South Park Mike
Hey look its South Park Mike! A friend of mine did this for me. Look Familiar?
Check out this guy beatboxing
I know, I know, the video is posted by an arabic speaker, but the people in the video speak french and this is an english website c’est vraiment? Anyways, check it out it is pretty cool
J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Children of Hurin”
Adam Tolkien edited what Christopher Tolkien could assemble of J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of middle earth to bring to us, after 30 years, the last work of Tolkien. Adam paid especially close detail to this work to maintain as much of J.R.R.’s writing as possible. This is supposed to be set hundreds of years before the …
Speech Contest
The Arizona Communication Association held a Speech Competition for students enrolled in one of the Maricopa Community Colleges at Glendale Community College on Friday. Three other students and I represented Scottsdale Community College at the event. Aside from class, this was my first big experience with Public Speaking. My topic was “Purpose” and although I …
Giant Crystal Cave
***WARNING*** This might drop your jaw but rest assured these photos are real and so are the crystals Giant Crystal Cave near Delicias, Mexico (click picture for more) I found this article on the National Geographic site discussing a cave that was discovered in 2000. It wasn’t until the water was pumped out that they …
InstaCalc
I have a duty to share this with you. While surfing the net for useful tools to increase the efficiency of my surfing…I mean homework, I came across InstaCalc as a sidebar gadget for Windows Vista. Simple and effective it does the job. The sidebar gadget calculates in real time so I did not even …
Cat takes the bus, gets off on same stop every time
Apparently the British have been sending their cats to run errands. A few days a week the same white cat jumps on the same bus and gets off on the same stop. It’s a good read and makes you wonder whose cat it is. Full story
Flying Saucer/Hovercraft?
Geoff Hatton, a British Hovercraft engineer has gone and done it. He invented a flying saucer/hovercraft that really works. Purportedly, the British Government dismissed his idea only to have our US Government snag it up, for its many…uses. As a result of the design, the hoversaucer can bump into objects and still recover as the …
Map of How much Solar Panel Coverage it would take to Supply World Energy Usage
Thought this was interesting. The area mapped out is how much area of solar panels, at 8% efficiency, it would take to supply the world with its current energy usage. Today efficiency is getting closer to 20% and there are even some dyes that were recently made that could achieve even higher efficiency. Click the …