Archive: July 2008

Bumac Vitas is a famous singer from Russia that can belch out notes only dogs could hear. The video of him here starts out pretty normally and then goes quickly into high-gear a little bit into the song. You have to watch this to believe it. CRAZY VOICE. Thanks Mun!

windows-logo-vista

Click on image for full resolution image I just stumbled upon (not with StumbleUpon, by the way) the Microsoft Press Pass image gallery and it’s chock-full of wonderfully hi-res product shots, box shots, official portraits, and other miscellaneous company images. Almost every image is available in 72dpi and 320dpi formats. FANTASTIC!

blackburn-combo

I just bought the Blackburn Voyager 3.0 and Mars 3.0 bicycle light combo yesterday from L.L. Bean for $35, with FREE SHIPPING thanks to RetailMeNot.com. This is a pretty good deal if you’re looking for a good front and back lighting system for your bicycle (or if you just want to wear some lights).

kayak-pacific

I sorta did this for fun, not really knowing what to expect as a result of my search for directions, but I did it anyway. I went to Google Maps and asked it how to get from my house in NYC to a popular shopping mall in Melbourne called Melbourne Central. To my surprise, Google [...]

earthquake-rubble-la

Photo: AP Photo/Ric Francis You may have heard about the moderate 5.4 magnitude earthquake that hit 35 miles east of LA on Tuesday morning. It wasn’t “the big one”, but it was violent enough to cause minor disruption and give a lot of people in downtown LA quite a shock. Raw video is coming in [...]

apotd-milky-way-canada

This photo is amazing. From APOD: Sometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears. Such was the case earlier this month over Ontario, Canada, when part of a spectacular sky also became visible in a reflection off a lake. To start, the brightest objects visible are bright stars and the planet [...]