3:28 PM (1 comments)
So I'm cleaning up the desktop of my computer and I'm trying to remember why I have a PDF of a counterinsurgency training manual (warning: PDF link.) Anybody?

6:47 PM (1 comments)
Pretty cool: a Mystery Machine case mod.

12:23 AM (0 comments)
Warner Brothers makes an IP oops, has to give more than half the 30 million dollar opening weekend take of The Dukes of Hazzard to the producer of an obscure 1978 movie (via Evhead.)

11:28 AM (0 comments)
A collection of music from The Golden Girls? Why, Internet? Why? (via Copy, Right?)

7:11 PM (0 comments)
Apparently the new patch for SWAT4 not only installs rotating advertising into the game, but also code that records how long you spend looking at each ad.

I don't plan on upgrading.

5:13 PM (1 comments)
Sometimes low-tech is as cool as high-tech: Chatting online with Liana today, I learned for the first time about shot towers, and the fascinating in-ground tower built in the now non-existant town of Helena, Wisconsin. Neat stuff.

1:38 PM (0 comments)
Via Incoming Signals, incredible video of a shark fighting an octopus (Real Media; if you don't have Real Player installed--and you shouldn't--might I suggest Real Alternative?)

10:27 AM (0 comments)
"I'm going to crush your skulls! I have a thousand years of power!"

Via Penny Arcade, the Smoking Gun passes along a fantastic police report from taser-wielding officers facing down a crazy man with a longsword.

7:28 PM (0 comments)
While you wait for the release of George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows, perhaps you'd like to play The Quest of Thrones? You have to sign up by September 16, and play begins on September 19.

5:00 PM (0 comments)
I remember being scared of needles as a kid, and those were just the normal ones. What kind of steely will will the children of the future need not to be terrified by the Bone Injection Gun? (via Gizmodo, but on MedGadget, a site I'll have to start checking more often.)

4:55 PM (0 comments)
First-Person Photography (via Kotaku)

4:49 PM (0 comments)
Via the SA Forums, "Boy dressed as Batman breaks into Eagle County home".

4:42 PM (0 comments)
Via just about everywhere, the super-cool Gmaps Pedometer. Pretty accurate, as far as I can tell.

10:54 AM (0 comments)
The Chicago Sun-Times' online collection of articles marking the 25th anniversary of The Blues Brothers.

4:36 AM (0 comments)
A podcast from space. Now that's pretty cool. (via digg)

9:39 PM (0 comments)
Although I think the website is overreaching a bit in categorizing it as a "necessity", I have to admit that this globe sounds awfully neat.