I scan probably close to 1000 blog headlines a day, and scan about 20 articles - maybe I will actually READ one all the way through.
Today, that article was a story at The Wall Street Journal about how ‘Splurging Is Good For Your Health’.
Note: My wife can stop reading at this point.
In the article, a [...]
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Wall Street Journal Says Splurging Is Good For Your Health
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
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5 Summer Photography Tips
May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve been on a photography kick lately. Previously I posted my review of the Canon 870 IS, but this week I ordered a Panazonic FZ18 which I will also post a review on.
The FZ18 was hard to resist - its a VERY hot camera, Amazon ran out of stock and has been rotating through its [...]
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Today’s A Good Day To Go Blu-Ray
May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Amazon is having a very respectable Blu-Ray Sale, up to 50% off - and many the titles are actually good movies, which is rare for a movie sale.
I am one of those fools who bought an XBox HD-DVD drive add-on. If you haven’t heard, HD-DVD is dead, so its currently a paperweight.
Eventually, I will probably [...]
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Woman Changes Clothes On Subway (video)
April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
A woman changes her clothes on an Asian subway (and shaves her legs).
We could all learn some lessons in multitasking from this power commuter.
Not really all that sfw, much like the pole dancing video I shamelessly posted last month.
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Breaking Video: Amazing Footage of Lufthansa A320 Wing Crashing Into Runway In Hamburg
March 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
A Lufthansa Airbus A320 passenger jet safely aborted a landing Saturday when winds blew its left wingtip into the ground at touchdown, according to Lufthansa spokeswoman Claudia Lange.
In addition to an unattributed internet video of the entire landing (below), photographer Lars Tretau captured stunning close-in photographs from a different angle which can be found here [...]
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ImprovEverywhere.com Services Times Square McDonald’s Urinal Crowd (pictures and video)
February 21st, 2008 · No Comments
On one of my grumpier days earlier in February I gave a bit of lip to the flash mob improvisational group with the website ImprovEverywhere.com.
Well, I’m going to cut them some slack on their McDonald’s hijinks for two reasons:
1. It certainly isn’t a flash mob.
2. I appreciate the brave souls who invest their time and [...]
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Human Tetris Gameshow Coming to America
February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Watch the first 14 seconds of the video below, and you will pretty much be an expert on the fundamentals of the Japanese game show Hole In The Wall.
Its very simple - contestants stand on a platform as a moving wall with a cutout approaches them. They attempt to get their body through the cutout [...]
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