Overnight Open Thread (9-9-2012)

Yeah the pants are gonna go back on - but not until after the ONT party. 

The First 10 Minutes of Inglorious Basterds

In case you haven't seen any of the movie.

Always Room For Improvement

A safer grenade:

Israel has developed a hand grenade that is much less likely to explode when hit by a bullet. This was in response to an incident two years ago, when an Israeli army officer along with a nearby sergeant died when a Palestinian bullet hit and detonated a grenade the officer was carrying.

This had long been a risk when carrying grenades, but rarely was a grenade set off accidentally by a stray bullet, at least while the grenade was being carried by a soldier. But the Israeli Defense Forces Munitions Branch found that a small modification of the grenade design would make such accidental detonations almost impossible. The grenades still look, and operate the same way and all new ones will be manufactured with the new safety feature.

How You Will Be Hunted

When our robot overlords decide humans need to be culled.

Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [2011 comments] 'sven10077' [282.30 posts/day]
2 [490 comments] 'Adam'
3 [460 comments] 'Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney'
4 [385 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
5 [379 comments] 'toby928?'
6 [371 comments] 'steevy'
7 [366 comments] 'Christopher Taylor'
8 [339 comments] 'Vic'
9 [321 comments] 'Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks'
10 [300 comments] 'ThePrimordialOrderedPair'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [185 names] 'Adam' [25.97 unique names/day]
2 [109 names] 'JParker'
3 [97 names] 'limericking'
4 [72 names] 'The Political Hat'
5 [59 names] 'sven10077'
6 [56 names] 'Islamic Rage Boy'
7 [44 names] 'toby928?'
8 [44 names] 'obamaisntworking.com'
9 [42 names] 'AnonymousDrivel'
10 [39 names] 'Truck Monkey'

The group. Yeah.

Where it's at - the Twitter

Tonight's post brought to you by how to die:

Mexican rebel, Fortino Samaño, moments before being shot by a Federales firing squad in 1916.

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