Like I said. Watch. Now.

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If you've been looking around for footage of last night's Led Zeppelin reunion show in London's O2 Arena this is the only video I've found so far. I really need to watch this show in it's entirety.

Read & Watch Led Zeppelin Video

Update: Youtube videos of Led Zeppelin Reunion (until taken down)
Good Times, Bad Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHcUwtw5H0

Stairway To Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_JTMuHOQk

The Song Remains The Same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V2KiBNSgw8&NR=1

Kashmir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZxukPZ0pjA

Whole Lotta Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SE_azOraU34

Rock & Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQLB03euTXQ&NR=1

What if there were a machine—a beautiful shiny machine—and all it did, with almost no work from you, was make you beer? Such was the dream that drove PopSci staff photographer John Carnett to spend weeks building what he simply refers to as the Device: a stainless-steel two-cart brewing system that starts by boiling extract—concentrated wort, or pre-fermented beer—and ends with a chilled pint.

This is a friggin cool machine, even though it won't do All-Grain brewing yet. It's a little odd that you have to pour your pint off the same machine you brew on, but I guess it could be a pretty rad conversation piece in your living room. Now your neighbors can look in the window and think you're running a meth lab!

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Video of "The Device":

Related: My own brewery

Pretty sweet way of tracking drug use by testing the waste water of an entire city. I'd love to see my neighborhood tested. Almost guarantee it would be high in crack and meth use.

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It's been an incredibly F'ed up interesting month over here but there may finally be some success to report. Allow me to summarize the nightmares experienced.

To start it off I ran out of disk space at my webhost (due to being a cheap ass with a cheap ass package). Well guess what happens when you're writing to a Berkeley Database and you run over your quota? Corrupted everything. There's really no way to recover from this outside of reinstalling and rebuilding everything. So, I figure it would be a great idea to upgrade my movabletype while I'm at it. The newer version looks much better anyway. Oops, with cheap shared hosting your CPU and memory usage is throttled and the new version won't even run. Sweet, more wasted time! So I decide maybe I can use some crazy perl script to go in and fix these Berkeley Databases. WRONG. Then out of nowhere my website won't load. Error 500 for any PHP page. Oddly enough images, HTML pages, and anything NOT PHP will load without issue. Tech support in the Philippines basically refuses to believe this. "Did you read the FAQ?"...please, just stab a ball point pen into my eye immediately. Guess what, after a couple angry calls, sitting on hold, and emails the site randomly works again. Thanks, geniuses.

Final decision was to simply use the old version of movabletype, reinstall it, and I'm going to have to do some .htaccess trickery to forward any links to my old pages to the new ones, since the URLs were all based on internal database IDs (terrible decision) and now they're all different. Also, we're now on MySQL so hopefully this nightmare will never happen again. Never allow a Berkeley Database near your data.

Don't forget the new version of Desktop Tower Defense is out. Waste time at work!

Desktop Tower Defense

I haven't even played this yet but from the looks of it this game is going to RULE.

Games » Bloxorz

Update: I've beaten all 33 levels. That means I'm the shit.

Hopefully everyone is gearing up for one of the most ridiculous contests of the year. May 4 - May 14. Here's a teaser.

Just play it. You won't get a single other thing done that day. I scored 1890 my second attempt. I thought I was cool, but it turns out I'm not.

Desktop Tower Defense

Update: 3165 is my new high. Still sucks.

Wow. This is an incredible revision to the already ridiculous Mark II. I wish I could get my hands on one of these to review and play with. 10 Megapixel, 10 frames per second, 3" LCD, LIVE VIEW! 19 Area Autofocus and ISO 6400?! I don't know what kind of noise reduction Canon can pull off on-chip but that's crazy.

Complete Camera Review

Sample Images

From the makers of the Ochemplate Organic Chemistry Stencil & Template comes the ScienceAide Forums. They've got Organic Chemistry, Biology, General Chemistry, Physics, and Pre-Health School Prep pretty much covered. Ask your questions on the forums and receive an answer from someone with real experience. Of course, it doesn't end there. Ladies can post topless pictures. Even science nerds need a little real amateur pr0n.

