June 11, 2006, 8:47 AM CT

Bike Repair Kit That Looks Like A Water Bottle

Looks like a water bottle! Compact wonder has all you need for on-the-spot repairs! Includes: bit screwdriver handle, 6-15mm ball wrench, 6 driver bits (slotted and Phillips), 3 hex key wrenches, 2 tire levers and tire patch kit with glue.

Top opens for easy access to bits, inside contains tools. Fits in bottle holder or mounts on bike with bracket (incl.). 7 3/8 x 2 7/8"Dia.........

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June 11, 2006, 8:38 AM CT

Magic Cube 5D

In the spirit of taking things too far, here is a fully functional 5-dimensional analog of Rubik's cube.

Give a try.........

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June 11, 2006, 8:13 AM CT

Indian Beatles

Indian Beatles.

Watch video Link........

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June 11, 2006, 8:07 AM CT

Winning Items In A Claw Machine

Imagine This; You are walking out of a Wal-Mart SuperCenter and you see a claw machine. Eventhough you have 2 dollars of spare cash in your pocket, you are not the greatest of "claw machiners" in the Wild West. You decide to have some fun and a little laugh so you walk toward the claw machine. You glance around the inside the machine to look for any tresures that may catch your eye for a friend, younger family member, or girl/boy friend.

You see a number of items here and there and finally decide on several of them. You dig thru your pockets and find the two 1 dollar bills. You insert them into the dollar slot and then proceed to gripping the joystick of the game. You also notice the timer on the game has been disabled. So you have all the time in the world. You carefully get the hang of the controls and begin to approach your 1st item with the stainless steel 4 pronged claw.........

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June 11, 2006, 7:48 AM CT

Another look back at a Future World favorite

got a call from Brian Ramsey of Mouse Surplus the other day. Who insisted that -- the very next time that I was down at Walt Disney World -- that I had to come by his new 1500 Tradeport Drive location and check out MS's new super-sized set-up.

And that was the plan, anyway. That -- as soon as I arrived at Orlando International Airport -- I'd first pick up my rental car and then make the five minute drive over to Mouse Surplus' new home. So that I could finally see this enormous warehouse that Brian keeps talking about.

But -- as soon as I walked in the door -- Mr. Ramsey had something really special to show me. It was a box full of film strips & old acetates that he had harvested from of Epcot's "Horizons" as that old Future World pavilion was being torn down to make way for "Mission: Space".

And as I held these thin pieces of plastic up to the light, some very familiar images from this long-gone Epcot icon once again appeared. How a number of of you recall.

this image from Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon"? Which used to be projected along the side of the ride track inside of this Future World attraction?.........

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June 11, 2006, 7:43 AM CT

Anti-itunes Drm Demonstrations

Tomorrow, activists in seven cities across the US will picket Apple Stores, handing out information about the dangers of the DRM hidden in Apple's iTunes. iTunes DRM may seem pretty innocuous at first, but every time you invest in an iTunes Store song, you make it more expensive to switch to an Apple competitor's product at any time in the future. You didn't have to abandon your CDs to switch to MP3s (in fact, the more CDs you owned, the better your MP3 experience was, since you could rip those CDs to seed your MP3 collection), but if you want to go from Apple's iTunes to a competing device, ever, you have to be prepared to abandon your whole investment.

Add to that Apple's willingness to remove features from iTunes Store songs in the name of "updating," the absence of any way to give away, sell or loan your iTunes Store songs, and Apple's use of blacklists and legal threats to prevent people from adding functionality to the iPod and iTunes and buying an iTunes song starts to seem like a worse and worse deal (particularly since a number of artists report that they're seeing $0.07 or less from the sale of their music on the iTunes Store, so all your money is doing is lining the pockets of the same recording companies that are busily suing grannies, little kids and everyone else they can get their hands on).........

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June 11, 2006, 7:28 AM CT

Urinal During World Cup Season

This is how the urinal looks in world cup soccer season.

Men are weird.........

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June 11, 2006, 7:20 AM CT

Trailer Of Disney Pixar Movie: Ratatouille

Watch the trailor for the next next Disney Pixar movie. It's named and it is coming out in 2007. It is about a Parisian rat who, unlike other rats in his family, insists on eating only the finest food served in Paris' best restaurants.

Watch trailer........

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June 10, 2006, 7:33 PM CT

New World Cup Football Will Unsettle Goalkeepers

The Adidas 'Teamgeist' football has just 14 panels - with fewer seams - making its surface 'smoother' than conventional footballs which have a 26 or 32 panel hexagon-based pattern.

This makes it aerodynamically closer to a baseball and, when hit with a slow spin, will make the ball less stable, giving it a more unpredictable trajectory in flight.

"With a very low spin rate, which occasionally happens in football, the panel pattern can have a big influence on the trajectory of the ball and make it more unpredictable for a goalkeeper," said Dr Ken Bray, a sports scientist at the University of Bath and author of the new popular science book How to score - science and the beautiful game.

"Because the Teamgeist ball has just 14 panels it is aerodynamically more similar to the baseball which only has two panels.

"In baseball, pitchers often throw a 'curve ball' which is similar to a swerving free kick and the rotating seam disrupts the air flow around the ball in much the same way as a football does.

"Occasionally though, pitchers will throw a 'knuckleball' which bobs about randomly in flight and is very disconcerting for batters.

"It happens because pitchers throw the ball with very little spin and as the ball rotates lazily in the air, the seam disrupts the air flow around the ball at certain points on the surface, causing an unpredictable deflection.........

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June 10, 2006, 7:18 PM CT

Third Franciscan Order Should Be Taken Seriously

In the late Middle Ages the diocese of Utrecht had more than 150 monasteries of the third order of St Francis. The majority of these were affiliated to the Chapter of Utrecht, an umbrella organisation founded in 1399. This can be considered part of the Modern Devotion, the religious reform movement which -starting in the valley of the river IJssel - influenced large parts of Europe. Based on a large number of archives within the Netherlands and further afield, Hildo van Engen investigated the history of this Utrecht Chapter and its communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

In Antwerp, Van Engen came across two copies of letters from Geert Grote concerning the third Franciscan order, which were previously unknown. These date from about 1380 and were possibly intended for third order sisters in Zwolle. As per Grote they did not adhere strictly enough to third Franciscan order regulations concerning food and clothing. The letters reveal that contrary to prior opinion, the early modern devout had a favourable attitude towards the third Franciscan order. Eventhough Grote reprimanded the sisters, he found the principles of their lifestyle could be of the highest service. Interestingly these letters were written in Medieval Dutch, whereas the majority of Grote's work is written in Latin.........

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