I don't think many non-Americans on the other side of the world would be able to locate, say, Cleveland, OH, or any other place in the US for that matter.



Total Eclipse of the Heart (video)

Why use drums when you can use a fridge or a stove? Meet Hurra Torpedo from Norway. Click here to watch this video

Editor Comment: Fuckin' awesome

This video is hilarious. I die laughing everytime I watch this.

I've seen this video a few too many times and I still think it is one of the funniest things I've seen.

This is like driving by a bad car accident; you just can't help but to look at the victims everyitime u see it.

This is not Bonnie Tyler and I think she would not be proud.

And yet, strangely it's still better than the Nikki French version.

Truly a great video! Only gets better throughout with a superb finale.

Best use of jogging suits and butt crack in a video ever.

Truly disturbing, but genius!!!

I think I personally contributed about 100,000 views to the view count.



Van Halen Reunion

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-bound band- Roth included - is now thisclose to inking a deal with Live Nation afor a 40 date amphitheater tour.

Roth, who unceremoniously parted ways with Van Halen in 1985.

Anthony, however, will not be along for the proposed ride, having since joined up with Van Halen's second former frontman Sammy Hagar for a series of shows. Instead, Eddie's 15-year-old son, Wolfgang, will take over bass responsibilities when the band hits the road again, a notion that apparently doesn't sit well with Hagar.

Editor Comment: I would care if this was 15 years ago, but at this point I don't need to watch another washed up rehash of a band digging for just a little more gold.

Van Halen with David Lee Roth was awesome in the 80's, young and crazy, fun times
Van Halen with David Lee Roth is gonna suck now, old and washed up, ragged skank.

His radio career sucked, so will this tour. DLR was, is, and always be a dickhead.

Michael Anthony's contribution to the band was so important they couldn't replace him with just anybody. They had to go out and get a 15 year old kid to fill his shoes.

No Michael Anthony, no Van Halen.

My prediction: It will never happen. One half hour into the first rehearsal and it will by history. That is just too much mental instability for one location to contain.

They have got to make this tour a reality show.

Does anyone here remember the late, lamented Suck.com? Remember the column where they made a fairly convincing case for David Lee Roth being the anti-Christ? I do. Good times.

I think I'll save my concert ticket money and go see Heaven and Hell, which is basically the Dio lineup of Black Sabbath.

I know that will be good. Don't know about this, however.



Close To Your Head (video)

Terra Naomi is an independent musician living in LA but originally from NY State. There's stuff on her web site and there's a Wikipedia article as to who she really is. Click here to watch this video

Editor Comment: Wow, I'm impressed, here we have a beautiful girl with an amazing voice, can we ask for anything more? Well, maybe yes, what about a date? I'm really in love.

It's one of my favorite songs. Her best by far.

I fall a little more in love with you everytime I see this video.

I saved this song a few months ago. I am now commenting.

Terra is spellbounding so rustic yet angelic. Pure heaven in my eyes.

4 words. You are a goddess.

Will somebody sign this girl up?!?



Winning Loto Ticket (video)

Want to know what it feels like to win the lottery? Well, Thad found out... when his friends recorded a previous nights lottery drawing and a winning ticket to match. Click here to Watch this video

Editor Comment: I know some people that would be gettin the fuck out of my house.

All his craziest dreams came true... then went up in flames within 4 minutes... priceless.

Man I started to crack up after they added that REM song.

Even the dog was in on it, pretending like he was all happy too.

What a fool... OWNED!!! hahahaha!

They told him to soon. Should have waited until he quit his job, left his girlfriend, and bought a new house and car.

That was a very cruel thing to do to that guy. He really thought that he had won. He thought that he was set for life. It's quite apparent that this guy will be permanently scared for life. It was a disgustingly cruel thing to do. I can't wait to try it on one of my buddy's. lol



Hillary Clinton announces presidential bid

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton formally became a candidate for U.S president, announcing on her web site this morning that she would seek to become the first woman to be elected to the position.

Editor Comment: If Hillary gets the Democratic presidential nomination this go around, then we will have at least another four years of Sith rule on top of the eight we just endured.

The fact she thinks she has a snowballs chance in Hell tells me she is so out of touch with reality she shouldn't even be taken seriously.

But we shouldn't underestimate her. If Bush can steal an election, why can't she do the same?

There is absolutely nothing that she could do or say that would EVER convince me to vote for her.

I won't vote for another Clinton or Bush in my life. Getting rid of dynastic rulers was one of the reasons for the Revolutionary War, and I will not vote to return.

