One more reason to love NPR is how awesome the website is. You can search old shows of which you maybe heard only a part. You may then listen to the segment, by clicking on the "Listen" button. Check it out.
This is pretty awesome -
" Credit Suisse uses a supplemental system to keep its New York City offices cool. It makes large blocks of ice at night, then uses cool air from the blocks to maintain a comfy 74 degrees in the offices during the day. William Beck, the head of critical engineering systems for Credit Suisse, estimates that the system saves the company about $1 million a year in energy costs."
Inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Philippines have done a damn good job remaking Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. The balding female lead is a little creepy-looking, but his acting is superb. I think you'll agree that this is pretty awesome -
Apparently, this is some kind of crazy prison with a thriving culture of corruption. Somehow, they manage not to take things too seriously, and find time to choreograph some pretty complicated numbers. Here's some more of their hard labor. Get it? Hard labor?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against alQaeda, other radical groups and Pakistan-based Habib Bank Ltd over the 2002 abduction, torture and murder of her husband.
She's seeking an amount that she hopes will prevent the involved parties, including Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and Ahmed Omar SaeedSheikh, from committing such crimes in the future.
Mohamed has been quoted as saying, "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."
In case you've forgotten, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed is this handsome devil (now in US custody)-
My brother was talking about "Dueling Banjos" on Guitar Hero over the weekend, and I asked him what he was talking about, and he's all "it came on after the clip from Deliverance that you posted on 'This is Pretty Awesome', idiot". This is what my brother looks like, by the way -
So I got all investigatory up in the piece. The first thing I did was watch said "Dueling Banjos" clip on You Tube -
I noticed that it was listed as a "custom song", so I read a little about that phenomenon here. I'm not sure what that all means, but it appears to be pretty awesome. People who know how to do stuff with computers and stuff are able to put any song they like on Guitar Hero, and all it takes is a bunch of steps.
This is from Destructoid.com, whatever the hell that is -
"While the original poster in the "How-To" thread claims the process is idiot-proof, I beg to differ. It requires eight separate freeware program downloads, involves a 12-step process that makes my head hurt just looking at it. You'll also need a PlayStation 2 modified to play 'backups'."
I have no idea how much 19 stone 10 lbs. is, but this is pretty awesome. Okay, I'll look it up. 1 stone equals 14 lbs. So, Samson weighs 276 lbs. He's also 6 ft. 5 in. on his hind legs.
He lives in England, so you can read about him on the Daily Mail website.
I've been hearing Deliverance and Dueling Banjos talk lately. For some reason, someone was talking about the "squeal like a pig" scene from the aforementioned movie. Don't worry, that's not the one I posted. My girlfriend's family has a pig named Piggy, incidentally.
