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Thursday, August 23, 2007

CCRANE LED lighting

Smaller, brighter, prettier and less expensive! Isn't technology wonderful! This 18 LED light bulb makes an excellent high definition reading light. Perfect to help you not feel guilty about leaving an accent light on all night. Run it for twelve hours a day for a whole year at a cost of about 80 cents. This LED light bulb should last about 10 years, and works well with a dimmer switch. Your choice of 120 or 12 volts bulbs available.


According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 22 percent of electricity used in the U.S. powers lighting. In a world with soaring energy prices based on the availability and control of fossil fuels, and with growing concern about sustainability of the environment, a revolution in lighting is long overdue.
Light emitting diodes, called LEDs, are revolutionizing lighting. Switching to LED-based lighting can save 40 to 70 percent of the electricity a city uses for certain lighting applications such as parking garage, parking lot, outdoor public area, street and portable lighting.
In addition to helping protect the environment by reducing electricity consumption of lighting, LEDs, due to their long service life, also reduce the amount of material going into landfills (i.e., light bulbs). Furthermore, LEDs, unlike some traditional light sources, don't contain hazardous mercury or lead.

Travel tips

Just add some great sites:

http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/
http://www.kayak.com
http://www.sidestep.com

These tell you the fluctuation in prices, what is the best time to fly.

http://www.farecast.com/
http://www.farecompare.com/

In Europe:
http://www.kayak.co.uk
http://www.euroflights.info/ this one is great for finding cheap quick planes, much cheaper than the Famous EURORAIL


Disability Travel:


http://www.worldonwheelz.com/
http://www.sath.org/

Bloom Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.

Producing electricity from Fuel without burning the fuel!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-oxide_fuel_cell

www.bloomenergy.com

MFG.com the Ebay for Manufacturers

1. Entreprenuer/Inventor, Engineer or purchasing manager who needs a part submits a description and CAD drawing to MFG.com

2. Manufacturers offer bids. The site is free for buyers, suppliers pay a $6000 yearly subscription fee

3. Buyer chooses which manufacturer's bid to accept and the part and its price are added to the MFG.com's database

Simple--
http://www.mfgquote.com/

Clients and customers already include GE, Newell Rubbermaid, Apple, Ford and Northrop Grumman.

Traveling Tips and Tidbits

For the road warriors and ex pat wanderlust out there:

If you are on a budget, check out www.couchsurfing.com
Introduces you to locals who give tips on restaurants and cafes etc...

Mr Blass. strongly urges travelers to avoid Heathrow airport in London at all costs. Instead fly to Stansted, Gatwick or Amsterdam to avoid the mess.

Chismillionare likes Frankfurt from Boston on Lufthansa. Gets you centrally located to the continent.

Arthur Bergman says not to trust the airlines with flight updates. Instead, go to www.flightaware.com to get an up to the minute status of all aircraft in the sky and allows you to check for delays. If it tells you your plane is late try rebooking immediately before everyone else is doing the same.

Zecco.com $0 dollar trades, & no minimum balance

How do they make money you ask? On the interest from holding your money and the $3.50 option contracts.

http://www.zecco.com/Default.aspx

Open Moko- The Open Source Iphone


Wednesday, August 22, 2007

ARMED FORCES

13 of the worst fake accents in film

13 of the worst fake accents in film

with Video, great stuff

Green Roofs: An Introduction with Pretty Pictures


It's not just for hobbits anymore. The logic of green roofs is becoming more apparent. We can minimize our bills while maximizing the beauty of the urban landscape. And every day it's becoming a little easier to live in a house that just happens to have plants growing on it.


Green Roofs: An Introduction with Pretty Pictures

Classic NHL '94 Online League!

I'm not exactly sure where you all line up with me in terms of age (though I know you're all close), but NHL '94 pretty much defined my freshman year of college. Practically very free moment (including some when I should have been in class) was spent perfecting the one-timer (introduced in this version) against others on my floor. You couldn't walk through the hallway at any time, day or night, without hearing the unmistakable music or bone crushing hits. We were especially fond of pumping the audio through our louder-than-really-necessary stereos. I remember quite a few times being roused from my sleep sometime in the early morning hours and being told "dude, you're up... Roy just beat Soch to take the league lead!" Ahh, the memories.

