Archive for August, 2006

Battlefield 2142 Beta Hacked Already

Apparently, EA/DICE haven’t fixed the problems with the BF2 engine before starting on Battlefield 2142. What more can you expect?

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Amazing final

Probably one of the coolest finals on the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”.

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Strongest Dad in the World

Strongest Dad in the World [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars–all in the same day.

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3 Mexican Fishermen Survive 9 Months At Sea

A day fishing trip turned into a nine month ordeal of survival. These guys drifted 5,000 miles west across the Pacific Ocean, eating only raw fish and seagulls and rain water. Fortunately, the didn’t have to resort to cannibalism and were picked up close to the Marshall Islands on 9 August.

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License Plate Lost

This weekend I road about 150 miles and somewhere along the way my custom license plate bracket broke in half. So my license plate is somewhere in the state… but who knows where. If you see a motorcycle plate that starts with TBL let me know. It’s mine. Today I am going to get a replacement plate and one of my buddies might machine a new mounting bracket for me. I have to get back on the road.

A new way to test your bandwidth

The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.

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Wizards by Christopher Edwards

Good guitar work and solid lyrics.

Top 10 Unsportsmanlike Plays of All-Time!

Who doesn’t love watching millionaires who play a game for a living act like complete idiots? This is sports entertainment at its best.

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eBay: Kid Auctions Off 2% of His Income for the Rest of His Working Life

For a chance to go to college, Ron Steen is offering up 2% of every dollar he will make for the rest of his working life for a starting bid of $100,000.

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Dry Ice Bombs

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