THE EXPENDABLES VIDEO GAME

The awesome 8-bit "The Expendables" video game, via "The Expendables" Facebook page.

SHRIIIMP

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In simple terms: graffiti on girls.

INTIMIDATOR PUZZLE (WITH GUN)

GarE Maxton's recent artwork, The Intimidator: a complex metal puzzle in which parts can be re-assembled into a functional .45 caliber pistol, complete with laser sight. Totally Scaramanga!



(via Notcot.org, de la Gizmodo)

BIG BUCK HUNTER PRO

I recently bought the home version of the dive bar favorite: Big Buck Hunter Pro. It's the plug-n-play TV version and it's the best $40.00 I've ever spent.

It is the same as the arcade/bar version, down to the enthusiastic redneck voice cheering you on when you bag a buck. The game is housed in the plastic shotgun controller (and you place a tracking sensor on top of your TV screen). The only complaint I have about the game is that there is a slight lag in the tracking of your gun movements, but with a little practice you can compensate for this.

An epic evening: I had friends over, cheap beer, and Big Buck Hunter Pro on the TV. We played for hours and killed hundreds of woodland creatures.

OVERALL RATING: **** FOUR (out of five stars)

3D GRAFFITI

3D rendering + graffiti = Graffiti Technica.
This stuff is amazing:

CONSOLE WARS MEDALS

Supermandolini has a new and improved line of their Console Wars Veteran medals.

SCRIMSHAW KNIVES

• The CXXVI Clothing Company scrimshaw knife.
• The "Mini Razor" from Shar's Scrimshaw.

SAVING PLASTIC RYAN

MONKEY PATCHES

L.A. Police Gear has a sweet selection of military Monkey Patches - I'm totally partial to the "Zombie Hunter" one.

GUARDIUM SENTRY ROBOTIC VEHICLES

The Israeli company G-Nius creates Unmanned Ground Systems robotic sentry vehicles (download the brochure) . . . I'm searching for the Hebrew words for "kicking-ass!"

Just found the design sketches for their C4 sentry, by Yaron Loubaton.

The G-Nius Unmanned Ground Systems "Guardium G4":

HEAVY EQUIPMENT WALLPAPERS

The Bauforum24.biz has released these kick-ass wallpapers of photos from their Heavy Equipment 2010 calendar.

LONDON PIRATE RADIO

Pirate radio stations in rusting anti-aircraft towers in the mouth of the River Thames, London:

SWEET MURAL

Sweet graffiti mural on Haight St., San Francisco:

(click to enlarge)

The skeleton character is epic:

ROCKET AND JET BIKES

Awesome jet bike with afterburner


Nitrous oxide + asphalt rocket-powered bike


Bike with mini dual jet turbines


Pulse-Jet bike

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DUCT TAPE

• Duct tape was developed in 1942, during World War II.

• The standard width of duct tape: 1.875in. (48mm).

• It is standard equipment on most American space missions - in 1970 it saved the lives of the Apollo 13 crewmembers when it was used to attach a square carbon dioxide filter to a round fitting.

• In the procedural manuals for the International Space Station, duct tape is recommended for restraining astronaut crewmembers suffering from "acute psychosis" (a.k.a. - "space madness").

• In the Alaskan wilderness, in 2010, a guy repaired his plane with duct tape after a bear had destroyed it.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SWISS ARMY KNIVES

The Swiss Army knife ranks high in the list of awesome tools - it's like having a whole toolbox in your pocket, right next to your wang.









• 1880's: The Swiss military issued folding knives to its soldiers - these knives also included a can opener (for canned foods) and a screwdriver for disassembling the general issue service rifle.

• 1891: Karl Elsener - head of what would later become the Victorinox knife company (only one of two companies contracted to make Swiss Army knives for the Swiss military, the other company being Wenger) - began mass production of the Modell 1890. It contains a knife blade, reamer, screwdriver, and can opener.

• 1961: The standard issue Swiss Army knife was updated. The Modell 1961 has: an "Alox" handle/casing, a knife blade, reamer, screwdriver, bottle opener, wire stripper, and can-opener/screwdriver.

• 1985: In the fixit-adventurer-hacker-geek TV series "MacGyver" a Wenger Swiss army knife is pictured in the opening credits, but throughout the series MacGyver usually uses a Victorinox Spartan.

• 2008: The Swiss government updated the soldier's knife to the Soldatenmesser 08 ("Soldier's Knife 08""): large locking blade, Phillips screwdriver, can opener, small screwdriver, lockable screwdriver and crate opener, bottle opener, wire stripper, reamer/punch, seatbelt cutter, key ring, and wood saw.


LINKS:
• The Victorinox 1891 "Heritage" knife
• The Wenger 1893 "Heritage" knife
• The Victorinox Modell 1961
• The Wenger Modell 1961
• The Victorinox Spartan, a la MacGyver
• The Victorinox 2008 Soldatenmesser 08
• The Wenger "Giant" (costs $999.00 - $1,400.00)
• The Leatherman 25th Anniversary Silver Knife
• Victorinox's awesome new "Silver Tech" line of knives