridge looks like an iPod store, Chris Pine has a gigantic forehead, the photo of Spock attacking looks like Sylar is about to feed on Kirk’s brain, Chekov’s hair is dumb, Chekov shouldn’t even be there, the cloth pattern on the uniforms is annoying (and is supposedly the Star Trek symbol, but who cares?)
This looks just different enough to tick off loyal fans while being annoying enough to turn off new people. Hooray. JJ Abrams may have made a worse film than Nemesis!
I’ll wait until the full trailer until I dismiss it completely. There is still hope.
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