Friday, November 30, 2007
History of Fantasy Football
Football taking over for baseball as the national pastime in the US can be directly attributed to Gambling and Fantasy. But where did fantasy football come from? What unheralded genius is responsible for making every Sunday afternoon from September to January a national holiday? His name is Wilfred Winkenbach....
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Firemen Being Trained to Report Citizens Unhappy with the US Government
Why firemen? Because they can enter your property without a warrant, for inspections, etc... // Next up: Firemen will be trained to carry flamethrowers, find banned books... // Note to any firemen: _thank_you_ for doing your real job, saving lives. Being discontent with creeping fascism doesn't threaten society, but it does threaten the fascists...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World! [PIC]
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today.It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Each cylinder is 1820 litres!
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Senate Bill 1959 Will Effectively End Free Speech
If this bill becomes law, your words & actions could be considered terrorism. IT EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an “extremist belief system”, instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, & no ability to challenge it.
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Rolling Stone: Ron Paul: A Republican Takes the Lead Against the War
His anti-war stance has not only helped him bank more campaign cash than Iraq-backer John McCain, it has garnered him more contributions from military families than any candidate in the race.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Map of Proposed High Speed Train Corridors for U.S.
With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and maglev lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads. Interactive map shows where high speed trains would run, and the chart compares efficiency and eco-friendliness high speed trains vs. planes and automobiles.
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The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses
If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now. It turns out, the Bible is already chock full of ass kicking.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile. In it, Mnookin paints the 68-year old Morris as a crotchety executive who's upset that he can't focus more on simple product and artist development because he's too busy worrying about iPods, MP3s, etc
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Monday, November 26, 2007
The Sound of Inevitability
So, the people of the United States have good reason to be dissatisfied with their government. Yet no-one is really doing anything. The population of the 21st century has become dulled by entertainment. We hear people vocalizing the need to stand up and make change on television, radio, and on the web, but there is no action.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Rudest Interview Ever on Fox News with Author of 'End of America'
Naomi Wolfe visited The Factor to talk about her book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. John Kasich, guest host for Bill O'Reilly, nervously interviewed the author and did his best to keep Wolfe from explaining the premise of her book. Just watch how he treats her like garbage for several minutes, and how she puts up with i
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Ron Paul Politely Calls FOX on Their Stacked Audience VIDEO
Ron Paul very plainly says that if he had tickets for his supporters, the audience reaction would have been different.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The End of America?
Naomi Wolf warns that history occurs in patterns, and in order to understand where our country is today and where it is headed, we need to read the history books. She lays out the 10 steps that dictators (or aspiring dictators) take in order to shut down an open society.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
New Cloverfield trailer on Apple in HD
Now you don't have to go see Beowulf to see a good quality version of this trailer. From Apple movie trailers.
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Ralph Lauren and his Bugatti Veyron
You've gotta understand, this is a 1.2 million dollar car that can do 0-200 in about 22 seconds.
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Optical Illusion: A Person in the Picture
If you move further away from the screen, you will see a person in this picture.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Is the Digital Music Revolution a Return to the 1930s?
In many respects, the current state of music resembles the 1930s and 1940s… returning to EPs and singles, fewer LPs, and a growth in live entertainment. If so, we may be poised for a rebirth of creativity. Much like the early radio stations using music to sell soap, blogs use Mp3s to sell advertisement.
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Confused Seal Keeps Getting Lost (W/Cute/Pic)
The poor little thing keeps swimming in the wrong direction to find it's mate.
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Photos From French Nuclear Test, 1970
These are four scanned pictures of hardcopies I possess of the French nuclear test codenamed Licorne, which was fired on August 24, 1970
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Halburton concentration camps being built for "new programs" of Bush.
This should be headline news but then again the Bush regime never ceases to amaze me.Over 600 concentration camps have been or are being built around the US and Cheney's company conveniently won a 385 million dollar contract to make even more.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory of Everything
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which as received rave reviews from scientists.
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Ever Wonder Why Your Internet Went Down? // Pic
If this is real I would have to be paid alot of money to be working for I.T. there.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
The 5 Worst Invasive Species in the World
Invasive species are out of control all around the world -- here's the top five worst culprits that have caused the most damage to the environment and the economy.
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Asteroid 'Is Actually A Spacecraft'
A supposed asteroid, which it was feared was going to have a near-miss with Earth next week, has been identified as a spacecraft.
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What can $611 billion buy? - (Photo Slideshow)
If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group. The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy?
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
When the Patient Is a 'Googler'....
We had never met, but as we talked on the phone I knew she was Googling me. The way she drew out her conjunctions, just a little, that was the tip off — stalling for time as new pages loaded. It was barely audible, but the soft click-click of the keyboard in the background confirmed it. Oh, well, it's the information age...
