Muppet Viewing for your Friday

Here it is for your viewing pleasure - some muppets that were on display at the Photoshop contest at worth1000. Check ‘em out:

Happy Valentines Day

(looking for love in all the wrong places?)

Chris Farley’s Child Has Been Discovered

I don’t know what to say, but it’s good to see the soul of the Big Guy live on…

It’s not all technology - the arts matter too (Dana Gioia)

Below is a great speech by the poet Dana Gioia to the Stanford graduating class of 2007….
Stanford Commencement address by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (June 17, 2007)
Good morning.
It is a [...]

The Biggest and Baddest Pig Ever

I just read this story where  an 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.  He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver [...]

Nice Playground…for Bears

Some people build swimming pools in their back yards. But outdoor pools in Alaska just won’t work as it’s too cold and dark for 1/2 the year.  There is a particular family that lives on the outskirts of Anchorage. They decided to build a sturdy, colorful playground for their 3 and 4 year old sons, [...]

Instead of a Diet, Get a Camera

Americans are obese, but at least we have a slew of technology out there to help us out. In fact, there’s a newHP camera, that actually makes you look slimmer. Check this out:

And the website reads:
They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming [...]

6 Word Stories (and Captions)

Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer, personally felt to be his best prose ever, was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” Some people say it was to settle a bar bet. Others say it was a personal challenge directed at other famous authors.
The same thing is [...]

Big Bad Texas Gator

Here’s a story of a very large alligator in Texas. Not the biggest ever, but still pretty damn large.
Here’s a picture of it taken a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe in Texas with a whole deer in its mouth! Think of how large it has to be to fit an entire [...]

Badass Cops

I’ve travelled around quite a bit over the past few months and come across various policemen in different places. I have to say that some of their equipment is pretty funny. Check these two out:
New York’s Version of the Batmobile
In the US’s Gotham City, there’s now a sweet new vehicle roaming the streets. [...]