Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Toni Bou: Just A Guy In His Pajamas And A Helmet Ridin' His Dirt Bike




Toni Bou

(Thanks to Misterarthur for sending that one along)

Monday, August 29, 2011

I'm Never Gonna Do It Without My Fez On



Safety.

I live in a country where it's against the law to ride a bicycle without a helmet, but it's perfectly OK to skip vaccinating your children. Please, no lectures for my stalwart friends in the fezzes.

(Thanks to MisterArthur for sending that one along)

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Captain Fantastic And His Brown-Dirt Underpants

(There's some well-merited salty language in there)

[Thanks to Honorary Borderline Sociopathic Boy Gerard for sending that one along]

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Friday, August 19, 2011

There Can Be Only One


The Ford F series truck is the second greatest vehicle ever made. A bunch of rednecks show us why.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Thank You For Correcting My English, Which Stinks! I Am Naga Eboko, Exchange Student From Cameroon


If all you know about Cameroon is that line from a movie, what better way to see what's up there than a miniature helicopter and a tiny cam?

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Worst. Carnival Ride. Ever.


Let's face facts: Robots are cool. You can be the biggest dweeb in the world, but mention you work on the "R" word, and chicks will be all over you. Robots are chick magnets. Well, they might be magnetic, I don't know, I don't make robots. They look vaguely magnetic. This one is financed by DARPA. That's the cool military thingie that wastes money on laser beams and death rays and stuff like that instead of on $500 hammers and $1000 toilet seats. Those sorts of things aren't going to get you any chicks like a robot will. Well, the $1000 toilet seat might, if it was heated and you remembered to leave it down and not sprinkle it.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Someone's Gonna Get A Bohemian Rhapsody -- In The Kisser, With An Excavator Bucket



It won't kill them, though. The pool water is the color of gatorade, and will finish them off first.

(Thanks to Gerard of American Digest for sending along home movies of his pool party)

Thursday, August 11, 2011

If You Do Good Things, Good Things Will Happen To You


Honorary Borderline Boy of the day. It's not shocking that there are still kids like him in the world. It's just shocking to find out there are actual Diamondback fans.

(Thanks to American Digest for doing our work for us today)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Extreme Office Parkour



This is what happens when your office doesn't block access to YouTube.

Monday, August 8, 2011

I Don't Know Much, But I Do Know That This Guy Will Pay Back His Student Loans



From his YouTube page:

My name is Andres Guzman-Ballen and I'm a senior majoring in computer engineering at the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign.

Thanks to the detrimental changes of the bus routes at UIUC, I had to resort to either skateboarding everywhere, walking, or riding a bike to get around campus. All would require more effort than I wanted to put in to get around and that's when I came up with the idea.

This isn't an original idea since there are already electric skateboards out there in the market and some people have made their own electric mountainboards as well but in my opinion, they weren't efficient in any manner. Most use lead batteries, brush motors, a bulky skateboard design, and are wired (which to me isn't as cool). This makes it incredibly heavy (45-60 lb) since a 10 volt lead battery can weigh 10-15 pounds alone and a brush motor to power a skateboard usually needs at least around 24 volts to be decent. A good brush motor can weigh 10 lbs as well. There's a spiral where the heavier the board, the stronger the equipment has to be and this in itself makes it heavier. Many also limit their designs to the skateboard.

I chose a mountainboard because the truck design allows the rider to carve more since the center of gravity is lower than a skateboard. Because it is designed to bend and absorb impacts and still be very strong (with the carbon fiber and fiberglass combo), riding it feels as if you are surfing in the street. I use a 25.6 V 10.2 Ah LiFePO4 battery and it weighs only 6 lbs! The brushless motor that I use only weighs 0.6 lbs and the board that I bought from eBay weighs about 18 lbs. If you add that up with the material supporting all that, it weighs about 30 lbs. It can go up to 20 mph but I usually ride around 10 to 15 since I want to live long enough to enjoy it.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

There's No Moose, But There's A Flying Squirrel



American junior wrestler Ellis Coleman performing a Greco-Roman wrestling move called "The Flying Squirrel" at the junior world championships.

(Thanks to Don Neuendorf for sending that one along)

Monday, August 1, 2011