Honestly, I don't think she could get elected.

1 - She's a woman, and there are folks who'd vote against her just for that. I don't agree with them, but it is reality.

2 - She's a great person to rally against if you're a conservative. She's an easy target.

3 - I'm not sure she even draws the majority of the liberal vote.

4 - Her past is littered with divisive issues.

I'm more looking forward to the Democratic nomination debates than I am the actual presidential debate. I can't wait to see Hillary and Kerry going at it on stage - wait, let me rephrase that...

Barach Obama would never get very far. All the opposition would have to do is drop the fact that his middle name is Hussein. And yes, I believe most people are that stupid.

McCain took it in the ass from the Bushies and Fundies. And now he wants some more love? He doesn't respect himself so why should anybody else by now? They will toss him aside like yesterday's salad. Besides, he ain't delusional enough to put in office.

People would still vote for Colon Powell after he whored himself out in front of the UN . He pretty much showed he was totally spineless and had zero integrity, all his show of character was nothing but a sham.

After America "elected" GWB two times, all voting privileges should be suspended in America. Americans lack the critical thinking skills necessary to cast an educated vote. Every four years everyone always complains about how they want change and how nothing ever changes. Then they go right back to the voting booth and elect the same jokers over and over again and wonder why things never change.

It would be interesting to have a President with brains again. It's been so long.



The Presidential $1 Coin Program

The United States is honoring our Nation's Presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams. Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 coins per year.

Editor Comment: So did they run out of 9/11 coins or something?

If the goal is to eliminate paper $1 bills in favor of coins, all they have to do is stop printing $1 bills. Mint the coins, and everyone will adjust within about 18 months.

You would think the first priority would be to get rid of the stinkin' pennies.

The vending machine lobby is actually the only people who really wants the switchover from dollar bills to coins, because dollar bill changers break down all the time and are a general pain in the ass. Most vending machines already take dollar coins (these are the same size, shape, and weight as Susan B's and the Sacajwhatever golden dollars, so they will work too) - you get one in change, try it on one. The only ones that don't are really old ones (which won't have dollar bill changers on them either).

There is one more advantage to the coins - they last longer, and therefore would save the US government a lot of money if they eliminated the dollar bill. However, the public in general is strongly in favor of the dollar bill, so this is unlikely any time soon. The United States is one of the few countries (possibly the only First World country) that still has a bill for an amount of money so small. Heck, Japan has a 500 yen coin (and no bill to match), worth over four US dollars.

For those talking about coins in casinos, well I guess you haven't been lately.

Casinos are rapidly changing over at least for slots to a Ticket In Ticket Out (TITO) format. You can feed in any denomination bill you want on a slot machine and when you cash out, you are printed out a bar code voucher for your total credits. You don't even have to go to the cashiers cage anymore cause they have all these redemption machines around that you can just feed the voucher into it for your cash.

Only the tables still rely on cash & chips, which you have to cash in at the cage when you're done.

Finally I'll be able to own a coin featuring our greatest President, William Henry Harrison. He dropped dead after 30 days in office, but at least he didn't screw anything up.



How to solve Rubik's Cube

The world's most famous puzzle, simultaneously beloved and despised for it's beautiful simple complexity, the Rubiks Cube has been frustrating gamers since Erno Rubik invented it back in 1974. Over the years many brave gamers have taken up the challenge to restore a mixed Rubik's cube to it's colorful and perfect original configuration, only to find the solution lingering just out of their grasp time and time again. After spending hours and days twisting and turning the vaunted cube in vain, many resorted to removing and replacing the multi-colored facelets of the cube in a dastardly attempt t cheat the seemingly infallible logic of the cube, while others simply tossed it to the side and dubbed it impossible. The Rubik's cube, it seemed, had defeated all.

The Rubiks cube strategy guide originally developed by Denny Dedmore, will allow all of us to claim vindication and defeat the previously unbeatable Rubik's cube. Finally!

Editor Comment: Thanks. Twenty years ago I could have used this.

Half of you people don't even know what a Rubik's Cube is, the other half lost or tossed theirs when they got out of grade school.

Really, ask a young person what a Rubik's Cube is and I bet you will get a blank stare.

Me and several of my friends used to sit in the back of geometry class and race each other. Seeing that is was a cube and all, the teacher actually let us do it.

I do remember switching just two of the stickers, once, on an edge cube. Made the entire thing unsolvable; drove my friend insane.

