Cash Linked to D.B. Cooper up for Auction

(From AP)

A boy who found the lone piece of evidence linked to the world's only unsolved skyjacking is now a 30-something father of five who has decided to start selling his treasure.

Brian Ingram was an 8-year-old on a family camping trip when he discovered three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland, Ore., in 1980. The money turned out to be some of the $200,000 ransom D.B. Cooper was carrying when he parachuted from a plane after a 1971 hijacking.

Now Ingram's taking some of his find to auction, offering 15 bills through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries. The live and online auction was announced Monday and scheduled for June 13-14.

-If anyone pays more than $20 for a $20, they are getting ripped off!

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Public Domain Photos From LOC

Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont

Musical Table

This table is the best table EVER. We're already thinking up drinking games that would go well with this wonderful piece of furniture. These musical tables are available in four sizes and are easily assembled. Contact Info about the artist is at the end of the video clip.
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Guys Skis Down Tube Escalator

Pretty Crazy!

Zombie Propaganda: Green Stuff

Boston to build Composting Energy Plant
" Boston is planning a unique composting center that would help with some of the city's energy needs."

"A proposed multimillion-dollar indoor urban composting facility would capture methane gas that rotting leaves give off and burn it to generate electricity for 1,500 homes, as well as to run on-site, year-round greenhouses. The city has not pinpointed a location for the indoor center, but it would be within city limits."
(NPR)

100 MPG = 10 Million Dollars!!
"The Automotive X PRIZE Foundation will award at least $10 million in privately funded prizes to teams that can engineer clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 miles per gallon, or its energy equivalent fuel efficiency, and win a cross-country stage race."

"To date, more than 60 teams from nine countries have signed a Letter of Intent to compete for a share of the prize purse and global publicity."

"Progressive Insurance, the third largest auto insurance group in the country, has taken title sponsorship of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, AXP, competition and will fund the $10 million prize purse."

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No More Free Beer with Haircut

"The owner of Jude's Barbershops, which had offered a free beer with a cut, is disappointed in a state Attorney General ruling that says he needs a liquor license if he wants to hand out beer."

"I'm glad we finally got clarity on the issue," Thomas Martin said today. "Offering a complimentary beer is not something that we created, it's an old-fashioned service that was done years ago. We just brought it back with the other old-fashioned services that we provide."

"He said he would work with state legislators to legalize the practice."

"Police in Kent and Ottawa counties had told him that handing out free beer violated local and state laws."

"An assistant attorney general, in a five-page ruling, said only licensed businesses may offer beer."

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Well that sucks, I wish there was a barber shop around here where i could get a trim, shave and a beer! I could see it now... walking out of the barber shop all cut and clean and slightly buzzed.

Going Postal on the Post Office

(from ap)

"RAVENDEN SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) -- Not only the postman rings twice. A Jackson County man remained in jail Monday after he drove two cars into the post office in Ravenden Springs."

"Randolph County Sheriff Gary Tribble said Glenn Irvin Sparling, 65, drove one vehicle into the post office on Sunday, and fled the scene. The sheriff told Jonesboro television station KAIT that the car stopped running. So Sparling went home and got another vehicle, a red antique sports car, and started driving back to the post office."

"The sheriff said a deputy spotted Sparling and gave chase. The pursuit ended when Sparling ran the second car into the post office building. Sparling wasn't hurt, the sheriff said."

"Adams said Sparling had damaged a post office previously, and the sheriff said Sparling had a history of damaging postal buildings. No one was in the post office when it was hit."

"Sparling faces numerous counts, including felony charges of vehicular fleeing, criminal mischief and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage. He is also charged with DWI, and authorities said federal charges are possible."

Night of the Living Dead Review

Night of the living dead is a Public Domain Zombie movie, yup that right it's free to download, sell or do what ever you want with. Here is probably the best review of the film form the Silver Screen Kid at Analog Medium.

