Entries for April, 2011

Tornado Tracks in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Check out this amazing photo from the Earth Observatory: It is absolutely incredible about how long those tracks are, not to mention that they are wide enough to see from that far up.

Things in the News

A list of topics in the news that I do not care about: The white iPhone 4: Come back when the entire case is an AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) and you can change your phone’s outer design whenever you want. The Royal Wedding: Leave them alone.  Let them celebrate. Birthers/Donald Trump: Even [...]

Tuscaloosa Tornado

A record day for severe weather.  I’m sure they’ll be a lot of photos and videos to come.

SKisM – Power

At first this sounds like the soundtrack to Black Hawk Down, but then it just starts to build and build and build and then WHAM BY THE POWER OF RA! That may be the single greatest line to make a dubstep track around.  It is one of those days, so you are just going to [...]

A Brief Introduction on Dubstep Production – Dubba Jonny

Still confused as to what Dubstep is?  Maybe this song will help. That is an awesome bass line.  Quality headphones or audiophile speakers a must.

Death Cab for Cutie – You are a Tourist

I’m excited for the new album on May 31st 2011.

BMW ActiveE

BMW  recently announced their all electric car called the ActiveE. Besides the horrible name here are some initial specs: BMW will lease about 700 cars out for $500 a month over 2 years. BMW didn’t indicate how much the electric car would cost to purchase compared with other electric cars on the market. BMW said the [...]

Von Karmen Vortex Street

A friend of mine (Brian) recently shared an item from good.is about some of pictures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  The best photo was of a Von Karmen Vortex Street of the Chilean coast shown below: NASA image acquired September 15, 1999. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat. Image and caption courtesy Bob Cahalan, NASA GSFC This picture is actually included [...]

XKCD – Heaven

Gud Magazine went and made the game that XKCD thought up in this post

Largest PacMan Game Revisited

I have mentioned the Worlds Biggest Pac-Man previously.  Now CNN has a news story about it: The company says its constantly scanning new mazes for inappropriate images, including an anatomical favorite of juvenile minds everywhere. “We’re happy that the ‘penis to non-penis levels’ ratio is well below 1:100 (the standard for user generated campaigns) …,” the company [...]