Obscurity . . .

Ha ha ha ha ha. I placed a counter on my blog just because I was curious and I probably should not have done that.

Just for kicks I started it out at 4 thousand something and I think it has gone up by as many times as I have visited it. Oh well, I name today the 1st annual Obscurity awards day and present myself with the following:

Cape Caveral as a war zone.

Wow. I have wondered what would happen if one of the rockets we blast into space ever exploded on the launch pad. Well, here is a video of what happens when it explodes a few seconds off the ground.



I would say very cool, but that was just horrific. The damage and heat is incredible.

Tech Article "20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life"

One of the editors for a tech blog that I check daily wrote a great article about how todays technology can help improve your life instead of clutter it up and confuse you.

Find the full article on PC World's website here.

Bad Day on the road

I think this driver had a pretty bad day. He must not have been paying attention to flashing lights or lowering bars.



Also I am not sure why he did not just gun it to get out of the way. A few scratches from the lowered bars would be a lot better than what happened.

Another one that is just amazing to watch:

Strange Knitting Projects

I do not know how to knit. This how-to project actually looks kind of fun though it is not quite enough to get me to learn. For all of you knitters (sp?) that can do 0 - 60 knitted loops in less than 2 seconds here is a fun project:

HOW TO - Knit a Dissected Rat

You do have to buy the patter from Etsy.com, however they also have a dissected frog pattern. Click here for the link to this patterns page. Only $4.00.

Edit: This item appears to have sold out on 08/27/08 so we are too late unfortunately. There are a lot more patterns that are pretty interesting from this site.

Shower Gel Dispensers

Well, sometimes looking over geek sites I run into things that are perfect for geeks. The rest of us just laugh and then mentally decide who we could give this to as a gag gift. Without further ado, enter the proof. . .



This would be actually kinda cool to have in the shower and I am sure that kids would love it. If you would like to own your own nose you can for just $17.95 by ordering from here.

Mythbusters instantly paint the Mona Lisa. . .

Ok, so I like watching the Mythbusters and will commonly find myself watching reruns just because they do cool stuff. I was perusing the web and found a video where they demonstrate the difference between a CPU(Central Processing Unit) and a GPU(Graphics Processing Unit).



Now the reality is that with a CPU you just have one processor sending data to the screen, while with a GPU you would still have the CPU running the other application instructions with the GPU setup to just run the graphical side of the program. Cool video no matter what they were demonstrating.