ScienceAide Forums

They should just call this game "Play for 10 minutes and take your own life" because that's about how irritating it gets. It's somewhat fun though.
Update: I got to level 4 level 5. It's impossible.

[open game in own window]
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Explanation: Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught continues to move out from the Sun and dim, but should remain visible in southern skies with binoculars through the end of this month. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.

Credit & Copyright: Antti Kemppainen (Don't miss his other photos)

Really clever time lapse of a guy driving from LA to NY. Shoulda used Thievery for the music but his choice ain't bad either.

Also, funny how I've basically become a YouTube filter. Hey, they make it easy and they have every good video. So why not?

I saw this awhile ago and was thorougly impressed with this guys musicianship and guitar skills. It came back around at me again, so here ya go. Watch.

I'm from Iowa and have seen some ice storms in my day but this is out of control. Click for more pics, 5 pages worth.

December 29-31, 2006 Ice Storm Follow Up Visit Page 5

A photo of me dirtbiking in the desert about 8 years ago. I thought I was the shit, doing my little jumps and throwing the occasional no-footer. Well this time my luck ran out.

October 7th. What started as a great day of riding ended with me lying in a giant washed out section of trail unable to move my legs (more on that later, I can move them now). Thinking of all the TV I've seen about back injuries I didn't allow myself to try to move, nor anyone else to move me. Blood was pouring from my face, and as my friend went to get help (not easy, a half hour car ride to the nearest town from our spot in the desert) I laid in the dirt pouring my water over me to cool off, and trying not to go to sleep or go into shock. Surprisingly the pain wasn't as bad as you'd think; my face was numb and my back, although it hurt, was in some kind of amazing adrenaline filled shock response. Time was moving slower than ever before, but I tried to think of positive things like my best days of surfing, my girlfriend, and the great beer I had planned to brew in the next week.

Finally a cop arrived with some oxygen. Soon after an ambulance came and they gently put me on a backboard. Amazing how great it felt to lie flat with pure oxygen pumping into my lungs. The nearest hospital was probably a good 40 minutes away, and it was a bumpy ride. Not cool, but I was relieved by some killer narcotics.

Oh by the way, straight out of Kill Bill, just before the ambulance arrived I looked at my foot and thought to myself, "Fucking move!" Well holy shit I got it to twitch. Maybe I won't be in a wheel chair for life I thought. Not bad considering I had zero feeling in my legs, and it could still move a half inch.

Hospital #1, Antelope Valley Hospital. Cat scans, X-Rays, MRIs oh my. L1 burst fracture in my lumbar spine (think "exploded vertebrae") with a piece of the bone compressing my spinal cord up to 80%. Oh wait there's more, a broken neck, but not all the way through. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid one of those horrible halos they drill into your head (I did). Not to mention a broken nose, as if I care about that at the moment. Well, being a community hospital that's short staffed on spine surgeons I was life flighted via helicopter to Cedars Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills. Closer to home anyway.

Hospital #2. Fortunately this world class facility staffs one of the best spine surgeons in the world. Surgery number 1 I received a ton of metal to reconstruct my spine. Oh and luckily my lung collapsed afterwards, I really needed that. Let's just say that chest tubes hurt just as much as a broken back. Fire with every breath. Surgery number 2 I got some nice rods and screws to hold everything in place. All titanium of course. Also, a plastic surgeon put my face back together, but it wasn't that bad in the first place. Just my nose and not really out of place much. Awesome, I won't be disfigured.

Now, 1 month and 3 days after lying in the dirt realizing I was still alive I've got some giant healing incisions, a really weak back, a ninja turtle style back brace to wear for 3 months and I can only hobble around slowly with a cane. But supposedly I'll be making a full recovery, which is fantastic news.

So a month in the hospital really sucked, and I've been through hell, but I will be back. Hence there haven't been any posts on this site, but I may still post a few things while I'm rehabing my back and weak legs. Little by little I'm getting my life back.

- Justin

P.S. Fuck you imageshack.us Your image hosting always sucked anyway.

According to reviews on BeerAdvocate.com (incredible beer site) here are the top 100 of all beers in their database. They have a mathmatical formula figure out the rankings and their answer to "What if I don't agree with the list?" Answer: "We Don't Care." Well put. Great list.

Top 100 Beers - Beer Advocate

Click below for the beers I've tried on this list. (25% of them!!)

Continue reading "Top 100 Beers Of The Entire World"

Completely ridiculous. Click to view...

Continue reading "Top 10 Ping Pong Shots Of All Time"

If you're currently in Organic Chemistry, or plan to be any time soon you might as well count on picking up one of these. It'll save you assloads of time that you could spend downloading porn, illegal movies, and just generally doing everything you shouldn't be doing while you're taking OChem.

From the website:

Do you wish that your organic chemistry notes were a little neater?

Are you tired of drawing chair confirmations by hand?

Do you ever find yourself spending more time drawing structures than listening in class?

We were once in your situation just a few months ago, taking organic chemistry and hating our lives.

We have developed and launched the OCHEMPLATE, a plastic drafting template with organic chemistry shapes and symbols. OCHEMPLATE will improve your note-taking efficiency during lectures allowing you to take faster, neater, cleaner, readable notes and exams.

It's a stencil, a template, and a hexagonal sex partner all in one.

OCHEMPLATE(TM): made by students, for students

Thanks to Travis for sending me this guy and his crazy skills.

Amazing Guitar Tapping

Just a quick boring note, the site is not dead. Maybe you wish it were. Trust me though, it isn't. I've been travelling Europe for the World Cup of beer drinking Soccer. More funny random shit to come soon...

Here we go again, a nice collection of excellent images for you to enjoy. (56K warning!)

Masuimi Gallery 3

Awesome fight. Oddly, I haven't seen this before even though I watch a ton of UFC, Pride, and K1. Click on to check it out. What we really need is more Kimbo fights though!

Continue reading "Bob Sapp vs Kimo"

I thought I would share some interesting statistics for anyone who cares (nobody). No matter what kind of crap I put on the web it turns out that most of my traffic ends up wanting anything celebrity or nudity based. The galleries, and old posts with celeb calendars consistently kick ass. So here's the list in order of popularity. Take this as a tip, you need to start a porn site if you want to make money. Sell your soul and just do it.

Jessica Alba (High Res)
Masuimi Max Gallery 1
Carmen Electra, Pam Anderson, Jessica Alba, & Jordan Calendars
Jessica Alba & Masuimi
Jessica Simpson

For some reason everyone loves those pages. In no particular order here's a reminder of the other hot galleries.
Masuimi Max
Masuimi Max 2
Alessandra 1
Alessandra 2
Alessandra 3
Alessandra 4
Jessica Alba
Anna Kournikova

Also of interest...I get almost dead even Firefox and IE usage! Go Firefox!

If you're a fan of Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Death Cab For Cutie etc. check out The Barber Project. Tom is an incredible musician and pours his heart and soul into his music. Check it, and add it on MySpace!
www.myspace.com/thebarberproject

Interesting article. Not to mention an amazing beer site you should all be members of.

Read Guinness Story

Having recently entered into the home DVR world myself I feel it's my obligation to link to the good articles I find. This one is short and to the point. It even serves as a good reminder to myself of the good things I have yet to get working (remote control tweaking to control other parts of my computer). I personally went down a similar path that the writer of the article did with the Hauppauge PVR-150. It's a magnificent card, and I really have no complaints. Highly recommended. Forget Tivo and their subscription fees, and spend that extra money on a kickass new monitor like I did!

Build your own DVR - Lifehacker

Other great resources:
byopvr.com

I guess I knew being a software engineer ranked highly in terms of benefits, salary, job growth, etc., but I wasn't aware that it could be anywhere near the "best job in america." Read for the rest of the top 10 best jobs, and other interesting job related links at the bottom.

MONEY Magazine's Best Jobs

Lambgoat.com recently reviewed this album by a band I've never heard of. I'm a little out of the loop these days on the new "metalcore" bands, as they seem to come a dime a dozen. I'd be curious to hear the rest of this CD as I used to be a big fan of this genre. From the single linked track, though, I can't say I agree with the score of 4/10 they give it. It's definitely unoriginal, but I think they make up for it with decent song writing, vocals, and recording quality. I have a feeling that this is one of those bands that could "find themselves" and make a pretty decent 2nd record. Still, I'm not gonna lie, I have no intentions of buying this one...I'll just stick to my Modern Life Is War record and the new Champion split.

Oh, and +5 points for not having "blood" or "roses" or "dying" in the band name.

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This is an incredible list of breweries and wallpapers. One of my favorites, Stone Brewery of San Diego, CA, has 4 very very nice ones. However, AleSmith is missing. That's gonna have to change. Lots of foreign, and lesser known breweries represented. I could talk about this all day.

beer - wallpapers

A realistic journey through the clean barrels of Mexico with Brian Conley. Really gives you the feeling you're in there with him. I love it.

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Best Google Maps usage yet. US Breweries mapped with website, address, phone, etc. It's pretty comprehensive and includes my favorite brewery - AleSmith (#1 in the world at ratebeer.com).

US Google Beer Map

Hedonistica has gone live with a really good looking new design. Sizolid.

Hedonistica - Pleasure Yourself

Over the last year I've spent an increasing amount of time trying to figure out how I can make extra money to supplement my income. Obviously being a computer engineer the best route would seem to be online. These days more and more bloggers, and retailers are making a fortune from their websites. This website is more for fun than a money making opportunity, because this genre of website is already really impacted. However I wish to share what has worked for me so far, at least making this website pay for itself (and a little beer money on the side).

Continue reading "Making Money on the Internet"

This is so awesomely wondiferous. That's what I say. No more DVR monthly subscriptions, etc. if you turn an old PC into a digital video recorder.

Build a DVR Tutorial

This is pretty awesome. Modeling in 3dsmax, low and high-poly sculpting in zbrush, textures in Photoshop and rendered in mentalray.

Never heard of the magazine, but they did a fine job. Fine job indeed.

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Awesome photo feature on surfline from the recent pipe masters contest. Check it.

Pipeline Masters Photos

Wow...this new Dell monitor about to come out is going to be incredible.

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It's a shame they are all photos of war, disaster, and tragedy. This set reminds you how much went on in 2005.

TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2005

I'm this close to trying this out. I doubt it would even work, since I'm a pretty terrible electrical engineer, but I can promise a great 5 hours wasted while trying. Think how sweet your bike will be when you can ride down the street and cause car accidents because your light is so bright.

Read Tutorial

Very impressive 360 degree view of Paris at night.

Paris by night {via}

Dear Google,

The music search feature unveiled today is pretty useful and seems to work well. I like the quick access to album reviews, as well as the album covers. However, it's missing release dates. Even when sorted by release date it doesn't display them. Otherwise nice work.

I wonder if people are going to click through and buy music through their parters (iTunes Music Store etc...)? They should just link the album to torrents...

Google Music: In Flames

Obviously Ajax is the latest buzz word on the internet. Everyone thinks they can make their website top notch these days with just a little added code. I've been doing quite a lot of reading about this "new" technology lately, and this article is a wonderful overview, from the basics down to the details. You may already know Javascript, and maybe even XML. But do you understand XMLHttpRequest objects? Give it a read.

Mastering Ajax, Part 1

If you need to design a new website and don't know how to make it professional and standards compliant follow this tutorial in photoshop and you'll end up with a nice layout like this. Some previous photoshop experience required, little HTML knowledge required with use of sample code. The best part is it produces W3C validated CSS and XHTML 1.0.

Read Tutorial Here

The new photo at the top is courtesy Charles Lam. It's awesome, plain and simple.

It's been a long time coming, but I finally updated the Masuimi Max Galleries. 5 new photo sets compiled into one here. It was harder than I planned for to find non-nude photos of this one. Anyway, do what you do best, and enjoy.
New Masuimi Max Gallery

You wanna know what's sweet? Ajax is sweet. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Most likely you've already used it without knowing it, because Google Maps and GMail both use it extensively. Demo after the jump. Continue reading "Ajax: Totally Awesome"

In case you want to dual boot your computer with Linux and Windows here's a 13 minute video detailing every last second of the process. I'd do this, except for the fact that my computer barely runs one operating system, much less two. Hell, I'd be happy if I could run it with the case on and have it not overheat.

Ubuntu Linux / Windows Dual Boot Video Tutorial

MySpace articles interest me greatly. What is it about this damn thing that made it so successful? Everyone has their theories, mostly pointing out the fact that it took the best ideas from other sites and incorporated them into one. Part mp3.com, part xanga/blogger/livejournal, with it's ease of custimization allowing users to create custom layouts - these features don't make it unique individually, but together it puts the site on a whole new level.

I have to be honest I skimmed most of the following article, only noticing certain things. This however, is mind boggling:

"It's becoming a phenomenon unto itself. With 20 million of its members logging on in October, MySpace now draws so much traffic that it accounted for 10% of all advertisements viewed online in the month."

Read - The MySpace Generation

related: Next Generation Social Networking

See the shadow on the above image? 100% CSS, no photoshop tricks. Now that's what I call awesome. The only concern I have with it is the added amount of markup. However the author already made that clear in the article. I know one thing, this is a step in the right direction!
Read CSS Article
(may or may not work with all browsers, newer IE and Mozilla should)

With 234,725 accounts created in a very short time Google has been forced to slow things down for a bit. Imagine the amount of processing power it takes to deal with all this data. I have confidence that they will get this sorted out, but I'm not too surprised it came to this. Good thing I got an account early. I must say the features are pretty promising, and I can't wait for the site overlay feature to be turned back on.

Read About Google Analytics

I've seen a lot of surf videos in my day but footage of Teahupoo always blows my mind.

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This article is a great read. Not only about MySpace, but how the band Hawthorne Heights made it big with no major label backing them. Hell, they had 20,000 fans before they ever played a show for their debut album.

By any measure, MySpace is one of the top sites on the Web. It racked up 9.4 billion pageviews in August - more than Google - and new users are signing up at a stunning rate of 3.5 million a month. But these aren't the only numbers that drew the attention of Rupert Murdoch, chair and CEO of News Corp., which agreed to buy MySpace's parent company in July for $580 million: The site hosts 12 percent of all ads on the Web, more than any other site. MySpace should gross $30 million to $40 million this year, says John Tinker, an analyst with ThinkEquity in New York. And with News Corp.'s sales force behind it, he estimates the company could double that figure in 2006.

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It's time for another really large collection of images. This is so many I can't even count that high. They're split into 4 pages of images, many are really high quality. 56K warning.

Alessandra 1
Alessandra 2
Alessandra 3
Alessandra 4

"Bram Cohen's BitTorrent software made it a cinch to pirate films on the internet. So why is Hollywood on his side?"

This is a really cool article on the developer behind BitTorrent, why it works, and why it's here to stay.

Read The Article

Seeing as I still have one of the first cell phones known to man (Nokia 3360) and it hardly even receives the calls it gets, well, I can't even use this. But it seems like a good site, and it's all free with no spam. Maybe one of these days I'll upgrade...

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Seriously how many posts have that same title? Here's a couple more, just because.

Apparently there is a Britney Spears sex tape floating around in the hands of some idiot. I have a feeling if this ever makes it to the web it'll be the most downloaded video ever. If and when this video makes it online I'll be sure to let you know (not that I would personally download such a thing). Hopefully it wont be as sick as the Fred Durst one was, but you never know when it comes to Britney these days. Remember when the Pamela Anderson sex tape came out years ago? Wasn't that just the best thing that ever happened to teenage boys adult men?

This little modification is both really cool, and extremely funny all at the same time. Now you can turn your iPod Nano into a 200 gigabyte beast. It'll hold 50 thousand songs and claims a staggering 6 minutes of battery life!!

Check out the results page for sure, it's great.

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions

Satisfaction. This band is great. Check it out.

Satisfaction Music

Isn't it funny when even a PDA is getting about as good as your PC? That's exactly what's going to happen to me before I buy a new computer. I even run mine with the case off because it overheats...

