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A Space Shuttle launch sequence from an on board camera which is mounted on the top of the EXT Fuel tank. This movie records scenes between 13 seconds before SSME ignission and SRBs jettson.

An experiment in the name of SCIENCE:

Experiment:

Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.

Hypothesis:

THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME

From Apartment Therapy:

We learned yesterday in The History of Ice Cream, that Thomas Jefferson was an early adopter in the New World ice cream scene. Turns out, someone came across his own personal recipe for vanilla ice cream . We thought we’d try to decipher the manuscript (see recipe below with some clarifcations and compare to the original recipe), and then make it ourselves.

From Motorist.org:

Short yellow light times at intersections have been shown to increase the number of traffic violations and accidents. Conversely, increasing the yellow light duration can dramatically reduce red-light violations at an intersection.

Some local governments have ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead.

Here are some of the cities that have been caught with short yellow light times over the past few years:

(Thanks Sean)

(via Boing Boing)

From The Sun:

The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aislehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27Q1m0Yr1s
YouTube – MUSLIM bus driver and knelt on the floor facing Mecca.

Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.

One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic.

“We thought it was a wind-up at first, like Jeremy Beadle.”

(via Arbroath)

From MilitaryPhotos.net.