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From Bordick: Although I appreciate the capabilities, it's only a matter of time until someone remarks on this. Most have heard that the Chevy Nova sells poorly in Spanish-speaking countries because Nova translates as "It does not go." Well, "Pivo" in Croatian (I know, it's obscure) is Beer. So have fun driving the Nissan Beer.

Rescue Rick wants to keep you from cutting off your toes. Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom for excellent picture. This is from Lisa, who adds Apparently this is what you do with an MBA from the Tepper School? Ohhhh....burn.... Suck it Excel wizards.

Ronald McDonald goes sexy. In case you even had to guess, it's from Japan. No one claimed credit for this, but it seems like a derek or will original.

From Derek:Underground HipHop Videos

Not quite the standard bhendrix fare, but there are some classics from the Beastie Boys, Naughty by Nature, and the Pharcyde.

Also there's the video for All Caps by Madvillain and some freestyles from Eyedea

I do enjoy me some 'Sabotage' every now and then. -ed

From Derek: Just some guy, yelling and screaming. There are no words to describe it. He's right. -ed.

How to increase your gas mileage. Edmunds drove a Mustang and a Land Rover with various methods and charted the improvement in mileage. Turns out the best thing to do is to quit driving like me. That is, accelerating as much as possible and then slamming on the brakes. Inflated tires and cruise control also help.

The Flyak - the hydrofoil Kayak This seems like it would be hard as hell to use, but man is it cool. So what'ya say about putting it on an 8? Can't be that hard, right?

Some follow up on 'Scopes II' going down in Harrisburg Or as I like to call it, fucking morons on parade. And here's the quote of the millennium:

"They're babblers," said the pastor, the Rev. Jim Grove, who leads a 40-member independent Baptist church outside of Dover. "The more Ph.D.'s you get, it seems like the further away from God you get."

Opinion piece on Harriet Miers, Bush's supreme court pick. And this is from a conservative.

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.

Stolen from Cursor and Think Progress.

Engadget interviews Shigeru Miyamoto. He invented Mario. And every other good game. Ever. Without exception. Or something like that.

I think the difference is that Nintendo, itself, is an entertainment company. And for many years, we’ve been looking for ways to take ideas that can entertain people and turning those ideas into entertainment products. I think we’re very strong in that area and I think we’ll continue to be strong in that area. And I also think that because we’re a company that is selling not only the hardware, but also the software, that we’re putting those two pieces together as a product.

Three things real quick:

1. If you share an office with someone (or more specifically, me), please don't eat in the office. I can think of few things as gross as sitting in a silent room listening to someone chew their cud.

2. It seems like it would be a good idea to make fast food bags out of corrugated paper. The air in the corrugation would make a nice insulator. Tom, get on it.

2b. I'd like to get a deodorant brand where the cap sits flush with the holes where the goop comes out. When traveling, things take a beating and I end up with a cap full of deodorant, which is useless. Brown, I'm looking in your direction, even though you make detergent and stuff. But you're people who know people. Or if someone knows of such a dispenser, lemme know. I've tried about 4 different brands. (And yes, this is what my life has come to. On the Mazlow scale, I'm on step 8 - nitpicking details.)

3. I've received some excellent free swag due to my diligence with this here web site. I will debut it this weekend, take some pics, and throw credit where it's due. So you got that goin' for ya'. Which is nice.

pretty nasty football injury from this weekend All from ryan, who indicates probably not safe for work if yelling "holy shit" and throwing up is bad at your job.

Former Pitt and NFL player busted for running prostitution ring. Oh, those crazy nights in Monroeville.

Rival dance groups' competition erupts in a brawl.

I was looking at some of the site stats, and aside from the amazingly ridiculous list of nicknames, I saw this thread which kills me for its complete randomness as well as the depth and breadth of the discussion. Just thought I'd share.

Autoweek tests the Bugatti Veyron. No longer do I have to answer "What's the fastest car?" with "The McLaren F1" and get weird looks. Now I can say Bugatti Veyron.

987HP.
2.5s to 62.
7.3s to 125!! That's less time than a Neon's 0-60.
$1.2 Million

The engine? A turbo W16. 4 seperate turbos. Picture 4 of the high output TT engines mated to the same crankshaft. That's what this is. Sort of.

New USGP ticket language says FU. If they don't put on a race, they don't owe you anything. And they wonder why I'm done.

From Derek: I saw this late night on Television. Midgets selling real estate.

