The Best (and worst) of the Internet

[zourtney]

Post links to strange stuff you find on the internet! For example, "Do llamas have dorsal fins?"

Today's fresh find: a craigslist ad about turning your dirtbike into a snowmobile: http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/mcy/1480754565.html

[Nick]

Don't diss them snow kits! Those are awesome! If a little impractical and just as costly as a used snowmobile. But still awesome! I'd still rather have a snow cat.

[zourtney]

I had never heard of such a thing. It looks impractical because your center of gravity looks much higher. Nonetheless, awesome absurdity

[Nick]

As a part of the worst of the internet (and because of that, in some peoples opinion, part of the best of the internet) I offer up Frys Forum dot com for your consideration.

[zourtney]

ahhh! I got sucked in again. But I made it out alive!...and back to this forum 

[zourtney]

Darth Vader prosthetics for as little as $50! (Ok, not really, it's snowgear)
http://www.rei.com/product/791254
http://www.rei.com/product/791256

[Nick]

Thats kinda cool in a strangely dorky looking way.

[zourtney]

I accidentally fell into an internet conversation about texting* while driving. Most comments in essence say, "ban it!" but fail to mention they do not want restrictions imposed upon themselves. Anyway, level-headed or not, one person posted the link below. Read it if you're bored. The title is obnoxious, but yeah, it's alright.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/freedom-to-text133.html

* I reserve the right to still hate the use of "text" as a verb.

[Nick]

   "But it is different with government. No matter how preposterous the rule, it stays and stays, regardless of whether it works to accomplish its end."

How sadly true. There should be a time restriction on all bills though would limit something like that. If at the end of the time limit there is no evidence that the bill or law is accomplishing its designed purpose or if there are more cons then pros from its effects then it would be allowed to expire. Then a new bill could be drafted to fix the shortcomings of the old, or things could simply be allowed to return to what they were before.   

[zourtney]

Yep, that makes sense. I found several several quotables in there. Aren't the internets fun?

[zourtney]

On a multi-tangential adventure after searching for "parts of a castle," I ran across a site about making mead in a bucket at home. I only mention this because Cody mentioned mead the other day in referencing some old, clumpy honey. I asked, "Um, what is that?" It is, of course honey-wine.

I have little more than a passing curiosity of its taste; wine is far from my favorite thing to put in my mouth. I mostly found it interesting because it was a "do it yourself" article. For some reason, I am interested in knowing how to do things that I don't even care to do -- just curiosity of the workings of the world, I suppose.

Here is my search history, in reverse order:
http://www.stormthecastle.com/mead/index.htm
http://castlefiction.com/heroicdreams/medieval-polearms.html
http://www.castlefiction.com/heroicdreams/
http://medievalcastles.stormthecastle.com/parts-of-a-medieval-castle.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=parts+of+a+castle&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

[Nick]

Some would argue that mead is an integral part of a castle. Especially when drinking the local water will kill you. Dysentery and all that.

For my fellow peoples knowing of the awesome that is MacGyver:
http://macgyver.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

[zourtney]

That is funny People put a lot of effort into useless things...oh...wait. Look who's talking!

[zourtney]

Um, yeah -- http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2008/12/10-weird-forms-human-transportation-picture-gallery.php 

[Nick]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! Nice find.  I can't decide if the couch bike or the human-powered fork lift is mt favorite!