Subversive Laundry

I LOVE this idea.

"Festival goers at a nationalist, right-wing concert in Germany were taken by surprise when souvenir t-shirts they were given had a secret anti-far right message that emerged only after being washed"

The slogan on the shirts first read "hardcore rebels" along with a skull and nationalist flags. But once washed the slogan turned into a message from a group offering help to right-wing extremists break away from the neo-Nazi scene.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-germany-shirts-idUSTRE7792CP20110810

The Nuclear Boy Scout

• Wed, 09:32: http://t.co/G6M5bj7

Twitter has shortened the URL, but if you follow it, it goes to the Wikipoedia entry for David Hahn. As an Eagle scout, David decided to obtain a sample of every element in the periodic table. The problem with this is that some of these elements are radioactive, and others require a nuclear reactor to generate.

Did I say problem? Not to David. He wrote to scientists to ask how one might obtain say, a tiny bit of tritium, and they obliged, saying that there were trace amounts used in gunsight manufacture, etc. By doing this, he obtained staggeringly rare elements in small volumes from household objects, and attempted to make a homemade reactor in a toolshed in his backyard to refine some of his elements into the even more exotic ones. Of course, he soon realized that this was incredibly dangerous, and tried to perform an orderly shutdown, but the cops discovered his activities during a routine traffic stop... And he ended turning his Mom's house into an EPA superfund site.

I put up the link to remind us all of how little things can get out of control, and how our intent to brush our teeth in the morning can lead to a hostage crisis in Hokkaido.