"I’ve been dreading writing this review ever since I decided to do it. Night of the Living Dead has been discussed by horror fans and film theorists ad nauseum since its release in 1968. Constantly I hear and read about people bending over backwards and sucking George Romero pee-pee for making such a milestone classic in the horror genre. I’m not complaining (exactly). It’s just, like, enough already. Sure, the movie was timely as hell. Sure, it was cleverly disguised social commentary. Sure, it carved out its own niche in the horror cannon as a kick ass approach to the zombie genre. Sure it’s been imitated a thousand times, never replicated. But have you ever seen it??? Granted, it’s an entertaining movie, but is much more than that? I didn’t walk away from the movie thinking, “I’ll never look at my life, or movies, the same way again.” I was just like, “that was kinda cheap, but it was cool.” I much prefer the sequel, Dawn of the Dead."
"Before you start sending me volumes of impassioned flame mail, let me explain. I’m not anti-Romero. And I’m not anti-zombie (that much should be obvious by now). It’s just that I don’t think Night of the Living Dead is the end all zombie flick. There are loads of moments that completely take you out of the moment, causing you to question the validity of the filmmakers and their budget. Does anyone even remember the female lead, Barbra? Every time I watch the movie I end up yelling at the screen something to the effect of, “snap out of it bitch! Losing it isn’t going to help anything! Cry me a river!” And the dialogue is some scenes is downright atrocious. There’s needless repetition, cornball over-acting, and lines that sound like they were read straight off the page. That all being said, I like the damn movie. I just don’t put it on a pedestal."


"There are some really awesome elements to Night of the Living Dead. The cinematography and two-dimensional use of frame is impressive to say the least. That’s one way that it gets the most out its meager budget, by packing as much information as it can into a single frame. Also, whoever they got to play all the zombies did an admirable job staggering and lumbering around in the dark. I’ve seen tons of low-budget Italian zombie flicks that make me cringe every time I see a costumed extra walking through the scene as if he’s thinking about what he’s going to have for lunch, or the drive home. Plus, I always like a movie that kills all of the main characters. The end of Night of the Living Dead is quite unsettling, yet gratifying in a strange way. At the end of the movie you realize why you sat through all the cheesy dialogue scenes and are glad for having done it. All in all, I give Night of the Living Dead 8 out of 10 decaying corpses, mostly for the influence it had on the genre."

AnalogMedium Encyclopedia Zombica

Zombie Obscurity Scrape

We're totally biting an Analog Medium idea here, "scraping" other cool stuff from other sites.

Daft Punk's Around the World Music Video, scraped from Death By Video.






U of M to receive giant comic book collection. We need to find out how we can get on that list for free comics!



Check out this Phantom Keystroker from Think Geek,
I know we could have some serious fun with this thing!

Public Domain Images From LOC

Lead mine, Creede, Colorado.

Iron Maiden's Tour Plane

"British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden will commence their 2008 world tour in Australia early next year, but perhaps the oddest thing about the tour will be how the band will get around and who will get them there.

The group will mount their Somewhere Back In Time Tour in three stages. The first leg will be in February and March and see the band hit 20 cities on five different continents, including North and South America, with Japan and India also in the cards. The tour officially begins on Feb. 4 in Perth, Australia.

The second phase will see a more extensive North American tour in May and June before the group head to Europe for a large-scale tour of stadiums and various summer festivals.

The band will take their 60-man crew and staff in an Astraeus Boeing 757 that will be decorated with Maiden designs and the group's Eddie mascot on the sides. Singer Bruce Dickinson will pilot the plane from city to city."

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Cardboard Star Wars

Star Wars " A New Hope" remade in cardboard, very funny!

Nintendo Wii Time Lapse

Cool Wikipedia Images V

Etna eruption seen from the International Space Station
Kinetoscope
Surfer In Santa Cruz
Peablue Butterfly/Moth?
Mira the Star NASA Photo

Urban Dead Update: March 08'

Well in the last few days MDK, MERCY, and other groups working in the four corners have seen allot of action. Chances are you were killed by zeds, and have already been revived. Rebuilding efforts have already started. finally our x-mas tree and x-mas lights were destroyed, I'm surprised it took 3 months for the zeds to break in and destroy the place. The zombie hoard seems to be headed south to the survivor rich Mitchem Mall.

Meanwhile in Monroeville, Things are quite the opposite. I spent close to 30 AP coming the streets for zeds to slay. My Monroeville character just got shopping and is near a mall, i plan to go score a video camera and start his video diary.

URBAN DEAD

Horrified B- Movie Victims

These look pretty fun. You can get them here.

Public Domain Images From LOC

An American pineapple.

Centralia, Pennsylvania - This Town is HOT!

(wikipedia)

In May 1962, Centralia Borough Council hired five members of the volunteer fire company to clean up the town landfill, located in an abandoned strip mine pit next to the Odd Fellows Cemetery. This had been done prior to Memorial Day in previous years, but in previous years the landfill was in a different location. The firemen, as they had in the past, set the dump on fire, let it burn for a time, and then extinguished the fire, or so they thought.

