Month April 2009

Anti-pirate water cannons

Via The Coming Anarchy, who notes the Pirate Safe Water Cannon pushes four times more gallons per minute than similar firefighter equipment. A commenter there notes that a minute or two would probably be enough to sink most Somali pirate…

Mormon crickets hate heavy metal

Rock music blaring from boomboxes has proved one of the best defenses against an annual invasion of Mormon crickets. “The theory was they’d hate heavy metal,” Ms. Parks says. Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy!