Go ahead and slap a bit ol' Fail sticker on this truck driver who forgets that his trailer is extremely improperly raised. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvs90XFJzI&fmt=18]
If I was driving behind this truck I probably would go ahead and call the 1-800-How-Is-My-Driving number on it and report that his driving SUCKS.
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Alan Sailer's Flickr collection of his amazing high speed bullet photographs. It's a must see explosion of colors, literally.
Merry Christ-BAM! Clear Christmas bulb with water.
Jello. (Yummy.)
Paintball blast. Gangsta.
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Flashing a middle finger against a police officer is constitutionally protected.
A federal court judge decided the citation issued was not for blocking traffic as the city contended, but in retaliation for Hackbart's rude salute.Judge David Cercone found the police response was a violation of Hackbart's free speech rights under the First Amendment and a violation of his right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
USA! USA! USA!
I highly recommend you NOT test the application of this ruling in New York City against the NYPD unless you want to get uncomfortably close to either a plunger or a walkie-talkie antenna.
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News of the availability for purchase of the complete set of Star Wars action figures from the original trilogy registered a 8.5 of the Nerd Richter Scale today. It's all yours for $3500 here and a monthly payment plan IS available.
Although if the owner had watched "40-Year-Old Virgin" he would have known that this collection would be worth a whole heck of a lot more if he had left the figures in their original plastic packaging. DUH.
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Carrying this emergency tracheotomy kit around with your set of keys is pretty advanced. It makes CPR look like child's play.
New York Magazine's listing of 7 bars at which with some bar hopping among them, you will be able to solidly drink $1 beers from 11 am to 11 pm.
11 a.m.–5 p.m.: Singas Famous Pizza 176 Second Ave., at 11th St.; 212-253-7300 Good morning! In addition to dollar beers, this East Village pizza chain offers up individual square pizzas instead of the usual slices, meaning you can adequately prime your stomach for what's to come. Bud Light, Bud Heavy, and Coors are all $1; for high rollers, pitchers are $5.
Yayyyy beer.
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When too busy drinking their venti Starbucks during the day, sitting in chauffeured Cadillac, or riding invisible bicycles from the future, celebrities on Twitter, such as 50 Cent (why am I not surprised?) and Britney Spears get someone else to ghost-twit update for them, because typing or texting a 140 character sentence is so tedious. Glad the Big Twitter is calling them out though.
"It’s 140 characters. It’s so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that, I feel sorry for you."
You tell 'em Shaq!
Students from the University of Khartoum scour the Nubian desert in Sudan for remnants of an asteroid, which in a first, was tracked from space to impact.
"It's the first time we've been able to track something through the air and watch it fly apart and then find pieces of it," microbial ecologist Rocco Mancinelli of SETI, a co-author of a study on the meteorite pieces Wednesday in Nature, told Wired.com.
Finding the meteorites was a long shot, but because the rocks would be so important, meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of SETI, lead author of the study, took a bus loaded with 45 students and staff from the University of Khartoum deep into the desert to hunt for them. A 10-hour bus ride and an 18-mile trek through the sand took them to the remote area where scientists thought the rocks, if they existed, would be. The group began sweeping the desert in a line and two hours later the first meteorite was found by a student.
It's bizarre, but these doctored (obviously) photographs of celebrities riding invisible bicycles is just funny to me for some reason.
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Lack of updates here can be explained by the following: I've been entertaining a couple buddies of mine from my Alaska who are visiting me from out of state. I am also working on an exciting side project that I hope to share with you all soon.
This risque promotional video for Earth Hour (March 28 at 8:30 pm) parodies Sarah Silverman's "I'm f*cking Matt Damon" song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgC8Jr4sgk&fmt=18]
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These obscene denim jeans are a result of a collaboration between Damien Hirst and Levis and can be yours for approximately $27,000 each.
Calling Jeff! Forget business school and get these jeans instead because these will open far more doors for you than any HBS degree.
Jon Berkeley's cover illustration for the latest Economist issue made me chuckle.
