Overnight Open Thread (19 Jul 2014)

So with the comic book industry trying to outdo each other with superhero gender/race reassignments, I'm assuming we find out next week that Wonder Woman will now be transgendered. Or a dwarf. Heck, maybe both.

Brandolini's Law

Heh. So true. Brandolini's Law.
h/t Maggie's Farm

Airliner Yankin' and Bankin'

Wallyworld Healthcare

Now Democrats will really, really hate Walmart. New Walmart care clinic launches in two South Carolina locations.

A Walmart spokeswoman told WIS a store in Florence, South Carolina and a handful in Texas will begin the pilot project called Walmart Care Clinic.

Employees will pay just $4, customers just $40 for access to medical care from screening and vaccinations to treatment of sicknesses and even chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.

Electric Bacteria

Wasn't something like this responsible for that show Revolution or something? Nothing good will come of this. It is doom I tell you, doom. Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy.

Unlike any other living thing on Earth, electric bacteria use energy in its purest form – naked electricity in the shape of electrons harvested from rocks and metals. We already knew about two types, Shewanella and Geobacter. Now, biologists are showing that they can entice many more out of rocks and marine mud by tempting them with a bit of electrical juice. Experiments growing bacteria on battery electrodes demonstrate that these novel, mind-boggling forms of life are essentially eating and excreting electricity.

Street Fighter

Drunken Russians edition.

Smarty Pins

Well you morons like maps and you like games/trivia so this just might be right up your alley. Google Maps tests your geography knowledge with 'Smarty Pins' game.

he concept is extremely simple: Google asks you a random trivia question about a specific city or country, and you're tasked with dropping a pin on the right spot. Players can pick between six categories that influence the line of questions they're given. These range from arts and culture to entertainment fodder, and it didn't take very long before we ran into a stumper.

Each player starts out with 1,000 "miles" which basically serve as your points. Drop the pin down on a right answer quickly and you'll get bonus miles. But if you're wrong, Google will look at just how far off your guess was and take away the distance in miles.

Vapshot

Vaping your booze. Check out the Vapshot. Now if I could just get this to load into my e-cig....

People Are Stupid

Remember that family that went sailing across the Pacific with their infant daughter that ran into trouble and needed rescuing? Well, instead of being thankful for being alive after endeavoring to win a Darwin Award, they decide to sue the satellite phone company because it was their fault they decided to sail across the pacific without adequate safety precautions or something.

Vajayjay Smuggling

TSA will get right on this. The down and dirty of vagina smuggling.

Home Stories

Houses built out of spite.

Purrkour

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