https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjd9pBmLoU
― gangsta hug (omar little), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/varstg:@field(NUMBER(0836))
― gangsta hug (omar little), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
were they listening to CKY on cylinders
― lesbian book store (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
this has been all over bike dork message boards :-/
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
cool, tho, don't get me wrong
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
You spend your life railing against the "there is nothing new under the sun" ideology and then something like this comes along.
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link
from 1899
― funky house sceptic system (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lolling @ the always impressive "fall repeatedly off of bike, sometimes painfully onto a chair" trick
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this the only thread ilx has to appreciate Thomas Edison? Dude invented everything.
Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.
NDB, just recorded music, electric cars, light bulbs, and motion pictures.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Edison_and_phonograph_edit1.jpg/476px-Edison_and_phonograph_edit1.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This is rather unfortunate, though:
As part of this campaign, Edison's employees publicly electrocuted animals to demonstrate the dangers of AC;[44][45] alternating electric currents are slightly more dangerous in that frequencies near 60 Hz have a markedly greater potential for inducing fatal "cardiac fibrillation" than do direct currents.[46] On one of the more notable occasions, in 1903, Edison's workers electrocuted Topsy the elephant at Luna Park, near Coney Island, after she had killed several men and her owners wanted her put to death.[47] His company filmed the electrocution.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I do like this though:
In an October 2, 1910, interview in the New York Times Magazine, Edison stated: Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.[74]
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.[74]
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, Thomas Edison.