Anyways, I digress. It turns out someone has done something really cool (to me at least) with the advent of the classic console emulators - they have formed online leagues - one for fans of the SNES version (huh?) and the other for the, obviously superior, Genesis version.

Signups for the fall are on now - not sure how hard it is to get into the league, but just reading about this makes me want to call up all my college buddies and form our own. Most of them are still drinking cases of Bud every weekend on a couch in their mom's basement anyways.

Monday, August 20, 2007


If you think setting up dominoes takes talent, take a look at this...






ONE BIG SNEEZE AND THEN IT'S "SCRAMBELED EGGS" FOR EVERYONE

Chismillionare's Save or Spend-

The latest issue of Money addresses whether you should spend extra for certain things because it is worth it or save on it because the cheap stuff is good enough or the expensive is not noticeably better. Lets take a look shall we:

Money-
Fridge Save
Microwave Save
Knives Spend
Cabinets Spend
Pepper Mill Spend
Garbage Disposal Save
Pots and Pans Spend
Food Porcessor Save

Chismillionare agrees on all counts except the garbage disposal and food processor which gets a who gives a F&^$

Money
Sofa Spend
Blinds Save
Coffee Table Save
Flowers Spend
TV Save
Theater Save
Cables Save

Chismillionare disagrees on the Flowers, TV, Theater and cables.
Flowers have a very short lifespan with high maintenance and a limited audience. No need to spend more on them.

While you may get as good a picture on your 700 dollar Shinsonic plasma, Chismillionare feels paying a bit extra for materials, fit and finish and warranty is worth it, particularly with an asset having a useful life of 5-7 years. Don't think for one minute you've got the same thing as the guy with the 50" Pioneer Elite plasma because you don't.

Same thing with speakers. The home theater in a box at Wal Mart for 599 may be loud and have 5.1 surround, but it can't hold a candle to anything over at Bang & Olufsen or Bowers and Wilkins or KEF. Think about this- saving on these guarantees your speakers can never be a conversation starter. Not a good thing.

Cables are what hold your pricey equipment together. You are going to spend thousands on equipment and cheap out on a few hundred in cables?? Makes no sense. Don't be the guy who spent 200 extra on his receiver so now he can't get anything other than red yellow and white banana plugs!!!!

Money
Desk Chair Spend
Printer/Scanner/Fax Save
Shredder Spend
Laptop Spend

Chismillionare says SAVE on a laptop. You can get a 15" screen with a Core Duo and 1GB of memory and a 120BG hard drive for about $500 running Vista Premium. Why spend $2000. It makes no sense. It they are selling you that to protect yourself against future obsolesence then it won't work because that is what their schtik is all the time. Why buy now then if it's just going to be worthless next year? Buy cheap, you won't notice a difference and if it gets all trashed, you don't have to worry about throwing the money out the window or making a homeowners claim. Exception for Mac laptops- thoughtful design, durable, a great user experience, terrific user support, great software(Iwork 08 is amazing) and it just plain works. Worth the $1500 I suppose but wait for Leopard before purschasing

Chismillionare says SAVE on a desk chair. Why is it that only people at work have $900 chairs, but at home nothing like that. A $200 leather office chair from Staples is fine. Actually a big green pilates ball works well too. Helps stretch the hips and lower back!!! As we all now blood flow is key. It's so these silly HR ergonomic people can have jobs and Herman Miller can say what cool people they are.

Money
Mattress and Box Spring Spend
Sheets Spend
Comforter Save
Special Occasion Suit Spend
Everyday Suit Save
Diamonds Save
Pearls Save
Jeans Spend

Chismillionare says SKIP the everyday suit. To me, every time you wear a suit it should be a special occasion. It tells people, you mean business. It is the home field advantage of clothing. Chismillionare gets his custom done in Bangkok and Hong Kong for the price of everyday suits state side. In fact, the savings of international custom over domestic often pays for Chismillionare's trip. George Zimmer may tell you you'll like the way you look, but with top shelf stuff he won't need to, you'll know!!!