1Ghz PDA Processor

U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones remembers attending an emergency training session in August 2001 with the Federal Emergency Management Agency that discussed the three most likely catastrophes to strike the United States.

First on the list was a terrorist attack in New York. Second was a super-strength hurricane hitting New Orleans. Third was a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault.

Now that the first two have come to pass, she and other earthquake experts are using the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to reassess how California would handle a major temblor.

Are We Next?

CptPokr is a robot. Unlike the other icons at the table, there is no human placing his bets and playing his cards. He is controlled by WinHoldEm, the first commercially available autoplaying poker software. Seat him at the table and he will apply strategy gleaned from decades of research. While carbon-based players munch Ding Dongs, yawn, guzzle beer, reply to email, take phone calls, and chat on IM, CptPokr (a pseudonym) is running the numbers so it will know, statistically, when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.

Wired 13.09: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Bot

So I've been hearing a lot about this so-called "National Don't Buy Gas Day" on September 3rd. It goes by other names as well, maybe "Gas out" or numerous other ones. Of course this sounds like a great plan. Hey we think we pay too much for gasoline, lets really stick it to those bastards. Guess what, it doesn't work.

It turns out there are good reasons California has higher gas prices. Check it out:

• California is the second-biggest gasoline market in the world, outranked only by the United States as a whole. (California alone consumes as much gasoline as all of Japan.)


• All of the state's refineries, running at full capacity, cannot meet California's one million barrels per day consumption, requiring the importation of more expensive product to meet consumer demand.


• Since 1996, California has required a cleaner-burning formulation of gasoline which is produced at few refineries outside of California.


• The four largest oil refiners in California produce almost 80% of the gasoline supply, and the six largest refiners operate about 85% of the retail gasoline outlets.

Now of course oil companies can manipulate things a little bit by determining how much gasoline they produce, where it gets sold, etc. But they don't have any power to change simple supply and demand. If people are buying more gasoline prices go up, and vice versa.

Imagine now that we all don't buy gasoline for 1 day. This is the plan right? Does that mean they're gonna lose 1 single dime? I'll give you a hint: no. It simply means we're going to wait an extra day before buying the same amount of gas we already would have been purchasing. If you want to really screw over the oil companies then I suggest you don't buy anymore gas EVER, and sell your car. And that goes for everyone that owns one. Is this gonna happen? I'll let you figure that one out.

But hey - don't let me ruin your fun. Wait till September 4th to fill your tank. That'll teach em!

Some facts collected at snopes.com, mixed with a whole lot of pure common sense

Let me be (not) the first to say I really hope that tomorrow Google releases a messaging client. Honestly name something Google does that sucks. If they go through with this like the rumors say they will I very well may uninstall AIM.

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update: it's out...not that great, but I'd like to try the talk feature out a little more. It's a clean interface like I expected though.

"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," the original research paper written at Stanford that started it all. 5 or 6 years later their stock will roll you for almost 300 a share. It's a great paper.

Read Google Paper

-- Thanks, Chris

Having been inside I agree the building is incredible.

"This is one of several indoor-outdoor patios," Wynn says at the ice cream shop, Sugar and Ice. "It's part of a 5.8 million-square-foot building. Next to it is what? Thirty feet of water? And then straight up here is a 100-foot waterfall. Five to 10 thousand gallons a minute coming over the edge. That requires a big, huge gravity-fed system. A huge cavity room there with heavy engineering is in that section of the mountain -- and it's one of several. This mountain is faceted all the way around, and each section of that structure is not only a complex building that's clad with an artificial rock and hundreds and millions of pounds of real trees, the stuff on top -- the big trees -- weighed as much as 200 tons to put up there, each!"

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Modified normal hybrids like the Toyota Prius have been the center of research lately, and it's sounding extremely promising.

Monrovia-based Energy CS has converted two Priuses to get up to 230 mpg by using powerful lithium ion batteries. It is forming a new company, EDrive Systems, that will convert hybrids to plug-ins for about $12,000 starting next year, company vice president Greg Hanssen said.