And in case you were too busy watching Desperate Housewives, you missed Dave Attell's Insomniac Tour Special with Dane Cook, Sean Rouse, and the very unfunny Greg Giraldo. The site has a fair amount of clips from the show. Worth checking out, unless you hate comedy.

Former Fox reporter says Fox News sucks.

"I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows.

"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."

Stolen from Cursor. Update Link fixed.

Rocket Racing! jm sent the tag and link. It's pretty much F1 in the sky.

A bunch of ski movie trailers. It's getting to be that time...

Damaged landing gear photos. These are not the parts from the recent LAX incident, but from something similar also involving a Jet Blue plane. Junior foad, make this round again!

All from will: Doctor sued for sexing up patient. Hopefully, he'll pull out the "Don't hate the player, hate the game" defense.

This is going too far. All from Derek.

From will: That's it. We now have the answers for gay rights, dinosaurs, religion, and evolution. Thank Carl Everett for these answers.

"The worst is over, but those demons want you back bad, and they're going to keep at you. Living holy is harder than hitting a baseball or dodging a transport truck coming at you at 100 miles an hour."

From will: D-bag got a "2005 NBA Champs" pistons tattoo. Right before game 7 last year. And from the look of things, he's quite the lady killer too.

So Vancouver is the best city in the world to live. Pittsburgh and Cleveland are the U.S. top cities on the list... Thanks to shoof for this one.

Python tries to eat a gator. Fails. Includes pic. This one's from oof. He should have asked Prommel how he ate the sedan.

Dolphins can sing Batman theme. This one's brought to us by our own resident Jack Hanna - oof.

Anything but iPod.com

Conservatives upset about Miers nomination. If you actually care, I'm sure you've heard all of this. I had the opportunity to see a little more of our country, and with the choice of christian rock, country, talk radio, and silence, I went with talk radio. The talk radio show was featuring two southern women complaining about how awful this was and how Bush had betrayed everyone and how they weren't sure he had Jesus in his heart. It was awesome. I almost drove off the road laughing.

I still don't think anyone knows what this Miers thinks (and it stinks of cronyism), but man, it's awesome to watch. Thanks W. So when does Kutcher jump in?

Beano sent these in. They originally came from his dad, with the comment You aren't going to believe this. Talk about a Pi-thon. Priceless. Good followup on yesterday's snake-eats-gator story.

All from Blum, who made me laugh out loud at work: Nicholas Cage has apparently named his newborn son Kal-el Coppala Cage. It doesn't get any geekier than that.

I 'm naming my first born Ultimate Warrior Blum.

And if you think he's kidding, may I remind you he's ridden a bull? -ed.

Tasteless Halloween costumes. And by tasteless I mean 'awesome'. Shek passed this along. I thought I had posted it previously, but couldn't find it.

Real Estate for sale in Maine. Read the description.

All from Will: So that crazy robot car is back. And this time it won't be stopped. You may remember it from such grandparent killing efforts as this one.

Skynet did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

From derek: A collection of End of the World Scenarios. Fun for the whole family.

mmmm... peak oil. -ed.

I just got some Friendster spam. Someone set up a profile and just started sending messages to visit their girl-on-a-web-cam site. Seriously, what is wrong with people? And who goes to a web site and thinks oooo, a girl with a web cam. I'll pay them money.? Because if there wasn't incentive, they wouldn't do it. Oh well.

On a side note, Friendster has added a 'Who looked at my profile' page, so no more anonymous 'browsing'. Which used to seem like the whole point.

GM dumps share in Subaru. Toyota picks up a share. Jay Park sent this around, adding Toyota rules, GM sucks.

Cheerleader pics from various leagues From Super Anonymous, who says Safe for work, unless you work in the bible belt

From bw: Not feeling creative this morning...too much Montreal last night. Just watch this.

From jm, aka the newscientist filter guy: A headline like this can only mean on thing, the 2005 IgNoble Awards have been announced.

When nature calls, brooding chinstrap and Adélie penguins are reluctant to leave their nests and expose their eggs to the cold. Instead, they simply point their rear outward, lift their tail, and fire. The departing excreta typically reaches distances of about 40 centimetres.

Lindsay Lohan's wrecked SL65. I'm on the verge of tears. I don't care whose fault it was, wrecking an SL65 is criminal. And giving one to a, uh, teenager? is also criminal. Update Deemed NSFW due to ads on page.

From miolla: A funny article that Impala Jeff passed along For those of you who don't know Impala Jeff, his name is Jeff and he drives a Impala.

