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Costco is now offering A.C.E. Sports Pilot 250cc Off-Road Performance Go Kart. I could imagine a lot of fun Mad Max style paintball games with that right there. Of couse anything like that is way too dangerous for me to ever consider owning with Gabe around besides being well outside my budget.

I really should have posted on this sooner. Work is participating in the DARPA Urban Challenge together with UPenn and Lehigh, my alma mater, as part of the Ben Franklin Racing Team. It makes me very sad I could not participate but I will just have to live vicariously for the moment. I understand our [...]

Large break-away brick wall, Pegasus statue, and Pierce Brosnan not included. I’m sure you could rig it for theme song though. Tanks-a-lot has been around for a while I think. I seem to vaguely remember them being some sort of scandal when a criminal had bought one of their tanks and was wreaking havoc years [...]

I can’t help but think those are some big birthing hips

I thought the movie was excellent. It really brought me back to my childhood. That and the compositing blew the socks off of me …guess I better put my socks back on…
[Via This Flicker Set] (thank you)

And built a fargen huge aircraft carrier

Actually his name is Malle Hawking and sir, you have surely lived the dream.
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Apparently the spirit of invention is still alive and well in Japan. Total System Conductor (TSC - not to be confused with Tractor Supply Company Has developed a carbon compound battery that is activated by water. Supposedly there is a simple process for recycling although I take it that must occur on the factory [...]

I was hoping that this time around a Google Earth layer would have been made for live election results. Sadly there has been only one live election results site that I have found here. Oh and don’t try to tell me that ABC has a fulfilling live map, you can only see one senate race [...]

An event that both technophiles and juveniles will be celebrating for years to come. A new type of high altitude derigible, capable of acting in place of a satellite relay at a fraction of the cost was successfully tested over the Mojave desert. Simultaneously a new type of high insult derogitory, capable of putting down [...]

There is a major problem with modern fuel cell technology, how to get pure hydrogen to the actual reactive membrane. One way is to extract it (usually through electrolysis) at a factory and try to store it in a pure form. This has obvious downsides like what happens to a tank of pure hydrogen at [...]

So far Google Earth, while wicked cool, has added only moderate value (think in comparison to the other Google Services). While Earth-browsing last night I stumbled on a high capability though. Apparently anyone with a pro version can do arbitrary and live streaming overlays. If you have Google Earth, following this Keyhole file will allow [...]