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Jet-Powered Luge Breaks World Speed Record
Crazy man/2006 UK Street Luge champ Joel King strapped a 90,000 rpm jet engine to his luge, reaching a top speed of 112 mph. This is part of the Airwaves Kick It Up program, where they apparently throw large amounts of jack at people who want to ‘Kick up’ what they do to the next…
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Super-Thin Televisions
Sharp has unveiled ‘experimental’ TVs that are just 20mm thick. That’s around 3/4 of an inch for the rest of us. The gallery at the link has some examples of how a TV that size could be mounted. I WANT.
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Nifty-keen Watch
But watch out for your bank account. :) It’s called the Tellurium J. Kepler Limited, and it costs over $100,000. Only 99 will be made.
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Best Flying Device 1974 Had to Offer
No Arthur, you’re very flying! There was a ‘Rocket Belt Conference’ held at the Niagara Falls Airbase, highlighted by Eric Scott flying around with his jetpack.
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Shirt.Woot Derby!
I felt good enough about something I drew in Inkscape to enter it in Woot’s current shirt derby. My entry is ‘Meat is Off the Menu’, a parody of The Punisher. :D
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Rant: Prefoamed Hand Soap
Prefoaming hand soap is the downfall of civilization. Seriously, when did people get so fracking lazy that they can’t make their own soap foam up? I don’t know about you, but I never stood in front of the sink in the bathroom thinking ‘You know, I’m having a hell of a time getting this soap…
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Milestones Met
Bonds, Glavine and A-Rod all took care of business since last I blogged. Well, Bonds tied but has yet to exceed Hank Aaron’s home run total.
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First Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales DVD Released
Woohoo! Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales is out today! It’s already #6 on the DVD sales chart at Amazon, which has the best price I’ve found so far. I must have it!!
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Milestone Night?
There are three milestones that could be bested in Major League Baseball tonight. Barry Bonds* goes for 755* and beyond*****, Tom Glavine is attempting to get his 300th win, and Alex Rodriguez is looking for his 500th home run. I’m probably most impressed by Glavine, unlike the incredibly inflating home run totals, 300 wins has…
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45 Best Freeware Design Programs
From classic favorites such as the GIMP and Inkscape to Dogwaffle Free, Terragen and Serif DrawPlus, this is a great collection of freeware Design software. If you want to get going on just about any sort of image editing/creation, but don’t want to shell out the big bucks for offerings from Adobe and the like,…
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
I should probably subtitle this “I’m what’s wrong with American filmgoers” but I loved this movie. The characters progressed from where they were in the first film, with the Human Torch surprising the heck out of me at the end. I did not think Sue was over the top as far as her bridal freakouts…
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Random Image!
We have Random Images on the front page, now. That’s all, I guess.