However, in her 2007 book about Centralia, Joan Quigley asserts that the fire began on May 27 when one of the two commercial haulers serving the borough "hurled hot ashes onto the dump." [3] Quigley cites "interviews with volunteer firemen, the former fire chief, borough officials, and several eyewitnesses, as well as contemporaneous borough council minutes" as her sources for this explanation of the fire.

The fire remained burning in the lower depths of the garbage and eventually spread through a hole in the rock pit into the abandoned coal mines beneath Centralia. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it continued to burn throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Adverse health effects were reported by several people due to the carbon monoxide produced.

In 1979, locals became aware of the scale of the problem when a gas-station owner inserted a stick into one of his underground tanks to check the fuel level. When he withdrew it, it seemed hot, so he lowered a thermometer down on a string and was shocked to discover that the temperature of the gasoline in the tank was 172 degrees Fahrenheit (77.8°C). State-wide attention to the fire began to increase, culminating in 1981 when 12-year-old Todd Domboski fell into a sinkhole four feet wide by 150 feet (45 metres) deep that suddenly opened beneath his feet. He was saved after his older cousin pulled him from the mouth of the hole before he could plunge to his probable death. The incident brought national attention to Centralia as an investigatory group (including a state representative, a state senator, and a mine safety director) were coincidentally on a walking tour of Domboski's neighborhood at the time of his near-death incident.

In 1984, Congress allocated more than $42 million for relocation efforts. Most of the residents accepted buyout offers and moved to the nearby communities of Mount Carmel and Ashland. A few families opted to stay despite warnings from state officials.

In 1992, Pennsylvania claimed eminent domain on all properties in the borough, condemning all the buildings within. A subsequent legal effort by residents to have the decision reversed failed. In 2002, the United States Postal Service revoked the Centralia's ZIP code, 17927.

Today,a handful of occupied homes remain in Centralia. Most of the buildings have been razed, and at a casual glance the area now appears to be a meadow with several paved streets through it. Some areas are being filled with new-growth forest. Most of Centralia's roads and sidewalks are overgrown with brush, although some areas appear to be mowed.[4] The remaining church in the borough holds weekly Saturday night services, and the borough's four cemeteries are still well-maintained. Centralia's cemeteries now have a far greater population than the town, including one on the hilltop that has smoke rising around and out of it.

The only indications of the fire, which underlies some 400 acres (1.6 km²), spreading along four fronts, are low round metal steam vents in the south of the borough, and several signs warning of underground fire, unstable ground, and carbon monoxide. Additional smoke and steam can be seen coming from an abandoned portion of Pennsylvania Route 61, the area just behind the hilltop cemetery, and various other cracks in the ground scattered about the area. Route 61 was repaired several times until its final closing. The current route was a detour around the damaged portion during the repairs and became a permanent route in the mid 90's, thus abandonment occurred to the old route with permanent barriers being placed at both ends of the former route. However, the underground fire is still burning and will continue to do so for the indefinite future. There are no current plans to extinguish the fire, which is consuming an eight-mile seam containing enough coal to fuel it for 250 years.[1]

One of the few remaining houses was notable for the five chimney-like support buttresses along each of two opposite sides of the house, where the house was previously supported by a row of adjacent buildings before they were demolished. This home was demolished in September 2007. [5]

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania did not renew the relocation contract at the end of 2005, and the fate of the remaining residents is uncertain.[6]

Oil Cooled Computer How To

We've heard and read about this before, but this is a pretty damn good how to video on the subject.

Check out this vid as well!

Rain-X Wipers

If you don't know already, we here at Z.O. are huge rain-x fans. We wrote a piece a while ago for Analog Medium that you can find HERE about how rain-x is great for fixing scratched CD's. We are also big fans of its original use as well. Here in California it rains allot in the winter, it's also really good in snowy conditions too. Any how, we were stoked when we saw a TV advert for the new rain-x brand wipers. they look pretty sick... we plan to buy a pair and try them out next winter (California's rainy season).

Here is a LINK to the Rain-X wipers page.

Indoor Windsurfing

Check out this craziness.

This clip is about nine minutes or so so I recommend skipping through it. There is some crazy indoor jumping towards the end. Seems like it's allot of effort to put on an event like this.