Money
Driver Save
Grill Spend
Stationary Bike Save
Drill Save
Treadmill Spend
Golf Balls Save

Chismillionare says Spend on the driver but only when the tech is truly a breakthough(Shop for the shaft, it is the engine of a golf club). Fujikura, Aldila NV come to mind.
Same for the golf balls. Spend on the Pro V1 or Nike Platinum if you aren't a complete hacker. They are clearly better than anything else out there even though they are 45 a dozen.

SPEND on the drill!!!!!!. Come on, it's a few hundred. Buy the best you can afford as far as power and battery life. You'll have it for years. Bonus that the new lithium ion batteries allow smaller drills for female users to hang their nick nacks.

Cafe Con Piernas- Coffee with Legs-



El Capitan! Strikes Again

 

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Glamping - pseudo outdoor adventuring for the rich wuss crowd

When 6-year-old Ethan Bondick told his mom and dad he wanted to go fly-fishing in Montana, his well-heeled parents were stumped.

"We looked at each other and said, 'Oh, god, now what?' " said Gigi Bondick, 37, a "reformed" attorney whose husband works as a private-equity partner in Massachusetts.

"We're just not the camping kind of people. We don't pitch tents. We don't cook outdoors. We don't share a bathroom. It's just not going to happen. This is a kid who has never flown anything but first class or stayed anywhere other than a Four Seasons."

After typing "luxury" into a Google search along with "camping" and "Montana," the couple settled on The Resort at Paws Up, a 37,000-acre getaway in the heart of Big Sky country. It's a place for affluent travelers who want to enjoy the outdoors but can't fathom using a smelly outhouse, a place where paying someone to light the campfire is a badge of honor, not the mark of a Boy Scout flunky.

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More about the p*ssy vacationers here.

Churchill's

Rindone's Last Night at Mintz Levin, I think we did him well! 
 
 
 

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David Berry video on microbe Biofuels

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid79489195/bclid60818931/bctid1137708121

LG U990


With that said, the new LG U990 might look a little iPhone like, but it has plenty extra packed inside; a 5MP camera with Schneider Kreuznach optics, a 120 frames-per-second video camera (for super slo-mo), 3G HSDPA, 170MB internal memory (expandable with MicroSD cards), a 240 x 400 touch-screen and a music player.
The camera is the big deal here, though. The digital zoom is controlled by a twisting collar around the lens, which is also reported to function as a jog/shuttle dial to scrub through all that high-speed video footage. The U990 will be available on the "3" network in the fall. No price has yet been set, but don't expect it to be cheap.

This day in History 1953- Soviets have H bomb too

Dissident Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb.
Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who would eventually become one of the USSR's most famous dissidents, was one of the chief designers of its hydrogen bomb. That weapon carried the explosive power of 400 kilotons of TNT, making it roughly 26 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima eight years earlier.
Thus began a long rivalry of bomb-test one-upmanship between the world's two superpowers, dragging on through the 1950s into the '60s.
The Soviets, especially, developed a fondness for the hydrogen bomb and tested increasingly powerful versions. The tests culminated in 1961 with the dropping of the so-called Tsar bomb, packing a 60-megaton wallop, making it the most powerful thermonuclear device ever detonated.

Yellow Card on Blass

As if duplicating my earlier post on the most expensive beers wasn't bad enough, he's also reverted to his "too lazy to post a picture or story snippet" posting style.

Boo!

Top 3 World's Most Expensive Beer

Top 3 World's Most Expensive Beer

Swimming anyone?

When I was a kid, my dad never got us a pool because he said "every damn kid in the neighborhood will be in my yard." I suppose this is what he was afraid of. The picture above is a wave pool in Japan. If that's not freaky enough, go to the link below to see a video of the waves in acation.

Can Never be to Prepared - Safe Bedside Table

Safe Bedside Table

The Top 3 World's Most Expensive Beers

Maybe after Rindone graduates and has secured himself some cushy MBA-type job, we can all fly over to the UK and have him treat us to a pint of Vielle Bon Secours (pictured above) for the bargain basement price of only $78 per pint. Its only served at one bar in London - the Bierdrome.

Read about the other two (including some Sam Adams!) here.

Euclid's Elements- Best Book Ever Written?



