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Its not a fannypack, its a bike lock holder!

Billykirk takes a shot at making a belt loop lock holster. It may look a bit bulky, but it is a move in the right direction.

Selectism (via NotCot)

GoodBye Blue Mondays Christmas Specials

I don’t toot my friend’s horns very often, but this was awesome.

Goodbye Blue Mondays

The Internet Movie Firearms Database

At the Internet Movie Firearms Database for several years its been:

...a website that allows users to find which guns were featured in certain movies, television series, video games, and anime, as well as contribute to the site in a wiki format.

Of course I’m a sucker for the Featured Quotes on the main page:

Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann (Josh Hartnett): Conserve your ammo, only shoot at what you can hit.—Black Hawk Down

The IMFDB (via Neatorama)

Hipster Apocalypse

Forever’s Not So Long from garrettmurray on Vimeo.

Here is a little short video called “Forever is not too long”.  It won some awards, it is liked by critics.  Blah blah blah.  Basically it is the story of the hipster apocalypse and it reminded me of some of you guys.  You know who you are!

Make your own little stove

You can use these for more than just drinking beer out of, which is nice.

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In the Spotlight: A Way With Words.

Back when I was working part-time looking for a full-time job it would be obvious I had too much time on my hands. One of the benefits of that time was listening to an absurd amount of public radio. It just so happens one of the newer shows I gained an affinity for I can still enjoy due to the miracle of the internet. That show is A Way With Words.

A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take calls from listeners about linguistic disputes, grammatical pet peeves, the origins of words and phrases, and curious regional expressions. Martha and Grant also do battle with quiz guys from the National Puzzlers’ League.

What makes this show a bit magical is that each shows theme is made up as people call in describing different origins of words and phrases. Sometimes you didn’t know you’ve been curious about an expression until someone else mentions it.

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Michelin’s Tweel

5 years ago Michelin released a picture of a prototype type tire that didn’t require air pressure. . Apparently it took that time to work out the bugs because they just had a press conference officially releasing the Tweel.

Check out the YouTube of its press release.

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Cakes made from Threadless T-Shirt Designs

There are niches and there are niches. This niche in particular takes designs from popular Threadless T-Shirt designs and makes them into wonder cakes. Behold the beauty and inspiration.

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Ethnic Clashes in Western China Proving the Rise of Government Controlled Information

Does anyone else see the media blackouts done by governments these days as a step closer to a Ghost in the Shell world?

The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and more than 800 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between members of the Uighur ethnic group and Han Chinese.

The casualty toll, if confirmed, would make this the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in many years.

The rioting broke out Sunday afternoon in a large market area of Urumqi, the capital of the vast, restive desert region of Xinjiang, and lasted for several hours before riot police officers and paramilitary or military troops locked down the Uighur quarter of the city, according to witnesses and photographs of the riot.

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Ahhhhh Hell Naw

What have you done science?  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

Zombie Alert Raised

Zombie Alert Raised 1 Level today.

Hide your kids!

How to buy stuff with scrap silver

WHO RUNS BARTER TOWN!

LA Riots

Iran riots for political reasons, we riot because its an excuse to burn stuff, fight, steal, and our team won a game.

Now with video. 

And this awesome article

Riots in Tehran

Link to the photos of some of the riots in Tehran

Edit:  Now With YouTube link

Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

Not saying that girls would look better in this sort of thing, but I am not, not saying it either.

www.tacticalcorsets.com

Tactical Corset from BarCampLA 2009 from sean percival on Vimeo.

Left 4 Dead 2 : Too Soon?

Seems like it is too soon to release a new Left 4 Dead.  It will be just a year since the original was released. 

I will still buy it anyway. 

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Attn: Darren

Darren has given up photography for the quiet life on the farm. 

Orwell’s 1984 First Published: 8th of June, 1949

On this day, the 8th of June, in 1949 George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 was first published. It wasn’t the first dystopian novel. It won’t be the last. It is worth the read.

Link to read 1984 online for free

Remembering Tiananmen Square 20 Years later

On June 4th 1989 the chinese government shut down pro-democracy protests being held by students at Tiananmen Square in China. Never forget what a few people tried to do for a bit of change and the lengths their government is doing to make sure everyone forgets about it.

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in China as the June 4 Incident, to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) beginning on April 14. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market, pro-democracy and anti-corruption official, Hu Yaobang, whom protesters wanted to mourn. By the eve of Hu’s funeral, 1,000,000 people had gathered on the Tiananmen square. The protests lacked a unified cause or leadership; participants included disillusioned Communist Party members and Trotskyists as well as free market reformers, who were generally against the government’s authoritarianism and voiced calls for economic change [1][2] and democratic reform[2] within the structure of the government. The demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which remained peaceful throughout the protests.
The movement lasted seven weeks, from Hu’s death on April 15 until tanks cleared Tiananmen Square on June 4. In Beijing, the resulting military response to the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or severely injured. The number of deaths is not known and many different estimates exist.[3][4] There were early reports of Chinese Red Cross sources giving a figure of 2,600 deaths, but the Chinese Red Cross has denied ever doing so.[4] The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.[3]

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I look forward to free energy or california evaporating itself

Really when you think about it, it is a win win situation.

The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World

Cracked [dot] com has a nice list of insults for you guys to use this weekend.  Just incase you like that kind of thing.

9 most interesting insults

Eyreh be afass seder emmak

You like that!

He knows what you like.  He knows.

Even Hillary supporters know.

I can see you there

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Eat Slowly

In this study there is a correlation between the time it takes to eat and the obesity of different countries. Hey USA, drop the fast food habit. Anyone up for a multiple course 3 hour dinner?

Painfully obvious? Yes. But Catherine Rampbell has a graph to back it up. It looks like there’s a pretty real correlation between the time people in various countries spend eating and the rate of obesity in that country. That is, the more time people spend eating, the lower the rate of obesity. There’s a slow food endorsement if I’ve ever seen one.

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Happy Hindenburg Day

It was 72 years ago today when the Hindenburg disaster occurred resulting in the deaths of 36 individuals of which all but one were on the ship. And to make it even stranger is the fact that 72 years later the conspiracy theorist still crawl out of the woodwork about why and how it happened. Don’t get me wrong. Knowing how it happened is a very important yet illusive fact. Just the fact that they argue the difference between static sparks versus sabotage should be enough to make people turn off their televisions for the entertainment value.

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