Archive for October, 2007

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The Original Ghetto-Bird

So this 24-year-old Nigerian Dude built a functional Helicopter using junk parts, because, and I’m paraphrasing here “it was easier to build a helicopter than a car”.

A 133 hp Honda Civic engine powers it, its 12 feet long, has 4 Toyota car seats and flying it is as simple as:

You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin,” he explains. “The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rpm you press the joystick and it takes off. (more…)

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Almost switched Web host today…

Let me give you a bit of background on this. About a month ago we started Dumbfiles, which we host on Dreamhost, which has been wonderful to us for over a year. The problem is that we’ve experienced a ton of issues with our service lately and this might hinder Dumbfiles’ growth. So we started looking around for other hosts (which by the way, is awful, all the review sites are paid, if you know of any non-biased review, let me know).

We looked at Hostgator, but of course, they’re known for suspending accounts for excessive CPU usage out of the blue. We looked at MediaTemple, but they don’t provide the bandwidth we need. And finally we stumbled upon Site5. $18 a month gives you 10 TB of bandwidth and 1 TB of storage. THAT IS TWICE WHAT WE’VE GOT WITH DREAMHOST!!!! Surely there had to be a catch, but I couldn’t find their Terms of Service, so I headed over the their sign-up page. I started filling out all the usual stuff, and as I was about the hit the "SUBMIT ORDER" button, when I decided to check out their TOS (which is located here). This is what I More >

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Motivational Posters

Here are some awesome moticational pictures. I suggest you print'em poster size and hand them in your office/room/studio/methlab. Click to view full size

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The World’s Most Famous Midget

Last night a huge question came into my head; what is the difference between a midget and a dwarf. I asked my girlfriend and she said that a midget was under 5 feet and a dwarf was under 4. I was very skeptical of this answer (because that would make all dwarves midgets…very confusing) so I decided to Google the word "midget" . Well, the first result was the Wikipedia entry for midget and the second result was Eric the Midget’s (or the Astronaut, Actor…) Wikipedia entry.

For those of you who aren’t fans of Howard Stern (and don’t pay $13/mo for Sirius Satellite Radio) Eric is a frequent caller to the show and an endless source of comedy.

 

The dude even has a an entry in IMDB…he was in an episode of Xena? And according to Something Awful, he ranked 3 in the Big ten list of little people.

"Lynch makes the list and ranks so high because he is an uncommonly angry and possibly even evil midget. He is surly even when being offered gifts and compensation. His only apparent skill is that he knows everything about American Idol. He obsesses over various Stern-related Internet message boards."

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