An interview with Garey Busey. Still crazy. From will.

This is all from boot: Has anyone tried to use an RF transmitter to broadcast your ipod to your car's receiver?

Does anyone know a brand RF transmitter work better than another, or does the iPod not work well with these devices...

From jm: Best. Teen Girl Squad. Ever. So, I guess that doesn't take much. But this one is in color...

Also from jm: Melting Polar Caps could unlock 1/4 of the Earth's Fossil Fuel Resources. So, the oil scarcity solution to global warming probably isn't going to work. Also, Russia, China, and the US have a whole new area to fight over. Awesome.

Fortune's most envied people. Jake Burton in the hiz-ous. Paul Allen, Theo E, and J Stewart made it as well. Nice.

Long Island Wine Tasting

Admittedly, we did a little more than just taste. Thanks big time to Cara for organizing everything.

I said I would debut the greatest site-related gift ever, and here it is. Many, many thanks to Dean for this bad boy.

The top 15 Bush appointment hacks. Number 1 goes to Ms. Miers, who I'm actually starting to feel a little bad for. But No. 2 is pretty excellent.

John Pennington - Director, Region Ten, Federal Emergency Management Agency

A former state representative who ran a coffee business with his wife in rural Washington, Pennington served as Cowlitz County co-chairman of the Bush campaign in 2000. . .

just before he was appointed to his fema post, Pennington received his bachelor’s degree from an unaccredited California correspondence school that federal investigators later described as a “diploma mill.”

Kanye West and Mike Meyers on SNL [WMV Video] I can't believe they made/let this happen.

Truth or dare with iPod Nano as prize gets way out of hand. Joel sent this to me and let me know that If this doesn't belong on bhendrix, i don't know what does. And he would be right. I'm a little hesitant on the truth to all this, but it's a great story anyway. Be sure to read to the end.

Google RSS Reader also from Joel. I got to the site, but it's been importing my 50-some feeds via OPML for the past 15 minutes. It also never seems to load the bhendrix feed from feedburner. If you want a direct link to that, it's just http://bhendrix.com/index.xml, but then it still never seems to load.

So just to get things straight, it doesn't seem to do anything at the moment and doesn't provide the features or functionality of Newsgator or Bloglines or any other site that can easily digest and organize a rigidly formatted text file.

Dear Google,

Please clean up the giant dump you just took on my browser.

Thanks, Brian.

Oh good, they're showin it again, look, look, look, look. [WMV Video] Nasty crash. From Derek. Update Both guys survived. Amazingly.

From Philippe: jetBlue is doing two major expansions over the next year. One from JFK to Austin, Richmond, Burlington, Buffalo and a new Boston shuttle. The other is from BOS to Austin, Nassau, Richmond, West Palm Beach, Burlington, Buffalo and again the JFK shuttle which is starting at $25.

Bears QB Kyle Orton knows how to party down during bye week. From bean.

From will: Steven Segal Energy Drink. Right.

Also, if you check out his IMDB page, you'll see that he's playing the role of "Cock Puncher" in the upcoming "The Untitled Onion Movie".

From will: A tribute to above average baseball player Gary Gaetti. Keep scrolling down. It never, never ends. And there's sound.

Brought to you by doodie.com From miolla. Gross and not very funny. -ed

From boot: Marcus Camby, in the midst of a 45 million dollar contract, wants an allowance becuase the NBA may force him to adhere to a dress code.

EARTH TO MARCUS CAMBY -- you can get a decent suit for less than you paid for your Jerry West throwback and that set of gold fronts.

New Harry Potter trailer. From oof. In other news, the Apple Trailer feed is hosed and probably dead for good. They implemented all the 'features' I had on the site. Although their RSS feed licks.

Mom squeezes out 16th pup. I'm not even sure how they would stay in anymore. Talk about a hot dog in a hallway. Kid #9 must feel like a unique flower. Anyway, nobody wanted to claim this.

From derek: For a company that comes out with all sorts of goofy crap, this is by far the worst. I don't really understand the point/appeal of this, and the comments make my head hurt. I will not mention which LA apartment I think I saw one of these in during a recent visit. -ed.

Boing Boing summary of why the iPod video sucks. Playes for 2-3 hours on a battery and you have to jump through hoops to work around the DRM. Oh well. Maybe someone will get dared into a Dirty Sanchez and I'll write about that.

LA's Catholic priests are kid-fuckers too. This time it goes back 75 years. And they managed to fight releasing the records for three years. Congratilations, guys.

