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Four teenage Spanish students have earned worldwide acclaim for the photographs they have taken of the edge of space, 20 miles above the Earth. The students pulled off the remarkable feat with a weather balloon, and a digital camera costing about $100. The instrument packaged that the kids whipped-up contained a means of tracking the balloon after its ascent via Google Earth.

Plum amazing. And very cool, what young people are capable of doing these days (or anybody for that matter). Wouldn’t surprise me if in the not too distant future, we’ll be reading news of some high school student flying into orbit in a home-built spaceship 🙂...

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David Blancarte of Manteca, California was 27 when a motorcycle accident cost him the use of his legs. That was in 1988.

Then a few months ago Blancarte was bitten by a poisonous Recluse spider. He was hospitalized for five days (Blancarte, not the spider) and during an evaluation, doctors discovered that Blancarte had regained nerve function in his legs. Somehow, the spider bite jump-started his neuro-muscular physiology.

He has been in physical rehab since, and is now walking over 250 feet a day with the help a walker. Blancarte’s ultimate goal? “I can’t wait to start dancing.”

Mash down here for more about the real-life “Spider-Man”....

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Jerry Jalava of Finland is a motorcycle enthusiast and computer hacker. He lost a finger in a riding accident last spring and when the doctor working on rebuilding his hand heard about Jerry’s love of technology, he suggested a USB “finger” drive to replace the lost digit. So now Jerry Jalava’s right near-pinky finger is also a 2 gigabyte USB drive that carries a Linux distribution and the movie Freddy Got Fingered.

You can check out plenty more pics of his bionic finger on his Flickr photostream....

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From the Seattle, Washington side of the galaxy: a 46-year old man was stopped for speeding on I-90 by State Patrol troopers. He was doing an astonishing 110 miles per hour and once he had finally been pulled over, officers found his car loaded with Star Wars memorabilia.

The man’s reason for going so fast? He was trying to rush home to bid for another Star Wars item on eBay.

Click on the link above for some hilarious reader comments!...

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Sometimes you come across something on the Internet that is so overwhelmingly kewl just on the basis of the obvious amount of passion and intelligence poured into it, that you can’t wait to praise the effort and share it with others.

That’s what I felt after finding Lockjaw, The World’s Greatest Superhero. It’s a very detailed site that, with great affection and eloquence, argues why Lockjaw of the Inhumans from the Marvel Universe is the best comic book character around. In terms of innocence, nobility, and utter power, this Terrigen Mist-altered bulldog lives a life of romp, play, and the occasional rescuing of the universe on his own terms. Not even Galactus comes close to matching Lockjaw’s unrestrained abilities, the author insists.

Gotta give the props to whoever made this site. And hopefully Lockjaw will be a playable character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, instead of just getting ...

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Lately it seems like the “feel good” stories have become even more few and far between. So when one is found, I feel more than a little compelled to give it a shout-out.

Take, f’rinstance, what Leonard Abess Jr. did. Back in November he sold a majority share of his holdings in Miami-based City National Bancshares.

And then, Abess gave away $60 million of the profits to EVERYONE that was on his bank’s payroll. He even went so far as to find 72 former employees so that he could give them a share of the money, too. More than 400 people got the “bonuses”, and depending on how long they had been employed some got more than $100,000

This is an awesome story of capitalism and corporate responsibility, folks. And when I say “responsibility”, what I mean by that is a company or business owner going above and beyond ...

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High-tech practical jokers in three states have declared war on those electronic road signs that DMVs put out to relay information to drivers. Here’s what one sign in Austin, Texas alerted motorists to…

But these weren’t ordinary zombies, mind you. They were “Nazi zombies”, from which people were urged to flee toward cooler climates. While Texas and Illinois got plagued with zombies, Indiana roadways suddenly became flooded with raptors from Jurassic Park.

Mash down here for the story and video about the highway highjinks!...

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Just when you think there are enough aliens lurking around 7-Eleven…

Police in Denver, Colorado are looking for a man who committed armed robbery at two of the convenience stores. The weapon of choice for the assailant? A “bat’leth”: the customary sword of Klingon warriors in the Star Trek universe (modeled here by Worf), first forged by Kahless the Unforgettable during the Earth’s Ninth Century.

At least he wasn’t a Doctor Who fan trying to hold up stores with a toilet plunger…...

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This has gotta be one of the most innovative and clever uses for the iPod touch that I’ve ever seen…

The BulletFlight application software, available through the iTunes store, turns the iPod touch into a full-blown ballistics computer that helps hunters in the field plot their firing solution. Users can tap in the ammunition type, wind speed and conditions, and distance to target. Profiles for three weapons come loaded with BulletFlight, although more can also be added.

Maybe Apple should look into this concept further. I mean, wouldn’t it be nifty if we could own an iGun? 😛...

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Tyler Durden should have thought BIGGER…

Doesn’t seem to be any dearth of weird news this past month. In the latest bizarro story, a Beverly Hills doctor is accused of running his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator with fat that he liposuctioned from patients. The doctor in question, Craig Alan Bittner, supposedly even bragged on his website that he had pioneered the creation of “lipodiesel”. He’s now in trouble with several former patients who allege that he disfigured them.

Maybe there’s a silver lining to this strange situation. With a vast segment of the population dangerously obese, and there being such a demand for both environmentally and economically-sound energy, maybe “lipodiesel” is the silver bullet that can wipe out a whole slew of problems plaguing this country! We’ve all heard the old phrase “You are what you eat”? Maybe it’s time for “You are what you drive”!...

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