Another awesome post from Make Magazine

Wow this looks like it took a lot of work. Original blog entry here.

Bob Dullam made his own Batman tumbler vehicle.

How to spend your time if you have recently won the lottery and do not know what to do. . .

This came from a DIY blog that I watch from MAKE Magazine by Phillip Torrone

My belt sander can beat your circular saw

TEN feet short of the finish line, Barbie Airplane was stranded. A screaming speedster powered by a whirling circular saw flew from a wooden ramp at the recent Power Tool Drag Racing competition in Seattle.

The cheerful contraption — a Craftsman belt sander crowned with a powder-blue toy plane — had been careening down the 75-foot racetrack moments earlier. Then the sander’s rotating belt came undone, stopping it dead.

In the neighboring lane, Heavy Metal Waste, a circular saw souped up with skateboard wheels and flaming antennas, had already rocketed past. Cheers of victory rang from the bleachers.

“Time waits for no one!” heckled the announcer. So Randy Lisbona, a 47-year-old air-conditioning engineer from Dallas, hauled his broken-down belt sander off the track to make way for the next heat.

That’s how it goes at power tool drag races. The premise is simple: Take a hand-held power tool. Rebuild it into a racing machine.

Monster Truck err Segway?

Ok this was cool. I wonder just how good this would do offroad, and the driver seems pretty pleased with himself.

Online Shopping Tool

BeatThat! is an online shopping tool run by its visitors to get the best deals on merchandice. All in all it is a pretty cool idea and could save people some cash. The site describes itself as follows:

BeatThat!'s Mission

BeatThat! is committed to providing an open, transparent view into the world of online shopping - so that shoppers online can feel comfortable that they've found the very best deals from merchants they know a lot about - and the site guarantees that it has the lowest prices for its products, or you'll be paid for alerting the site to a better deal!

Who Finds the Deals at BeatThat!?

BeatThat! is run by its Deal-Finders - those hard-working people who scour the Internet for the very best deals on every single product on the site. Why do they do it? First of all, they love the "thrill of the hunt" - looking into all the nooks and crannies of the Internet where great deals reside. Second, they get a lot of attention and respect for their skill here at BeatThat!. And lastly, they get paid for it! If you think you'd like to become a BeatThat! Deal-Finder, just read on!

How to Shop Using BeatThat!

It's simple: Find the product you're interested in by either typing it into the search box, or by browsing for it (links on the home page), then find the deal that you like the most, and then click on it to go to the online store. That's it! Tell your friends how easy and great shopping here is!

Follow the link to the site itself : Go check it out.

Olympics

I thought these were pretty good places to track the olympics this year. Comment if you have any that I have missed that are better:

Google Addon
NBC Coverage
BBC Map and coverage

Status of Blogging. . .

Well,

I came, I blogged, and I got really bored, really fast. Sorry, I am just not the type for blogging. The majority of the games I was playing all take either a lot of time or actually green to progress in and I do not feel like placing much of either into them. So, I will start just placing random items on the site that I think are either cool, funny, or unbelievable and see how long that goes. Here is the first one:

Ok way too much time . . .

So I grew in some of the games to unmanageable proportions and decided to just drop the majority of them. I am still playing Duels.com along with a friend at work since it does not take any more time than you want it to and can be immediately stopped without any repercussion.

Night Bird Razor Bought gold 2004
Fist of Stillness Bought gold 2910
Darian Boomstick Bought gold 512