Insane Street Fighter video clip. Be sure to read the explanation on the side. Stolen from hedonistica.

NBC Poll shows Bush approval at 2% among African Americans. And now onto the obligatory Kanye remark - George Bush doesn't care about black people's approval. Thank you and good night.

From bw: Wanna see what happenes when you buy a house? Check out some pics from the Simmons Housewarming.

WXPN's 885 greatest albums of all time. If you're in the Harrisburg/Philly area, this is the only station you should listen to. Except when they play kids' music. Also of note are other people's (Gang of Four, etc.) top 10 lists at the bottom.

Design helicopters' T-Shirt. Win a signed CD + 5 regular copies as well as the shirt, and of course, pride. So get cracking. And if you missed it before, buy their excellent album.

I saw somebody use one yesterday, and it was weird.

Darpa Videos of the robot cars. That are cars. And robots. This one's from "My Robot Balls". Har.

All jm: Cat born with two tongues. In related news, sales of Creamy Peanut Butter soar in Dobson, NC.

All miolla: A Teachers goes CRAZY on her studemts. Gives head to one, let others peek down her shirt, slashed her wrists for show and tell! WTF! I totally went to the wrong grammer school.

This is from dean: hey guys, i am in the market for a new laptop and was wondering your thoughts. basically, i need something that is light and powerful enough to do the basic office and internet functions and the occasional statistical coding (SAS) when i am traveling. i have been looking at these:

Toshiba Portege (R200-S234)
Dell Inspiron 700M
Dell X1
Sony VGN S460
IBM X40
Sony T340

since my fellowship is paying for it, cost is not really a consideration. thoughts?

A fun little 12 step process to becoming a Republican. From miolla. I thought I had posted this previously, but I guess not - ed.

White House Press Secretary Says Reporter Opposes 'War on Terrorism' This was in response to a comment about one of his BS answers. I can't believe he didn't just ask why she hates America. Clearly she hates America and wants everyone to die. Everyone that's a real American.

Can we just replace everyone in the Bush administration with real clowns instead of these semi-clowns or ass-clowns as the case may be? That would be a lot more entertaining and probably not as detrimental to the nation on the whole. Plus it would make all those people who say they're afraid of clowns freak out. And that would be neat.

New ad shows Smurfs getting bombed. All from Rollins. You'll need IE to watch the video - ed.

The Bush 2% approval by blacks is more like 12%. The 2% NBC/WSJ poll was based on a sample of 89 people. Pew research puts it at 12% with a larger sample. The blog linked puts a lot of other crap around it, but that's the main gist. Quick Update Apparently the Pew sample was 135 people who were 81% Republican and 8% Democrat. So yea, polls suck.

UNLV-Nevada fans decide to piss in the stands.

The NY Times investigates beer pong. And a few other drinking games. There are some tremendous quotes in the article.

From boot: Burch's and my high school has a dedicated teacher for in-school suspension... (all the way at the bottom) Any guess on how much that guy makes? -ed.

From Jacques: For whoever has seen the Shining (which better be all of you... because your house didn't raise you to be a pansy)... I saw this gem on iFilm's Viral Videos... depicting the Shining as a happy, feel-good movie... awwwww.

From Derek: flip, flip, spin, and kick. The mute button is your friend. This seems like an audition tape for Jackie Chan or something. -ed.

Autoblog looks at the Audi A4 Avant (Wagon) They point out all the cool little things about it, including the fact that the cargo cover folds down with the seats. If you've dealt with one that stays, you'll know how cool this is. Otherwise, carry on. I'd like mine in S4, please.

From Bob: A preview of the Colbert Report Reading this arcticle, I cannot tell where Colbert has stopped being quoted and where the 'journalist' picks back up with thier own mockings of the right-wing media. I know it's just a TV review, but I don't think I have seen clear leftist bias on CNN like this in a long time.

I think the 8th paragraph is the real problem. The article's actually from AP. CNN just picked it up. -ed

Bob and Tom's ode to Camel Toe. [WMV Video] Ryan sent this along. He received it as a consolation for a rough football weekend. Even I feel bad for the Steelers. Sort of. Definitely not safe for work. Note the definitely in there.

New Aaron Sorkin show picked up by NBC. It's Sport Night meets SNL in an hour-long format. I don't care if he has to smoke crack twice a day, this better happen.

The Dude is based on a real guy. The one from The Big Lebowski, that is. Tremendous.

