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devilduck: The Dream: to get on this cucumber bike and, Evil...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:12:29 -0400

The Dream: to get on this cucumber bike and, Evil Knievel style, ride it off a ramp into a tall vat filled with iced ginger ale, gin, lemon slices, mint sprigs and Pimm’s.

rumpshaker: Dr. Samuel “Sammy” Lee, 91, was the first...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:04:47 -0400

rumpshaker:

Dr. Samuel “Sammy” Lee, 91, was the first Asian-American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S. at the 1948 London games, and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving.

From Wikipedia:

As a twelve-year-old in 1932, Lee dreamed of becoming a diver, but at the time Latinos, Asians and African-Americans were only allowed to use Fresno’s Brookside Pool on Wednesdays, on what was called “international day”: the day before the pool was scheduled to be drained and refilled with clean water. Because Lee needed a place to practice and could not regularly use the public pool, his coach dug a pit in his backyard and filled it with sand. Lee practiced by jumping into the pit.

I’ve learned so much about Olympians in the past few weeks, and this guy was a fucking champ. This article on Investors Business Daily goes a bit more in depth on what Mr. Lee was up against. Only having access to a pool ONCE a week, having to swallow his pride and train with a douchebag eventually led him to the Olympics where he beat out his competitors who probably had an advantage over him with the luxury of being able to train in a pool at their leisure. Then he came back four years later and did it again!

Lee went on to become an ear, nose, and throat doc, serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean War–wonder what that was like for a Korean American–and, later, coach diving legend Greg Louganis to a silver medal in the 1976 Olympics. He’s a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, has a square named after him in LA’s K-town, and is now retired and living in Huntington Beach, CA.

iPhones replace old-school room phones at this Vancouver hotel

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:27:22 -0400

iPhones replace old-school room phones at this Vancouver hotel:

usatoday:

The Opus hotel in Vancouver’s trendy Yaletown neighborhood is in the process of making the switch to iPhones, figuring that guests — especially those from the U.S. — will know how to use them and appreciate having a Canadian phone to eliminate international roaming fees on their personal phones.

Guests can take their room’s iPhone with them, and local calls are complimentary. Our hotel blogger hasn’t heard of this happening anywhere else.

Read more.

laughingsquid: Half Ton Transformer-esque Wine Rack

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:04:16 -0400

laughingsquid:

Half Ton Transformer-esque Wine Rack

laughingsquid: Dad-O-Vision

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:00:42 -0400

laughingsquid:

Dad-O-Vision

laughingsquid: A Rubber Waffle iPhone Case Styled to Look Like...

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:49:13 -0400

laughingsquid:

A Rubber Waffle iPhone Case Styled to Look Like a Vans Skate Shoe

ilovecharts: via lovecraft:mypantsareonfire

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:13:52 -0400

ilovecharts:

via lovecraft:mypantsareonfire

laughingsquid: Cash Cab TV Game Show Cancelled

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:10:06 -0400

laughingsquid:

Cash Cab TV Game Show Cancelled

laughingsquid: Bike-Mounted Planter

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:17:11 -0400

laughingsquid:

Bike-Mounted Planter

theclearlydope: I never want to be a part of anything called a...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:57:14 -0500

theclearlydope:

I never want to be a part of anything called a “hype team.”

zachdionne:

Passed out 5 Hour Energy hype team: You’re doing it wrong. (Taken with instagram)

theclearlydope: Clearly no time for a shower, just going to...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:54:26 -0500

theclearlydope:

Clearly no time for a shower, just going to take a quick whore bath in the sink.

sbnation: Jeremy Lin does it again, he now has scored 130...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:27:47 -0500

sbnation:

Jeremy Lin does it again, he now has scored 130 points in his first five starts, passing Shaq for the most since the ABA-NBA merger. Tonight, he caps a miraculous comeback against the Raptors with THIS shot.

Hat tip to Philip Bump for the video

laughingsquid: Miniature Everyday Items Made from LEGOs

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:58:22 -0500

laughingsquid:

Miniature Everyday Items Made from LEGOs

laughingsquid: Stethoscope Bike Rack

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:56:05 -0500

laughingsquid:

Stethoscope Bike Rack

laughingsquid: Violinist Responds to Concert Interruption by...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:06:46 -0500

laughingsquid:

Violinist Responds to Concert Interruption by Cell Phone With Improvised Nokia Ringtone Song

Electrify the Bottom of the Pyramid

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:19:30 -0500

Electrify the Bottom of the Pyramid:

poptech:

Staggeringly, about 1.5 billion people live without electricity. They’re off the grid literally and figuratively, lacking a basic resource that’s so vital to economic development and well-being. But extending the grid isn’t always practical—in many cases logistical issues and high costs make it all but impossible. The solution: creating local, self-contained, affordable power generation and storage systems that can provide electricity wherever it’s needed.

Friend of PopTech Arun Majumdar on electrifying the bottom of the pyramid.

utnereader: Bitches Brew: Women Make Gains in the Beer...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:06:29 -0500

utnereader:

Bitches Brew: Women Make Gains in the Beer World:

When the women we know belly-up to a bar, they’re more likely to order a pint of beer than a glass of wine or a frilly cocktail. We’re suckers for Surly’s CynicAle and Fulton’s Sweet Child of Vine, both from the rollicking Minneapolis beer-brewing scene. Still, drinking and brewing beer continue to be viewed as primarily male territory.

As it turns out, this split of the sexes is all wrong, says Bitch magazine’s Celena Cipriaso: Women have brewed beer since Babylonian times and female brewers permeate world folklore. Historian Alan D. Eames reinforces the depths of women’s claims on beer, explaining, “From its very inception some 8,000 years ago, every ancient society’s beer-creation myth tells the same story: The drink was a gift from a female deity to the women of that community.”

Keep reading …

Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition Semifinalist

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:06:14 -0500

Homeless Long Island Teenager Is Intel Competition Semifinalist :

reuters:

(CBSNewYork / AP) - Samantha Garvey has good reason to be the recipient of high fives and congratulations from the faculty and students in the hallways at Brentwood High School.

The 17-year-old senior says she cannot believe that she is one of the semifinalists in the highly prestigious Intel Science Competition, in part because she lives in a Bay Shore homeless shelter with her parents, brother, and twin sisters.

laughingsquid: Star Trek Electronic Door Chime

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:05:34 -0500

laughingsquid:

Star Trek Electronic Door Chime

laughingsquid: The Board of Awesomeness, A Motorized Longboard...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:05:17 -0500

laughingsquid:

The Board of Awesomeness, A Motorized Longboard Controlled by a XBox 360 Kinect Motion Sensor