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Every Popular Mechanics Cover from 1902 to 2004.
(via Eyebeam reBlog)

Hovercraft with Motorycle” is unique in the world of vehicular travel. As the name implies, it is a hovercraft type of vehicle with motorcycle steering and propulsion. The advantage is that the user has access to all the benefits of hovercraft along with the improved steering and propulsion. Traditional hovercraft devices, because they have no supplementary steering or propulsion system, are difficult to start and stop and are affected with sluggish steering capabilities. In “Hovercraftwith Motorcycle” those problems are virtually nonexistent. Also besides brakes it also has reverse to mke travel easier. This is a form of transportation that is in step with today’s needs.

This is really fascinating.

It is not known when tattooing first became a common practice in Russian prisons and Stalinist Gulags. Soviet researchers first discovered and studied this underground activity in the 1920s; photographs of prisoners from that period suggest an already elaborate and highly developed subculture. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically proclaim the wearer’s background and rank within the complex social system of the jailed.

(Thanks to Radmila from My2SecondShelflife for the link)

Cool:

The object of the game is to connect any actor or actress to any other actor or actress in the smallest number of links possible. Two people are said to be linked if they have been in a movie together or have been regulars on the same TV show (we do not use guest appearances on a TV show for a link).

Here is a site with all of the Dr. Pepper knockoffs.

Have you ever noticed that generic soda always seems to go flat really fast?

I agree with all of these. Here are a few examples:

7. He-Man
This is an easy one. I mean c’mon. Roid monkey #1. “BY THE POWER
OF ANABOL!!!!!!” Alone in his castle, hitting the weights. And on top of
that he even injects it in his pet tiger. Can we say “Animal Abuse”?

9. Olive Oyl
Probably Dexatrim abuse, maybe some amphetamines. Who is that
skinny?! She might even be anorexic, she is always giving her
burger to her friend.

16.Peanuts
Snoopy is just lit up on anything he can find. First, dogs don’t sleep on their
backs, and second, a dog that DOES sleep on his back on a 12/12 pitch roof
has got to be stoned, cuz any coherent individual doesn’t have the proper
equalibrium to perform this balancing act. His pop just drinks his life away,
it’s Jack and Coke for that beagle.

Since it is on an aol site I can’t guarantee that the link will still work when you try it though.

Happy I’m Embarrassed by My President Day!

Are you embarrassed by the arrogance, greed, shortsightedness, selfishness, and outright lies told by George W. Bush and his administration?

Join tens of thousands of others across the country and world and wear a brown armband or ribbon to symbolize all the BS coming out of the White House.

It’s not just that I disagree with the current administration. I’m outraged. And I’m downright embarrassed to talk to anyone from another country. I’m embarrassed to have a President so arrogant, so dishonest, so hawkish, that in three years, he has nearly destroyed any good relations we had before he took office, and worsened those that were already bad.