The world’s largest carpet. It is about 6000 sq. meters and costs $5.8 million USD! Craziness. Strangeness. Amazing!
Real headline on Yahoo! News: Why people have sex: It feels good. I didn’t even bother to read the article since the headline just told me the whole story.
Here’s a page full of information and news about the Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse that happened a few days ago. Here’s how it all supposedly happened.
The pictures are still mesmerizing. [via]
Day 2 photos of the bridge collapse.
There are also plenty of news videos and user-submitted videos from the bridge site. Scary.
All this news of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN is reminding me a lot of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse that was caught on video.
I forgot to remind everyone that 300 is out on DVD (and HD-DVD and Blu-ray). Yay!!
Wow. Virgin America will be purplicious when it arrives in the US for service. Awesome! These planes look great!
The entertainment system aboard is the highlight. Every seat is equipped with an in-flight entertainment device (IFE). Developed internally at Virgin America, the system is named Red and provides live satellite tv, movies, mp3s, games and plane-wide chatting. Yes, chatting. There is a general chatroom, a private invite channel for your friends, and direct user-to-user messaging. When watching television, you have the option to chat with everyone who is watching the same event.
The IFE runs Linux, boots over the network and has a full qwerty keyboard. All the processing is done locally, with the media residing on three servers living in the rear cargo area. Every seat includes 110v power, ethernet jack and USB ports. The USB ports are handy for charging your iPod or Blackberry, but you can also plug in a keyboard to use with the IFE. There are even two wifi base stations onboard, with internet access promised sometime next year.
Sounds great! I can’t wait!
The Nike Vintage website, featuring classic Nike items from back in the day, is very nice. When I was in Portland, OR in May, I almost bought myself one of these classic Nike shoes. But they didn’t have my size. I miss Oregon. Next year, hopefully! :)
BONUS: If you click the ‘Goodies’ link, you can get your own fake mustache! Nice.
Here is what being on Australian internet has done to me. Instead of reading all of my RSS feeds, I have to resort to reading only the ones whose headlines sound interesting. This means that I read a significantly less amount of feeds and posts. I can’t believe this will last for a year. Hahaha…sorta…
I’m a huge fan of EA’s Need For Speed racing series, so I’m excited for the November release of NFS: Pro Street.
I wonder if Midnight Club Los Angeles is going to be any fun.
it’s been day 2 of the bridge collapse?! how is it that u know more about what’s going on in the states than i do when ur in australia?! haha i need to start reading the news more..
RE: beccasung
i watch tv at night, and at night, the TV is daytime news in America. haha.