A collaborative web site for How-To projects. There's all kinds of random stuff on here. Some of the projects are pretty cool - e.g. LEGO Chocolate printer, bicycle wheel spoke art, etc.

Lavar is the poster boy for overrated top draft picks.

Penny Arcade donates $10K to call out a douche bag. So if you're a nerd, you've probably been following this, but a guy named Jack Thompson has been on a crusade against video games for a while. He recently stepped up his rhetoric and said he would donate $10k to charity if someone created a game based on "A father’s vengeance on the game industry after his son is killed by a gamer." Well someone did (a mod for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas) and now he says it was satire. The guys at Penny Arcade, as yet another way to piss this guy off, just donated the $10,000 to charity in Jack Thompson's name.

Top magazine covers ever. Yada yada yada. Scroll down to the list on the right and check out #7. 3...2...1... chug.

Update You can get all the images at magazine.com. The server is really slow at the moment, but they will show up. Check out #16.

Former Seattle Police chief says legalize drugs. All of 'em. Couldn't agree more.

Time's 100 best books since 1923 A lot of really good ones made the list - Gatsby, Eyes are Watching God, Slaughterhouse-Five, etc. The omission of Atlas Shrugged and the inclusion of On the Road are both irritating. Kerouac and his BS 'book' can lick my balls. And in case you want to argue 'significance', the list says 'best'.

The Uber Tap Three spouts are better than one and a foot pump is icing on the cake. Beautiful.

From derek: Kimmel's RKelly In the Closet parody

and the original as performed by the Sims

(nsfw due to gorillamask's lovely advertising policies)

From jm: Young gorilla suprises scientists with nut cracking ability. Coupled with Bobby D's shoulder hair, I think we have proof positive for evolution. In related news, the young gorilla received invitations to join the Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Delta Gamma sororities. I believe clapping and yelling are already innate, so no worries there. -ed

Algebra Help.com Check out the calculators on the right. They don't just spit out the answer, they show work. Wow.

MTV's retrospect on the NES From boot. It turns 20 next week.

What the NES launch in America had on the one hand in Japan was an immediate introduction of what would be the era's most influential game — "Super Mario Bros." Launched in Japan in September 1985, the game quickly followed for American release. In Japan, in fact, the game was intended to be the last hurrah for the Famicom. Miyamoto said his team of designers was preparing to work on games for a new disk-based system and close the cartridge-based Famicom with a bang.

Torrents aplenty for TV shows. They have pretty much anything you could ever wish for. I've been getting my Stewart and Bristow fixes from them lately. It maxes out my connection every time.

From miolla: Make sure that your old lady is taken care at all times throughout the day. Send an SMS to her vibrator. I can't believe that I didn't think of this. I DEFINITELY feel a line of t-shirts will be born out of this. I'm marking this no desks just because I didn't even want to pull it up at work. -ed.

ScienTOMogy

Because it doesnt matter what relgion you belong to, one thing we can all agree about is that scientology is cukoo for coco puffs. All from Derek. Three words: Number of Members -ed.

From Derek: 3 Point shoot out

Another flash game, why not?

Steve Kerr, I am not.

Some of the most important albums in Rap History are acknowledged here. Just click and enjoy. From miolla. Warning: Annoying sound and site background -ed.

From miolla: Gentlemen. Welcome to RateMyCamelToe.com Your new web browser start page. It's a thing of beauty. I'm sure that I will be barred from posting to BHendrix.com in 10, 9, 8, 7, ...

From will: Top 10 sitcoms of the 90s... "Third Rock from the Sun" was about as much fun as eating glass.

Can't think of any great oversights... "Living Single" or "Martin" maybe...

Reporter works a month at near minimum wage. It's not pretty.

I kept a job and a roof over my head and my belly mostly full - a life of minimalist survival. I couldn't have supported a child or taken a vacation, a day off or a sick day. To do better, I'd need to do what so many, like Julio, do: work a second job. An illness or work slowdown could have plunged me into homelessness.

Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack Someone sent this in and didn't claim it. Perhaps they'll join the zombie protesters:

What do we want?
Brains!
When do we want them?
Brains!

Bud withdraws 'water pong' game They mentioned this in the NYTimes story I posted on Saturday.

Tremendous sermon about how being gay is wrong The first link goes to audio of the sermon, which is 3 minutes of your time well spent. The rest is just gravy.

Video of a guy "ringing a bell". Naj and Brick both sent this my way.

Bill O'Reilly on The Daily Show [WMV Video] Here's hoping he has to pay another couple million dollars to someone he sexually harassed.

This is from Joiner: I found this discount on ben’s bargains for visiondirect.com. It is the best deal you will find on contact lenses, but you can get other things too. I put in all the discount codes listed and ended up ordering $300 worth of things for $100.

No idea how long this deal will last, but I figured saving everyone 70% on contacts = good indeed -ed.

Harriet Miers's Blog From Charlie.

"The blog of the #1 smartest President ever's #1 pick to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court!"

Jack Thompson fought with Penny Arcade and lost. He's under 'investigation' by the Florida Bar Association. This follows up on the previous post.

Because he got Served. A warrant. Sri, please note that I didn't make any jokes concerning the loot, the warrant, or the crook. Do it Rockapella!

Fun with a donkey caught on infrared [3MB WMV Video] This one's from Burch. I guess this is in Afghanistan somewhere. And yes, they spelled "we're" wrong. Mildly not safe for the work.

From miolla: A dude asks for a longer jail term in order for the numbers of years to match Larry Bird's Jersey number. What... a... loser...

From boot: Nike and Bausch & Lomb team up to bring you tinted contact lenses...

it's the first time an internet banner ad has worked on me -- i went straight to the eye doctor and got a sample pair for golf -- they are pretty dope

Random video of two Chinese guys singing a Backstreet Boys song. This one's from Ryan, who adds Am I the only one that wouldn't be totally shocked if there is a video similar to this staring Gould and Joiner?

If someone has a video of a certain someone's NSync-inspired Mr. Fraternity talent, I will definitely post it. -ed.

Funny Picture From Leon.

Bordick asks: I probably shouldn't do this because every one will start blathering their opinion but. . . I will be getting back into snowboarding after being out for a few years. Since boarding in Corpus Christi, TX was hard, I stopped following it. Who is making good boards? Are there still primarily two types of boots (soft and clip-in)? What size should I be looking for? When can my yard rats start with me? I'm sure this is a big mistake.

Boards: Burton, Rome or Palmer - Possibly Lib Tech or GNU
Bindings: Burton or possibly Technine
Boots: Burton, 32, DC - whatever fits the best.

Clip-ins are pretty much dead. I think there's only a couple models still made and this is probably the last year for those. I think some of the ski makers make decent boards (K2, Salomon), but I choose not to buy from them so I can't tell you much about them.

Length is based on weight and what kind of riding you want to do. I've ridden a 155, 156.5, and 160 and they've all been okay. Guessing at your weight from the last time I saw you, you probably can't go wrong in the high 150s. You'll get a good balance of stability at speed and quick turning. Anything less than like 155 is probably too short and anything much over 162ish will feel like a barn door. If you're not going to be going mach 8, closer to 155 is probably better.

As for kids, you may as well ask me if breast feeding is better than formula. The smallest board Burton makes is for a 35-45lb kid. So that's like, what, 9? In all honesty I have heard it's easier for 3-4 year olds to ski but after that they can ride. -ed.

An entire web site based around antiquing people From caldeira. NSFW due to the adds on the page.

Joan Rivers is a racist. [Real Audio] From oof. Start listening around the 22:45.

Dispute over $241,000 Scores bill Which brings me to my next point: I need to open a Scores franchise. Or become a stripper. Probably the former. Someone submitted this but didn't claim it.

After a lawsuit last year, Hanover said that "high rollers" visiting Scores' "super elite Presidents' Club" spend thousands of dollars on single bottles of champagne and tip strippers as much as $10,000 for lap dances and for spending time with them.

Hanover said that each time a patron spends $10,000, Scores calls the customer's credit card company to get the charges approved. Scores even fingerprints the customer and requires him to get on the telephone with a credit card representative, he said.

Bunch of Hooker Lane residents fighting over street name change. It's in Greenwich, so yea. This one's from stiner.

Dr. Kopeloff said the naughty association of the street name never really bothered him until his neighbors noted that it might hurt property values. "That made me change my mind," he said.

Ali G is doing promo spots for the nba on tnt. from derek.

From jm: Mary Kate and Ashley, if they were white supremacists Of course, if chad's first, he only get's 500k

A Capella versions of nintendo songs. [QT Video] This one's from oof, who says it's great. Depending on your penchant for a capella music and wacky musical theater hijinks, you may think it's the most annoying thing you've seen in a few months.

Because it's only 3 years away

CBS Poll: 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form. Of course, it's plus/minus 4 points, so it could be as low as 47%.

