Take one of the greatest chase scenes in cinema and add in some geocoding with Google Maps and it’s like Steve McQueen had GPS in that ‘Stang.

I’m a huge fan of ‘the king of cool’ and of all movie car-chase scenes. I thought it would be great to mashup famous chases with their GPS tracks. Keep in mind some of the chases cut from one place to another…so I tried to be as accurate as possible. Enjoy!

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Seems the state government of North Carolina (the fair state in which I reside) has apparently just now become aware of two recent phenomenons, “the Internet” and “text messaging”.  Some old lady’s granddaughter informed her what the “WTF” on her new license plate might mean, had it been written on a MySpace page or preceded by “OMG” in a text message, so she complained. Once realizing their SNAFU (oops!) they’ve agreed to give free replacements to anyone who received these tags. They were also using a picture of a “WTF” tag as the demo plate on the DMV’s website, which is being changed.

OK, taking down the picture on the website, I might can understand, but replacing the plates.  What if I’ve got SOL? Or POS? Or NRB? Where does the insanity stop?!  One other question: can I have one of the returned plates?

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How many do you recognize?

The writers at Gizmodo had a chance to tour the Lego main factory and took some readers’ questions.  Wonder no more, the answers are here.

I want you to ask the Lego gang for the definitive answer on the plural for Lego bricks. Is it, as we Brits say, simply Lego, or is it, as some Americans insist, Legos?
Actually both the Brits and the Americans are wrong-but are all forgiven! “Lego” is an adjective and is not meant to be a standalone name. It should always be Lego bricks, Lego building, Lego products, etc.

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Thought you guys might like a receipt for all of things you’ve gotten from khumptydotcom.  You know, for tax purposes.  Make your own here.

This explains alot.

From The Whitest Kids You Know.

Maybe it’s because I have a 9 month old, but I defy you not to laugh at this.

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Drink a gallon of gas, win a tank!

From Human Giant, one of the few shows on MTV that doesn’t make me want to dig my eyes out with spoons.

This guy goes completely nuts.  He was probably just trying to download MovieMaker.

Don’t judge too quickly…

Pop ’til your hearts content.  This sheet resets.

You never can be too carfeul.

SEVERAL years ago, I built a robot whose sole purpose in life was to create an even smaller robot just like himself… So much like himself, that this robot endeavored to create yet another tiny robot, ad infinitum. This continued for a while until an extremely tiny speck of robot tried to endow purpose upon a cloud of molecules with ruinous result.

Pretty trippy.  But also kind of hard on the processor, so heads up.

Things start out bad and go downhill from there.

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