amazing & cars & random MAZ on 21 Dec 2007
Monthly Archive for "December 2007"
amazing & random MAZ on 20 Dec 2007
Taipei 101 jump
“BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner leaped from the highest building in the world, the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan on December 11. The jump itself wasn’t the only thing that was risky.
Five seconds was all it took for Felix Baumgartner’s freefall at his most recent BASE jump in Taipei. Five seconds, which took months of preparation. The 38-year-old Austrian checked out the tower, which is 509 meters tall, on numerous visits and in various costumes, made note of the positioning of the surveillance cameras, the security systems, and memorized the inaccessible areas……..”
Via RGS
microsoft & news & technology & windows MAZ on 19 Dec 2007
SP3 release candidate for XP available for download
“Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site last tonight.
The final version of Windows XP SP3 remains slated for delivery sometime in the first half of 2008, the spokeswoman said. She also warned off casual users from trying the preview. “As this is a release candidate, we strongly encourage only those who are comfortable installing prerelease code to download Windows XP SP3,” she said.”
amazing & cars & random & technology MAZ on 18 Dec 2007
Porsche wheel casemod
This liquid cooled SLI-Machine Wheel PC is loaded into an 18-inch wheel from a Porsche Cayenne, then wrapped up in a Bridgestone Dueler H/P radial tire to round things out.
Via technabob
amazing & beer & random MAZ on 17 Dec 2007
The Coolest Bar Ever
This is the coolest bridge and the coolest bar ever. The
It was built in 2003, and immediately developed itself as a popular attraction. The ‘island’ was created by the
It has a sunbathing area, a trendy bar and a coffee house, plus it allows you to cross the
amazing & random MAZ on 17 Dec 2007
Old Man Goes Nuts In Car Wash
The police report states that this old guy went nuts in a car was because he lost his glasses.
microsoft & news & technology & windows MAZ on 17 Dec 2007
Vista, biggest tech disappointment of 2007
PC World has boldly declared Vista #1 in their Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007.
“It’s just that Vista isn’t all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring–like more efficient file and communications systems–got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised. Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.”