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Pilots to have ‘Terminator’ helmets
Futuristic new helmets will enable fighter pilots to see through the fuselage of their aircraft.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Wild deer jumps into polar bear tank at Pittsburgh Zoo
Some smart deer jumped into a tank of Polar bears and gets away without being killed. He did how ever die after jumping in the cold water!
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Friday, November 09, 2007
$4,950 to Join LA's Most Exclusive New Bar
Good news: it's right across the street from Staples Center, so you can drink after you boo Kobe. Also they hate celebutantes, brown-nosers, cell phones, and Red Bull. Bad news: they want your money, your credit card number and your photo - now.
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People With the Highest IQ
I decided to mosey on over to the Interwebs and find a list of people with the highest IQ ever measured, and lo and behold I couldn’t find one! So for the sake of future searchers, I compiled the following information. Enjoy.
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Watch the amount of skin/cleveage FOX News shows in the name of news (SFW)
Gloria Steinem: "Fox News shows more sexualized violence and humiliation than probably any other network -- all in the name of condemning it -- while under-showing violence in Iraq, all in the name of supporting it. After this video, smart viewers and advertisers will boycott Fox."
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"Dude, You're Getting a Dell" dude now a waiter ... dude, where's my drink?
Ben Curtis, famous just a few years ago as "Steven the Dell Dude," is now a waiter / bartender at Tequila Flats in New York. Although the Steven ads were hugely popular and generated tons of buzz (and revenue) for Dell, the company eventually dropped the campaign after Ben got arrested for buying pot in 2003.
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24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
Since Fox will not be airing a new season of "24" due to the writers' strike, they plan to air this version, originally filmed in 1994.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
What Really Happened At The X-Wing Launch
The Totally unedited video of the X-Wing rocket launch, and what really happened to it.
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Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons
Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.
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Motion Activated Sprinkler Vs Pigeons
Are you sick of pigeons crapping all over your pool or backyard? Are plastic owls not getting the job done? It might be time to try the motion activated sprinkler defense system.
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Debt Collector Addresses Notice To "SHIT FACE"
Collection agency addresses collection notice to "SHIT FACE." The letter begins, "Dear SHIT..." Below a line where the debtor is supposed to sign, the pejorative again appears. Best of all, the debt is only $16.39, for Columbia House (purveyors of fine 1cent for 624,215 CD offers).... Unreal.
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57 Wine Experts Mistook Red-Dyed White Wine For Red Wine
Brochet invited 57 wine experts and asked them to give their impressions of what looked like two glasses of red and white wine. The wines were actually the same white wine, one of which had been tinted red with food coloring. But that didn't stop the experts from describing the "red" wine in language typically used to describe red wines.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Tesla Coils Playing Mario Bros. Theme song... Unsurprisingly Awesome
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Most pay $0.00 for Radiohead's In Rainbows
Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, "In Rainbows," and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.
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The Dollar is Dead, Next the Country ... Yes it Can Get Worse alot Worse
The euro, worth 83 cents in the early George W. Bush years, is at $1.45. The British pound is back up over $2, the highest level since the Carter era. The Canadian dollar, which used to be worth 65 cents, is worth more than the U.S. dollar for the first time in half a century. Oil is over $90 a barrel. Gold, was $260/ounce not long ago, now $800
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Girlfriend v7.0 vs. Wife v1.0 - A Geek's Version of the Story! [Humor]
Here’s a funny joke that was sent to me via email. I apologize for sending people to my blog, but this was was the only place I could think of putting it. Enjoy your weekend :)
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Girl said 'like' too many times... So I jammed her cell phone
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Say goodbye to Blockbuster ( I'll miss those late fees..Not)
It looks like the bottom has finally fallen out of Blockbuster. After numerous failed attempts at attracting new customers, the company has finally bit the bullet and is spiraling out of control. Sad as it is, the end is near for Blockbuster and all that pressure it has been placing on Netflix has been lifted.it has closed 526 stores
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The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time!
My fav: "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." — Michael Dell in October 1997 or "The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks." — Matthew Lynn, in Bloomberg after the January announcement.
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It looks like Airships are making a comeback... sweet!
I love all those games and sci-fi movies with Airships. Now it looks like they are making a comeback, I would love to float across the countryside in one of these bad boys. Maybe a day long trip down the coast to some villa.
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World Map with Countries Distorted to Represent Relative Population [pic]
What the world would look like if population determined the size of the countries. Guess who's the biggest, and no, its not Antarctica.
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Gorgeous Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Dock Replacement! [w/pics!]
If you have Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and dislike the look of the dock, but not enough to go all the way back to the old 2D configuration, you may want to check out this quick, clever tweak to the dock. This novice-grade hack makes the dock jet-black, highly reflective, and in most cases, much less obtrusive than Apple's variant.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
‘Heroes’ Actress Caught in Clash at Japanese Dolphin Slaughter Site
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO. "It was really frightening. But in the end all we really worried about was the dolphins."
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