Misc. Friday Ramblings...

• It's Photoshop Phriday.
  Enjoy some Video Game snacks.
  


• Battlestar Galactica Webisodes
  October 6th can't get here soon enough!
  


• How Superman should have ended.
  "Whenever you get a 'fly so fast it reverses time itself' gadget on your belt....let me know."
  


• The ultimate blogger headlines.
  

  FARK: Drunk frat boy in Florida has sex with underage donkey, sues Strong Bad for negligence. Still no cure for overused in-jokes.

  
  No nutsack squirrel or domokun reference? WTF?
  


• Star Trek turns 40.
  Live Long and Prosper indeed.
  


• Cell phones found inside four prisoners
  Can you hear me now? No, but your phone smells like sh!t.
  


• No signs of pro-immigrant voter boom.
  Rallies do not equal supporters. The vocal minority is still just a minority.
  


• Assault with a deadly doughnut.
  When doughnuts are outlawed, only outlaws will have doughnuts...and cops.
  


• What if a Paraglider lands in minefield?
  What if Barbie has a hand grenade?
  

Friday FIREPOWER!

• Robotic Frisbees of Death
  

  It ain't easy, picking out evil-doers in the urban canyons of the Middle East; there are so many places to hide. Taking 'em out can be even harder, what with all those noncombatants hanging nearby. But the Air Force thinks it might have an answer to this most vexing problem in counter-insurgency: frisbees.
  
  Not just any frisbees, mind you. Robotic frisbees. Heavily armed robotic frisbees.
  
  The Air Force recently tapped Triton Systems, out of Chelmsford, Mass, to develop such a "Modular Disc-Wing Urban Cruise Munition."
  
  "The 3-D maneuverability of the Frisbee-UAV [unammned aerial vehicle] will provide revolutionary tactical access and lethality against hostiles hiding in upper story locations and/or defiladed behind obstacles," the company promises.
  
  The circular drones will be lanuched "from munitions dispensers or by means of a simple mechanism similar to a shotgun target (skeet) launcher," Triton adds. Once in the air, they'll be tele-operated by soldiers on the ground. Or, if needed, the fightin' frisbees will pilot themselves as they hunt for guerrillas.
  
  Once they catch up to the baddies, the drones will use a series of armor-piercing explosives, shooting jets of molten metal, to eliminate their targets. And these MEFP [Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator] "warheads will be controllable so as to provide a single large fragment (bunker-buster) or tailorable pattern of smaller fragments (unprotected infantry or light utility vehicles)." The decision of whether to go bunker-buster or infantry-annihilator mode can either be determined by the drones' human operators, "or autonomous target classification routine built into the UAV."

  
  So, they are going to program the drones to hunt on their own? I'm sure a Skynet project isn't too far behind.
  


• Bullets.
  One (imho, wrong) opinion:
  
  Another (imho, right) opinion:
  
  So how do you view the world?