Marit Larsen

Marit Elisabeth Larsen (born on July 1, 1983) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. More recently she pursued her own music career releasing her solo debut album, Under the Surface, in 2006. Her second album, The Chase, was released in Norway on October 13th, 2008.
The debut single from the second album is called "If A Song Could Get Me You". Here's a live rendition recorded on a moving train.

LEGO solves Rubik's Cube

Hans Anderson has created a robot from an off the shelf Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit that can scan the cube, calculate a solution and then solve the cube in an average of 6 minutes.

Pretty darn impressive!

Domino Day 2008

Domino Day 2008
The New World Record: 4,345,027 dominos

Wake Up People

Take 10 minutes to watch this video, open your mind. Stop giving power to that which has none. The full video can be seen here.

A house robbers may want to consider skipping?

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Mackenzie is 11 years old!

Morbid Facts about the day I was born...

124,487 People

"It's just appropriate, that's all."

Shut Up and Let Me Go

Yup, iTunes has done it again, its uncanny how they continue to find the catchiest tunes for their commercials. This is The Ting Tings from their debut album due out on 19May in the UK and 20May in the US. Pretty good sound, reminds me a lot of Blondie, only a little more on the rough side.

4 Dead in Ohio

Unretouched original version of John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard.
After Richard Nixon announced the escalation of the Vietman War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970, students in universities across the country began protesting the war in earnest. Kent State students had rallied on May 1st peacefully on The Commons. Later that evening, riots broke out in town and about 100 protesters were dispersed by police. On May 2nd, arsonists lit fire to the ROTC building on campus, pelting firefighters fighting the blaze with rocks and destroying their equipment. Kent's mayor had already reached out to the governor to declare a state of emergency on campus, the first guardsmen arrived late in the evening, arrests were made and order was restored. On May 3rd, another protest was dispersed by the troops and a sit-in in downtown Kent was broken up at 11 P.M. that evening. On May 4th at noon approximately 2000 students gathered, 77 guardsmen with little training in crowd control advanced on the students with bayonets fixed on their weapons, the crowd retreated and began to break up. As the troops began tor retreat and regroup, a small group of hooligans advanced on them pelting them with rocks and spent tear-gas containers. Noone knows for sure what happened next, but 29 of the 77 troops opened fire for 13 seconds, a total of 67 rounds were fired.
Killed:
Allison Krause
Jeffrey Glen Miller
Sandra Lee Scheuer
William Knox Schroeder
Wounded:
Thomas Mark Grace
Joseph Lewis Jr.
John R. Cleary
Alan Canfora
Dean Kahler
Douglas Wrentmore
James Dennis Russell
Robert Stamps
Donald Scott MacKenzie

30 Years Ago This Week

On April 22, 1978, John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, et.al. preformed for the very first time on Saturday Night Live as The Blues Brothers. The rest they say, is history.

AA12 Shotgun

OMG this is one awesome weapon. Fully automatic 12 guage shotgun fires 300 rounds per minute!

Engineers Guide to Cats

The title says it all. Cat Yodeling FTW!

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

On American Idol last night, Jason Castro did a fantastic rendition of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole arrangement of Over the Rainbow. First the original, then Jason's rendition. Enjoy.

Bring 'em on...

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Happy Easter

As you may know, Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).
This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that hardly ever happens.
This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early. And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!
• The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're older than 95, you are the only ones that were alive for that!).
• The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Was searching around ou YouTube to get a Flogging Molly clip to post up for St. Pats Day. Found a very nicely done mash-up done to Beyond Good and Evil where Uncle Pey'j becomes the lead singer. Be warned though if you are a gamer, there are spoilers in the video. Enjoy.

RIP Jeff Healey

Canadian blues great Jeff Healey has passed away, he was 41 years old.

Enjoy this video from an appearance in London in May of 2007.

"Singing" Tesla Coils

Here is a clip of some twin solid state musical tesla coils playing Super Mario Brothers, Tetris, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and more. They were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Lightning On The Lawn 2007 - A Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox Resonance Research Corp in Baraboo WI.

Awesome stuff! Thanks headtrip

Groundhog Day

Sorry folks, 6 more weeks of winter predicted by Punxsutawney Phil.

MacBook Air Commercial Music

So once again I find myself intrigued by the music from an Apple commercial. This is Yael Naim, she is a French National I believe from what I've read on the web. Her official website is here.

The Day the Music Died

In case I forget between now and Sunday...

Patriots Perfect Season

Only one win away now from 19-0 and Super Bowl XLII Championship!!!

Win a PS3 !!!

Pretty morbid but not far from the truth. The media is ensuring that we the public are eyewitness to the demise of Britney Spears. Win a PS3 here

Happier times, the Mickey Mouse Club days

Montgomery Redemption

Sorry all, I couldn't resist...