This is a pretty amazing video these kids in Norway made of themselves illegally modifying train tracks along a high-speed passenger line just outside Oslo, what they are doing is highly illegal and dangerous, but I have to admit they’re pretty creative and lucky to have pulled this off.
:)

By Restless
Today is the first day of Summer. For the past few weeks I’ve been working long hours and fielding auditions and freelance deal. Today I read 39 Ways to Live, not Merely Exist at dumb little man. Some excerpts:

Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren’t already.
Get outside. Don’t let yourself […]

Over on the Scientific American website they have a cool little application that allows you to use a slider bar to zoom into the future, from 2 days, to 1 billion years, to show what will happen in New York City (and to a greater extent the Earth), simulating what would happen if people disapeared, […]

Our Pro-Death President has veto’d only three bills in his entire incompetent joke of a career as U.S. President,  and each one of those vetos has led, or will lead, directly to the deaths and suffering of untold amounts of people.
Two Vetos on Stem Cell reasearch bills,  first in 2006, and now in 2007, which could […]

 
From Boston.COM:
Naked couple die from S.C. rooftop fall
COLUMBIA, S.C. –Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths.
The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect […]

Apparently some hackers broke into the live weather web cam that belonged to a TV station in the Czech Republic. As you can tell from the video, it may have caused a mini panic. More info here.

Could Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City be preparing to run for President?
I don’t know if he is,  but he bailed out of the Republican party today.
Seeing as he is Pro Choice, Pro Gun Control, Pro Gay Marriage,  and has more or less been Anti-Bush for years, one must wonder what the hell […]

Ok here it is, the last “What in the World is This”  for the second quarter of 2007.
It’s already a done deal, Graham has won again!   However it’s a tight race for 2nd place,  as this will be the final WITWIT for this quarter, it’s this one that will determine who takes second.
I tried to […]

This analysis and map pretty much sums up what I already knew.  Northern California has an abundent amount of nerds and far to few women.    But then again I grew up on the east coast and know what the women are like back there,  in Southern Maryland you have a choice between big hair and […]

The picture the godless athiests Jesus haters don’t want good Christian folk to see.  From BoingBoing.

 
From The BBC:
Russian ‘ninja’ arrested in Italy
Italian police have arrested a Russian “ninja” who had been spreading fear across farmlands in the north of the country.
The man, camouflaged in an all black suit, had robbed several farmers and their families at knife point, police say.
Police had been searching for him for several weeks.
Ninjas were trained […]

The Housing bubble is now a fact, as illustrated by the graphs that can be found here,  such as the this one below showing the composite home prices in 10 major markets over the past 15 years…

How low it will go is anyones guess.
However I doubt I’ll be shedding any tears over those poor saps […]

The Good News?  You used to weigh over 600 lbs, and after 3 years of strict dieting and exercise, you’ve lost 400 lbs.
The Bad News?  Now you have around 20 lbs of excess skin on your body that won’t shrink with the rest of you.   A pretty incredible and inspiring story about David Smith and […]

A cool little quiz on belief.net for you.
It turns out I’m 97% Secular Humanist and 89% Mahayana Buddhist.
Oh, and 3% Jehovah’s Witness, I’ll be knocking on your door soon.
What about you guys?   Tell me your top 3.