You see the darndest things for sale/trade on the Internet

Homemade cannon for sale or trade

The Armslist, a website devoted to the buying, selling, and trading of firearms and related stuff, has this ad from a creative amateur gunmaker from metro-Detroit. The man (?) wants to sell his homemade cannon for $2,000 USD or trade it for a 1911-style pistol. Heh. I wonder where you would have to go in order to test fire it?

Is off-shoring a national security threat?

Asks a poster at Slashdot. I'd say so. If your only source of water is a well on a moody or obnoxious neighbor's property that she allows you to utilize  for example, you'd be smart to drill your own well just in case. Because you never know what she's gonna do right? When it comes to taking care of you and yours it's best not to depend on whims and dictates of others.

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Counter-picketing the Westboro Baptist Church - LA Weekly

A funny photo collection of counter demonstrators dissing the religious kook cult known for hateful anti-gay demonstrations at military funerals.

Bio-Manufactured Bricks Can Be Made at Room Temperature From Bacteria, Sand and Urine - Popular Science

Term limits? F@$# that! -Skoop's Blog (Tim Skubick)

Michigan politicians that just won't go away.

Mobile remote data wiping technology thwarts law enforcement, hackers, phishers, thieves and snoops -ZDnet (via Slashdot)

So of course there's now talk to make it illegal.

What kind of sycophantic fan boy gets a corporate logo tattoo? - Tech Crunch

Apple isn't a company anymore; it's morphed into a techno-fetish cult group. Hell, they're not even a tech company anymore. Today they are actually a consumer appliance design company. The coolness is the hook; the tech is just an afterthought.

A review of a new Jack London biography - Wall Street Journal (Alexander Theroux)

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When the Army stopped Niagara Falls. - io9
The pictures from 1969 are amazing.
A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness - Escape Pod
A really interesting podcast about what it means to want what you want. NSFW
Detroit Board of Ed Chairman is a functional illiterate. - Detroit News (Laura Berman)
He even admits it too.
Random junk pieced together to make a city-wide WI-FI network - Gizmodo
"On the surface this is a tale of some clever University MacGyvers, a small place in Afghanistan, and a makeshift Wi-Fi network, but the greater idea is that people came together to provide a new method of communication to an area where Skype calls and quick Google searches weren't a common luxury. Sure, now the area is exposed to time wasters and Internet porn, but it's also been provided some new opportunities to learn and explore." How cool is that?