Man Blows Up Car With Baloon - Film at Eleven

How great is this. Some frickin' moron fills up some balloons with acetylene and puts them in the back seat of his car. Then they explode - DUH!

Link @ Gizmodo

Macworld Bloopers

Nice (unless your are Steve) montage of Macworld bloopers. Love it when he throws the digital camera at the guy that didn't seem to think that Mr. Jobs knew how to turn it on.

Link @ YouTube

Wired News: Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone

Wow, finally somebody else is shouting about how absolutely horrible most people are at communicating over E-mail and IM. U NO 4EVR LOL 2 B 1337. Quote:

"The very nature of e-mail (which, along with first cousins IM and text messaging, is an undeniably handy means of chatting) encourages sloppy "penmanship," as it were. Its speed and informality sing a siren song of incompetent communication, a virtual hooker beckoning to the drunken sailor as he staggers along the wharf.

But it's not enough to simply vomit out of your fingers. It's important to say what you mean clearly, correctly and well. It's important to maintain high standards. It's important to think before you write."

Link @ wired.com

What? Mormon Bullsh_t? NOOOOO!

I couldn't say it better than this so I'll just quote fark.com.

"Mormons will insist that Native Americans are really a lost tribe of Israel, no matter how many DNA tests show that Native Americans have no ties to Hebrews"

Link @ KTLA

John K's Blog

"Stimpy, move your butt! It's a higher mammal!"

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MySpace on the Daily Show

Damn, now I gotta go out and get a MySpace account so I can have 9,000 friends!

Link @ Google Video

PS: Google video lets you save to your video iPod with one click. Errr, ok, two clicks - but that's it!

Do Not Piss Off Oprah

Clip from the Daily Show about the guy that lied about his book and the resulting Oprah fallout.

Link @ YouTube.com

Tom Cruise on Oprah - As It Should've Been

Sweet mashup of Tom Cruise on Oprah.

Link @ YouTube.com

Internet Cafes Have Filthy Mice

Shocker - a new Korean study found that Internet Cafes Have Filthy Mice. Keep cleaning those remotes dude, it's almost as big a public health risk as those plastic rodents.

New Ford Hydraulic Hybrid

Ford is experimenting with a new method of storing energy with hydraulics in their F-150 hybrid. Supposedly it will have the same 60mpg performance of the Toyota Prius even though it has a curb weight of 4800lbs (or 65% greater.) Sounds promising - hopefully it will be ready by their target of August 2008.

Link @ Newtechspy.com

Here comes the BOOM, ready or not!

Helmet cam video of a chick crashing into a Honda Civic. Ouch!

Link @ YouTube

Advantages of ADD in Tech Career

This is a cool article about how having ADD can actually help you if you're in the tech business. As I was reading it I was struck by how many of the "good things" have fairly significant negative aspects as well. Nevertheless it is a good read, check it out when you have a minute or two.

Link @ Adult ADD Strengths

NUK-E-LUR Transport

Honestly I only saved this link because in the story it talks about a Cosmonaut that was up on MIR for 462 days...
Could NASA Get To Pluto Faster? Space Expert Says Yes - By Thinking Nuclear

Daily WTF: Kids poking each other with needles?

Who in their right mind, kid or adult, thought this was a good idea?? WTF?

Needles Circulate In Sixth-Grade Class; Students Tested For HIV

Woz Gets Pranked

An excerpt from this article on The Cult of Mac Blog about Woz's special phone number experience.

"Among his other activities, Woz collects phone numbers, and his longtime goal has been to acquire a number with seven matching digits... after more months of scheming and waiting, he had it: 888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph.

The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day. Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling. More strange still, there was never anybody talking on the other end of the line. Just silence. Or, not silence really, but dead air, sometimes with the sound of a television in the background, or somebody talking softly in English or Spanish, or bizarre gurgling noises. Woz listened intently.

Then, one day, with the phone pressed to his ear, Woz heard a woman say, at a distance, "Hey, what are you doing with that?" The receiver was snatched up and slammed down.

Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset. Again and again. It made a noise: "Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep."

The children of America were making their first prank call.

And the person who answered the phone was Woz."

Good Excuse for Indecent Library Exposure

From the article:

'When asked why he had gone to the library to view pornography and masturbate, the suspect allegedly told police, "To be honest, the Internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough."'

Good excuse dude. Link @ asuwebdevil.com

A Fiery Escape

You have to love the fark.com headline for this one:

"Upset by what he paid for a new Ford Escape, man returns the vehicle to the dealership. Through the showroom. On fire."

Link @ MSNBC.com

MythBusters on Star Wars

Check out this article on StarWars.com - Adam, Jamie and the other guys that take screen time away from Adam and Jamie bust some Star Wars myths.

Stargate SG-1/Atlantis MMO Game

Cool if they do it right, crap if they don't. Who knows how it will turn out but if it's 1/2 as good as WoW it will be sweet.

Link @ GameSpot

NextEngine scans 3D on the cheap

Cool 3D scanner, supposedly only $2,500 with a USB interface.

Read more about it at Engadget!