Here's a really cool link that someone just sent me.  On the page that opens, you can see the front page of many newspapers from around the world.  It's really interesting to see all of the different things that editors thought was front page news on the same day.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

I like people who can laugh at themselves - especially if they are really rich and already the target of teasing and primal screams of frustration from every corner of the globe.

So enjoy this Microsoft commercial.

For anyone who knows me and my family, you'll understand why a story about a baby being born with 12 fingers and 12 toes is fun to learn about.  So I'm not poking fun at this kid's genetic differences - I'm just wondering what took him so long. Around here 12 fingers and 12 toes = 1 old story!  We laughed particularly when one web site described it as "like something out of a science fiction novel."  Oh Really!

On a related note, has anyone noticed who in the Bible had 24 digits in all?  If you know, post a comment below and share it with the world.

The only reason this is "fun" is because everybody survived the ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 (Cactus 1549) and we all got a new hero - Pilot Chesley Sullenberger.  You have probably already heard an edited recording of the communications between the tower and that plane, but the actual, unedited, real-time recording gives a whole new perspective.  Give this 20 minute long recording a listen and hear for yourself.  Keep in mind that there are periods of complete silence when nobody is speaking, so if it sounds like nothing is playing, your computer is not broken - it's bearing testament to the time frame of what happened that day.

Control Tower Recording of US Airways Flight 1549

And, while you are listening you may like to watch out this awesome security camera footage showing the first 8 minutes after the A320 splashed down in the Hudson.  Jump forward to the 1:55 mark and you'll be just before the crash.

At our local speedway (Western Speedway in Victoria, British Columbia) I am known as the Pastor of Disaster.  I've raced in a number of classes since I first hit the track mid-season in 1999. However, I didn't race at all in 2008.  In fact I was only at the race track once last year on their "Eve of Destruction" where my son and I sat in the stands and enjoyed an evening of vehicles getting smashed.

The highlight of the evening had to be Gary Williams jumping a school bus over some cars. Enjoy!

There's another view of the same jump in this video - skip to the 45 second point to get to just before the jump.

Regardless of your political stripe, you have to admit that Barak Obama's inauguration was a pretty impressive event. And to go along with the event, some pretty impressive tech stuff happened.  One was the taking of one of the highest resolution pictures ever.  So let's have some fun.

The hi-res picture of the inauguration is here.

I was not at the inauguration, but had I gone I would probably have been wearing a bright orange toque.  Like this guy:

Here is the fun part.  Find the above orange toqued gentleman in the hi res picture and send me a screen shot of the people around him (one person in each direction). E-mail it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Click the read more link to see the submissions of the winners.

I don't know what the funniest thing about this video is - the material itself or that it's so nonsensical that it's hard to see if this is an interview with a real politician or not.
Of course it's not real . . . . . .or is it.

You should maybe go to washroom before watching this video as it may have the same effect on you that staring at fire before bedtime has on others after they go to sleep.

The good folks at Canal City Hakata (a mall built around a canal in Japan) have a fountain that greets people with wonderful art that is "drawn" with water. Of course, to draw water one needs a pail or or paint, but to draw with water one needs only water and a fountain (though I am sure there is a comptuer involved here as well). In fact, as you watch the video you will see they also print with water - which would sure save me money in inkjet cartridges for my printer.  I doubt that Epson and Hewlett-Packard will ever allow that.

Back when I was a teenager, I played on a church league baseball team. I was a mediocre player, but I did manage the odd brilliant "major league-ish" catch. I must admit, though, that I never managed to pull off anything like the catch this ball girl made in foul territory.

First of all, let's be clear and state that metronomes are not really short people who live in a large city.  They are clicky things that help you to keep track of the time while you are playing music.  Some metronomes do not click - they flash. My wife has one of those, though her metronome also clicks - unless the batteries run down and then it does neither.

It is only necessary to have one metronome to keep track of time, but I suppose a second one as a backup would be good should your batteries ever run down.  It would be complete over kill to have, let's say, 5 metronomes.  Unless, of course, you wanted to make a video showing how to get them all ticking at the same time.  But who would ever do that?  This guy would - that's who.