Raise your hand if you are the nephew of someone who did this while show-boating as a teenager. While practicing (for the 5th time) his quick draw interpretation, "BOOM!" the slug lodged in his holster as it bruised his thigh....he screamed like a girl (so goes the story from eyewitnesses during holidays) when he thought he'd been shot!! HA-HA FOR YOU, UNCLE!! "DUUUUUUuuuuuuRRRR!???"

Thanks for all of your kind comments! I managed to get onto a (fast-as-slugs!) proxy to check to see if some of my images had been sneaking through the cracks and... success! You can see my recent 'phonetography' on the tumblr blog I set up. I'll try to post things more as I find time to get to wifi zones. In the mean time, you can see a few recent images from my trip from http://scottricheyphoto.tumblr.com

Let me know what you think.


@zombieater: I didn't know you were from the East Coast. Nice to meet another Maritimer!

@chingalera match.com redirects to a Chinese version of the site. I can read nothing.

>> ^shagen454:

I think hands down my favorite FPS ever is System Shock 2 with Half-Life coming close.
My favorite games ever are all tied though. Planescape: Torment, Bladur's Gate 2, Fallout 1&2 and Alpha Centauri. Half Life and SS2 close and Homeworld close by to there, Thief close as well.
They certainly don't make FUCKING awesome games like they used to, everything is hand fed to a stupid gamer populous. I don't remember the last time I was challenged and simultaneously immersed in a game.


SS2 is the first only time I've ever been truly freaked out by a game.

I was walking, creeping more like, into a large storage room, when all a sudden I decide to turn around and a head-slugged dude apparently, silently, followed me out of the corridor I had just "cleared" and screamed "KIIILLLLLL MEEEE!!!!!" and fucked my shit up.

I actually screamed.

Lexx!
The first sci-fi series I watched continuously! It was showing on Norway's second government-run television channel, which had just been introduced and had really bad reception in our area. My parents didn't really approve of me watching such a freaky show, so I watched it in half secrecy in my attic bedroom on a 14-inch "portable" color TV older than myself. I had to constantly twiddle the antenna and the analog reception control to get a picture at all, and even then it would often revert to black and white because of the bad signal. I was completely fascinated, and the brain-eating slugs scarred me for life.

I feel old now.

Looked like a slug! That was cool as, bru

>> ^jonny:

No, it was not. nochannel health anatomy
>> ^JiggaJonson:
Come on guys, get with the program! This is what the Horrorshow channel was MADE for!

"bottom line, whatever makes you scream in the dark!"
-Horrorshow description
Other examples of horrorshow channel posts placed there for a similar reason (eg they make you squeemish/jump/scream in the dark):
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Nose-Maggots-They-re-Real
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/The-World-s-Most-Terrifying-Penises-The-Leopard-Slug
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/UK-Bus-Driver-gets-17-months-in-prison-for-hitting-cyclist
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Live-Birth-of-Hissing-Cockroaches
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/SHIT-Veterinarian-Pulls-Tons-Out-Of-Incision-In-Cows-Gut
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Why-you-shouldnt-sit-in-the-middle-seat
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Dinner-Time-For-Kitty-MOST-DIGUSTING-SIFT-EVER
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Cockroach-Inside-Human-Ear-Nice-Halloween-puke-Video
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Poo-muncher-caught-on-camera

And, more distinguishably similar to the medical procedure we see before us:
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/draining-a-gigantic-spider-bite
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Pullin-Teeth-Aint-All-Fun-And-Games
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Human-Bot-Fly-Removal-from-Eyelid
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Man-spends-6-years-injecting-silicone-into-his-PENIS
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Uncle-Chuck-Had-His-Eye-Removed
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Triple-Human-Botfly-removal
http://horrorshow.videosift.com/video/Pellet-rifle-nipple-piercing

(from YouTube)

Movies in order of appearance:

