Archive for the 'crazy-in-tar-webs' Category

August 27th, 2008

Shoe Lacing

Ian’s Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods
Criss Cross Lacing
This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes and boots. The laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe.
Friday’s run in the woods turned into a run in the fields, which turned into a climb through the woods to get back [...]

August 25th, 2008

Headlines!

FOXNews.com - New York Prostitute With One Leg Dies After Being Knocked From Wheelchair - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
New York police said Friday a prostitute with only one leg was murdered in Brooklyn after a client hit her on the head and she fell out [...]

August 24th, 2008

Handlebars

YouTube - Flobots - Handlebars
I’ve had this song in my head for a little while now, but I had no idea who / what song it was.
bbbburns had a link to this youtube video in his away message and now I’m posting it here.

August 21st, 2008

F5 Refreshes you

Woot Shirt : One Shirt, No Shoes, No Service (SM)
I have been buying shirts from shirt.woot.com lately.  The shirt of the day is 10$ with free shipping, which is a great price for quality shirts with awesome designs.  Plus they are so unique and well, fun, that I get comments on them wherever I go.  [...]

August 20th, 2008

Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depleted uranium DU is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 U-238. Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. Because U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, natural uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by [...]

August 13th, 2008

Worst Person In The World

Joe. My. God.: Worst Person In The World: Stuart Shepard
Last night Keith Olbermann tapped Shepard as the “Worst Person In The World.”
Keith Olbermann is apparently kinda funny as well, in that sarcastic newscaster way that makes MSNBC watchable.
see Prayin for Rain

August 12th, 2008

Get a Haircut

Attn:Nickelback
Make Chat Kroeger get a haircut before you make any more music videos.  We watch the HD music video channel in the morning before work as something to eat and drink coffee to, and Photograph came on.  The song doesn’t really make any sense to me, but I think its nice to listen to as [...]

August 10th, 2008

Suantum of Quolace

YouTube - Quantum of Solace - Proposed Theme Song
It has a strangly addicting beat, and the song itself is just hilarious.
What is a Quantum of Solace anyway?

August 9th, 2008

Top 10 Armor/Bodysuits

Top 10 Armor/Bodysuits | Casualty Gamer
If there’s one thing that’s been established in a video game, it’s that you can rarely succeed without donning a full-bodied, hi-tech armored suit of some kind. Sometimes these very suits define the character; they are such iconic symbols that one immediately knows the game that they are from. In [...]

August 8th, 2008

Prayin for Rain

9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Focus on the Family asks people to pray for rain during DNC
COLORADO SPRINGS – A video producer for Focus on the Family is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Obama is [...]

August 8th, 2008

Brain-er-cise

How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter | LiveScience
Because it burns calories so quickly, aerobic exercise is a threat to the body’s energy reserves. Heeding this danger, the body acts to protect one of its most precious, and energy-demanding, organs: the brain.
Unlike cells in less critical organs, neurons are extremely vulnerable to disruptions in energy [...]

August 7th, 2008

SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog

SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot - Boing Boing
Cheye Calvo, mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights, was raided by a SWAT team after 30lbs of marijuana was delivered to his home. They broke down his door, shot his two black labradors, and interrogated him and his wife as their [...]

August 6th, 2008

Crazy Reverend

via Joe. My. God.: Bipartisan Crazy

August 6th, 2008

Bush Tours America

YouTube - Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency
President Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency as they try to make sense of the destruction he has caused.
via Towelroad (and the Onion News Network)
More from The Onion:
The Onion: Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election
The Onion: ‘Gays Too Precious [...]

August 4th, 2008

Hess

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hess Corporation “Office Manager” And Her Husband Both Gave $28,500 To Elect McCain
As we reported below, ten Hess Corporation executives and Hess family members each gave $28,500 to the RNC’s committee to elect John McCain president, just days after he reversed his previous opposition to offshore drilling.
um, [...]