This Just In… TiVo Predicts American Idol Top 8

This from TMZ.com:

If you want to place bets on “Idol” in Vegas, we think we found a way you could score millions of bucks.

TiVo may have cracked the mystery of who gets kicked off and who doesn’t. Company insiders say they can predict who’s not connecting by TiVo usage.

Here’s the deal. In a sample of 20,000 users, TiVo monitors traffic — which contestants get replayed (a sign of popularity) and which one’s get fast-forwarded.

You think it’s bogus? Well, the TiVo system has nailed who got booted four weeks in a row.

And who does TiVo say is getting the ax tonight? Poor Syesha. Take it to the bank, people.

So, it’s me vs TiVo! Bring it! I’m sticking to my guns and still saying it will be Carly Smithson.

The results show is on tonight at 8:00pm Eastern on Fox.

College Student Builds Half-Scale Panzer Tank

Will Foster in tankWill Foster was a pretty “ordinary” college student at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. That is, until he built a tank.

Foster has completed a working 1/2 scale Panzer tank, complete with a functional air cannon powered by a scuba tank. He got in some slight trouble with the law when he took it out for a drive, but should only need a slow moving vehicle sign for it to be considered a tractor.

Remarkably, the whole thing came to him after playing paintball and figured on making the baddest paintball machine ever. It will only fire off about 50 rounds before the tank runs out of air, but I say you just start running over people after that.

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To Post, or Not to Post? Seriously, That’s the Question.

I hope hope most of you are aware that I’m a non-fiction writing major at the University of South Florida (go Bulls!) and wrapping up my Junior year this Fall. Good, because I am getting tired of typing out Professional and Technical Writing so many times.

One of the benefits of so many literature and writing courses is producing writing material. I’m checking to see if there is any interest in checking out my work and using it as bonus content on the blog to defer some content to other days. That said, here is a sample of my last paper for Expository Writing, which earned a 96%, and I know there are two typos in it to take care of before posting the entire thing. Here goes nothing:

Boob Tube or YouTube?
Technology has a way of shaking things up from time to time. The staple of the music industry for decades was the vinyl record, which gave way to CDs, which have been left on dusty shelves since the advent of online music sales. No one wants to buy an entire CD of second-rate songs when they only want the one smash hit to listen to until they can sing it backwards. The next big revolution is targeting television and the way we watch programming. Why would anyone want to sit in front of the TV with all of its commercials and drawn-out programming?

Simpsons Are a Bad Example; Watch Baywatch Instead, Kids

And people think Bush looks like an idiot!According to FoxNews yesterday, Venezuela has deemed the 11am slot to have too much exposure to children to watch Simpsons and have been airing Baywatch Hawaii for the past couple of weeks. Apparently children are too impressionable to watch Simpsons.

So far, there haven’t been any complaints about Baywatch being on.

Can anyone say: the kids are in school and the 22 yr. old loser guys who are at home at 11am aren’t going to complain?

Read the whole story at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347910,00.html
Photo credits: Here.