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January 2010

You Pick The Winner Of The Worst Online Car Listing Contest! [Photoshop Contest]

You Pick The Winner Of The Worst Online Car Listing Contest! [Photoshop Contest]

We had a pretty decent response to last week's call for terrible vehicle listings , and now we'll have the rabble vote on which one best captures the spirit of the Bad Car Listing. Jump away to check out the entries! Our beloved Server Hamsters go into paroxysms of nerve-rippin' rage when we attempt to sneak a poll in among the thumbnails in this type of gallery, so you'll need to go here to cast your vote. The $23,000 Sebring Creator: Alex Click here to vote The AMC Kelvinator Hornette Creator: Brendan Click here to vote The Completely Perfect Ford Aerostar Creator: Daniel Click here to vote Hard Hittin' New Britain Creator: Smokeyburnout Click here to vote Best Deal Of Sentury Civic Creator: Jake Click here to vote Old Race Car Creator: J Click here to vote Swap Merceeedes Click here to vote 1976 Dodge Monaco Sedan Creator: xenti Click here to vote 95 Cavilier Creator: Spencer Click here to vote lmaborchini BAWLINn fassT Creator: The Carspotterist Click here to vote 1997 Camry, Doodgee or fored orr toyota Creator: Bryan Click here to vote Corvette Race Car Creator: Discontinuuity Click here to vote Black Widow Geo Storm Creator: Drew Click here to vote Bugatt! Veyron!1!1! Creator: Paul Click here to vote Happy Trales Mobil Home Park Creator: Texan_Idiot25 Click here to vote Siberian Fiero Creator: au6553 Click here to vote
How to Install Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition

How to Install Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition

This tutorial will show you how to install Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition.
medic jacobw’s Xbox – Jan 31 2010

medic jacobw’s Xbox – Jan 31 2010

The console forefathers shifted bit after bit just to further the gaming cause. And yet, their efforts may have been in vain, since medic jacobw did not do their part today and play a game or two. Oh and it is time for a gamerscore challenge update... listen up... Let me link you to the daily updates and trash talking. If I was you, I'd subscribe to the trash talk RSS feed for this one - 4 other competitors are battling with their skills and egos. Currently medic jacobw is holding the number 5 spot in the group... decent. We've only got one day left. Let's cancel everything on our schedule from school to work to sleep (haven't been following what medic jacobw does these days) and win this challenge!
The Celebrity Escort Economy: For $150K, Lindsay Lohan Will Be Your Worst Date Ever [Escorts]

The Celebrity Escort Economy: For $150K, Lindsay Lohan Will Be Your Worst Date Ever [Escorts]

For 500 Points: The New York Post reports on "Austrian billionaire Richard Lugner," an "oddball" who's been taking celebrities on dates for 19 years, and ponying up serious scrilla for it. So what does $150K with Lindsay Lohan get you? If you're thinking "a handjob," you're wrong . Sorry. [Photo via Getty Images]
Who gets locked out from guessing my password incorrectly?

Who gets locked out from guessing my password incorrectly?

Who gets locked out from guessing my password incorrectly? Graph by: dunno source via Graph Jam Builder
The Earth’s Satellites, Visualized By Nation [Satellites]

The Earth’s Satellites, Visualized By Nation [Satellites]

As data visualization has become more popular, bad infographics have started to crop up more and more frequently. Thankfully, we can always rely on Michael Paukner to make very, very good ones. Here he shows the satellites orbiting our planet. Russia, as you might expect, has a whole lot of satellites that are no longer functioning. China is responsible for a surprisingly large amount of tiny space trash, though I'm not exactly clear on what that is. America, of course, is responsible for the largest amount of space trash. Seeing how many broken satellites remain in orbit instantly reminded me of the scene in Wall-E in which the Earth of the future is seen enveloped in a layer of orbiting techno-trash. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. Michael Paukner has a lot of other awesome stuff, space-related and otherwise, so check out his Flickr if you're interested. [ Michael Paukner via We Love Dataviz ]
atypical – 30 Jan 2010 – Flickr

atypical – 30 Jan 2010 – Flickr

provia400 slide film *cross processed*
Convert Rafter Spaces into Book Shelves [Storage]

