The Minority Report

I’d like to see YOU do that with a tape measure!!

Superhuman tape measure skills.Video: Superhuman tape measure skills. — (37signals)

The man who is ulimately responsible for the rise of Darth Vader, the fall of the Republic and the deaths of his fellow Jedi’s. Good job. YouTube — Qui-Gon: Worst Jedi Ever

I know you don’t recognize the name but if you have ever watched the Discovery Channel, you’ve seen him. Kim Peeks was amazing and I hope he rests in peace.
Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died, aged 58.
Mr Peek’s father Fran said that his son had suffered [...]

…and you thought Philadelphia Eagle fans were tough!

This is the terrifying moment that an American police detective pulled out his handgun after he was targeted in a snowball fight.
Washington police are investigating the incident, when the off-duty officer drew his gun in the midst of the light-hearted battle.
About 200 people from a Washington D.C. neighbourhood [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
This is the most satisfying music video of the year. A musician, Dave Carroll, watched as United Airlines baggage handlers destroyed his custom Taylor guitar. For a year he tried to get them to pay for the damages and they told him to go fuck himself. He told [...]

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48 years ago today, the US launched their first human to space. Alan Shepard flew on Mercury 3, a suborbital mission with a duration of only 15 minutes and 28 seconds. Shepard’s ship, Freedom 7, reached an altitude of 116.5 statute miles (186.4 km) and flew a distance of 303 statute miles (485 km). Enjoy [...]

I don’t think this needs much explanation other then it’s not safe for work.

I’m not sure how to feel about this commercial but it is funny on a certain level.

By Ken Levine: Now HERE’S a great local commercial
Here is The Red House Furniture Store homepage and more information:
spp65@aol.com
THE RED HOUSE FURNITURE STORE
502 South Elm Street
High Point, NC 27260
Phone: 336.882.9416 | Fax: 336.882.5317 Red [...]

I thought that I’ve seen all p0rn on the net but this one was new.
By Ken Levine: BRADY BUNCH XXX

Wow. Tom Green spits it sick!

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Whatever.
Earlier this year the Linux Foundation launched a competition for budding writers, film makers and just general Linux enthusiasts to make their own grassroots advertisement to compete with Apple’s highly-successful “I’m a Mac” series of adverts. The winner has now been announced.
iTWire — He’s a Mac, he’s a PC, but we’re Linux
This is the winner:

This [...]

As always gHacks has the skinny on stuff that nerds and nerd wannabes need to know. Jack posted a great introductory article to all the Ubuntu flavors of the day.

Here is the list of the distros that Jack covers:

Eeebuntu
Xubuntu
Gobuntu
Ubuntu Studio
MythBuntu
CrunchBang
OpenGEU

I would read his take on them but I can tell you that Ubuntu is [...]

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It’s coming. Slowly but surely, alternative fuels are coming to the biomasses. I’m figuring in about 20 years, we’ll have a significant portion of our daily fuel (gasoline and diesel) combined with biofuels.
A tiny microbe found in the Chesapeake Bay is the focus of intense study for a biotech startup in College Park, [...]