bad. ass.
Engineers of Amen Design and Engineering have created a motorcycle whose wheels have neither spokes nor discs. Such type of hubless designs were seen earlier only on concept bikes, but this could be the first hubless bike to hit the road.
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cool idea, that's a lot of roaches. click the pics or the link below to see details on the artist and larger pics. from the site:
Cliff Maynard of Pittsburgh has blazed a unique trail on the stoner art scene. The 37-year-old creates amazing mosaics using the humble medium of used roach papers from smoked joints.
jimi hendrix
snoop dogg
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the ruskies again.
Putin: Russia to develop offensive weapons to keep balance with U.S.
Russia needs to develop "offensive strike systems" to preserve strategic balance with the United States, without producing its own missile defense, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Putin's comment, made at a press briefing in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, echoed a similar call from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week.
"If we want to retain the balance, we have to establish an exchange of information: Let the U.S. partners provide us information on [their] missile defense while we will give them information on [our] offensive weapons," Putin said.
via CNN
sad. these guys had become a little over-commercialized but the rev was one of the best drummers around.
Avenged Sevenfold drummer dies at 28
James Owen Sullivan, the drummer with California band Avenged Sevenfold, was found dead on Monday, according to police. He was 28.
Sullivan was found "unresponsive" in his Huntington Beach home, according to Orange County deputy coroner Mitchell Sigal.
An autopsy has been scheduled to determine cause of death.
pretty funny and insightful game. put your ipod on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that appear. here are mine:
1. eric clapton - cocaine
2. linkin park - lying from you
3. ray charles - georgia on my mind
4. system of a down - toxicity
5. kanye west - see you in my nightmares
6. ACDC - long way to the top
7. harvey danger - flagpole sitta
8. zz top - sharp dressed man
9. pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond
10. metallica - fade to black
the japanese one-upped us again, this offers far superior head coverage, not to mention leg mobility.
Japanese Snuggie
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whoops...
Emergency Recall on Brittany Murphy Posters
A DVD rental company is moving fast to remove outdoor promotional posters of Brittany Murphy -- posed lifeless in a bathtub -- for her movie, "Deadline."
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very interested to see how this turns out.
Ricky Gervais gets animated with HBO
HBO says Ricky Gervais will be a star voice in a 13-episode animated comedy series early next year (February).
The cable network said Tuesday that "The Ricky Gervais Show" will be based on his wildly popular podcasts.
via thr
why am i not surprised.
Bin Laden's Closest Family Found Hiding in Iran
Usama bin Laden’s closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran, members of the family said Tuesday. They include a wife and children who disappeared from his Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
There has been uncertainty about the family’s whereabouts for the past eight years, with reports that some of the children had been killed in bombings, while others had joined their father in planning terrorist attacks. However, relatives said that they found out last month that the group, including one of bin Laden's wives, six of his children and 11 of his grandchildren, had been kept in a high-security compound outside Tehran.
via foxnews
this is only funny if you've seen the video below the pic. the entire video is hilarious, but ff to 2:38 to see this specific sketch.
this sucksssssssss.
Frusciante leaves Chili Peppers
Guitarist John Frusciante has confirmed he has left Red Hot Chili Peppers. In fact, according to a post on his MySpace blog, he left more than a year ago when the band went on hiatus.
“There was no drama or anger involved, and the other guys were very understanding,” Frusciante writes. “They are supportive of my doing whatever makes me happy and that goes both ways.
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this is their best idea since the booze pill.
Monkey to be sent to Mars
The Russians first succeeded in putting monkeys into orbit in 1983. “We have plans to return to space,” said Zurab Mikvabia, director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Georgia which supplied apes for the programme in the 1980s.
The Institute is in preliminary talks with Russia's Cosmonautics Academy about preparing monkeys for a simulated Mars mission that could lay the groundwork for sending an ape to the Red Planet, he said.
Mr Mikvabia said: "Earlier this programme was aimed at sending cosmonauts, people (to Mars). "But given the length of the flight to Mars, and given the cosmic rays for which we don't have adequate protection over such a long trip, discussions have focused recently on sending an ape instead of a person."
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click here (or on the pic below) to download their first single "the high road". new album in march, sounds pretty badass.
f'd up.
Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent
Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend.
wtf in the truest sense of the words.
Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises
Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging.
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The Island of the Dolls - A Dark Tourist Attraction in Mexico
A world renowned tourist destination is “La Isla de la Munecas”- a Spanish name which means the Island of the dolls. This Island of dolls is situated in Mexico and as the name suggests, one expects to see a beautiful world which will leave an everlasting impression. But the reality is exactly opposite and very harsh when one discovers the thousands of mutilated ugly dolls hanging from every tree on the island.
Don Julian Santana, a hermit who renounced the world and his family to inhabit this island dedicated his last fifty years of his life to the make the “La Isla de la Munecas”. It is believed that, he did this to please the spirit of a little girl who had drowned in the canal. Whatever may be the reason, he managed to turn this island into a bizarre, scary place where an eerie eye of mutilated dolls haunts your every move, on this strange island.
Don Julian is said to have led an isolated life, except when he ventured to collect old dolls that he either scavenged from the garbage dump or bought in exchange for his homegrown fruits and vegetables. Personally one is made to believe that he obviously did not like intrusion and tried to scare off inquisitive onlookers by hanging scary doll faces. In 2001, Don Julian was discovered drowned to his death in the same canal surrounding his home. Don Julian is dead to the world but his eerie disturbed vision stays on, in the faces of lifeless dolls mutilated and hung in the worst forms of human torture and punishment.
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Man kills bobcat with bare hands during north Phoenix attack
PHOENIX - After being attacked by a bobcat Monday afternoon, a local man reportedly protected himself and killed the cat with his bare hands.
Just north of the Valley near Lake Pleasant, an Arizona Game and Fish official says the man was hooking up his trailer when he looked underneath and the bobcat attacked, knocking him on his back. To protect himself, the man reportedly held onto the cat until it died.
The bobcat later tested positive for rabies.
via some news outlet
c'monnnnnn
ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies and the Stooges are headed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
If you're surprised to see ABBA among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's next crop of inductees, join the club. Besides ABBA, the Rock Hall's internationally flavored Class of 2010 includes the proto-punk Stooges from Ann Arbor, Mich., Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff and a pair of British exports, the pop-rocking Hollies and prog-rocking Genesis.
The New York City-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which oversees the inductions, announced the honorees today. They'll be enshrined during the Rock Hall's 25th annual induction ceremony Monday, March 15, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
"Flight of the Conchords" grounded
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Quirky HBO comedy series" The Flight of the Conchords" will not return for third season.
After months of speculation, co-creators Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement and James Bobi broke the news on their Web site.
"We've noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won't be returning for a third season," they wrote. "We're very proud of the two seasons we made, and we like the way the show ended."
The show's combination of story line and original songs, and the fact that the trio continue to reside in their native New Zealand, are factors that have made "Conchords" difficult to produce, prompting speculation over the past few months that McKenzie, Clement and Bobin would not return for a third season.
interesting comparison, see the full details after the jump.
U.S. constitution vs. Confederate constitution.
We can get a good glimpse into the founding principals of the Confederacy by taking an in-depth look at the Confederate constitution, which was approved, and came into use by the rebel states on March 11, 1861. The doument is largely a word for word copy of the U.S. constitution,but with several key changes. The changes offer the clearest window of insight into how precisely the CSA intended to be different from the USA, and why.
USA:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
CSA:
