Someone posted this awesome fight scene from the movie Kung Fu Hustle and I thought it was definitely worth sharing. The movie has a 7.8 rating on IMDB - which is an awesome rating for those of you that don’t frequent IMDB.

In the first major fight scene in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle, the three Kung Fu masters, Coolie, Donut, and the Tailor take on the entire Axe Gang. After watching this I definitely want to see the whole movie now!
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You know, people always talk about a million as if they actually know what it would look like if they were actually staring at one million things. But for most of us, we’ve never actually seen a million of anything!

So, I decided to take a look at one million, and to do so I created a document that has one million periods in it. It’s attached here.

The file is a 976kb download, and if you open it in Word it takes 254 pages in single spaced format.
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There is a specific breed of goat that “faints” whenever it gets startled. It is a breed of domestic goat whose external muscles freeze for roughly 10 seconds when the goat is startled.

Though painless, this generally results in the animal collapsing on its side with the side effect of everyone around laughing their asses off.
The characteristic is caused by a hereditary genetic disorder called myotonia congenita. Older goats sometimes learn to lean against something to prevent their falling over, and often they continue to run about in an awkward, stiff-legged shuffle.
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One nice thing about hotels is that they usually have commercial ice makers which are great for filling up coolers. But what about when you don’t have a cooler, but you have a few drinks that you’d like to ice down over night? Well, all you need to do is convert the sink into a makeshift cooler!

I never want to pay hotel rates for drinks, so I will typically stop at a store and pick up a few drinks. In order to cool them down I close the sink drain, lay the drinks in the sink, and proceed to fill it completely full of ice.
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Ok, this seems truly unbelievable - as in, I’m not sure I believe it. But if it’s a fake I can’t detect it either! A Japanese guy has trained 4 goldfish to do synchronized swimming!

Yeah, I know it sounds impossible, but you have to see this! He motions with his hands and the fish do whatever he instructs even including splitting off into pairs and going in opposite directions. Unbelievable.
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Here is a neat little party trick you can pull out next time you’re out to dinner with a group of friends or business associates that you’d like to have a little fun with…

All that is required are three glasses and three knives. Unless they’ve seen this before you’ll definitely have everyone stumped.
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Now I’ve seen a lot of artists using wild methods of manufacture like Denny Dent, Banksy, Chainsaw Jack and more. But I’ve never seen this before!

Jorge Castillo (hope I spelled that right) uses an old fashioned typewriter to “draw” incredible pictures. Basically there is no better way to describe it, so you just have to watch this to see how he does it.
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Most people surf the Web unaware that an army of Artificial Intelligence engines are watching your every move in an effort to match interests with commercial messaging. Well, the bad news is… they are. The good news is that a brand new Web site called Thoof is going to use an even better version of this technology to entertain you instead!

Thoof’s founder and CEO, Ian Clarke, arrived at the conclusion that news aggregation sites such as Digg, Google News, Reddit and others provided volumes of articles, but left it to the readers to search endlessly for ones that appeal specifically to you. Being the uber-genius he is, he decided that someone needed to apply some Artificial Intelligence to the process and allow the system to learn and predict user preferences in order to present only articles with the highest probability of appealing to each individual.
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Very cool, er actually, HOT video showing how marbles are made.

The video demonstrates both the automated and manual methods of making these exceptionally round little beads of glass.

It makes it very easy to see why you have to a pro at this in order to get it right.
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Not to sound like someone pitching a self-help seminar, but I’ve been giving this a lot of thought and also been doing some experimentation and I believe I’ve found the secret to being happy - and it’s incredibly simple and entirely within your own control.

I made this initial discovery at, of all places, 7-11. You see, I’ve been working in D.C. on a project and living out of a hotel room for months. But my room has no refrigerator in it, so I stop at 7-11 every single morning on the way to the office to pick up a Sobe Green Tea (I highly recommend it if you haven’t tried it!).

Anyway, although I always see the same people working there I’ve noticed that I get a different reaction from them every time I come in the store - and this actually translated into how I felt.
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Good lord, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. In fact, I’m pretty sure it is the funniest 30 seconds I’ve ever experienced.

Make sure you go to the bathroom before you watch this because you might just wet yourself from laughing so hard…
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My buddy Jamie Harrop found this awesome new little site that helps choose a domain name by automatically trying every possible combination of whatever words you want in the domain name.

The original post comes from our HTMLHelp.com Blog.

The site is called Bust A Name and it has some truly excellent features and will really save a ton of time when it comes to choosing a name for your next new Web site.
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