So says Mr. Babbage in New Brunswick NJ
THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN BY A HUMAN. I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating; there is no way to express the joy of reading Euclid without sounding like a lunatic. There are very few books which reach their umpteenth thousandth edition without promising a posthumous infinity of bliss. The bliss of 'The Elements' is admittedly finite, but it delivers right away. This is an electrifying piece of work which has produced a chorus of rapture and inspiration lasting two millennia. Poets have penned homage to its beauty. Philosophers and mathematicians have wept. Theologians saw God in its perfection. As war, pestilence and plague tortured humanity, as the empires of despots rose and crumbled, the devout risked death rather than surrender this book. Why? Because they had read it.
It is a cure for math-phobia, and can be read by anyone who is at least a little studious and over the age of 12.

Chismillionare's Monday deal of the Week!

Magellan RoadMate 2200T Portable GPS w/ Built-in Maps

$179.99 reg $449.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204550251&adid=17070&dcaid=17070

Friday, August 17, 2007

More (and better) reasons to watch Cobra

I'm still not really sure why this movie is on my mind, but it turns out I'm not the only fan - the folks over at i-mockery.com have a pretty darn good write-up on the flick. If they don't make you want to watch this movie (again), well... nothing actually. I just like it.

Ten things that make COBRA one of the most underrated macho badass action movies of all time!

Collection of Man Hole Covers



ManHoles

Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 Breaks 200 mph


Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 Breaks 200 mph

A "so bad its good" movie recomendation

Its completely awful. The pinacle of 80's action flicks - horrible (yet wonderful) one liners abound. ("Chill out." from Stallone after blowing a bad guy away on top of the frozen food section, anyone?) Its got one of the 80's creepiest villains (the Night Slasher) with his bad ass knife:




And we can't forget Stallone's equally bad ass (and physics defying) 1950 Mercury. So sad to see that one go in the flick.

You can catch the car chase out here (but don't spoil it for yourself if you've never seen the movie)

Definitely not one to sit down and watch with the wife (or girlfriend), but if you've got a couple hours to kill and are at least a passing 80's action movie fan, this one gets a thumbs up (in a so awful that its good in a nostalgic way).

Ambergis Cay, Belize







You know what day it is


It is another Van Damme Friday

Liquid Kiss

The 2007 "Six Man" Volleyball Tourney Photo Essay

The 2007 "Six Man" Volleyball Tourney Photo Essay

Remember the AVP is coming to Marina Bay this weekend.

TOP 10 Awesomely Bad Dolls

http://www.top10kid.com/?p=21

High-Res pics form the Dark Knight


DarkNight PICS

Renewable Petrolium from microbes

David Berry, 29
Flagship Ventures

http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?TRID=603

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Baseball Joke





A Boston Red Sox fan, a Chicago Cubs fan and a NY Yankee fan were all in Saudi Arabia, sharing a smuggled crate of booze. All of the sudden Saudi police rushed in and arrested them. The mere possession of alcohol is a severe offense in Saudi Arabia, so for the terrible crime of actually being caught consuming the booze, they were sentenced to death!

However, after many months and with the help of very good lawyers, they were able to successfully appeal their sentence down to life imprisonment. By a stroke of luck, it was a Saudi national holiday the day their trial finished, and the extremely benevolent Sheikh decided they could be released after receiving just 20 lashes each of the whip.

As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheikh suddenly said, "It's my first wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each of you one wish before your whipping."

The Cubs fan was first in line (he had drunk the least), so he thought about this for a while and then said, "Please tie a pillow to my back."

This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through. The Cubs fan had to be carried away bleeding and crying with pain when the punishment was done.

The Yankee fan was next up (he almost finished an entire fifth by himself), and after watching the scene, said "All Right! Please fix two pillows on my back." But even two pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again, sending the Yankee fan out crying like a little girl.

The Red Sox fan was the last one up (he had finished off the crate), but befo re he could say anything, the Sheikh turned to him and said, "You support the greatest baseball team in the world, your supporters are the best and most loyal baseball fans in all the world.

For this, you may have two wishes!"

"Thanks, your most Royal Highness," the Red Sox fan replies. "In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes."

