My next car

by 53X11 on August 22, 2010

Found this on You Drive What? (link here)

All I know is that if I had this I would drive around with my mastiff every day.

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Most complex clock in the world

by 53X11 on August 12, 2010

Wired has a story up about the most complex clock in the world, built by Jaquet-Droz to celebrate the 1774 “robot” built with clock works by Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The new creations writes the time and cost about $371K to build. Full Piece Here

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New Ansel Adams Prints?

July 28, 2010

CNN.com has a nice piece up about some new Ansel Adams prints that may (big MAY) have been discovered. It seems that a guy bought some glass negatives at a yard sale, kept them around for a few years (under his pool table), and then realized they may be pretty valuable. A LA art dealers [...]

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Value and Worth

July 26, 2010

As I was driving home today, I was noticing all the political signs in yards. Don’t worry, I am not going to try to sway anyones votes, I just was noticing them as I was driving. Anyway, it made me think about how every election we seem to be ask if we want to raise [...]

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The Daily Kos / The Angry Mouse on Guns

July 11, 2010

On July 4th, The Daily Kos had a very interesting post up by the Angry Mouse on why liberals should support the Second Amendment. Full Post here

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Light Saber Knockoff’s or Just Light Fun

July 8, 2010

Lucas films is requesting that a Hong Kong based firm called Pro Arctic Laser pull their product series called “Wicked Lasers” from the market due to their resemblance to lightsabers used in the Star Wars movies. Lucas Films holds the trademark to the design, look and name of the lightsaber. Pro Arctic Laser’s claim that [...]

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Cheater, cheater

July 8, 2010

The NY Times had an article on the trends / steps in high school and college – focusing on Central Florida University and turnitin.com – to stop cheating (full story here). Since I have not seen a classroom in almost 20 years this kind of stuff was really interesting to me. I knew cheating was [...]

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30 second theories

July 8, 2010

The Daily Mail had a nice post up on June 26th that summarized 10 theories (Quantum Field Theory and The Finite Universe just to name two) in just a few paragraphs. This is a nice way to get a jump start on understanding some relatively complex ideas. Even if you don’t agree with, or even [...]

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USA Vs Ghana in Lego’s

June 27, 2010

Found this online and wanted to share it. A German speaking blog where the world cup games are done in Lego’s. The USA vs Ghana (from earlier today) is here. Very cool record for a very sad event.

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The Gospel Filled Wallet – A review

June 24, 2010

Jeff Weddle of anti-itch meditation recently completed his first book – The Gospel Filled Wallet – for Transforming Publishing. Milton Stanley, one of the bloggers I read / respect most, of Transforming Sermons is the owner of Transforming Publishing and sent me a copy of Jeff’s book to review. I was honored to do so [...]

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A BIG MOVE

June 18, 2010

I first heard about this big move this AM on the radio, tonight I found a story on WBIR about it. It seems that a 23 foot wide and 250+ long steam generator,and a cadre of support vehicles, is moving from the Forks of The River to a St Paul, Virginia. That is a 170 [...]

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Photoshop’n the news

June 8, 2010

Reuters has been busted again for photoshop’n a image. It is becoming harder and harder to believe the news and what we are seen. This time they took a knife and a blood pool out of a picture showing “peaceful” Palestinian’s confronting and holding Israeli Security Forces hostage. Full story at Little Green Footballs here.

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Why Facebook is killing the world’s soul

June 7, 2010

Today, I logged into Facebook (FB) to only be offered the following – Understand I don’t play trumpet, I don’t have anything about Trumpet’s on my facebook page, heck I am not even sure I have even said the word trumpet out loud since going to a concert where a friend’s girlfriend played trumpet in [...]

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Crop Circles

May 16, 2010

White Trash Repairs has a picture up of an idea I wish I had had for mowing. Post here

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Worst Jersey’s of All Times

May 13, 2010

Bleach Reports has a little story up with a slide show of the worst sport uniforms of all times. Overall I agree with their picks, though in my view nothing is as bad as the TN Titans (the Oilers in bad uniforms – still are, always will be). Really 5 shades of blue on ONE [...]

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Hold On, Hold Out

May 12, 2010

Over the last year I have been laid off, been subpoenaed three times (two different cases, fortunately neither involve anything I have done), had to testify in front of a grand jury, drawn unemployment, found a job when jobs were hard to find and in the process taken a job for 10K less then I [...]

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Nerds V Facebook

May 12, 2010

The New York Times has a post up today about 4 nerds, a bit of funding, a dream and possibly the first serious volley against centralized social networks like Facebook. Bottomline, 4 nerds heard a talk about how centralized social networks basically are opt in spy for free services which allow volume’s of private information [...]

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Docs instead of Office 2010

May 11, 2010

PC World has a interesting piece up discussing Google’s idea to suggest Enterprises / Corporations stay on their current version of Office (instead of upgrading to Office 2010) and begin to use / integrate Google Docs into their infrastructure as a means of web / cloud / shared components. Google’s idea is centered around the [...]

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Jobs on non Apple items

April 6, 2010

Well Gizmodo has a very funny post up with photoshop’d images of Steve Jobs introducing NON Apple products. Full Post here Number 28 is my favorite.

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Proximity Charging

March 28, 2010

Looks like someone (the Korean’s in this case) has developed a means of proximity charging (charging batteries without cables) in a larger scale then cell phone batteries. In this case it is a trolley at the zoo, but such a method could really be interesting as it reduces battery size and does not requires stopping. [...]

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