The Rigged-Up Net

Borat!

Cinnapretzel

World’s largest renaissance festival

6 ton block of chedder cheese – wow!

11lb chocolate bar

Good news is that we’re still alive. Bad news is that I had to get two rims fixed afterwards since I bumped into a curb while sliding out on a right turn at some nutty speed. 😀 (Video courtesy of Senor Froutan)

Funny sign

… with jelly or syrup

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World’s meatiest chicken noodle soup

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Why is there ice in the urinal?

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Incredibles phone

“I’d like to invite Cohen here,” he said. “He can discover a lot of things. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues.” Kazakh official to Borat: come visit

Gun Can Shoot 1 Million Rounds A Minute

Love this song, and the video… there’s some history on it, and you can also see it too: One of the most fascinating videos to come out of the 90’s was Jamiroquai’s “Virtaul Insanity.” Directed by Jonathan Glazer, the video won many awards in 1997. Friday Afternoon Videos: Virtual Insanity

Ali G strikes again… This year you are not going to find a more appalling, tasteless, grotesque, politically incorrect or slanderous film than “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” “Borat” the year’s most offensive masterpiece

The only part of the movie that you really want to watch anyways…

Video of Dirk & Brett making Tecate micheladas at Hill’s Cafe. Cameo appearances by Chris and Nathan.

This is too funny…

My God, this is funny 😀

Central Texans rank below the national average when it comes to saving and investing money, according to an index released Tuesday. Austinites lag behind other Americans in building nest eggs

It’s probably the most important number in your life. It’s not your phone number, or your address, or even your social security. In fact, most guys don’t even know this number. Yet, it virtually dictates our finances. 13 Things You Don’t Know About Your Credit Report

For consumers, diminished capacity could mean higher average fares, fewer choices, fuller flights and fruitless searches for mileage upgrades and award travel. For communities, it could mean deteriorating or disappearing air service. For the airlines themselves, it could mean a fighting chance to regain profitability. Airlines cram more fliers into fewer seats, flights

Wow – these are some expensive tires! Racy-looking — and pricey — performance tires showing up on many new cars are proving to be the salvation of the tire industry Sporty tires jazz up cars, but cost burns hole in wallets

Nearly 11 million households are the wealthiest 10% of all U.S. households in net worth with: Minimum net worth of $750,000 Average net worth of $2.7 million Average income of $270,000 Earn nearly 40% of the total income of all Americans Own 65% of the personal assets of all U.S. households Richest gift shoppers rein […]

Woah: Rackspace use bullying marketing tactics, don’t listen, and hide behind semantic trickery. Avoid like the plague. Rackspace Spam

Sushi is more popular than ever before but eating it “has become the new Russian roulette” in terms of safety, a group campaigning against mercury in fish said on Monday. … Tuna samples from six popular sushi restaurants in Los Angeles were taken to a Southern California lab for testing. They returned an average mercury […]

Free year of SysAdmin… W00T! Sys Admin delivers information for systems and network administrators. Every month you’ll get all the information you need to handle the daily challenges of systems administration efficiently and effectively. You’ll find ways to improve the performance or extend the capabilities of your system. Whether administration is your full-time job, or […]

AT&T Inc. and Cingular Wireless introduced a trial initiative in Connecticut that will give family members the ability to make unlimited calls from their mobile phone to home phone. AT&T, Cingular unroll unlimited mobile-to-home phone calling plan

Intresting Reads: Study: Austin is Texas’ most literate city San Antonio rates poorly in national survey of literate U.S. cities Study: Houston places low in literate cities ranking

In an attempt to market goods with a high-end feel to both wealthy and not-so-rich consumers, retailers of all levels are redefining luxe Selling Luxury to the Masses

I guess it really didn’t matter much…. Austin’s new smoking ban improved air quality with little affect on patronage at local bars, according to a recent study. Smoking ban has little affect on bar business

Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson. Mom Makes Teen Stand on Street With Sign

TENNIS players have their elbows, housemaids have their knees and athletes have their feet. Now users of the world’s most popular digital music player may have their own affliction – iPod thumb. Thumbs down for iPod ailment

Company severance packages granting pay of two weeks or more per year of service declined between 2001 and this year, according to a recent study. Severance packages decreasing in U.S

This is GREAT news… DECT is finally been approved for US use… this is far superior than trying to run VoIP over Wifi… exciting! Cordless phones in the US are about to get a major boost from DECT technology, just approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC has granted DECT-based wireless telephony permission […]

Matrox Graphics announced a breakout box capable of splitting a VGA output so that two monitors can be attached to a single VGA connection. Matrox Box Splits One Monitor Into Two