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Seriously Incredible Water Slide Jump: Please Be Real – Megawoosh – Gizmodo: ”

Seriously Incredible Water Slide Jump: Please Be Real
By Adam Frucci, 7:20 PM on Wed Aug 5 2009, 15,165 views
This video shows a crazy man launching himself off an epically-large water slide and landing perfectly in a kiddie pool very far away from it. Is it fake? I suspect so, but I really want it to be real.

The site that explains the stunt is all in German, save one vague video in English. Can any German-speakers descipher this and determine its validity? Please don’t dash my dreams. If this is a viral ad for adult diapers or something I’m going to be re”

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Please, can somebody tell me what the hell is this green thing parked in a Russian airfield? Who built this nutty contraption?

Apparently, some crazy vodka-addicted Russian engineers/mechanics/crazy Ivans decided that putting together a Soviet-era truck, a gas tank, a top cockpit, and a jet turbine was something useful. Or funny. Or both. What the frak does this thing really do? What is its purpose? Apparently nobody knows. And, most probably, we will never know.

I guess I’d have to hunt this one down, and press the big red button. [Dark Roasted Blend]

(Via Gizmodo.)

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.8: “Apple on Wednesday released the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.8, including improved AirPort reliability, improved Bluetooth device connectivity, and several security fixes.

(Via MacCentral.)

MacBook Pro Unibody with OCZ Vertex SSD: “ 

EXTREME LAPTOPPING:
‘mid 2009′ MacBook Pro
250G SSD vs 500G HDD

Posted Friday, June 21st, 2009, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
Updated July 23rd with Disktester random test

We posted our test results using the OCZ Vertex SSD in the Mac Pro but many of you wanted to see how fast the SSD runs in the Unibody MacBook Pro. We obtained the ‘mid 2009′ MacBook Pro 3.06GHz (17′) with the 500G 7K HDD CTO option. We tested it and then replaced it with the Vertex 250G SSD from OCZ. We included results for testing the same SSD inside the Mac Pro for perspective.

DiskTester’s random test measures the number of 4K random transactions the disk can make per second. Note the dramatic difference between the SSD and the fastest notebook HDD.