(via Eric Gunnerson)
Simply amazing!
Congrats to Damon and the whole Juventus U-17 team for winning the 2005 State Cup!
Now it’s on to the Region 1 Championship in Virginia Beach
How to make lightsaber effects using Premiere and Photoshop.
A 1961 article tells what ‘scientists know’ about life in the year 2000
Some excerpts:
You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight’s holiday in outer space.
The family car will be soundless, vibrationless and self-propelled thermostatically. The engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.
(via hackaday)
If you’ve ever seen a Roadrunner cartoon, you remember all the gizmos Wile E. Coyote (Super-Genius) ordered from the ACME company. Well, here’s their catalog.
It’s just like the Iditarod, with a few minor differences.
Like, people instead of dogs, shopping carts instead of dogsleds, and New York City instead of Alaska.
Otherwise, it’s pretty much identical.
Gerry Casiello (my uncle) spends his retirement helping small businesses get off the ground in Connecticut.
Check out the third story. The lineup for Reno Galena High’s starting lineup:
Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, and Kaitlin
Kaitlin?! There’s always a wise guy!
Try this – go to MSN Maps
Enter these values
Start:
Address in: norway
City: haugesund
End:
Address in: norway
City: trondheim
Click “Get Directions”
That’s one heck of a detour!
From Norway to Norway, via the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
(via devnull)
It turns out modern pro wrestling may be more like Roman gladiators than we thought.
– New theory says Gladiators were pampered stars not abused slaves
– Gladiators earned so much from sport that Emperor capped their salaries
(via Metafilter)
It’s Mordor. With a |
Folks have been grabbing screenshots from the Lord of the Rings movies and making animated gifs out of them. Like
(via MetaFilter)
Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles scanned and put online into the public domain!
(via Scott Watermasysk’s blog)
A handy little application that lets you type in C#, VB.NET or ASP.NET snippets and run them. Much easier than starting up the IDE and creating a project, just to test out a few lines of code.
apress is offering a free .pdf book on C# and the development tool SharpDevelop
Nice!
The Angry Chicken – a pretty funny ad for running shoes, demonstrating the sport of parkour – or free-running. Apparently, the shoes being advertised are not particularly good for parkour, but when has that stopped advertisers?