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One Giant Screwup for Mankind

This is an interesting read of how the footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon in 1969 was not what it should have been. Apparently the raw footage looked great but what the world saw was of a much worse quality. Now the original engineers involved with making the camera as well as […]

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Nice tool for remote shutdown

hey I have come across a nice and free tool for remote system shutdown. Not only that but it can work with WOL (Wake On LAN) as well. It gets better. The tool is actually designed to force group policy update. You can read all about it as welll as get your free copy here.

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The real BuzzLightyear

“A Swiss airline pilot and self-described adrenaline junkie named Yves Rossy has developed a working jet-pack and flown it more than 30 times. Actually, it’s a pair of rigid carbon fiber wings strapped to his back, with two small kerosene-powered jet engines on each wing — essentially a small jet airplane using the pilot’s body […]

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Do you love your Xbox 360?

How about enough to make a video set to a Jutin Timberlake hit? You should check out this video Laura Foy did to show how much she truly loved her 360. It is extremely well done.

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Stephen Colbert on Dungeons and Dragons and the Wii

You may already know this but Stephen Colbert of Comedy Centrals “Colbert Report” is a really big gamer. He did this segment on the new online MMORPG of Dungeons and Dragons. It is well done and very funny. He also did this piece recently on the Nintendo Wii.

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The ISS and golf

Yeah sounds weird eh? Wouldn’t think you would need a golf club on a space station but hey, shows what I know. Apparently as a promotional stunt a Russian cosmonaut will be hitting a golf ball from a special platform. NASA originally said no, as they should, but since has change their mind. So let […]

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So why can’t we make it through a traffic light?

That is my question after seeing this video of traffic in India. Maybe our traffic laws actually cause problems. That does it for me. I think I’m going to drive like this from now on. Hehehehe

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New AMA public safety video

The AMA (American Motorcyclist Association) has just finished filming their new public safety video. It was filmed in Ohio with AMA members and will be provided free to TV stations. I wonder how many times we will actually see this video air. One interesting fact is that motorcycle accidents are up 85%. I hope things […]

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20 times we almost had nuclear war

I found this site to be very interesting. I am sure there are many more such incidents but this site list 20 of the known ones. Most don’t seem really big deals now, but I am sure with the Cold War tensions these were all close calls.

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Weird Al is “White & Nerdy”

So I found this video on YouTube that had me ROFLMAO. Weird Al has done it again and has a parody of “Ridin’ Dirty” by Chamillionare f/ Krayzie Bone. It is very well done and he is funny as ever.

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