Halloween
Freddy VS. Jason
Resident Evil
The Amityville Horror
Night of the Demons
Christine
Shocker
From Dusk Till Dawn
Planet Terror
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The Thing
Alice Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Madman
The Shining
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Child's Play
28 Days Later
Psycho
Cemetery Man
Salem's Lot
Hellraiser II: Hellbound
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
Slither
Trick R Treat
Re-Animator
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Creepshow
American Psycho
Leprechaun
The Dark Half
The Hitcher
The Final Destination
Zombi 2
Audition
The Changeling
The Omen
Drag Me To Hell
The Crazies
The Ring
Jaws
The Descent
When a Stranger Calls
Dawn of the Dead
The Devil's Rejects
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Near Dark
Motel Hell
Carrie
Spontaneous Combustion
An American Werewolf in London
The Blair Witch Project
[REC]
Paranormal Activity
Day of the Dead
Cube Zero
Ichi the Killer
Dead Snow
The Machine Girl
Wrong Turn 2
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Black Sheep
Saw III
Freddy VS. Jason
Hatchet II
The Descent
Braindead (Dead Alive)
Day of the Dead
Troll 2
Shaun of the Dead
Phantasm
Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)
Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
C.H.U.D.
Baby Blood
Slugs
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight
Bride of Chucky
976-EVIL
Tremors
The Devil's Backbone
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A Tale of Two Sisters
Jeepers Creepers II
Basket Case
Alien
Cujo
Rosemary's Baby
Interview with the Vampire
Let the Right One In
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Scream
Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)
Ju-On (The Grudge)
House on Haunted Hill
Hostel
Candyman
Insidious
The Orphanage
Black Christmas
Pet Semetary
Fright Night
The Exorcist
Mother's Day
Scanners
The Shining
The Evil Dead
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Chopping Mall
Braindead (Dead Alive)

$2500 a year? Try $800 a course (science)

I'm glad they're fighting so they don't get to that point but hell, I can't feel sympathy still slugging at my Uni debt. I wish we had set annual fees, that would be amazing.

Ok.. imagine THIS but .. huge.

The magnetic rail is what accelerates the slug, at such high speeds that the impact itself causes an explosion

>> ^Pring4:

According to the logo, this project has aspirations of sending these rails from the arctic circle to anywhere in the world. I support this.


Hate to burst your bubble, but at earth's surface escape velocity the kinetic energy of a projectile is only 32 times its weight in TNT. With suborbital flights and resistance on reentry the effect would be considerably less than that. Wind during the ascent would throw it off farther than the destruction radius unless the slug was really huge (multiple tons) or they put in some internal guidance system that can survive the biggest EMP ever.

Actually Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has all your base!
They deal with ICMB prevention, space superiority, and cyberspace/telecommunication kill-switches. That's where the money goes these days, not to NASA.

>> ^vaire2ube:

no ordinance just slugs at such high velocity they destroy targets
lasers that can destroy flying objects
mechanical exoskeletons from Alien to help move cargo
the navy has all your base.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Rail guns have the potential to send payloads into orbit. The problem is that the acceleration is so sudden that anything besides a metal slug gets smooshed. The solution is to have a really long rail gun that provides more gentle acceleration. http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/02/railguns-for-space-launch.html

no ordinance just slugs at such high velocity they destroy targets

lasers that can destroy flying objects

mechanical exoskeletons from Alien to help move cargo

the navy has all your base.

Geez... I half expected Kristen to slug Ellen when she found out that she was kidding at the end.

@mxxcon is right in that there's no absolute reason this isn't possible. There's lots of exploits that start with malicious data, and exploit overflows or error conditions to trick the computer into executing data. This is obviously easier if you start with a digital file, but it wouldn't be impossible to create an analog object that when measured would create that equivalent file.

I mean obviously it would take a chain of crazy that's very, very long (and has nothing to do with fractals), but it's not absolutely impossible.

The target could perhaps be a set of values that are automatically calculated and that wouldn't be affected by things outside of the bad guy's control (random things like the orientation of bones for scanning). Perhaps (and bear with me on the crazy) there would be a set of measurements that are stored as a string, and the artifact could be crafted to have much larger values for those measurements (or more of that feature) than the buffer was prepared to receive. That's a very normal start for an exploit.

Having the surrounding data correspond to a valid popped address, and in turn having that point to runnable code would require either a lot of data, with very predictable quantization, stored consistently and together, or (more simply) omniscience.

Theoretical discussion aside, it was a vaguely clever idea very poorly executed. This is really, really bad for a police procedural. Honestly, though, it's still much better than what you get in sci-fi (eg. Warp 10 made us slugs, transporter fixed it, we're fine now so let's forget about Warp 10).