There is one ray of hope:

Still, most Americans think it is possible to believe in both God and evolution. Sixty-seven percent say this is possible, while 29 percent disagree. Most demographic groups say it is possible to believe in both God and evolution, but just over half of white evangelical Christians say it is not possible.

Do Hybrids Save Money? No. This one's from Brick, who says Not a surprise... Maybe if you buy a used one you'd have a better shot at saving gas $?

In all fairness he compared a Prius with a bottom of the line Civic, which is a pretty apple/orange comparison, as the Prius is well equipped standard. I can't find the numbers, but a hybrid Civic and a regular Civic are apparently about $2000 apart when comparably equipped. There's a lot of interesting points in the comments at Autoblog. -ed.

The Bugatti Veyron has a HP gauge It's on the lower left there.

Both of these are from my Dad: Excellent snowblower available. Check out the capacity. Ow.

How to get rid of chipmunks Posts 2-8 and some below are worth reading. I can attest to the effectiveness and workability of the swimming pool.

The quote of the day is post 5: "oh - and I didn't exacttly releae them"

From jm: Results of first NASA sponsored space elevator competition. No one won. Here's hoping for one before I leave this mortal coil.

NASA has a tether that weighs 2 grams and holds 590kg? If that's right, wow. Someone posted to Slashdot the other day about shooting nuclear waste into the sun as a way to get rid of it. This would be an excellent way to do that. And does anyone know if that would cause problems? -ed.

From bw: A new F1 aero kit design for 2007 will allow for better drafting and thus more overtaking. Red Tom was quick to point out that if Jag was still racing, they would then have 2 wings to lose during the race. What an ass.

I'm only posting this because bw submitted it with excellent formatting and a joke to boot. -ed.

Bank of America will help you save by rounding up. The matching seems nice, I guess. Is the whole point to get you to use your card at more places? i.e. not pay with cash? This one's from Paul Wall, who echoes my thoughts: So I'm gonna ask a stupid question. Why does the bank want to do this? Am I missing something?

From boot: Apparently, there is a problem with crime in Homewood...and NOW the residents are fed up...

"Ms. Moss told the crowd that while five or six people in a car could drive through Homewood selling drugs at their whim, the same five or six "would get stopped before getting across Murray Avenue.""

From Spemin Willie Bemen: The NYT will be running one of my uncle's crossword puzzles tommorrow (WED october 26th). For anyone that does them, make sure to pick up a times.

Man fined $500 for impersonating Ben Roethlisberger

A judge accepted Jackson's plea deal to a reduced charge because Jackson completed a psychological evaluation and has stayed away from his accusers.

Alabamans interact with the British foreign minister This is from boot (along with the tag line) and he adds this is such a good read

For the car fans from Philippe: S8! Nuff said.

Review of a new Ninja-themed restaurant. This one's from Spemin Willie Bemen, who adds I wonder if the food critic crapped his pants upon entering...

A video of stuff. From Anagha, who doesn't know how she came across this... I haven't watched this, but here it is. -ed

From Rollins: That fat guy from Star Wars has died The greatest actor in the Star Wars universe. And no, I don't mean Sir Alec Guiness.

He's 'pulling up' in the great beyond now.

From mayes, who says he's new to this buying and owning thing: OK. So I'm finally going to buy a tv. I've decided on a 23-26 inch flat screen. Flat screen CRT or flat screen flat panel (LCD)? -ed My question concerns HD monitor vs built in tuners. What exactly is the deal here? Specifically (Rob brought this up), does either choice have anything to do with the new blu-ray stuff (i.e. will I need to get a fancier blu ray dvd player to play on my tv, etc)?

I think oof, nino, and a host of others can speak to this better than I can, but here's my $.02 and a grain of salt - o: I've understood that for pretty much anything under 27" HD doesn't really matter. That said, I've heard the new HD-DVD/Blu-Ray stuff will require an HDMI input to run at uber-high resolutions but will run at lower resolutions using other inputs. I have no idea about the integrated/non-integrated tuners and how that works with cable/dish, etc. Wow. That's worth like $.01. Sorry. -ed

Forget about the indictments for a second, what's up with all the lying? If anyone in America believes that Dick Cheney hasn't been lying to this country since the day he took office, I've got some land they'll be interested in.

Man arrested for poo where it shouldn't be. From Nino. That's about as delicately as I can put it.

Are you a male or female brain? Takes about 10-15 minutes to do. Ideally requires a millimeter ruler for one part, but you may be able to fake it. I scored 0.

