The Uno

The Uno’s custom hoops aren’t front and rear like a motorcycle’s, but side by side, rising and falling independently over the road as it leans. 

The inventor is 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak, who in 2006 took at 3 week trip with his family to China and saw all the pollution and decided he wanted to help do something about it.  He put college plans on hold and set out to create a non-polluting vehicle that had style.

At Toronto’s National Motorcycle Show in March, he showed the Uno off to Russell Mitchell of Exile Cycles, a custom bike builder and a veteran of Speed Channel’s “Build or Bust” series, who jumped aboard and cruised with no trouble.

He will go to Shanghai to talk with a company about developing the bike and possibly putting it into production. At the moment, he is fine tuning the Uno.

Photo courtesy Ben Gulak

 

What Good News for Monday Morning!!

Rock Band 2 is on its way!! Get Excite folks. The guitar looks just awesome, and the company is promising more instruments, more gameplay options, and better integration with your own music. Check out a few of the details here.

What the Hell Does That Sign Mean?

Our Friends across the pond at the Telegraph have put together some of the weirdest signs you’ve seen.

6 Action Heroes You Can Take in a Fight

Here’s a great article from cracked.com describing 6 action heroes whose asses you can probably beat, complete with comical quips.

By economy do you mean world?

Maura Reynolds (LA Times) wrote a rather interesting article yesterday regarding the president of the United States and his obvious economic shortcomings.  In this post, Reynolds uses results derived from a LA Times/Bloomberg poll which reveal some entertaining evidence amongst Republicans.  Apparently 22% of the same individuals that voted this winner into office claim that the United States economic conditions have improved.  WHAT!!!  Are they serious?  If feel compelled to quote Clark Griswold here, “take a look around…we are sitting at the threshold of HELL!”  Is this 22% so preoccupied with spending their stimulus package on monster truck rally tickets that they don’t realized the status of our economy/world isn’t exactly par?  Hello, these people should quit watching reruns of Roseanne and start educating themseves on what is actually occurring in the world before making any comments…just a thought.

Creepy Headline of the Day: Tap water chemicals not linked to penis defect

Um, if you’re preggers don’t drink tap water. It can make your baby boys wanker have its pee hole on the bottom instead of the middle. Though this article is about a study that did not find a link between tap water and pee-pee problems, other studies still suggest it but nobody has definite proof either way! So stick to bottled water. On another note, why didn’t we hear anything about this before they did the study? If there was suspicion of some link, why werent we all made aware? Why wasn’t the entire country privy to the initial suspicion of tap water making weiners wacky i mean there could be some disfigured weenies out there and its all because nobody told anybody about it.)?

We get to Keep our Handguns!!!

Looks like the Supreme Court ruled that we get to keep shooting people with our Hand Guns…

Check out the Video about Gun Control here, you’ll realize why we still need them.

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Fireworks 101

Okay, another Today Show post, but I thought this entire story was pretty ironic. It supposed to be about safety and I have to admit this morning as I ate breakfast and watched, I was secretly hoping that the lady doing the story might accidentally catch something on fire with the sparkler and it would be a YouTube instant hit. No such luck, but they did give me some good info. Namely, details on knowing which fireworks are illegal. (Translation: which fireworks are the most fun!) I mean after watching them blow up a watermelon, how can I not ask for that M80 or whatever it was that they keep in the brown paper bags at the fireworks stand. Check it out.

Idiot of the Day

You know what they say, God looks out for idiots and children. That said, this guy is lucky to be alive. But he gets the “Idiot of the Day” award for jumping into a canal where he knew gators lived at their prime feeding time in the wee hours of the morning.

Oh and here are funny quotes from the Today Show article:

**”Finally, he heard his left arm crack and the alligator let go of him long enough to swallow the limb.”
**“At that point I didn’t realize that I had lost my arm,” said Edwards, whose only thought was to swim back across the canal to his friends and help. But the gator, having polished off its appetizer, came back for the main course. It hit the young man in the stomach, cutting him and knocking the wind out of him.
**”The alligator that attacked Edwards was hunted down and killed. During a necropsy, Edwards’ arm was found in the animal’s stomach, but it wasn’t in any condition to be reattached.

How to Start Your Own Pointless War

If you are reading this post to learn how to really start a war, well then you’re just as creepy as the individual displayed in the associated image.  There is one thing I can tell all you potential warlords out there; it’s not going to be cheap.  My advice is for you to start raising the price of fuel and food, in your country, right now.  The average cost of a aimless war these days is somewhere north of ½ a Trillion Dollars.  Way to think it through Bush…your intelligence has made us all proud.

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