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I first heard a bit of the Irish traditional “Molly Malone” as a bit of parody by comedian Alan Sherman. Now comes Sinead O’Connor to sing it as it should be sung.
Fair warning: have the tissues ready, or a hand to hold, or a child to hug.

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Tip o’ the hat to Breda.

I poked around on Youtube after that, and found…lots more, after the jump:
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[update: Saturday. OK, I'm tired of it now.]

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Tickets for the Pink Camo Breast Cancer Stag-15 Rifle are on sale at FBMG:

This Stag has been Duracoated in the oh so pretty pink camo job and is being raffled off to aid the fight against breats cancer. ALL procedes from this raffle will go to the breast cancer research effort at the American Cancer Society. FBMG has donated the firearms and our smith donated the effort and materials. We will announce the raffle at the 3rd Annual Machinegun shoot on October 4th. There is no limit to the number of tickets you may purchase. If you live in a prohibitted state, you may still enter, but we obviously can not ship the gun to you so you would need to make other arraingements. When you purchase a ticket, we will take your entry information and fill out a raffle ticket for you and place it in the jar. If you win we will call you the day of the shoot and inform you of your good fortune. Thanks for entering and good luck!

Per Larry Coreia at Monster Hunter Nation:

Tickets are $5 each.  They can be ordered in person at FBMG, online at:
http://www.fbmginc.com/Breast-Cancer-Raffle-AR-15_p_1-8969.html
via paypal at slg2qcorreia@yahoo.com, or over the phone at
(801) 571-1160.  Tickets will be on sale until October 4th.

[update]
Finally remembered to buy four tickets for myself.

Update:

• Raffle tickets are five bucks each. Call FBMG at 801-571-1160 to order.
• Paypal arrangements in the works.
• Raffle winners to be announced on 4 October.

Go here for pictures and more information as it becomes available.

My penis is not big enough or stiff enough to use in self-defense, and accordingly, I must accept my pathetic weakling status and own guns to compensate.

Preferably the biggest, longest, loudest, blackest guns I can get, right?

If someone asks whether I think they should buy a gun, I say, ‘Do you care if it’s pink?’ If you have a good and legitimate reason to own and carry a gun as a tool…then it shouldn’t matter if it’s pink.

If you’re buying it for machismo reasons, as a penis extender - which some people do - then you won’t want to own a pink gun. If it matters that it’s pink, don’t buy it.

As I responded at the time:

So long as it’s pink, it can be any gun I want, any caliber, any magazine capacity, any rate of fire? (By your analogy, the bigger the better, yes?) Carried open or concealed? (You wouldn’t want me to “open carry” my penis, would you?) No training, licensing, or registration required? (I know some folks think all males should be registered at birth as sex offenders, but you’re not that sexist, are you?)

All that in trade for some pink Duracoat?

Woo hoo! I’m ready, baby!

Well, hey boy howdy, how about a pink gun for a pink cause: Breast Cancer!

…We decided to take a Stag 15 and paint it pink, then raffle it off for Breast Cancer Research.  I took the gun back to my smith (www.gundoctor.wordpress.com) and told him what we were doing. He volunteered to do the Duracoating, but said that if he was going to do it, he was going to make it nice.  Turns out Joe’s family has been through this too.

Is that gun pink enough for you, you filthy little gun-fearing pants-shitting coward?

Or is that pink ribbon right there in front of the trigger still not speaking enough truth to my penis?

Lovely graphic simulator of the effects of gravity on the universe, from simple two-body problems to colliding galaxies.
The Universe Sandbox.

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Less than a decade ago, this was the province of room-sized supercomputers. Now available on your desktop.

I do so dearly love living in the future, although unfortunately, I haven’t been able to try this out for myself since it’s Windows-only. I have got to get around to setting up Wine or dual-boot.

Link from frequent commenter Chanda via email.

Trailer for the upcoming Mythbusters episode debunking the myth that the moon missions were a giant hoax:

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[via Bad Astronomy]

I don’t have a laptop, but I still think this is cool:

This is the adapter for Logitech’s VX Nano Cordless mouse. Its tiny profile reduces the risk that it will catch on something and either break off or crowbar your laptop open.

Via Fred Gallagher, who needs to be working on the comic, darn him.

…And my kitchen. Hm, maybe the living room would look good in tile.

Whatever. As long as I have a good excuse to get me one a these:

ring-bladed saw with mirrored table

I really like the ring-blade idea. Very clever.

Plus: “The Ring Blades”. Great name for a rock-n-roll band that plays wedding gigs, ne?

…Woozy with the Happy Flu!

I got my case from Tamara, just standing on her porch. The view from there is worth it, though, and she’s got cool toys.

While checking into this Slashdot story about a guy who beat a speeding ticket using data from the GPS tracker his parents installed in his car, I found this story about another kid who’s using a Hot Wheels toy radar gun to pop speeders in his neighborhood. I’m guessing the gun trips their radar detectors, and…

Wait a minute.

Hot Wheels Radar Gun?

Yeah buddy. It’s real, and you can get one through Amazon for about $40. Forty bucks for an honest to Marconi 10+ GHz radar gun.

Here’s a quick intro into how to hack it: how it works, how to take it apart, how to use it for other things.

I’ve got to wonder: if the police radar gun could be beaten in court by the GPS, maybe their guns aren’t any more sophisticated than this.

Warning to the cops: You are not the only ones with the cool toys anymore. You watch us…but we watch you back.

Don’t like it?

Well, as you guys like to say when we complain about red-light cameras, searches, wire taps, and the like, “What have you got to hide?”

I assume everyone here has already seen the latest from xkcd, right?

I shouldn’t have to link to it; I should just be able to assume that you have of course seen it, and incorporate it into the discussion with no more than the merest eyebrow flicker.

Right?

Because if you don’t get xkcd, I mean seriously get it, and religiously check for each and every brilliant diamond flake, I’m not sure we can be friends anymore. (Fine, exception for those with chronic, clinical cases of geekiness deficiency, but who still manage to somehow put up with me. Hi, Mom!)

Today’s punchline simply wouldn’t work if xkcd were done in a less…schematic style. Munroe is making very wise use of the few lines he allows himself. This is almost as pure as comic art gets. Next step, no dialog.

His ongoing use of the HTML ALT tag, to provide an extra bit of text on mouse-over, is nothing short of brilliant. He’s got his medium, simple as it is, down cold.

I’m gonna pretty much stop linking to it, because it’s just too damn tempting to simply become an xkcd mirror site.