Panic at 30K feet

Jeremy Hermanns was on Alaska Flight #536 when a rapid de-pressurization occurred. He took several pictures of the ordeal and wrote about the experience. Check it all out here.

Boy, what a day. In what started as a typical flight home from a typical holiday weekend, changed drastically twenty minutes after take off. My fiancée and I were returning from a few days in Seattle when the unthinkable happened to us - our Alaska MD-80 Airplane tore a hole in it’s fuselage at 30K feet.

Homes Of The Billionaires

Forbes magazine just came out with a cool slideshow of the homes of the ultra wealthy.

This particular house was interesting, care to guess who it belongs to?



Warren Buffett. The "Oracle of Omaha" lives in mighty modest digs, given the size of his fortune. He still resides in the gray stucco home he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Totaling about 6,000 square feet

Jackson school officials apologize for banning kilt attire at a dance, say student can wear kilt to future school dances, events.

Read the article here.

Totally Busted!

1985 40 MB Hard Drive - $40,000

Oh what a night

Kid spending a year (and $100k) at Disney World before college

A 19-year-old entrepreneur is blowing $100,000 out of his savings on spending a year at Walt Disney World before going away to college. "Jupelo" is the alias of a young man who flies to Disney for six days every week, stays in a Disney hotel, and goes to parks and resorts every day, all day.

He has three goals:

Goal 1: Spend an entire year at Walt Disney World and record every second of it for you to see.
Goal 2: Begin building the world's largest Disney collection (there's more to this - see below).
Goal 3: Not go insane.


Visit his website here.

The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die

Only one in my neck of the woods. View the list here.

What's In A Birthday and Name

The Birthday Calculator


What Your Name Means

If you live in the 2nd District of Arizona, you can color your congressman

This was found on his website.


This prompted me to look up my congressman - but unfortunately I can't color him.

Greatest Music Video Ever

This video is several years old, but now I know why David Hasselhoff is loved in Europe.

View his video for Hooked On A Feeling here.

If this video totally doesn't make your day, you have no soul.

Muppets Movie Review

Statler and Waldorf pull an Ebert and Roeper.

View all of their movie reviews here.
Word of caution, you will have to sit though a commercial first.

Personally, their comments about Brokeback Mountain (episode 13) had me laughing pretty hard.

Blonde using the pythagorean theorm

For the female readership of Bag Of Nothing

What does your lipstick say about you?

Ever chunked a pumpkin?

If you are good at it, you can get a scholarship up to $2000.

For the Howard Hughes in you

The Foot Flush® by FFI, a revolutionary foot pedal designed to use in your homes bathroom in order to keep away germs and keep your family clean and healthy.

Pious Dutch businessman builds Noah's Ark

A deeply pious Dutch businessman is well on his way to completing a faithful reconstruction of Noah's Ark in scaled down form on the basis of biblical texts. Johan Huibers (47) plans to take his 70m vessel on a tour of the Dutch waterways once it is complete, hoping to set out in spring next year. Continued . . .

Here deadly sin must have been sloth?

A Washington state woman who was reported missing was later found dead suffocated under a pile of debris in her home, police said.

Officers found the body of Marie Rose, 62, buried under clothes Thursday, reported KIRO-TV in Seattle. Her husband reported her missing after he couldn't find her early Thursday morning. Officers found clothing, dishes and boxes crammed from floor to ceiling in every room of the couple's house.

"In some areas, clothes and debris were piled 6 feet high," said Police Chief Terry Davenport of the Shelton Police Department. "Officers were having to climb over the top on their hands and knees. In some areas, their heads were touching the ceiling while they were standing on top of piles of debris."

Buy Elvis' Whitie-Tighties

Starting Bid $3,500

Per eBay policy - they had to be washed.

Woman Uses Two-By-Four To Save Husband From Attacking Bear

Read about her here.

Dude gets stuck in a washing machine playing hide-go-seek

Read about him here.

Couple finds half million dollars in ditch

Ask A Ninja

Once you get past the intro music, Ask A Ninja is actually pretty creative and funny.

Flickr photo booth

A trendy new bar in San Francisco has a "Flickr photo booth" where patrons can have their photos taken and automatically uploaded to a Flickr stream for the bar.

Read about it here.

View the pictures here.

An iPod nano Wallet and Beltbuckle

Here's the wallet.

Here's the beltbuckle, or the tunebuckle.

Hasbro Tooth Tunes Toothbrush

Some Hasbro executive had the brilliant idea of keeping kids entertained while scrubbing those molars: enter "Tooth Tunes," a toothbrush that plays a two minute riff to span the ideal amount of brush time recommended by dentists.

Read more about it here.

Tempting site of the day . . .

Welcome to the Museum of Menstration.

The creepiest part of it all, its founder and curator is a bachelor that is in his 50's.

Church Selling Toilet Paper to Raise Money

2006 Weblog Awards

One of my readers that wishes to remain anonymous send me an email and informed me that she nominated me for the 'best-kept-secret weblog.'

That was very unexpected, but very nice.

If you are interested, here is the link to cast your vote for your favorite blogs and their respective categories.

http://2006.bloggies.com/

Dave Megget was trying to sell his Super Bowl ring?

Pretty cool McDonald's billboard

Missouri Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Sale of Cold Beer

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A state senator wants to force Missouri stores to sell warm beer.

Under a bill by Sen. Bill Alter, grocery and convenience stores would risk losing their liquor licenses if they sold beer colder than 60 degrees. The intent is to cut down on drunken driving by making it less tempting to pop open a beer after leaving the store. Continued . . .

