Friday, November 30, 2007

rolling bike

it's stuff like this that makes me want to take a welding class



via boingboing

Thursday, November 29, 2007

safety first

i don't know much about ice climbing but this seems like a very SAFE and SENSIBLE and REASONABLE approach to climbing up pitches of frozen water:



via getoutdoors

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

can i get a little w(tf)?

price tag: $13k ... at least it comes with, um, makeup bags?



via backcountry

Monday, November 26, 2007

spray, the movie

cheese aside, i'm pretty excited to see a film about lost rocks (& surrounding areas)



via the allclimbing blog

one year ago?

apparently we had a crazy ice storm ...



via boingboing

un-pimp ze auto



via gizmodo

skymall: 1st horseman of the apocolypse



via digg

Sunday, November 25, 2007

huckabee is insane

first chuck norris, now the nature boy:



even among die hard pro wrestling fans ... does anyone like this guy? i'm confused.

via crooksandliars

more interceptions than boulder has hippies

where advertising budgets should go



via scaryideas

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

anusing statistics

via boingboing:

Wikipedia is "The Free Encyclopedia." What's on the mind of Wikipedia its readers? Here are the top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia:

1. Main Page [30,090,900]
2. Wiki [904,800]
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [413,400]
4. Naruto [401,400]
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock [396,000]
6. United States [330,000]
7. Wikipedia [329,400]
8. Deaths in 2007 [321,300]
9. Heroes (TV series) [307,500]
10. Transformers (film) [303,600]

Conservapedia is "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia." What's on the mind of its readers? Here are the top ten most viewed pages on Conservapedia:

1. Main Page‎ [1,906,729]
2. Homosexuality‎ [1,572,713]
3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis‎ [517,086]
4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity‎ [420,687]
5. Gay Bowel Syndrome‎ [389,052]
6. Homosexuality and Parasites‎ [388,123]
7. Homosexuality and Domestic Violence‎ [365,888]
8. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea‎ [331,553]
9. Homosexuality and Mental Health‎ [291,179]
10. Homosexuality and Syphilis‎ [265,322 ]

sick



via backcountry.com

Monday, November 19, 2007

chuck norris has three speeds

walk, kill, and complete asshole

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Monday, November 12, 2007

formula j

smiting thine unholy thirst!

clean my rocks, ranger!

from an article in the seattle times on the increasing environmental impact of climbing in yosemite valley:

Rookie Ha Pham, 23, hopes to venture up it eventually, but said she was concerned the conditions she'd find wouldn't meet her standards.

"They should have signs and stuff and trash cans outside," said Pham, who climbs regularly in the safety of a San Francisco gym. "I don't think they even clean your rocks off for you out there."

high water trailer



via 70percent.org

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Friday, November 2, 2007

crash it up, b



via the piton

I smite thee





via reddit

How to Survive a Long Fall

"Have a parachute. Having a parachute greatly increases your chance of surviving a long fall."



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Thursday, November 1, 2007

beer run



via scary ideas

fire in the hole

this should have been one of my dream jobs as a kid: blowing up dams.

the nature conservancy dusted this one in the klamath basin create wetlands and protect two endangered species of fish.



via opb

Bill O'Reilly Interviews the "I Like Turtles" Kid



via how to avoid the bummer life

how does thy humvee float?



"This clever advert gives drivers something to think about when waiting for the bridge to lower. The car is a lot rarer in Amsterdam than most cities, and it's great to see that, despite that, they still run campaigns like this."

Via treehugger