The New York Nerd

Drum roll please… Increase the penalties for employers. People hire illegal immigrants because there’s no risk to them, only upside. Start raiding worksites and issuing heavy fines, and we’ll see how fast people stop hiring them. As soon as there’s no work here, people will stop risking their lives to get here. As long as there continues to be work here, people will do whatever it takes to get here, it’s as simple as that.

But no politician really wants to stop illegal immigration, it would hurt the economy. What they want is to appear tough on the issue.

I have to warn you, this is graphic, but it is a well done photo essay of where steak comes from. It made me hungry, check it out.

An amazing new device known as a plasma converter may be the answer to our trash, pollution, and energy problems all rolled into one. New York City is going to be one of the first places to be utilizing this technology. Anything you put in gets obliterated. Critics fear the byproducts include heavy metals, but those claims seem to be unsubstantiated. Check it out!

The Nerd salutes you Mischa!

You peel both ends and then blow into it, here’s a 10 second video.

This is as powerful a public service announcement as you will ever see:

One float in Germany’s Rose Monday Parade depicted Bush getting spanked by Lady Liberty. Great pic:

Australia is banning the incandescent light bulb and moving the whole country over to compact flourescent by the year 2010. This will save a tremendous amount of energy and reduce greenhouse emmisions a great deal. The Nerd applauds you Australia, here’s more on this story.