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Friday, June 17, 2005
Thursday, June 16, 2005Top Down is going on hiatus and/or will have very sporadic updates. Our twins were born today!
Wednesday, June 15, 2005How Google ranks a web page, with the information coming from their patent application. Great news for people trying to increase the popularilty of their web sites.
Neat collection of casino floor carpeting.
The Japanese battle for the world's thinnest pen tip.
Steve Jobs very personal commencement speech given to Stanford University grads.
Very funny Paris Hilton commercial paraody.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005Mazda's www.bethecar.com site is getting updated tonight.
Another NC Miata web site. And a New Zealand web site that lets you choose an NC color.
Get your own squirrel liquor decanter.
The science of golf balls.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Bye bye VHS. Walmart is joining other large stores in dropping prerecorded VHS tapes from its stores, making room for DVD, starting at the end of 2006.
Make your Hummer owning neighbor cry like a little girl and own your very own 727 limousine.
The Repliee Q1 Android robot - one more step to our future robotic overlord. Doesn't put up a fight yet against a pushy Japanese man (video).
Cool autocross video.
Friday, June 10, 2005For next Easter, why not surprise the kids by planting Egg Babies.
The top 10 ways to steal a car, and the methods to prevent them.
It was only a matter of time when somebody made a music video out of crash tests done by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
One way Star Wars nerds end their marriage.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Another reason cats are evil...two kittens pee on a fax machine, causing a fire that extensively damaged their owner's home. On another note, cat owner's get the last laught by putting stuff on cats.
Build your own Ultimate Water Gun.
Especially for off-road posers: spray-on-mud.
30 things you didn't know you could do on the Internet.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
If you were Donald Trump's wife, you'd be getting a Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren as a gift, with a nice red bow tie on top.
Darth Vader on the Wheel of Fortune.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
A race car loses a wheel and ...
The Operating System Sucks-Rules-o-Meter.
Black holes in Goole Maps.
The Coast Guard intercepted 13 cubans trying to get to the US in a floating taxicab..
It's raining men in New York...body pieces from an airline stowaway landed on a woman's roof.
A horrifying eyewitness account of the unbeliebably freakish and tragic Shelly Howard drag racing accident.
Mexican bullfighting dwarves are words you never thought would be put together, but it flows pretty well.
Monday, June 06, 2005Reading glasses or bifocals may become a thing of the past as doctors develop a new, surgically imlpanted lens that can allow patients to see near distance objects.
Yowza...an LS2 V8 engine, used in the Corvette transplanted into a Solstice.
Bait car videos.
What does a turkey or a police car sound like around the world from a child's point of view? Audio clips of onomatopoeia from around the world.
Oomph...A National Geographic conical probe with 7 video cameras gives a view of what it's like to get run over by a tornado.
How to flink an aluminum plate from 0 to 76,000 mph in under a second.
Friday, June 03, 2005Apple preparing to switch to Intel processors? ...Update: yes, it's true. And here's a developer's note from Apple outlining the guidelines for Universal Binary Programming on these new machines.
Interesting things that the Florida Power & Light dig up on the job.
With the year only half over, PC World lists the 100 best products of 2005.
RatDVD - another thing to worry about in the eyes of movie studios.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Celebrate National Doughnut Day with a free one from Krispy Kreme.
Dress up Steve Jobs.
The $4.15 million nickel.
Download every single note that Beethoven composed, courtesy of the BBC Philharmonic.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005A bit icy in hell today...Microsoft's next version of Office will save documents in a non-proprietary XML format.
When embroidery and unabashed Star Wars geekiness collide.
Refrigerator magnet free for all.
Simulating the universe..."It is probably the biggest thing ever in computational physics. For the first time we have a replica universe which looks just like the real one."
Neat...the VW "multivan", a van with a cool paint job.
A wooden Ferrari F50 boat.
Nice...a fairly comprehensive guide to the concepts involved in writing a web page by hand.
Some video staffers at WTNH TV poking fun at their own weather doppler system.
What to do with two large boxes of unused 8cm PC case fan.
