20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos

20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos

Jeep waterfall - DIY version?

Discussion of the background design in the Jeep display, which uses water something like the ink drops in an inkjet printer

Jeep waterfall - DIY version

Caloric Values of Alcoholic Beverages, Alcohol calories

Caloric Values of Alcoholic Beverages

Calorie counts for 99 different beers, plus wine, liquor and mixed drinks

''Oops'', said the crane operator

''Oops'', said the crane operator:

A Russian crane operator slipped and dropped a ton of bundled rebar completely flattening a Toyota Corolla, and upending the crane. Check out the pics here.

Eiffel Tower Made of 7464 Matches (23 photos)

Eiffel Tower Made of 7464 Matches (23 photos): "Eiffel Tower Made of 7464 Matches (23 photos)

A guy from Ukraine, Alexandr Pashkevich, has made a model of Eiffel Tower from matches. The height of the structure is 3,3 ft (1 meter) and it consits of 15 000 different details made from 7464 matches. More than that there is a illumination in the tower, made of numerous LEDs."

Torrent!

Not(!) a bunch of illegal software download links. After a pause subsequent to my deep-thought post last weekend, the floodgates of information are loosed. Enjoy!

Road to Nowhere

tbt.com - tbt* / Tampa Bay Times:

The Talking Heads have nothing on the Tampa area's dueling counties.

How legos are made

Digg - How legos are made: "How legos are made" An animated explanatory site showing the injection molding that produces creativity in block form

Jeep's amazing "ink-jet" waterfall

Digg - Jeep's amazing "ink-jet" waterfall: "Jeep's amazing 'ink-jet' waterfall

Jeep uses this waterfall for its displays. According to the waterfall's builder, the system works like an ink-jet printer, with 3,000 valves organizing the droplets via computer program into visible logos and other messages, which appear as the droplets descend 24-feet into a trough. Talk about attention-getting!"

I've seen this a couple of the past years at the Chicago Auto Show (2007 February 9-18). Impressive use of computer (maybe PLC) -controlled water valves.

Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From The Movies and Any Episode of "24"

Top 10 Things I've Learned About Computers From The Movies and Any Episode of "24"

Cars! Cars! Cars!: My Baby Is American Made

My Baby Is American Made

With Oak Ridge Boys apologies, click-through links to find the domestic content of your car, and others. As expected, F-150 is tops, but Camry comes in high on the list.

Jet Vs. Bird

Jet Vs. Bird

Another avian impact of flightworthy aircraft

A missile punch at bullet prices

Rail guns, being the embodiment of high-energy electromagnetics, by definition rock. US Navy is finalizing designs, which may lead to an improved catapult system for aircraft carriers, eventually.

A missile punch at bullet prices

Can This Fruit Be Saved? - Popular Science

Can This Fruit Be Saved? - Popular Science

Bananas are endangered, because all current consumed kinds are hybrids incapable of reproduction

Turn Your Digital Camera Upside Down For Better Portraits

Turn Your Digital Camera Upside Down For Better Portraits

Jist of this link: upside-down flash lights drooping skin less

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

A good demonstration of the scale of the universe, showing an animation of viewpoints from multiple light-years distant scaling down to subatomic.

The Biggest Ships in the World, Part 1

Blogified details of some of the largest blue-water ships afloat

The Biggest Ships in the World, Part 1

Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?

Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?

High Plains 2006 "End of Year" Storm

High Plains 2006 "End of Year" Storm

Pictures of the ice storm which swept across the high planes New Year's weekend 2006/7

Nebraska Ice Storm 12/31/06

December 29-31, 2006 Ice Storm Follow Up Visit

Build a Lego Trebuchet

Because it's cool, that's why....

