Monday, January 3, 2011

Monday, December 20, 2010

Texas Trick (and legal0 Football Plays

Texas Middle School Team Executes Perfect Trick Play:



Texas high school has pulled off another amazing play, this time in a championship game at Cowboys Stadium. This play has an actual name — it’s called “The Dead Man”:

Friday, December 17, 2010

Good Ideas Never Get Old

Baby play area for apartment dwellers.


Suspended from the side of the building, the baby would have access to fresh air and sunlight through the cage's wire frame, and still have sufficient room to play with toys.

The Atlantic story link.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Minneapolis Metrodome Roof Collapse Video

The Minneapolis Metrodome’s inflatable roof collapsed under the weight of more than 17 inches of snow that have fallen on Minnesota. Newly released video captures the time-lapsed sinking of the roof until it’s eventual collapse, dropping snow onto the playing field below:

Festivus is Upon Us!

Monday, December 13, 2010

Cataclysm Sells 3.3 Million in 24 hours


World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade set PC sales records upon its release in January 2007, selling 2.4 million units worldwide in 24 hours. In November 2008, Blizzard Entertainment trumped its own high-water mark, when Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million units in a single day.

With the third expansion to its 12 million-subscriber-strong massively multiplayer online role-playing game on store shelves last week, Blizzard has confirmed that the streak has continued. Today, the Activision sister company announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold through more than 3.3 million units worldwide within 24 hours of release. Blizzard notes that this sales pace earns Cataclysm the title of "fastest-selling PC game of all time."

Full story at GameSpot.com.  Link.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010