University of California, Davis engineering professor Andy Frank built a plug-in hybrid from the ground up in 1972 and has since built seven others, one of which gets up to 250 mpg. They were converted from non-hybrids, including a Ford Taurus and Chevrolet Suburban.

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There's books about all kinds of great stuff...pain to download though...anyone have a script that'll go through and do it?

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Someone apparently overclocked a 3.8 GHz processor to an intense 7 GHz. Looks like another liquid nitrogen cooling job from the photo. Crazy.

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"Donnybrook bring the core, Left Coast born and full-force. And though it's not something radically influential, like their West based contemporaries in Terror, Piece By Piece, More To Pride, and Internal Affairs, it makes for one hell of a good time."

These guys are friends of friends. Unfortunately I haven't had much of a chance to know any of them. They got a pretty sweet review on Lambgoat for the new album "Lions In This Game" though, and you need to go check them out. There's a song linked at the bottom of the review.

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Have a look at the custom Excursion they built for this rich bastard.

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She's got a nice _______. Don't you think? Hint: the answer is ass.

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Just a quick note that I haven't died. And neither has this site. I've just been super busy with stuff other than sitting at my computer. It'll suck me back in though, don't worry. I haven't even read some of my favorite sites in about a month, I'm seriously blowing it. But I did get a pretty kick ass mountain bike and I'm quickly putting miles on it!

Oh my god. I haven't been around in a bit, but I missed some crazy shit. The internet legend from a few months back was snatched up by Maxim finally. This photo set is kind of ridiculous.

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The Superficial sure got this one right. That first pic is ridiculous.

Jessica Alba is really hot

The first one kicked ass. Here's round 2.

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That my friends is faster than the McLaren F1, a record standing for many years.

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Very interesting new findings on the December Sumatra quake.

"Normally, a small earthquake might last less than a second; a moderate sized earthquake might last a few seconds. This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds (at least 10 minutes)," said Charles Ammon, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State University.

The quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb, according to Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado.

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I'm dating this entry for tomorrow because as far as I'm concerned it already is tomorrow. The 17th of May means a new Bane record. It means 3 years of growth for a band that's already on top of hardcore. It means I'm fucking excited.

:: Listen :: Official Site ::

Have I ever mentioned that this is my favorite webcomic? No I haven't. But that doesn't make it any less sweet. To top it off the guy is into excellent music.

If you get into reading it start at the beginning. The character development is what makes it worth it.

This is amazing. Half life 2 models digitally placed in real scenes that look incredible. I'd lie to you and say I know how to do this, but that'd be lying.

:: View :: {Thanks, Arash}

Check out how this car makes a bus crash and then it drives off. Sweet. Except not.

:: Watch ::

Yeah so she's hot, old news.

If you do one thing for the rest of your life make it going to this photo gallery. Or else I'll kill you. Seriously. It's really good photography taken on a really good camera. He'll love you long time.

:: View Gallery ::

I assure you the site is not going down the shitter as it may seem. I've just been a little busy failing electrical engineering tests lately. Great times.

Although the website completely sucks (blinking header...) the old photos from LA are great. Mostly because I'm from there and I know what a dump it's become. For instance the hollywood ones don't have bums lining the sidewalks.

LA Through Postcards

Cool video. The guys commentary is funny enough.

:: Watch ::

It's one of the best shows on TV and there's a chance it will get cancelled. Sign the damn petition even if you don't watch the show. Do it for the man in the 6 thousand dollar suit! Come on!

:: Get Arrested ::

In case you're interested...

Continue reading "Vida Guerra 2005 Calendar"

I don't know why I found this to be so cool. They're on the tarmac at Edwards Airforce Base.

:: Google Maps ::

For the love of God somebody buy me this car. As much as I like adding a weekly quart of oil or more to my 87 Ford Ra(n)ger it's time for me to move on.

This is sweet, this site has gone through google maps and found a lot of really cool images with their new satellite views feature. "Why bother seeing the world for real?"

:: Google Sightseeing :: {via}

These are the coolest basketball shots I've ever seen, even if they all took them thousands of tries.

:: Watch :: {via}