If this guy can sell a device that doesn’t exist this good imagine what he can do with something real.

and more. I don’t know how into motor oil you are but i have a pretty good interest in how it works and why. This site from Bob the oil guy is full of great info. He also has a nice comparison of air filters including the K & N brand.

He also saved a soldier in Iraq from coming home and killing himself on a sport bike. It appears the soldier came home and bought a sportbike with his savings and was only going to wear a helmet. The problem is he has never been on a motorcycle and his mom took his keys to keep him safe. That is when Dr. Phil got involved. You can read the story here.

I’m not a big fan but I am glad to see he stepped in to keep this kid from getting hurt.

A blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde. The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver’s license. She dug
through her purse and was getting progressively more agitated.
“What does it look like?” she finally asked.
The policewoman replied, “It’s square and it has your picture on it.”
The driver finally found a square mirror, looked at it and handed it
to the policewoman. “Here it is,” she said.
The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then handed it back saying,

“Okay, you can go. I didn’t realize you were a cop.”

The bike is from a drug seizure and took them two years to get together. But, it is fully functional police interceptor. Has lights, siren, beetle bags (not pictured), officer even wears a full face Symax painted to look like the half shells they wear. (Gold and black)

The lights are in two bars under the front winshield the siren is tucked away on the left under the fairing. Rear lights are next to the lic. plate and are part of the tail lights as well as front parking lights. Word is they are buying a second one.”

Check out a picture of the bike here.

A man appeared before St. Peter at the pearly gates.

“Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asked.
“Well, I can think of one thing,” the man offered. “Once, on a trip to the Black Hills
out in South Dakota (Sturgis), I came upon a gang of high-testosterone bikers, who were
threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen.
“So, I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker and smacked him on the head,
kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground.” I yelled, “Now,
back off!! Or you’ll answer to me!”
St. Peter was impressed: “When did this happen?”

“Just a couple minutes ago”

What if a debugger could allow you to simply step BACKWARDS? Instead of all that hassle with guessing where to put breakpoints and the fear of typing “continue” one too many times… What if you could simply go backwards to see what went wrong?

This is the essence of the “Omniscient Debugger” — it remembers everything that happened during the run of a program, and allows the programmer to “step backwards in time” to see what happened at any point of the program. All variable values, all objects, all method calls, all exceptions are recorded and the programmer can now look at anything that happened at any time.

This video from the Google engineering lab is very good on this very subject.

Ok this is from the silly department for sure but it made me laugh. Shows you how hard that is. It is man against cow in this Matrix style battle.

I read an interesting article about a former Apple and Microsoft executive named Linda Stone. She has coined the phrase for an epidemic she identified as continuous partial attention. I have thought about this situation before now but she seems to think it is a great concern for our society and on an epidemic scale. I must say I tend to agree. I mean if you really think about all of the Blackberrries, email, instant messaging, cell phones, and the hundreds of other distractions we have every day you must wonder how much attention you have to give to each item you are working on. Are we really ever giving any task or project full attention? I don’t think so and I think that is why everyone feels that they are always falling behind and unable to acheive what seems like simple goals. They are simple tasks, we are just working on them all at the same time. I once thought having all of this connectivity and availability made us perform better but looking back on it all I believe we have negated a very powerful tool. The ability to focus! What do you think?

If not then you need to spend a few minutes reading this very inspiring story and watching the video.
From ESPN.com:

It took four minutes. Four measly minutes for high school senior Jason McElwain to morph from a relatively unknown student manager of the Greece Athena basketball team into a nationwide inspiration.

In those 240 seconds, the 5-foot-6 kid with autism, in his first-ever appearance in a high school game, scored 20 points and tied a school record with six 3-pointers. The grainy video clip of his jaw-dropping accomplishment — and the pandemonium that ensued in the gym — has made its way from Greece Athena in Rochester, N.Y., to “Good Morning America,” “SportsCenter” and CNN. And as much as it tugs at the emotions of sports fans all across the country, its most significant impact might be felt within the autism community, where doctors, parents and educators are still buzzing about what this all could mean for the treatment of this disease.