Month: April 2006

Did you know that the planet Uranus was originally named George (after King George III)?

PistolWimp presents the Google Video Incredible Machines, a 12-minute collection of mesmerizing Rube Goldberg-esque machines from a Japanese TV show. They would be even neater if I knew what the Japanese characters revealed at the end of each machine’s run meant…

W has the opportunity to respond to a serious question about Iraq from a student at Johns Hopkins University, so what does he do? Dodge the question, make weird panting noises, and say “I’m a call the secretary.” Moron. YouTube video below:

Among other things, the David Hasselhoff Compendium has playable versions of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Frogger with David Hasselhoff inserted into the games. Scary…

The YouTube video Die Hard: The Ballad of John McClane remixes Die Hard as a silent film:

It’s Christmas, 1924, and young Manhattanite John McClane visits olde Los Angeles towne to see his wife and enjoy yultide splendor. However, a few ne’er-do-wells have plans of their own, and C4.

You can watch the video in the embedded player below:

Blogger shmivejournal tests his hypothesis that replacing eggs in a cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs will be “SO AWESOME.” I had high hopes too at first glance, but apparently it didn’t turn out so well. I still want some. ;-p

Check out this amazing scratch-built (!) model of an Mil Mi-24 helicopter:

Fully scratch built, this model took just over 15 years (8000-10,000 hours) to complete. Begun in Kiev (Ukraine), in 1986 this masterpiece was profoundly difficult to construct due to the extreme scarcity of information on it. In 1986 the Mil-24 was still a top secret piece of military equipment. A set of blueprints was ultimately obtained from the manufacturer and over 1000 photographs were used to ensure complete accuracy in the reproduction.
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This helicopter has many authentic features including: linked controls (pedals that work in parallel motion), a battery powered motor that spins the main and tail rotor in the actual ratio of the original, adjustable tail rotor pitch, fabric covered stabilizer, landing gear with pneumatic rubber tires, compressable shocks, working lights, locks ,fans, aimable guns and titanium engine parts.

The rest of the site contains a couple of other very impressive models, all of which put the plastic kit models I used to build to shame…

Check out an amazing 70-minute mix of over 75 Prince songs entitled All Mixed Up. This guy is good…

GeoWhitePages is a cool mash-up of Google Maps and the White Pages. Enter someone’s name and a state, and voila, phone number(s) and address(es) are plotted on a Google Map. A bit scary, actually…

The Angry Alien crew does it again with Reservoir Dogs In 30 seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies).