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Adidas jerseys will feature the company’s high performance compression TECHFIT technology, in which various bands around the shirt improve speed, power, endurance, and vertical jumping ability. Adidas says the new technology — soccer’s answer to the Olympics’s controversial swimsuits — can improve a player’s power by 5.3%, his vertical leaping ability by 4%, and his sprinting speed by 1.1%.

Excuse me?   This shirt will improve vertical jumping ability by 4%?  Is this compared to someone wearing a sweater?  Is an increase of 1.1% enough to be attributed to the shirt?  The article that the above quote came from says that these Adidas designed jerseys will be the soccer equivalent to the lightning fast Speedo swimsuits worn in the summer Olympics.  I have a hard time believing that.  If you put the US team in these special performance enhancing jerseys while playing against the Brazilians wearing turtle-neck sweaters and Zubba’s, the Brazilians will still win 5-1.  Soccer…..super gay.   (link to article)

Do you own an iPhone or iPod or iMac or iPad or iWhatever?  A Dell computer? HP computer?  I thought you did.  Well, there’s a pretty good shot that your product was manufactured in China at the Foxconn facility.  Foxconn has  been accused by some for running a sweatshop stripping employees of any power or freedoms they have in China.  However, the terrible part of this story is that the employees are turning to suicide.  China already has a high suicide rate where for every 100,000 people, 17 will commit suicide annually.  The Foxconn manufacturing facility has already had 10 suicides this year.  The last one came within 12 hours of the CEO issuing an apology at the plant.  Apple, Dell and HP are all looking into the issue.  I don’t want to dwell on depressing and sad topics like these, but the company is implementing a rather strange procedure to prevent suicides from occurring in the future.

The company is installing safety nets around its dormitory and factory buildings as a way to prevent more deaths.
“It may be a clumsy solution but we’re doing it,” Gou said yesterday.

Lee DeWyze Vs. Crystal Bowersox

The Paint Salesman Vs. The Trailerpark

A battle of epic proportions.

This season has received alot of criticism for lack of talent and generally, I agree. However, there were these two, then the rest of the group. So last night they went at it. Going into the night, I told a colleague that it’s too close to call and whoever showed up last night would take the crown. In summary, Crystal showed up, and Lee didn’t. That said, I would like to see Lee win but I’m putting my $ on Crystal. Here are my favorite performances of each during the season.

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For shits, here is my favorite performance of the entire season.

Boom dizzle.

Lots of weird shit on the internets these days, but the following website made me laugh out loud, for seriously.  Taking the phrase “Haters Gonna Hate” and slapping it on images is so easy yet so funny.  Check out this site for some funny “Hatters Gonna Hate” images. If you want more, head over to Know Your Meme for many many more.

Many people will say that Back to the Future 3 is the worst of the BTTFs, personally I think it’s number 2 because it’s so F’d up.  However, BTTF3 offers us a gem in the form of a f’d up kid at the end of the movie.  During the scene, Doc introduces his two children to Marty, named Jewels (maybe spealt Jules) and Vuuuurn (maybe it’s Verne).  Even during the intro the kid looks like he’s ready to kill.  Watch the clip below and keep your eyes on the nutjob named Verne…….especially his hands….maybe shortly after the 20 second mark.

Very very very tough decision this week.

While eating hummus for breakfast this morning I flipped to MTV and saw this cool vid. Check it.

Boom Dizzle.

Twice in 3 weeks.

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I’m sitting inside waiting for the Twins game to finish up so I decided to do some YouTube’n to find some time wasting videos.  The first one is from the USPDF, that’s right the United States Pole Dancing Federation.  While the women in this video are very good on the pole, they seem to be educated at a gymnastics school instead of an exotic dancing school.  Either way it’s still impressive.

This part of the next video is creepy and here’s why:  it reminds me of one of my friends and I feel like it accurately would depict his sec life.  Can you guess who it is?  Just enjoy Baldwin’s maneuvers.

Our next video also involves dancing, but instead of strong attractive women perfecting their craft on a pole, we have 2 drunk ass winter Olympians (Mexicans).  Enjoy.

Im a classy hoe, but you can set your purp drank on my table top ass when you go take a piss

You have a camera right?  3-5 megapixels on the camera phone?  Maybe a 10 pixel point-and-shoot or DSLR?  Are you terrorist that visits Dubai frequently?  Why am I using all these questions to start another dumb post?  You guessed it, to heighten interest in this 45 GIGAPIXEL photo of Dubai.  45 freaking gigapixels.  When was the last time you used the word gigapixel?  Was Big Pun’s mom around with Thousand Island dressing, safety goggles and a turkey baster? Sorry.  Here’s the link to the photo. On the bottom of the page, click to order the “snapshots” my post popular, click photos that interest you, and the map will automatically focus in on that section of the photo.

Is this performance better than Lady Gaga?  Does it give you goosebumps?  It should.

We all know that Wisconsin is full of idiots.  And if you didn’t know that, then you might be one    Check out this story.  Kenny Strasser, an alleged professional Yo-Yo master fooled a number of Wisconsin news shows to put him on live television.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the story from the Journal Sentinal, it could be the best news article every written.  Very very very funny.  My favorite parts are below.  I’ve also included two videos from the news channels below.  In the 2nd video, hot anchor Amy Pflugshaupt asks the Yo-Yo master with a straight face “How often do you play with your Yo-Yo?”  Seriously?!?  You can’t dream up a better story than this.  I wonder if Amy Pflughaupt is related to Kennen.  Kennen?

When Strasser showed up April 11 [to WFRV in Green Bay], he said he forgot the string for his yo-yo. With no tricks, Malak and Strasser spent their live TV segment talking.

The e-mail solicitation stated that Strasser was a runner-up for Rookie of the Year in 1995, grand champion at the Pensacola Regional and was nominated for the Walt Greenberg Award in 2000.  There is no Walt Greenberg Award in yo-yo, and there is no evidence Pensacola ever hosted a yo-yo tournament or that Strasser won a rookie of the year award.

“I don’t have a girlfriend, don’t want one. My parents, they live in Denver, they just got divorced. My dad is now in Oshkosh.?.?.?.?I have a brother in Portland who I don’t get along with very well because of his wife.”  And then, incredibly, his cell phone rings on the air. Pflugshaupt halts the interview, throws it back to the anchors, but later comes back to Strasser.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA.  Gotta love those Wisconsin news stations with absolutely NOTHING to talk about.

Sorry, this video was taken done from YouTube and even the news stations website.  Hopefully it gets put back up, but in the meantime I found 2 other videos on YouTube.  Enjoy.

Can you imagine yourself being locked in a place for 18 months?  That’s what 6 people are doing to see what the effects will be on the human body for a trip to Mars. The experiment is being called Mars500, and the lucky contestants will be sealed into four windowless metal comparments which are isolated from the rest of the World–meaning that supplies and every piece of equipment will need to be popped inside before the door is bolted. To further enhance the realism of the experience, there will be a 20-minute delay in communications between the “crew” and the outside world. That would be one horrible experience.

Soda is not good for you, we all know that.  It kills your teeth, erodes your intestinal lining, and leads to AIDS.  But it is still yummy.  I don’t drink coffee, and Red Bull is only good when mixed with Vodka and snowboarding.  So I choose soda.  Just this past weekend I needed a little something to get my mind focused so I could study for finals.  I drove to the nearest white-operated gas station and got a 24oz Mt Dew.  Did it work?  No.  But it tasted great.  This opening paragraph was a bit off topic, so lets re-focus.

Coke has these sweet ass Coca-Cola Freestyle machines that allow you to make 104 different user-controlled beverages.  The machine’s design is from Ferrari with a touch-screen monitor.  The technology to make the drinks is based on ink-jet style printer cartridges.  So instead of constantly changing out 5lb Coke syrup bags, the machine has 46 oz cartridges that can dispense the same amount of drinks.  Some 500 of these machines are being shipped out across the US this month.  Has anyone come across one of these in the wild yet?  And if so, can you get Surge from it?

Good opening skit with big foreheaded tiny handed lady.  It’s mean, but funny.

But Betty White stole the show with her velvety muffin.

Do you watch Parks and Recreation?  I have no idea when the show is on TV but I try to catch the episodes on Hulu.  This last weeks episode had a number of great moments, however I really don’t like Rashida Jones.  She shouldn’t be on TV or movies.

• The opening is pretty hilarious
• Fat guy in a argyle sweater vest
• Calling the Mall of America one of the fattest cities in America
• Detlef Schrempf