Dirty Car Art

Not exactly what you're thinking, probably, but this is actually just fascinating both in skill and useless spare time required to complete.

I mean seriously, drawing a dust mona lisa on the back window of a mini cooper?

Dagobah Crooner

I am either really tired, or there is something strangely amusing about a singing yoda doll belting out big-band show tunes.

Dr. Who Got Car-Jacked?

Very little about this picture makes sense. (from CollegeHumor)

That Is One Sexy Car

Don't act like you haven't tried this before

Blu-Ray Wins?

Well, for a long time I’ve been violently ambivalent about whether either of these formats survived. But now that it seems as though HD-DVD is dead, I’m starting to ponder the idea of buying a bluray player. Although obviously, those prices will need to come *way* down before I really get involved…

 

Basically, I just want to see the original Matrix in HD, and the Fifth Element in HD. Also, I will probably need to re-stock the Lord of the Rings in HD. (sigh) I hate spending money…but I love new electronics toys. This shall not abide…

Leave It To The Canadians

First was curling, the sport inspired by drunk ice fishermen sliding beers back and forth to each other. Then came the word “eh?”. Now there’s a scientist claiming he can achieve low-earth orbit with bottle rockets.

 

You can’t make this shit up.

Surrender to the Neon Gods!

Hahah, brilliant. All hail the mighty Slashdot.

This time, it’s an article about people spotting satellites out in space. And as usual, the article is far eclipsed by the ridiculous comments on the /. forums. My favorite for today?

 

“You Goddamn surrenderniks make me sick. Get rid of the blinkenlights? Blinkenlights are the only thing that separates us from the animals (or the "Chinamen", as we're apparently supposed to call them these days). More blinkenlights! I want those things lit up like Xebusmass trees. I want the commies to look up and have our superior technology slap them in the face like the dangling genitalia of an angry neon God. More blinkenlights!”

 

Ah. I heart dorks.

Innovative Tech Solutions

I am continuously fascinated by some of the ingenious designs that some of these engineers come up with to help the world’s less fortunate. Incredible how little things can raise quality of life and also make a profit, even in these poor areas.

Lawsuits That Make You Slam Your Head On The Wall

I'm serious, this shit has got to go. How can these kinds of people even look at themselves in the mirror? The epidemic attitude of entitlement in this country is so ridiculous, and this is only one of thousands of examples of people trying to get undue rewards instead of getting themselves a f-ing job.

Drag-Racing Court

Only in Philadelphia…haha

First was The Vet, the only stadium in America to have a court and jail cells inside the stadium. Now apparently they have a separate “drag-racing” court that is stood up to deal with the apparently frequent problem of drag racing violations. Who knew I lived in such an exciting city?!

(it’s about half-way down the page, you might almost miss it…)

Faith-Based Engineering

Hah! Once again, the scintillating flame-war-style posting on ./’s article on the various republican candidates produces some of the funniest quotes I hear in the course of the day.

Current leader:

 

“I expect that new faith-based engineering techniques are going to be what it will require to do the things Bush has proposed with respect to manned space flight. In the past we used to worry about interplanetary radiation, food supplies for a six year voyage, and reliable rocket engines. But the advances in faith-based engineering (mostly spinoffs of the faith-based Iraq war) have made it possible to seal up a couple of dudes in a steampunk diving bell and fire them at Mars from a cannon, confident of their eventual return.”

 

Classic.

Future-Gen Fake Clean Coal

Yup. Don’t know how or why the administration’s support for this thing got cut off, but it’s definitely a good thing to see. Future-Gen is a huge pile of idiocy, pumping CO2 underground to keep it out of the atmosphere. Such a ridiculous thing. Thank goodness we’re not into it anymore…