Guitar Hero, High School Zero
08/19/2008
16-year-old Blake Peebles of Raleigh, North Carolina finally convinced his parents to let him drop out of school and pursue his Guitar Hero career full time. (Read the full story in The News & Observer.) After winning about $1,000 worth of prizes including 52 Chick-fil-A combo meals, "Dreminem," as he's known on X-Box Live, realized that high school/college was fo ... Read More
Posted in Sport/Games, News | Permalink
American Public Battles Confusion As Russian Army Invades Georgia
08/18/2008
Dear m1a1mike, What the hell are you talking about? We're on the ground here in Georgia and everything is going to sh*t. We shot this video footage today. Get out while you can! Read More
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Dumb-Ass Takes Dumb-Ass To New Heights
08/15/2008
There's just nothing like hitting your personal effects off a very tall cliff with 9-iron. Maybe he should have used his sand wedge... Read More
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Burger King Employee Bathes In Burger King Kitchen Sink
08/14/2008
Everyone is up in arms over this dude's dude personal hygiene habits, but really, we find this kind of comforting. At least for a few hours afterward, every Whopper Jr. he served was free of body lice and scabies. It probably would have been more effective if he'd dipped himself in a deep fryer full of molten trans-fat, but this is probably the best your gonna get. Read More
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The Idea Man
08/13/2008
The Idea Man of Dayton, Ohio is perhaps the most enlightened being ever to have graced the pages of the Internet. Seriously, this guy knows a whole lot you never will, and then some, that is to say after the change in the flow of his mentality. Placenta? Read More
Posted in World Wide Web, General | Permalink
Would It Be Wrong If This Guy Prayed For Rain?
08/12/2008
Would it be wrong to pray that Stewart Shepherd gets struck by lightning in the eye? Read More
Posted in Politics, TV/Film, Religion | Permalink
The Speed of Lightning In Slow Motion
08/11/2008
Nope. Lightning itself doesn't travel at the speed of light. Rather, "the speed is normally no more than half the speed of light, usually substantially less. The process that creates a lightning stroke is not light transfer, but is the transfer of electrical energy (charge) through the air. Much like an electrical cable, the air, even though it is ionized, has some re ... Read More
Posted in Science/Technology | Permalink
An Unusual Contest at TheUnusualTimes.net: Win A Theremin
08/08/2008
Well, our friend Hieronymus over at TheUnusualTimes.net has certainly upped the anti on peculiar prizes. They're giving away a Moog™ Etherwave® Theremin Prize Package so that people can make extremely weird music on their own. The winner well get a whole bunch of stuff: (1) Standard Moog™ Etherwave® Theremin, with 110VAC Power Supply (1) 10' Audio Cable (1) ... Read More
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A Scale Comparison of the US and Europe
08/07/2008
And some other interesting maps on Radical Cartography. Read More
Posted in Cities, Design | Permalink
New Gnarls Barkley "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" Video Gives Nod to Spaceballs
08/04/2008
Director Chris Milk has yet to return our phone calls, but we'll be damned if anyone can find any other examples of organs/aliens two-stepping along a diner counter. Spaceballs it is. Awesome movie begets awesome music video. [yt]http://www.youtube.com/v/kTVSygNKAsg[/yt] Read More
