born on state highway 1

Today is Nikola Tesla’s birthday, which is why Google’s all Tesla-coiled up.

I would go into how awesome he is, but I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do better than Badass of the Week’s hagiographic biography. Factual accuracy optional.

One time, while he was working on magnetic resonance, he discovered the resonant frequency of the Earth and caused a fucking earthquake so powerful that it almost obliterated the 5th Avenue New York building that housed his Frankenstein Castle of a laboratory.  Shit was flying off the walls, the drywall was breaking apart, the cops were coming after him, and Tesla had to smash his device with a sledge hammer to keep it from demolishing an entire city block.