Archive for April, 2008

Deal or no deal (TV show)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

(I’ve watched it before a couple times)… and don’t understand why people who got a ‘deal’ for anything over 100,000 didn’t take it. So I researched the probability to conclude my theory…

At the beginning of Deal or No Deal, the contestant is presented with 26 suitcases that contain the amounts shown in the image above, [...]

E-bomb

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

STORY ART BY JEFF BAKER
In this Dr. Strange love world of pushbutton warfare, the Electronic Bomb, or “E-bomb,” is the latest weapon of choice, An e-bomb is an electronic magnetic pulse device delivered to it’s target in payloads of magnetic strips, generating an electromagnetic fields intense enough to knock out electronic equipment and devices of [...]

Hammer Juggling King!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Andy Warhol

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Andy Warhol
Guns, 1981-1982
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
In the early 1980s Andy Warhol painted a variety of iconic objects, including guns, knives, and crosses. Warhol rejected the idea that his work functioned as [...]

80,000 jobs slashed in March ‘08

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

In March ‘08 the unemployment rate rose from 4.8 to 5.1 percent. Gas prices are on pace to double since last year. Lenders aren’t lending anymore. Students at private colleges can’t get loans because the banks stopped offering and government loans don’t cover the rising cost of a college education. Car companies like Mercedes, BMW [...]