- It's Photoshop Phriday.
Mixed up game titles. - Best Martial Arts scenes.
Fist of Legend and Ong Bak. Get them. - Merry Christmas from Lawdog.
St. Nich kicks perp ass and still delivers the goods. - The Wii manual is crazy.
Do not lay out a Wii for homeless Japanese citizens. They should clean themselves up and get a job like an honorable salaryman.
- Great job for New Zealanders: Condom Tester.
Hate to be the one to test the bad batch. - Beaverton Proposes Fake Gun Ban.
Key words are "in public areas". Just trying to prevent an accidental shooting from occurring, thus the department getting sued. - World's smallest ankle biter.
The portal mini-chihuahua, now with twice the nervousness for half the functionality. - Number Six in playboy next month.
Could be the start of a great series, the women of Battlestar Galactica. Oooh, put Grace Park next!
Friday FIREPOWER!
- Maps to local shooting ranges.
Just in case you ever need to know. - Using silly string to detect tripwires.
In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq.
Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.
The military is reluctant to talk about the use of Silly String, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents.
But Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said Army soldiers and Marines are not forbidden to come up with new ways to do their jobs, especially in Iraq's ever-evolving battlefield. And he said commanders are given money to buy nonstandard supplies as needed.
In other cases of battlefield improvisation in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have bolted scrap metal to Humvees in what has come to be known as "Hillybilly Armor." Medics use tampons to plug bullet holes in the wounded until they can be patched up.
Also, soldiers put condoms and rubber bands around their rifle muzzles to keep out sand. And troops have welded old bulletproof windshields to the tops of Humvees to give gunners extra protection. They have dubbed it "Pope's glass" — a reference to the barriers that protect the pontiff.
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.
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