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Sunday, May 19 2013 @ 01:57 PM PDT

Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie poster

Friday, February 16 2007 @ 03:26 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 3,861

It's like Boris Vallejo on acid!

The full-size image (rehosted) is here.

Source: Popcorn & Sticky Floors.

How to survive falling through ice into freezing water

Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 01:27 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 7,571

This interesting video shows you how to improve your chances of surviving a fall through thin ice into freezing water.

In summary, the first thing you do is concentrate on staying afloat and controlling your breathing, which will become very rapid due to cold shock. Once you have that under control, which may take a minute you have 2-5 minutes to climb out before you get too weak to save yourself. If you can't get out? You'll eventually go unconscious and drown. Rest with your arms out flat on the ice. With luck, they will freeze in place, keeping your head above water, maximizing the time for rescuers to help you. If you do everything right, you could survive for an hour or two before dying of hypothermia.

Seattle LFS Guide update

Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 11:33 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,373

Barrier Reef Aquariums in Renton, WA has been added to the Seattle LFS Guide.

SED TV a no-show at 2007 CES

Tuesday, January 02 2007 @ 02:36 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,438

This article at TVPredictions.com states that Toshiba will not be showing a SED TV at the upcoming CES show.

Toshiba and Canon said in October that a 55-inch SED would be available in late 2007, but the CES decision will likely fuel speculation that it won't make that deadline either.

List of canceled TV shows

Monday, January 01 2007 @ 02:25 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,461

Has your favorite TV show been canceled? Check this article to find out. So long, Justice and Day Break.

"Day Break - The Taye Diggs dramatic series was heavily hyped by ABC and brought in to take the place of Lost until it returned in February. Unfortunately, Day Break was pulled after six episodes. ABC planned to air the seven unaired episodes online but that was reportedly delayed due to music licensing issues. Now, it seems Day Break has been purged from the ABC website completely."

Movie Review: Crank (2006)

Sunday, December 31 2006 @ 11:49 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 3,030

Crank (2006)
Review score: Hell Yeah
Get Crank at Amazon on DVD or BluRay

Crank is an utterly absurd--but really entertaining--action movie starring Jason Statham. Statham, who you might remember as "Handsome Rob" in The Italian Job, here plays an amoral, antisocial hitman driven by revenge. You see, in the film's opening moments he's poisoned by one of his enemies, and the "synthetic Chinese shit" he's been dosed with will kill him if he doesn't keep his adrenaline level up. Sound stupid? It is stupid, but it's fun stupid. Crank is like Speed, but instead of that lady on a bus, you have Statham's dimwitted thug leaving a trail of destruction across Los Angeles as he tries to catch the guy who he thinks has already killed him. Along the way there is plenty of gore and coarse language, of course.

The action is competently done, though not as clever as, say, The Transporter. But what makes Crank really memorable are the weird effects and tongue-in-cheek style that permeate the picture. For example, you may see a hard word subtitled. When there's a brawl in a building, we see the sides briefly bulging in an exterior shot, like a cartoon. Stray bullet? It ends up popping an old lady's parakeet into a puff of green feathers. There's even a fall that makes the plunging Illinois Nazi car in The Blues Brothers look reasonable by comparison.

If you find stray bullets potentially hilarious, or you just like a good action movie, Crank is what the doctor ordered.

Learn how to polish and wax your car

Friday, December 22 2006 @ 01:53 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,354

Ever wondered how to do a proper wax job on your car? The Autopia Guide to Detailing has a ton of info. Learn about essential tools and how to use them, as in this article on the Porter Cable 7424 6" Random Orbital Polisher. (Click the "Learn" button on the site header for more articles.)

If you have read this far, you are probably they kind of person who would appreciate knowing about Collinite #845 Liquid Insulator Wax. Originally developed for protecting power lines (?!) it is supposed to be the bomb diggity for auto wax.

US pilots to be tried in Brazil

Friday, December 08 2006 @ 02:25 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,233

You may remember a story about a collision between a private jet and an airliner over the Brazilian jungle: the little jet survived, the big one didn't. Well, the biz jet's pilots are going to be charged by the Brazilian feds. For another perspective on the story, exonerating the pilots, read this post by Joe Sharkey, who was a passenger on the smaller plane. (Filed here under the Military topic because Brazilian air traffic is run by their air force.)

And in what I regard as a deliberate tantrum being thrown as a warning to Brazilian authorities not to even consider blaming Air Traffic Control for its obvious derelictions in the Sept. 29 crash, controllers have been staging work slowdowns that are snarling air travel throughout Brazil. If you're planning a trip to Rio soon, my advice would be: Hold off for a while, unless you like sleeping in airports.

You like gadgets, yes?

Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 04:19 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,227

The Gadgeteer is full of reviews. Good reading.

"Raising the Dead," the last dive of Dave Shaw

Friday, November 24 2006 @ 02:58 PM PST
Contributed by: matt
Views: 2,327

"At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, diving deeper than almost anyone had ever gone, Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. What happened after Shaw promised to go back is nearly unbelievable�unless you believe in ghosts."

This is a very interesting (and sobering) article on the dangers of cave diving. The cave in the piece is the third-deepest freshwater cave in the world, over 900 feet. Shaw's last moments were captured on his video camera, and the footage made it onto TV and then onto the net.

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