A Guinness World Record which pushes the boundary of what’s possible. If you don’t know what a 90 degree push-up is, just watch this! … all » ‘Tika’ Brumant manages 11 consecutive 90 degree push-ups on the set of “L’Emission Des Records” in Paris.
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At $9,999,999.99 I wouldn’t consider this Mio c310x a “steal”:
I guess the $149 deal wasn’t generating enough profit, so they decided to make back all the Black Friday money that they lost on all products for all time in just one sale of this GPS….. I wonder if it includes free delivery? I’ll pass; hey “That was Easy”
Original post: GSM Lodge
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A fairly impressive, 70lb, 9′6″ beast.
Details and videos: Spudgun Technology Center
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TeleAtlas provides the maps to various GPS devices (including the Mio c310x)
Tele Atlas, announced it will expand its map update system with Map Insight, an online tool that allows users of Internet, personal navigation and wireless devices and applications powered by Tele Atlas data to quickly report changes to the company. Released in limited availability, Map Insight will be made generally available during the fourth quarter of 2006.
Read full article at: TeleAtlas - Map Insight Program HUGE step in making GPS Maps Right
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A great reference for information about the c310.
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“Unique” bicycle customizations. Some highlights:
In case you want more, go to the original page for 38 more great pictures.
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Some great examples of the misuse of literary devices. Here is a taste:
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
Joseph Romm, WashingtonShe caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Rich Murphy, Fairfax StationThe little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
Russell Beland, SpringfieldMcBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
Paul Sabourin, Silver SpringHer eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Russell Beland, SpringfieldHer vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
UnknownHe was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
Jack Bross, Chevy ChaseThe hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Gary F. Hevel, Silver SpringJohn and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Russell Beland, SpringfieldThe red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
Unknown
Even more quotes on the original page.
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An in-depth (16 page) review and comparison of soem of the latest Network Attached Storage devices.
“Network attached storage (NAS) is a hot market these days, not only for the SMB (Small to Medium Business) market, but also for the home user. As more and more computers appear in our homes, the need for shared storage is becoming a lot more prevalent than in the past. Also, with drive sizes approaching a terabyte, backing up and storing important files requires more than the typical single drive enclosures. The million dollar question, however, is which device do you buy?
With Gigabit networking and multiple drives on all these devices we went into this article with the hope of high throughput. Unfortunately this was short lived once we dived into the benchmarks. Most of these devices are running tiny processors and software-based RAID. The result is transfer rates that average 10MByte/second, which is quite slow if you’re used to copying data off of a hardware based RAID array. However, the purpose of these devices isn’t necessarily to be able to read and write at theoretical gigabit line-speeds. These devices are designed to provide long term shared storage, backup a few machines on a network, or stream a few DVDs to a media device.
The most difficult part of this article was developing the benchmarks. There are a number of different utilities out there to perform I/O benchmarking, and some are better than others. We tried IOMeter, IOZone, and we developed a couple of our own. The problem we kept running into was that most of the benchmarks were not producing numbers similar to a windows file copy, which is exactly what most users will be doing. In the end, we selected IOMeter and we developed a very simple command-line benchmark that will time a file copy. Descriptions and links to these benchmarks are on the test configuration page.”
Read the full article: NAS Roundup
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This crazy Japanese Wii safety manual is pretty much indicative of Japanese people’s general insanity. Our theory: a secret battle between Godzilla and several Gundams in the early 1980s bombarded the whole of Japan with cosmic G-rays, which allowed then-youths to grow up and draw these weird-ass manuals.
First, hitting your husband in the face with a Wiimote is not acceptable even if you’re pregnant. Do not blame it on your hormones.
Do not lay out a Wii for homeless Japanese citizens. They should clean themselves up and get a job like an honorable salaryman.
Many more great pictures (and descriptions) on the original page.
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Some examples of the Café wall illusion
Basic pattern
The gray line appears to tilt down to the left, though it is horizontal.
“Knitting”The arrays appear to move.
More examples: Cafe Wall illusion
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