From will: The football coach at Air Force is getting in trouble for saying they lost cus they didn't have enough black players. Or something. I'm trying to figure out why this is such a big deal.

Sugraloaf in ME got 40" of snow. Even accounting for the usual BS ski mountain counting, that's at least two feet. Wow.

Top Gear's original review of the McClaren F1 [Google Video]

Get out on the town

Helicopters are playing tomorrow night at the Elbo Room in Chicago. You better be dead, or in jail, and if in jail break out, etc.

From jm: CNN article on why real estate commissions remain high. As an excercise for the reader, please point out any and all flawed economic arguments you see. You have 10 minutes.

W says Miers withdrew because the Senate wanted too much information. I am not making this up.

I understand and share her concern, however, about the current state of the Supreme Court confirmation process. It is clear that Senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House -- disclosures that would undermine a President's ability to receive candid counsel.

from miolla: Big Pimpin' Yoda strike back [Google Video] That description actually has nothing to do with the video but just enjoy it.

From miolla (obviously): I still have no idea why people are into these videos. It's totally worthless.

From jm: Suicide mistaken for Halloween decoration. 'Tis the season.

From Goldsmith: Liberal college journalism meets liberal minded coed women at UNC. And my vote for best intro for a college newspaper article:

"Students walking through Polk Place on Nov. 10 can play a game of pin-the-finger on the clit as part of the Orgasm Awareness Festival..."

From bean: George Takei, portrayer of Star Trek's Sulu, comes out of closet. I always wondered why he was checkin out Chekov. Oh, and make sure you check out the picture with the story.

More amateur videos - Curry n' Rice girl This one's from Anagha. It gets really repetitive, so if you watch the first minute, you've pretty much got the whole thing.

And in case you wanted more Google video, may I recommend the plethora of car porn that is the Top Gear search. The 430, Carrera GT, and Transit Nurbrgring (Nurbrgring in a Van in under 10 minutes) videos are particularly excellent.

CMU shows off instant translation device. It picks up the sounds you make with your mouth and then translates them on the fly. And not just easy stuff. It did Mandarin to English and Spanish during a demo. This one's from Joel.

Scalito - the newest Supreme Court nominee As the Democrats don't have the votes to get rid of him, he'll be in there in a couple months and abortion will be all kinds of difficult to get. Guess it'll help with the next edition of Freakanomics in about 18 years. The rest of his decisions seem okay to me.

Among his noteworthy opinions was his lone dissent in the 1991 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the 3rd Circuit struck down a Pennsylvania law that included a provision requiring women seeking abortions to notify their spouses.

This one's from Joe.

House proposes cuts in child support enforcement, increased fees for student aid and approves ANWR drilling. This would be to pay for tax cuts for the rich, the war in Iraq, hurricaine relief, and a whole lot of bridges to nowhere.

Uninformed conservatives groups want to limit use of a vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer. It might get in the way of the 'abstinence message'. Determining what these people should shove and where is left as an exercise for the reader.

The vaccine protects women against strains of a ubiquitous germ called the human papilloma virus. Although many strains of the virus are innocuous, some can cause cancerous lesions on the cervix (the outer end of the uterus), making them the primary cause of this cancer in the United States. Cervical cancer strikes more than 10,000 U.S. women each year, killing more than 3,700.

The vaccine appears to be virtually 100 percent effective against two of the most common cancer-causing HPV strains. Merck, whose vaccine is further along, plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration by the end of the year for approval to sell the shots.

All from will: Some pics from Florida State While the hot co-eds are awesome, check out the picture on the bottom left...that guy rocks.

From miolla: NASA has developed a "robot skin" embedded with sensors so robotic devices can react to their environment. To demonstrate the technology, NASA engineer Vladimir Lumelsky orchestrated a bizarre performance piece starring a ballerina and a robotic arm. The result is phallictastic. This is perhaps the most erotic completely safe for work thing that I've ever seen.

From miolla as well: I have no idea what this is or how it got to me. But it's so wierd that it's worth a look.

From miolla: Another Super Mario Theme done by a good musician. Sick skills on the Nofriendo there.

Video of the guy stealing the ball from Favre. Stolen from Fark.

In this case, i'm talking about shows on broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, etc.) - not cable (Discovery) or pay (HBO). It's currently illegal.

Illegal Soapbox derby. Every car must have a beer holder. Beautiful. Stolen from BoingBoing.