Convert Rafter Spaces into Book Shelves [Storage]

You can never have enough storage space, especially if you're a book lover. This clever hack turns the unused space between rafters into book shelves. The design seen in the above photo is quite simple. The owners of space took planks, painted them white to match the existing ceiling and rafters, and then affixed them with nails—long screws with aggressive threads would have been our choice, but we're big on not getting crushed to death by our libraries. The clever use of spaces creates dozens of feet of "book shelf" storage where nothing but empty space existed before. Have a clever hack for squeezing out space in an non-traditional way? Let's hear about it in the comments. Store Your Books in the Rafters [Apartment Therapy]
mystyle Recap: Red Carpet Mania!

mystyle Recap: Red Carpet Mania!

Breakout Glee actress, Lea Michele, was a goddess in green at the SAGs. Check out all of the red carpet dresses in our arrivals gallery! Diane Kruger's SAGs look reminded us...
Captain & Tennille

Captain & Tennille

I guess Tennille came to her senses and realized that it was going to take a whole lot more than love to “keep them together.” Texas
Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized [Entropy]

Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized [Entropy]

According to researchers at Australian National University, the end of the universe will happen earlier than anyone previously thought. The mother of all deadlines is coming up! Dr. Charley Lineweaver and Ph.D. student Chas Egan at ANU, who recently tried to tally and account for all the entropy in the universe, ended up finding about thirty times more than they expected to. (Entropy is a measure of how much energy a system has used up; one way to think of it is that the more entropy is present in a system, the more run-down that system is.) Lineweaver and Egan think the excess entropy quotient comes from supermassive black holes , and they've concluded that the whole of existence is nearer its stopping point than anyone believed. Said Lineweaver : It's a bit like looking at your gas gauge and saying "I thought I had half a gas tank, but I only have a quarter of a tank..." But I can't tell you how many kilometers you can go on that quarter of a tank yet. Lineweaver and Egan will publish their findings in The Astrophysical Journal soon. It seems they'll come down firmly on the side of those who believe the universe is headed for heat death — a state of perfect equilibrium where stars, planets, and all other sources of energy boil down to the same mean level of molecular excitement. (Always with the accessible analogies, Lineweaver encouraged reporters to think of a mug of coffee, slowly cooling to room temperature.) It's worth noting that the heat-death scenario is far from the consensus among cosmologists; when it comes to the ultimate fate of the universe , no consensus really exists. Lineweaver and Egan seem pretty confident, though, that things will play out the way they've described. Lineweaver can't be specific about how much time the universe has left, although he can do "unsettling" pretty...
The Replacements, Still Replaced in Video Games [Stick Jockey]

The Replacements, Still Replaced in Video Games [Stick Jockey]

Fifteen years ago, in the infancy of console sports simulations, 38 baseball players made a choice that would ensure they would never appear in a video game. Only five of them remain in the major leagues. They crossed a picket line, an act of war to organized labor, by signing replacement player contracts with Major League clubs as the infamous 1994 players' strike dragged into the spring of 1995. Just five of them logged major league service in 2009 and they're all 38 years old or older. But the continued absence of their names in games is one of the last persistent vestiges of the baseball strike of 1994 and 1995. Although these replacements later made full major league rosters , some of them contributing memorably, they are forever denied membership in the Major League Baseball Players Association, and thus their likenesses can never be used in any MLBPA licensed merchandise. The five: Brendan Donnelly, Matt Herges, Ron Mahay, Jamie Walker and Kevin Millar (pictured above), one of the emotional leaders of the 2004 Boston Red Sox, known for his "cowboy up" comment in 2003 that became a rallying cry. All of them are on their real-life teams under different names, uniform numbers and player images in any video game. Millar, Walker and ...

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