Archive for the 'cool' Category

my day is made….

Published
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dave
on May 30, 2007
in TEOTWAWKI and cool
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“Terminator 4″ will be based on a script by John Brancato and Michael Ferris (”Terminator 3″), and Halcyon plans to immediately begin preproduction on the film with the hope of a Summer 2009 release.

Factoid: Blue Moon

Published
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dave
on May 28, 2007
in cool and science
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Thursday, May 31 brings us the second of two full Moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full Moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full Moon is called the “Blue Moon.”

just needs a peanut butter fish

Published
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dave
on April 1, 2007
in Funny and cool
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Huge Jelly Fish
Invasion of jelly giants

in case anyone is wondering

Published
by
dave
on March 15, 2007
in cool and smokes
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as of today, I will have been NOT SMOKING for two weeks.

smoke up

Published
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dave
on January 30, 2007
in cool and science
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potentially great news from the New Scientist

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

but I’m taking it with a grain of salt…

On BMW bikes and extremes

Published
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dave
on January 22, 2007
in cool and gearhead
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Walking in to the Cycleworld show, I had never even considered one of those expensive, gizmo-rific, yuppie BMWs.

Walking out, I knew I had to have the F650GS. I sat on it and I was hooked, friggin Germans and their goddamn great engineering.

So today I’m doing my homework, looking at reliability, pricing ($~8000USD. yes for the whole thing!) and reading boards by riders and modders when I came across this.

Paul “IceMan” Mondor is a F650 rider from Victoria, BC (that’s Canada for us Americans… you know that place up north where they talk funny) that (at the time) was inquiring about the possibility of doing a cross Canada trip on his F650.

Sounds easy right? How about in January?

Paul Mondor Route

Well, he did it!

onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map Hack

Published
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dave
on January 19, 2007
in cool
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onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map Hack

Finally a proper NYC subway map, using the Google API