After BART shut down cell service in response to a protest last week over the death of a man whom BART cops shot, hacktivists Anonymous responded with a protest of their own. The hackers and hundreds of others got together and marched in protest from station to station as police in riot gear ran to responded to the peaceful demonstration.

The UN goes mental when Egypt, Iran, Syria, or any other oppressive regime shuts down cell service. The UN is the first group to rightly oppose this type of action… unless of course the US wants to do it to its own citizens.

As mentioned in the following speech, the first thing BART cops did after shooting man in back? Confiscate video of the shooting..  even before alerting medics.

From Futility Closet: Patent #4150505 for a Bird trap and cat feeder, issued on April 24, 1979

Why spend money on cat food when there’s a more immediate solution? Leo Voelker’s 1979 invention simultaneously curbs the local sparrow population and keeps the local cats occupied.The birds enter the housing at the top but can escape only through the mesh cage at the bottom, which serves as a kind of self-serve food dispenser for neighborhood cats.

“The cat feeder by its design is self-cleaning since the cat quickly learns to remove the sparrow from the cage.”

Patent for a combination sparrow-catcher / cat-feeder

Today I learned that if you really, really, really like whipped cream (and I am not implying that this product can be used for any other purpose), you can buy 50-packs of Whippets for $99,999 on Amazon (Regular price: $28.99). Put me down for three, thanks.

Whip-It! Brand: The original; Reflecting over 60 years of manufacturing expertise. Food grade N2O is used as a propellant for whipping cream, which dissolves in the liquid cream. As the cream is released from the whipper, the gas expands and in doing so whips the cream into foam.