This video contains way too much language and violence to be appropriate for any kids. But for the rest of us, this is hilarious!

In the beginning this punk is screaming and yelling at this other guy that he wants to kick his ass. And it actually appears to me that the other guy is trying to avoid the conflict. But at some point I guess he decides it’s not possible. I love the look on his face. It’s kind of like “Oh well, I told you so.”
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Look, any time you’ve got a character in an advertisement named T-Bone it’s an indicator of things to come. But after the first 7 minutes of brutally bad acting and terrible story line the good news is that you are treated to a horrible rap song about Windows 386!

Seriously. If you can sit through this entire 12 minute promotional video without your head exploding I’ll be very impressed. It’s just sooo bad. I only finished it myself as an experiment to make sure I wouldn’t kill any of you by actually exposing you to this crap.
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Have you ever had a computer for a long time and then wanted or needed to move all your data to a new one? Or, have you ever had to reinstall Windows just because you’ve loaded so many programs that it’s caused your computer to crash so often that you’re willing to start over? Well, what would you say if I told you it is possible to take a “snapshot” of your entire computer and move or copy the data to another machine in minutes so you can continue right where you left off.

Well you can, and it’s not something that is “coming soon”, it’s here today and has been here for at least a couple of years. The technology is called Virtualization, and there are several software vendors who provide the capability to allow you to do this on any operating system - Mac, Linux, or PC.

Before you ask me “why would I want to virtualize my computer”, let me share a few reasons:

• Portable workspaces - virtualization allows you to move your entire digital workspace from one physical machine to another. You can even use an iPod or USB memory sticks to host a virtual machine!
• Testing and training - rather than loading all kinds of unknown software into your normal computing environment, you can have a virtual machine just for testing. Heck, you could have one for games, one for personal computing, and one for work!
• Disaster recovery - if you always keep a recent backup of your virtual machine, say… on a portable USB hard drive, even if your computer dies you’ll be able to pick back up exactly where you left off without having to reinstall everything.
• Consolidation - Virtual machines are used to consolidate many physical servers into fewer servers, which in turn host virtual machines. Each physical server is reflected as a virtual machine “guest” residing on a virtual machine host system. This is also known as Physical-to-Virtual or ‘P2V’ transformation.

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The Disintegrator is a motorized cordless twin rubber band minigun, capable of firing 40 bands per second.

It’s billed as:

The most devastating rubber band gun ever built

And I’m going to have to go ahead and agree with that claim! And now for a couple of videos of the Disentigrator in action!
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This video, posted as Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, is exactly one year old and has now been viewed over 20 Million times. It took a lot of creativity and coordination to pull off this exhibition of manual dexterity.

Years and years have passed. And I have a very wide musical taste. But after all this time my favorite artist is still Marc Cohn.

If I were ever to do anything worthy of having a superstar sing for me, I’d choose Marc.

For those of you who have not had the opportunity to listen to Marc, I’ve assembled a few videos for your listening pleasure. I hope you enjoy.
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Terry Fator won $1,000,000 on the TV show America’s Got Talent. How? Well, he might be the greatest ventriloquist of all time. And he’s also an impersonator, comedian, and a brilliant singer!

I’ve assembled as many of the videos of his performances as I could find to show the road that led up to the win. Sit back and enjoy.
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Here is a mesmerizing video of 100 acrobats and dancers from the “Chinese State Circus” performing Swan Lake.

These performances remind me of Cirque du Soliel, though I’ve never had the opportunity to actually see the Chinese State Circus in person. As I understand it, they perform primarily in Europe, so if any of you guys across the pond have seen them in person let us know if it’s as great as it looks like it would be!
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Here is something to get your week off to a good start. Now, you might not want to be the one opening the door, but I guarantee you’ll wish you were there to see it in person!
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You know how people are always talking about Ft. Knox being really secure? Well, here is the civilian equivalent!

Iron Mountain Inc is a company specializing in data storage. The best known Iron Mountain storage facility is a high-security cave in a former limestone mine at Boyers, Pennsylvania near the city of Butler in the USA.

It has been in operation since 1950, and it is here that Bill Gates stores his Corbis photographic collection in a refrigerated cave 220 feet underground.
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You know, sometimes I like to watch people who are just incredibly talented because it motivates me to be less… well, ordinary. I don’t really care what you do, as long as you just do it better than anyone else!

Well, here are a batch of guys who have obviously spent enough time with a Soccer ball that it’s become like another appendage to them. Watch what they do, and just think… what if I was this good at my job?
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Here is an amazing clip of a small plane crash landing in California when one of it’s landing gears refused to function properly. Funny thing is, there wasn’t really any “crash” in the landing.

What makes this especially interesting is that someone apparently got another plane up in the air in time to film what was going on, and they did a really good job of capturing the entire event.

POINT MUGU, California
Monday Jul 30, 2007
A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with its left main landing gear stuck in the up position skidded to a safe landing at a Navy air station Monday.Twelve people were aboard.

The civilian Grumman G-159 was on a shuttle flight from the military’s San Nicolas Island to Point Mugu.

The Phoenix Air plane carrying nine passengers and three flight crew members circled for about an hour to burn off excess fuel.

The airplane came in with its left engine feathered — the propeller slowly turning — and it set down gently before settling onto its left wing, then skidded to its left off the runway and onto an unpaved area.

Everyone aboard jumped out of the aircraft as fire trucks sprayed the craft.
There was no fire and the plane appeared to be repairable.

San Nicolas is a Navy-owned island off Southern California. The plane is leased to shuttle military personnel and civilian workers between the mainland and the island.

Point Mugu Naval Air Station is part of the Navy base in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles.

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