Samus
The Charmed Ones
Iron Man’s Car Wreck
Hand/Foot Coordination
While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this draw the number ‘6’ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change directions and there’s nothing you can do about it.
A Life Revelaed
Her eyes have captivated the world. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later. She became known as the “Afghan Girl” around National Geographic.
Meathead
Why anyone would shove their head into a carcass is beyond me.
Go ask the losers over at www.hatsofmeat.com
365tomorrows
I just spent the last couple hours reading through the stories on 365tomorrows, (a site that’s currently advertising on MCS.) I’m rather happy with most of the short stories. Seems like all the stories are around 500-1000 words each, so they’re nice and short and to the point. Check em out if you get the chance!
Car Pool
A massive sinkhole closed northbound I-25 in Denver yesterday, just south of the I-70 interchange. The interchange, known as The Mousetrap, is one of the busiest traffic areas in Denver.
Rocky Mountain News was kind enough to provide us with a LOLcats-style headline for this picture on the front page of their paper today (Feb 8). The pic is from the online version of the paper, which they’re allowing free access to over the next couple of days because deliveries might be impossible.
YOPA!!!
Ya Know…. Yopa.
Kitten vs. Godzilla
Weapon X Family Reunion
Lego Predator
The fast And The Furious 4
Filming starts next month, cant wait! This film is meant to fill the gap between 2F2F and Tokyo Drift, with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel hopefully coming back. From
www.dubdaily.com
Horse Riding Lion
Jesus Christ it’s a lion, get on the horse!
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www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512657&in_page_id=1770
Peelander Z
Saw these guys play a year ago and I just stumbled upon this photo in a search. Crazy dudes.
Star Fort in Bourtange, The Netherlands
Because circular forts supposedly suck.
Lots more here: deputy-dog.com/2008/02/02/6-incredible-star-forts/
Tukwila
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7223145.stm
Microchip passes two billion transistor milestone
The first chip to pack more than two billion transistors has been launched by silicon giant Intel.
The quad-core chip, known as Tukwila, is designed for high-end servers rather than personal computers.
It operates at speeds of up to 2GHz, the equivalent of a standard PC chip.
see also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Barack Obama on Religion
For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.
This isn’t to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways‚ and not necessarily the best way‚ that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives.
In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.