Huge And Unique
Because everyone loves a good superlative, the Google Earth Community’s “Huge and Unique” page lists the world’s tallest, deepest, longest, widest & general all-around most of everything there is. With pictures!
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feat. G.W.B.
President Bush is always inspiring, whether he’s talking to us about duty, covering U2 and John Lennon, rehearsing for the State of the Union address, warning us about Zombofascists, or just rambling incoherently.
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Old Blackwater, keep on rolling
Former Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers guitarist is now an influential defense consultant. Jeff “Skunk” Baxter is considered one of the country’s top experts on counter-terrorism. Baxter currently sits on NASA’s Exploration Systems Advisory Committee, where his occupation is quoted as “Missile Defense Analyst”. Arms Control Wonk and Outside the Beltway have some interesting analysis.
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A world where everything has giant breasts. A nerd’s heaven.
There’s a lot of webcomics out there. Most are dull and pedestrian. Some defy any description. For example, Dreamwalk Journal.
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Rubik’s Cube Cracked Down to 26 Moves
Rubik’s Cube Cracked Down to 26 Moves “They think they can use their brute-force search method [PDF] on all of the configurations that require 26 steps to find a quicker way to solve them. Even if they manage this feat, however, it will probably leave room for improvement. Most researchers believe that just 20 steps are enough to solve any Rubik’s Cube, but no one has proved it yet.”
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J&J Sues Red Cross
Johnson & Johnson is suing the American Red Cross for trademark infringement. It contends that the Red Cross is supposed to use the symbol only in connection with non-profit relief services. “For a multibillion-dollar drug company to claim that the Red Cross violated a criminal statute – simply so that J&J can make more money, is obscene,” said Mark Everson, the Red Cross president. Everson is paid $500,000 per year, more than triple his previous salary as IRS Commissioner. The suit asks the Red Cross to turn over the products in question to New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson for destruction and also seeks unspecified punitive damages.
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Be Kind Re Wind
Please Be Kind, Rewind. Very cool trailer for Michel Gondry‘s new film. Great premise, great director and great cast.
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The World’s Most Perfect Bacon
I have to assume the only reason you’re reading this right now and not busy home curing & eating bacon is because nobody has shown you how. Let’s fix that.
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Send Me In Coach!
High School Coaches outearning High School Teachers Texas high school football coaches in Class 5A and 4A schools (that’s 950 students or more) earn an average salary of $73,804, while the average salary for teachers in those same schools is about $42,400. But hey, those Texas football teams are pretty darn good!
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Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos
I’ll let this site do its own intro.
…these days with shows like Lost, Heroes, and Battlestar
Galactica, it’s easy to forget how bad we used to have it on television
when it came to sci-fi shows. Sure, we remember the Star Treks, the
Fireflys, the Babylon 5s, and so on, that managed to crawl their way
into our hearts…but lest we forget – Forever Geek is here to remind you
just how lucky we are these days. Sci-Fi on TV used to be BAD…real
bad.With that said, we present to you the 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows of all
time. Complete with video of each horrible, horrible, television
mistake.
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Every Siskel & Ebert Review Ever – Online Now
Over 20 years of movie review clips with thumbs up and down from Roger Ebert, the late Gene Siskel and replacement Richard Roeper will be available online — for free — at the Ebert & Roeper website, www.atthemoviestv.com. Just how many movies could there be? Two decades is a looong time, and has resulted in approximately 5,000 reviews, which will even include recent shows with Roeper and guest reviewers such as Jay Leno. Even better — there is a big search engine coming along with the horde, so viewers can search by movie title, director or actor.
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Return of the radioactive boy scout
The man that was the subject of a book called The Radioactive Boy Scout is at it again. David Hahn was once an eagle scout, a smart and inquistive young man whose interest in building a nuclear reactor in his basement got him busted by police , and gave him a dose of radiation about one-thousand times the normal level in a human being. An investigation by the Feds uncovered some pretty powerful materials and minerals, such as thalium, and they quickly disposed of the glowing stuff beneath a site in Utah. Now, it seems as if he has yet to learn his lesson, as he has been busted once again, this time for stealing smoke detectors in an effort to experiment with radioactive materials. His face tells the tale.
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Video game you control with piss
Piss-Screen is a urine-stream-controlled video game. Bad news for the swollen-prostate crowd.
The Piss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals, to play a game with your pee. The game is displayed on a screen above the urinal. We teamed up with bars across Frankfurt, and installed the Piss-Screen in the men’s restrooms. We designed a driving game in the style of Need for Speed with the clue that people would have a terrible crash into the oncoming-traffic if their reaction was too slow. After the crash we placed the message: “Too pissed to drive? Take a Taxi instead! Call: 069-733030”
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Speak softly and carry hotdish on a stick`
On September 2, 1901, then vice-president Theodore
Roosevelt first articulated his theory of diplomacy: “Speak
softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair. In some sort of
hideous misinterpretation of Roosevelt’s quote, Minnesotans have ever since provided a dizzying array (YouTube
link) of foods on the ends of
sticks to
be eaten as one strolls the state fair. Hotdish. Teriyaki ostrich. Pork chop. Scotch eggs. Alligator. Drugs. This year’s complete and rather
breathtaking list.
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Creepy Deepies
27 deep sea fish you’ve (probably) never seen. Creatures you haven’t likely netted lately, as listed by the Bounty Fishing blog.
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Louisiana man shot while having sex involving a firearm
Shortly after midnight Thursday, one Lake Charles man died while engaged in sexual behavior involving a firearm.
Not safe for work. Be sure to check out the video.
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Digitized Book of the Week
Digitized Book of the Week. An eclectic collection of works digitized from the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They include books and serials from its collections that focus on Illinois history, literature, and natural resources; rural life and agriculture; railroad history and engineering; and works in translation.
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Bad ass Biker Jacket.. made with Crochet
Red Pen, a crocheter on Crafster, posts the results of his project to crochet a handsome biker jacket out of black wool. The result is “bulky” and needs snaps and a belt (and epaulets!) to finish it, but this is a pretty rad extreme crochet project.
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James Leong wins 2007 Scrabble Player’s Championship
Wunderkind James Leong of Vancouver, BC defeated veteran Jerry Lerman of Foster City, California, with a score of 423-377 to win the 2007 Scrabble Player’s Championship in Dayton, OH. He takes the top prize of $12,500. Held during years when the bi-annual Nationals don’t occur, this is the biggest tournament of the year. The tournament attracted about 450 players from around the world. Think you’ve got what it takes? You’ll probably want to study up.
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