Racing Car Runs On Chocolate, Vegetable Oil

Are you ready for engines filled with chocolate, carrot steering wheels and soybean oil foam seats? Well, this is motor racing’s new, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly car series of the future.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • WifeGeeding has a pretty sweet summer gig, she gets paid as a pizza test taker.  That’s right, she gets paid to eat and to voice her opinion.
  • While watching SNL in my teenage years I never thought that one of the cast members would actually become a senator.  But then again, I’m sure people watching Bedtime for Bonzo never thought the guy acting with a chimp would become a highly regarding president of the U.S.
  • I think they could have come up with a better name than Nigaz.
  • There is a person currently living in GeedingManor that will be taking an FBI physical pretty soon.
  • I typed in the word “governor” into TheGoogle the other day just to see what the first result would be.  Hint:  It’s not the governor from Alaska.
  • I’m not sure if this i’s going to prevent all bribes.
  • I have to test a company’s redesigned website on a Mac for about a week.  I’m definitely a PC kind of guy, but I bet most of you would think I have more of an Apple personality.
  • People who have bought a ticket for one of those Michael Jackson shows will have the option of a refund or a souvenir ticket.  To me, that’s a no brainer, choose the souvenir ticket, those things will only appreciate and sell for a killing on eBay.
  • Joe Jackson isn’t going to be up for any Father of the Year awards.
  • Interesting quote of the day:
    “This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story.  A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.” — Luv Gov. (and Promise Keeper) Mark Sanford  Link
  • Ronald Reagan wrote Michael Jackson a get well letter after the hair on fire incident.
  • Conan is already showing re-runs.  I’m sure it’s because of Wimbleton, but I’m not sure that’s a good move on his part.  But then again, he may not have a choice.
  • I think it’s time I turn on the sprinklers.
  • There was a “cold front” that hit the area.  Even though it’s not that much of a cold front, it did make mowing the lawn more tolerable.
  • I’m looking forward to this three day weekend.
  • Grace
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U2’s New Stage Set Finally Revealed

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Irish rockers U2 have revealed they picked a space-age circular stage for their world tour — kicking off spectacularly tonight at Barcelona’s giant 97,500-capacity Camp Nou stadium.

Bono & co’s 100-date, £90m U2360 tour will arrive in Dublin next month.

U2’s small central set, tipped to rotate, is beneath a giant, four-legged construction dubbed the “Claw” measuring a world-record 50metres high, 58m wide and 47m deep.

Based on Los Angeles Airport’s Theme Building, the Claw is so big that roadies first arrived four weeks ago to build it.

The tour, the band’s first since 2005’s Vertigo, is their most expensive in their 33 years together, in which time they have been touted as the best live act on the planet.

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From a fan’s perspective, I like how close the crowd can get to the band and how there’s great line of sight – especially with the speakers out of the way.

The article also mentions what the first and last song of the concert will be, but I won’t spoil that for you.

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BYU lifts YouTube ban

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.

Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.

YouTube has its own filters for porn, but BYU added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was too much content that could violate the school’s strict, conservative standards.

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