Sure, it’s no $400 million weather satellite, but NASA’s test of the new Orion vehicle’s parachute system is certainly up there in the “ouch” department — the high speed fall from 25,000 with precisely zero successful chute deployments is downright…
What’s your Swedish furniture name?
Along the lines of yesterday’s efforts, Merlin Mann linked to a new artistic trend: placing baby/toddler faces in old yearbooks to comedic/frightening effect. Here’s my quick attempt using my children as guinea pigs:
By way of Merlin Mann’s linkblog/tumblog, I stumbled across Yearbook Yourself, a site that allows you to insert your visage into yearbook photos of years gone by. While the above-linked shots of Mike Monteiro are downright hilarious, I shall allow…
Forget Rickrolling, you’ve been Barack-rolled! Bwahahaha!
Y’know, even though there’s a lot of stuff I disagree with the President on *cough*HarrietMiersNoChildLeftBehindEnergyPolicyMcCainFeingold*cough*, I still think the man’s a fundamentally decent human being. He comes in for way too much criticism from way too many people. That being…
Joe Cocker, everybody! Happy birthday! Heh.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: An episodic web “TV” show, created by Joss Whedon, starring Neil Patrick Harris as an aspiring supervillain (Dr. Horrible) whose plans are consistently thwarted by Captain Hammer (played by Nathan Fillion). Free, online, at the link…
It’s almost too good to be true. And then, 3/4 of the way in, you realize that it can’t be true. Heh. (By way of Extra Life.)
Segway crash tests. Segway. Crash tests. With real crash test dummies. ‘Struth.