Anyway, the best way to solve it is to take it apart and put it back together correctly. :)



The Nightmare Weaponry of Our Future

The Armed Forces can't adequately equip those already in uniform, but the Pentagon is committing itself to massive corporate contracts for new high-tech weapons systems slated to come on-line decades from now.

Editor Comment: And if the U.S.A were not spending any money on future weapons we would be reading "George Bush does not care about our future".

Follow up piece by same author in 20 years: "Outdated Weapons: Why has Pentagon Failed to Prepare for Current Conflict?"

Author would like us to be armed with muskets and round shot (after all, no R&D spending!). Author is a fucking moron.

"An official 2004 Army study found that one in four casualties in Iraq was the result of inadequate protective gear"

Unofficial studies also show that, while you can dress a soldier in medieval plate armor, that doesn't mean you should. Many of our troops in Iraq don't want to wear the full body armor because it's not flexible enough, slows then down, and is exceedingly hot.

Somewhere in there it si implied that this plane (the F-35) launches missiles that kill people, but is is very deeply embedded." (From article)

Um... it's a warplane. That's what they do. That's also what the term "combat air support" means.

That's just two idiotic comments fro the author, out of many. I do hope she has a job worthy of her talent level... like crash-test dummy.

Our soldiers are not funded for battle because we're fighting a new type of army. Not because we can't fucking afford it. We simply spent our money on things we don't really need right now, i.e. tons of fighter jets and large-scale weaponry.

Does she really think you can just make a phone call and get ten thousands armored humvees delivered to Iraq? Does she not realize that we spent time and money getting them all over there then the enemy noticed a weakness in the hummer that had been there for a decade without being exploited. So what do you do then? It takes time to develop the armor and get it to the production line, but you already have thousands of unarmored trucks in Iraq... and it takes time to get them shipped home to be converted and time to develop an in field armor upgrade...

So of course our troop, being the best and brightest we have to offer, figured out a way to armor their transportation sooner... I say bravo!

Don't be dumb. The reason our government spends $900 on a wrench is not because it cost so much to design. It's because some sales guy at a defense contractor is buddies with the buyer at the government purchasing office.

A lot of defense spending is for projects that are unneeded, have little chance at producing results, and, as Eisenhower pointed out more than 49 years ago, appear to deal more with lining the pockets of defense contractors and not with defending anyone.

It's pork barrel spending with defense money.

The entire US system is corrupted. Nobody who would do a good job will run.

The weapons of the future will be rocks and sticks.



21 Jump Street - Orpheus 33

21 Jump street was an hour long police drama television series. It ran from April 12, 1987 to April 27, 1991.

The series provided a spark to Johnny Depp's nascent career in acting, garnering him national recognition as a teen idol.

The show is about a group of young cops whose youthful appearances enabled them to work undercover to catch troubled youths.

Editor Comment: If anyone ever questions whether this was a good show, you don't have to look any farther then Orpheus 3.3

If I had to pick one episode and say "That one. That's the best they ever made", this one would be it.

In this episode Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.

One of the most intense hours of television I've ever seen.

This episode is mesmerizing and tragic, as Tom Hanson slowly goes insane with grief and guilt as he obsesses over the 3.3 seconds it took for him to react to the shooting of his girlfriend. Sometimes the storylines of 21 Jump Street are incredibly sad, and this one is definitely heavy and by far the best episode in the series in my opinion.

I remember being simply stunned by what I saw on the TV screen (when originally aired) - something that had never happened before and has only happened a few times since.

This is why this series was respectable. (Yea, it's just that good.)



First Words with another intelligent race

When we make first contact with another intelligent race, what should be our first words to them?

Editor Comment: 'Sup, biotches?

English motherfucker! You speak it?

You are one UGLY motherfucker!

No, we don't taste like chicken.

Friend, not food.

You wanna conquer the world, you're going to need lawyers, right?

Get me a beer, Noob!

It takes about a week to get used to the smell.

Please take me somewhere else. Anywhere but this doomed planet full of imbeciles.

Yes... all visitors must put that in their mouth. It's the formal greeting on this planet

Prepare yourselves to be another life form that 'taste like chicken'.

Take our leader.

You're either with us or against us

These are not the droids you're looking for

Ask them about unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

We're good at blowin' stuff up. But we'll be cool if you be cool.

As you all know, the first things humans try to find out when encountering a new species are

1. What's it taste like?
2. Can we mate with it?

So, obviously if and when we meet intelligent life forms, we should say:

Please don't eat me. Wanna fuck?