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Life Without Limbs

Last night I watched part of 20/20 and saw a man that’s incredibly inspiring. Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs. The thing that amazes me is that he tours the world preaching God’s love. In the 20/20 segment they filmed him encouraging people that regardless of their circumstance they can find peace and [...]

Verizon Math

Phone company math can be pretty aggravating. One consumer responded by writing Verizon this check. It made me laugh.

Mini Kiss

You know how you need to laugh regularly? Well how long has it been since you really let go with one? Well that’s too long, you’re due. This could help. It did for me. It works on so many levels…

Age

Do you ever feel old? Wish you were 10 or 15 years younger? Well, as soon as we develop reliable space transportation you’ll be able to shed years. This is because planets that are further from the Sun than Earth have a longer ‘year’ than we do. On Mars I’m not even old enough to [...]

l33t

Hacker culture has arrived. Merriam Webster acknowledged l33t by not only adding w00t to the dictionary, but also making it their word of the year (it hasn’t made it to their website yet). Even Google has embraced the h4x0r. I guess this means that the internet is officially its own culture. w00t.

Jet Engines 101

Did you ever wonder how jet engines work? Me too. I spent a lot of time and money at engineering school to learn the answer to that question, but you don’t have to. GE, a world leader in turbine engines, just released some really cool flash videos that graphically show what happens in a jet [...]

Cavemen

You’ve heard of successful movies getting turned into TV shows, right? M.A.S.H., Private Benjamin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. When was the last time you heard of a successful commercial series getting turned into a TV show? I know, me either. As far as I know its never happened. Until the fall of 2007. GEICO’s [...]

Lego My Dimension

Someone built a mockup of MC Escher’s Relativity out of Legos. I’m not kidding. You just have to see it for yourself. Its amazing what people come up with.

Go Bag

Lifehacker just did a piece asking people to send in what they have in their go bags. I know its silly, but this is pretty interesting to me. Its sort of like looking into their lives, but without being creepy. I like it that you can instantly tell from the contents which bags belong to [...]

Atlas of Faith

I came across this map of various faiths across the globe and thought it was pretty interesting. Maybe you will, too.