Build a Lego Trebuchet

YouTube Lego Trebuchets

YouTube - Lego Trebuchets

...and watch others who have tread before you

Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight

Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight

Brighter than Hale-Bopp, it's the most visible comet in generations

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System

Real-time ship tracking system for the St. Lawrence Seaway

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System

The problem with Made in China

The problem with Made in China

Time for a change of pace. This article reflects an idea I had formed over the last few years, working for a company with an extensive Chinese presence. Basically, the incentive for the Chinese government currently is to continue to develop the interior of the country, further from their Pacific coast, in order to distribute the prosperity, as labor is becoming increasingly difficult to find in their east (even with their frenetic construction pace), driving wages and cost of living up. At the same time, the infrastructure (roads, rail) leading to the interior of the country can't keep pace with their desire to develop, so the industrial/commercial development further inland is occurring more slowly, causing a gradient of development and standard-of-living across the country.
It has been said for the last few years that because of the energy, raw materials and distribution situation within China, labor is the only input to the manufacturing process that is less expensive there. And this article provides a snapshot of that situation.
Strategically, it will mean that manufacturing will shift to other lesser-developed countries, as it has before, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and others.
Generally, as manufacturing goes, the service economy follows, so the hordes of freshly-minted MBA's who see China as a gold mine for their future would be well advised to take the longer-term perspective, in my humble-but-somewhat-educated opinion.

Holy Crud! Hawaii Five-O Theme Song Lyrics

And you thought it was enough of an earworm(tm) to hear the theme and see the 30+ year old scenes of Oahu with Jack Lord. Who knew it had lyrics?

Holy Crud! Hawaii Five-O Theme Song Lyrics

Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins

Sayings and Phrases - meanings and origins

For the next time a friendly discussion of the origin of a phrase comes around.

"How Hangovers Work"

"How Hangovers Work"

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation - by Dumb Little Man

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation - by Dumb Little Man:
"After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You're excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.

Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double negatives and run-on sentences colliding with each other."

Best movie mistakes

Best movie mistakes:
"8 Titanic The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is Lake Wissota, a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1918 when a power company built a dam on the Chippewa River, six years after the Titanic sank."

Pac-Man hits the road

Pac-Man hits the road:
"Sheriff Gary Miller cruised east from Buffalo to the stretch of Hwy. 55 with large, white ovals painted by the state to slow tailgaters by showing drivers how far apart to stay. About halfway through the stretch he saw the unauthorized addition: a giant rendition of a yellow Pac-Man, the jaws from the 1980s video game trailblazer, attacking an oval dot on the pavement."

Google circa 1960

Google circa 1960

Old but good....

9 Inventions Edison Did Not Make

9 Inventions Edison Did Not Make

Despite popular misconception....

Hail: 1 Airplane: 0

Hail: 1 Airplane

A 727 pelted by hail at altitude.

The Car Chase That Made No Sense - Jalopnik

Some person took footage of car chases from Hawaii Five-O and edited them into one, long nonsensical thing. In honor of the North American International Auto Show, in Detroit:

The Car Chase That Made No Sense - Jalopnik

Alpha Geek: How to digitize cassette tapes - Lifehacker

Alpha Geek: How to digitize cassette tapes - Lifehacker

Freakonomics Blog » Fresh Beer at Market Prices

Roland Fryer is a very enterprising young economist at Harvard whose early work, much of it in collaboration with Steve Levitt, is featured in Freakonomics.

Roland’s creativity is not limited to academic economics. A while back, he told me his idea for opening a bar in Cambridge where an electronic tote board would list the prices of the beers and each beer would rise or fall in price throughout the night depending on demand.

Freakonomics Blog » Fresh Beer at Market Prices

When pirates (of TV) ruled

Details and story behind one of the few times a major TV station was overcome by a pirate signal. And it happened in Chicago....

Remember, Remember the 22nd of November

ARMED FORCES JOURNAL - Blood borders

ARMED FORCES JOURNAL - Blood borders

An article from AFJ detailing a nontrivial rearrangement of the political borders of Southwestern Asia, along the lines of predominate population