"Not only are you an honorable, handsome and powerful man, you are also very brave," the Sheik says with an admiring look on his face. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. And your second wish? What is it to be?" the Sheik asks. "Tie the Yankee fan to my back."

BMW racing Video Game

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Glass Desk


Never Buy a Glass Computer Desk

You can keep the Beef Sundae, I'm having this!


THe Original Beef Cake


http://www.blackwidowbakery.com/demo/meatcake/

Cable Taming not needed with Imac


Hot Beef Sunday

Mother Nature


This one stroke just on the other side of the street. Quite a nice bang it had. Luckily the tree didn't catch fire. Taken from my balcony.
Cropped this from the larger photo. And for the viewers, I took a LARGE amount of photos today when trying to get some of the lightning over here.
The photo made the first page in the local newspaper.

For Blass - A paper craft skull with articulated jaw

PDF pattern and folding instructions here.

Tame those cables!

Organizing, hiding, and "child proofing" the maze of cables under my computer desk at home has been on the to-do list for too long. I even have all the stuff, bought in a marathon Home Depot session, to do it - I just haven't.
In any case, this guy presents one way to get it done. Its not the way I'm going, but its worth noting.

More information and pictures here.

Multi-Mini Roundabout

GOOD LUCK RINDONE - Got to love those English Streets

how to navigate a multi-mini roundabout

this is an actual roundabout in swindon…



it’s called a multi-mini roundabout and was designed in order to defeat congestion problems and lower the amount of accidents that were occuring when it was an unsafe, normal roundabout. it gives me a headache just thinking about giving way to that many streams of traffic.


it’s ok though, i found a diagram showing the best way to tackle it depending on your driving skills…





diagram from here.

Crazy Aquariums

Really Cool Aquariums click here for more crazy Aquariums

by Miss Cellania - August 15, 2007 - 8:32 AM


A well-designed and maintained aquarium is a treat for the eye, a conversation piece, and a satisfying hobby. Some are much more than that.


435_reefaquarium.jpg

Pieter van Suijlekom’s Reef Aquarium is a fantastic saltwater tank system with a total volume of 2074 gallons. Read about the process of building this tank, the equipment used to maintain it, and the fish and other creatures that live in it.

Blackberry HTML email and spell check as you type.

Blackberry HTML email and Spell check as you type! Also Quick response email templates instead of Auto Text.

http://www.getempower.com/wordpress/

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Apple IWork 08

Very Slick indeed. Innovation driving results!

New in Numbers ’08.
Introducing Numbers ’08, the spreadsheet you’ve been waiting for — and already know how to use. Innovative, powerful, and intuitive, Numbers ’08 lets you do everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report to creating detailed financial documents.


http://www.apple.com/iwork/numbers/

Human Touch Massage Chairs


Arms and Armor -Christie's auction on 9/20

http://www.christies.com/departments/arm/overview.asp

If you need 13th century German armor or a pair of Spanish Bronze cannons, this is the place!

PBS's The War -Starting 9/23


THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Chismillionare says- Take your jet travel private

You're sick of the stress of flying commercial airlines, but buying into a private-jet program seems prohibitively expensive. Now there are cheaper ways.

In years past, hiring an airplane and crew was a complicated, potentially risky affair that involved calling a local charter operator and negotiating for a plane and pilots. Fractional ownership, in which companies sell a share of an airplane, opened up the private-jet world by making planes easier to buy and schedule. That was followed by jet-card programs -- in which you can buy as little as 10 hours of flying for about $44,000 -- reducing the cost further.

John McKey, a retired advertising executive, charters jets twice a year to move between his homes in Boston and Florida to avoid "the appalling process now of going through commercial airlines." Leaving from Bedford, Mass., and flying directly to Vero Beach, Fla., saves a couple hours of driving, and since his wife has to travel with wheelchair assistance, the level of service the couple gets with a private plane is highly prized.
"It's not inexpensive, but it is easy to do," said Mr. McKey, a client of OneSky, a fast-growing three-year-old company that arranges on-demand charters and has its own command center to track flights and make customer arrangements. He pays about $12,000 to $13,000 for each 3½- to 4-hour flight. He and his wife invite friends to fill the other seats on their trips.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118705417794296758.html