Nerf maverick in progress
I’ve removed the pressure regulators, modified the chamber to swing all the way out, custom built a laser from a keychain laser and an aluminum box i found, rewired it so that the switch you see by the trigger turns it on, I switched out the bearing in the front from plastic to a brass fitting, added another spring on the trigger to give it better action, solidified the clutch for the trigger and the chamber revolver to be one piece, and of course lots of wiring and batteries and such, oh and the bottom light you see you can buy as an accessory except it mounts on the top where you see the little orange square I wasn’t into that so i modded it so I could have it on the bottom. I have a few other things to do and of course I’m gonna paint it.
Prehistoric Human Skull
Qafzeh, Israel, 2001
This 100,000-year-old skull was found in a cave in Qafzeh, Israel, along with other fossils, including a horse tooth and burned flints. Cutting-edge techniques were used to date the fossilsâ€â€revealing that modern humans left Africa much earlier than had been thought, even coexisting with Neanderthals, once believed to be our ancestors.
photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day
Mortal Kombat Vs. DC
Tags:Comic Books, Gaming, Wallpaper
Apparently DC Characters will have brutalities (as vigilantes never kill anyone…) and others will have Fatalities…interesting….
MP3 Ratings?
Dear MCS:
I’d been using winamp for years upon years, and it’s been great. I just recently found out that if you move your music collect from folder X to folder Y, you lose all your ratings information, and you will never get it back. So, I tried Media Monkey, which according to my google-fu is the only mp3 player that stores the ratings in the file itself, and not in some arbitrary xml file that get deleted everytime you sneeze.
However, I’m having trouble using MM, as it likes to just max out my cpu at 100%, and the music starts to stutter like a mother fucker. THIS is annoying to say the least. So, a litte more google-fu and everyone is raving about foobar2000. only problem? no support for file ratings afaik.
So tell me. How can I have a mp3 collection of over 40 gigs, and have the ratings in the files? Is it really so much to ask? And please, no itunes, that shit is satan.
Also, I’d love to be able to sync the songs that are top rated / top played to a usb drive, so I can play them in my truck.
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street
Beer Street and Gin Lane are a pair of 1751 engravings by William Hogarth in support of the then-proposed Gin Act 1751. This Act of Parliament made the distillation of gin illegal in England. Beer Street shows a happy city drinking the ‘good’ beverage of English beer, whereas Gin Lane claims to show what would happen if people started drinking gin, a harder liquor. People are shown as healthy, happy and hard working in Beer Street, while in Gin Lane they are scrawny, lazy and acting carelessly, including a drunk mother accidentally sending her baby tumbling to its doom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day
Grand prismatic spring
Tags:Nature, Science!, Wallpaper, Yellowstone National Park
The vivid colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The bacteria produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green.[5] The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.
The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from a light-absorbing overtone of the hydroxy stretch of water.[6] Though this effect is responsible for making all large bodies of water blue, it is particularly intense in Grand Prismatic Spring because of the high purity and depth of the water in the middle of the spring.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring
Lamborghini Reventón
A really nice car! Starts production this year, does 211mph with 650hp. Better get out the old cheque book.
Reasons Not to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex # 3
Awesome. Check out the full list here: mingle2.com/blog/view/dating-tyrannosaurus
WWJD
I’m not much for any rehashed monotheistic solar worship but I got give the man credit, he sure looks sexy with an assault rifle. The following words with the root mental are just that “insane” con jobs meant to control you; environmentalism, governmental, fundamentalism. Can you think of any more?
William Shakespeare,
The Chandos portrait is a famous painting believed to depict William Shakespeare, and is named after James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, who owned the portrait. It has not been possible to solve the question of who painted the portrait or whether it really depicts Shakespeare. However, in 2006 the National Portrait Gallery in London concluded that the Chandos portrait was the most likely to be a representation of Shakespeare.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day
Cannabis in Afghanistan
Muhammad Ayud has grown cannabis in his village, Khwaja Gholak, since a crackdown on Afghan poppies. He, like many other farmers in Balkh Province, simply switched crops. Cannabis has been cultivated in the region for more than 70 years.
Bork bork bork!
Tags:Gaming, Humor, Television
This is what happens when game developers decide to reference a muppet- One of the language options in guild wars is Bork Bork bork, referring to the old Muppet Show. It makes all in-game text as seen in the picture (and I mean all- even subtitles for cutscenes)
Thor and Tony
So now, I’m like, ok, Thor make Tony shit pants, Ironman beat Hulk down, Thor is God of Marvels mightiest!
He’s Smart, He’s Popular, why would you want that in a president?
Tags:Election 2008, Humor, Politics
found this on the always awesome John Scalzi’s blog
Evil Dead 2
When I was a kid, I’d go to the video store and look at all of the movie covers. Back then, most covers were painted, and I dug that shit. My favorite posters were the horror and science fiction. I remember looking at this cover and my child-mind blown by the awesomeness of this image.