What does Chuck Norris think of his Internet celebrity?

Find out, here.

Free 411

The phone number 1-800-FREE-411 offers free directory assistance service.

Don't make bank robbers like they use to

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Arlie Bichlmeier discovered his license plate turned out to be an effective command.

Bichlmeier's plate reads "FINDME," and thanks to it, authorities were able to locate him about 90 minutes after they say he tried to rob the Security National Bank branch in Laurel. Continued . . .

Earth as Seen from Mars

Purse shaped like Paris Hilton's dead chihuahua

James Piatt designed this purse (shaped like an upside-down, dead chihuahua with a handle threaded through its stiffened legs) in "an attempt to capitalize on last years trend that involved carrying small accessory animals. To be more specific it pretty obviously represents Paris Hilton's discarded and dead chihuahua.

Current Goal . . .

25 of 31.

Meet Cy, the one-eyed kitten

Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy. (AP Photo/Traci Allen)

How to Make Fried Oreo Cookies!

It's true, this is a State Fair of Texas favorite, and now you can make them at home. Find out how here.

Fake Lottery Tickets

This site sells fake lottery tickets.

Fake Lottery Tickets will make your friends will faint after they think they have just won the ultimate $50,000 jackpot! These scratch off fake lottery tickets look exactly like the real instant scratch off tickets you see in stores!

You can also buy fake cursing lottery tickets and fake parking tickets.

Bible Charts

The books and charts by Clarence Larkin have been extremely helpful to Christians since they were first published over 75 years ago. They have passed into the public domain and we are making some of the charts available here as an aid to Bible study. Larkin's charts are well thought out and Scriptually sound.

iPod and The Word - BiblePlayer

The #1 Bible for iPod Software

Hear and read the Bible on your iPod Bible! This unique mp3 audio Bible lets you take God's Word with you anywhere you go. Using iPod's 'Notes' feature, you can read and hear the Bible on your iPod. Each book is logically organized so finding the chapter you want is a breeze.

More here.

A gift for the NASCAR fan

With the scent of "burning rubber", the Smokin' Tire will make you feel like you're trackside for the SMOKIN' VICTORY CIRCLE BURN-OUT !

Annoy me on this blog and you will go to jail.

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

Read the whole article here.

Did you know . . .

When The Simpsons cartoon is shown on Thai television, all frames that depict smoking are pixelated.

LEGO Wedding Cakes

One might be surprised at how popular LEGO wedding items are. They are probably the most commonly requested theme I get as a craftsman.

The Thumbthing

A brilliant new invention for reading books – it makes reading more comfortable.

Also use it as a bookmark.

Ideal for reading in bed, or inthe bath or on the beach.

More about it, here.

Picture of Arnold after the accident.

Read about the accident here. Guess he isn't the Terminator after all.

Show Business - Movie Theater Business Explained

Once upon a time, movie studios and movie theaters were in the same business. The studios made films for theater chains that they either owned or controlled, and they harvested almost all their revenue from ticket sales. Then, in 1948, the government forced the studios to divest themselves of the theaters. Nowadays, the two are in very different businesses. Theater chains, in fact, are in three different businesses. Read the rest, here.

I bet he didn't finish the race

Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin

A number of prestigious libraries _ including Harvard University's _ have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past.

Read more about this here.

The Official Hasselhoff Paper Airplane

Want to impress your friends? Printout and make the exclusive David Hasselhoff paper airplane!

Trade in your old CDs for an iPod

Millennium Music has a nice deal for those of you with huge piles of dusty old CDs still lying around in the house. They want all your old CDs and in return, they’ll give you a brand new iPod!

Not just any CD mind you, just in case you are already having the idea of giving them your school choir’s album. But their quality criteria is fairly reasonable.

45 CDs - 0.5GB iPod Shuffle
65 CDs - 1GB iPod Shuffle
85 CDs - 2GB iPod Nano
110 CDs - 4GB iPod Nano
130 CDs - 30GB iPod
175 CDs - 60GB iPod

If you can’t manage to dig out enough CDs for your dream iPod, they’ll still allow you to pay the difference. To enjoy the deal, simply give them a visit with your CDs or ship the CDs to them.

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

My top three were sloth, greed, and envy.

Find our your score by taking the quiz here.

40 Powers Of Ten

Back in elementary school, we use to watch film strips every once in a while. Not videos, but film strips on an actually projector.

Here is one that always fascinated me, it's call 40 Powers of Ten. It's just under ten minutes long.

Barbie is promoting gender confusion among children

Concerned Women for America or CWA, a conservative Christian group, is accusing Barbie of being part of a transgender movement. From their website:

The iconic Barbie Doll has become another tool for promoting gender confusion among children. On the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, there is a poll that asks children their age and sex. The age choices are 4-8, but as Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, notes children are given three options for their choice of gender.

More on the story here.

Why it is not a good idea to shoot a gun straight up in the air

Ruby Cintron was standing on the north shoreline of Crooked Lake in the Highlands Lake subdivision off Hiawassee Road after midnight Sunday when she was hit near the eye by the .45-caliber bullet.

Detectives said the bullet came from someone who fired into the sky to ring in the New Year from a nearby location.


More of the story here.

Fannie Mills: The Ohio Big Foot Girl

Fannie Mills was born in 1859 with Milroy Disease, which caused her legs to swell. Read more about her here.

Bar Code Clock

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