Luke ‘n’ Bill

So I was reminded of a great practical joke the other day when we were driving over to Lake Shetek, MN to go camping.

So imagine yourself an average tourist driving across the country and halfway across Minnesota you see a sign for Wall Drug. You may scratch your head a bit and figure, whatever. You keep driving and as soon as you hit SD you start seeing these signs everywhere. Granted, you’re driving across South Dakota, so there really isn’t much to see in the first place, but the amount of signs are getting annoying at best. So naturally you’re thinking, dang…there might actually be something worth seeing in this state (beyond four dead heads on a hill). So you start wondering what this monstrosity may be….and then when you’re almost all the way across the second most boring drive in the lower 48 (taking I-29 from Sioux Falls to the Canadian border is the worst) you come to your newly found destination.

A crappy souvenir shop in a town of 800. (queue sad trombone)

Gadgetopia posted a while ago about the new KERS system that was being developed for F1. Granted, when I first heard about it, I was thinking the same thing that Deane was….probably the coolest thing ever for car racing.

Well, apparently the mechanics may disagree. There have been a couple cases so far including this latest one caught on video that demonstrate the danger of large amounts of energy held in the form of electricity and predominantly what happens when it goes bad.

Now kids, sharpen up those #2 pencils, grab your favorite college ruled note book from your transformers trapper keeper and lets learn about conductors and insulators. (here’s a hint mechanic=conductor)

video via YouTube/story via Auto-Blog

I went through this afternoon over lunch and updated the RSS feeds that I’m reading now.  They’re all pretty standard but one that you might want to take note on (especially if you enjoy traveling) is Dotting the Map.

This is a blog by one of my friends.  I’ve helped them out with a little bit of css/html work on the site and while I was there I read some of the posts and have decided to add it to my RSS feed.  The blog has only been around for about a month but the work is impressive.

News on another blogs, Carla Kay White has changed from random posts focusing more on web development tools and tricks to a theme of Health, Wealth & Happiness.

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