Watch what happens when an enormous meteor slams into the Earth in this uplifting video:Check out this site for a translation of what’s going on.The earth’s crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called,”Earth’s crust tidal wave”. There is 1km width of the rock, [...]

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When my iPod broke a few days ago, I went to the Apple store to get it replaced. While I was there, I checked out the hardware, and I gotta say—I don’t want any of it.

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Landon Donovan: Wildly overrated. Can barely dribble the ball without falling down or losing it (or both).
Eddie Pope: Should have known better than to get that red card against Italy. It was a bad call but he shouldn’t have given the ref the opportunity to make it.
Kasey Keller: I dunno. He looked okay to me [...]

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I went to Fenway on Monday night to watch the Nationals commence part two of their anti-Yankees strategy. They did a great job. Fenway is, in fact, a beautiful stadium and I had a great time despite the extremely drunk moron who sat next to me and screamed horrible things directly into the ears of [...]

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It appears that the Washington Post did a little redesign of the bottom half of their front page. Basically, what they did was uglify things and strew some ads around willy-nilly (“some ads” is really doing the situation a disservice, though—the ads are multitudinous and garish in the extreme). Also, at least on my computer, [...]

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This isn’t very timely, but so be it.

I watched Match Point last night. It was pretty good, but I liked it better when it was called The Talented Mr. Ripley. Okay, it wasn’t exactly the same, but it had some definite similarities (which I won’t go into because they’re essential to the two plots). Anyway, [...]

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Google is building what looks to be the foundation for Skynet, in a place called “The Dalles” in Oregon (keep an eye out in the full article for the woman who compares Google with Lord Voldemort):On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate [...]

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What do you do when you need to install an A/C unit but your windows open side-to-side instead of up-and-down? Well, you do your best to jury-rig a solution:Looks pretty good, right? Well, yeah, right up until you raise the windowshade:If you’re interested, here’s a close-up view. Just call me MacGuyver.

Also, here’s a picture I [...]

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