Video from Inside a 4-Stroke Engine

(YouTube Link)

This video shows what happens inside a four-stroke engine. That’s:
1. the intake stroke of the piston, reducing pressure in the cylinder and forcing gas and air inside
2. intake and exhaust valves close and the piston compresses the fuel-air mix
3. the compression and a spark result in combustion, and therefore a power stroke
4. the piston compresses, pushing out the expended fuel-air mix

Link, Via: Neatorama

Free Movies at Mymovees

Here is a great site for you - especially if you like to watch movies. There is a massive choice at mymovees.com - something for everyone really. Plus the quality of the movies is great and you can watch them free! Here is a choice of what mymovees has on offer at the moment.

Watch Clash of the Titans Online

Watch Why Did I Get Married Too Online

Watch date Night Online

Watch Death at a Funeral Online

Watch Oceans Online

Watch The Last Song Online

Watch The Losers Online

Watch A Nightmare on Elm Street Online

Watch Hot Tub Time Machine Online

Is a pretty fine collection. So, why not drop over to mymovees and take a look for yourself! LINK

50 Best Irish Books You Should Read This Month

There's a whole lot more to Ireland than four leaf clovers and Blarney Stones, so use this month's St. Patrick's Day celebrations as a chance to delve a little deeper into Irish culture, history and art.

Here are 50 great Irish books that will help you learn more about the people and the country and provide a free education on everything Irish for both the more knowledgeable and the total newbie to the subject.

LINK: The Presurfer

The MMA Junki - MMA Pound for Pound

MMA or mixed martial art is a contact and combat sport with large number of techniques for fighting. It brings martial artists of all backgrounds like Judo, wrestling, boxing, kick boxing, etc. to find out who is the best! Earlier MMA fights had the least amount of safety, but, with new rules of fighting, it is much better now. MMA pound for pound is the ranking of a fighter compared to other MMA artists according to a number of criterions.*!--Session data-->

Link, Via: Neatorama

TYWKIWDBI has a new feedburner feed

Blog Post from them below.

As an amateur I stumbled through the process this morning.

The new feedburner link is here.

Or alternatively [xml] here?

I don't know whether this new feed is equivalent to/better/worse than the feed I currently have posted in the right sidebar. I haven't added this to the sidebar with a widget because I'm not sure if I should "redirect the Blogger feed to the Feedburner feed" or not. LINK

Man "wins" World of Warcraft

Taiwanese World of Warcraft player has "completed" the game, having scored all 986 achievements. To accomplish this remarkable feat, he "killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that's 14.62 quests per day, apparently), raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players." Man 'finishes' World of Warcraft (Via: /.) Via: Boingboing

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Twitter

The most comprehensive list about Twitter you've ever seen. LINK: Presurfer

A Must See Slide Show of Salvador Dali

© 2006 - Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation - All rights reserved - Legal notice - Privacy - Copyright. Be sure to go to this LINK and watch this. It is awe inspiring.

The Relapse by Eminem

The pharmacy is open. http://www.therelapse.com.



Be sure to check this out. You can click around in the room and follow along with the song.

Cable modem modder charged by FBI

The FBI has filed criminal charges against a hardware hacker in Oregon for modding cable modems. Unlocked cable modems can be used to steal service (or speed upgrades) from broadband providers, but they can be used for legal hackery, too. (Wired, thx @salimfadhley, Via: @bbsuggest)

100+ Language Learning Websites

An alphabetical list of websites where you can learn a language. Some sites provide content, others community, and a number have both. Some sites focus on learning one specific language, others cover a number of languages. LINK: Presurfer

Fake Cyrillic Generator

This is a little script that converts your text into faux Cyrillic characters by replacing some Latin characters with Cyrillic characters that look similar.

While the resulting text is linguistic nonsense, this technique is sometimes used in books, movies, and video games to evoke a Russian or Soviet feel while conveying a message in English (or another language).

Here's an example:

THЗ PЯЭSЦЯFЗЯ
УФЦЯ DДILЧ DФSЗ ФF DIVЭЯSIФИ

LINK, (Via: 2Dolphins)

Fake Cyrillic Generator.

How’s 2009 Been Treating You So Far?

How’s 2009 been treating you? Did you lose your job? Have trouble making ends meet?

Relationships not going so well, lets talk about it. Leave a comment and we can talk.

LINK

Ze Frank's voice drawing tool

Here's an early test of a new computer drawing tool invented by Ze Frank, in which you use your voice to create pictures on your computer screeen. You need a computer with a microphone to try this. You vary your voice volume to create different kinds of lines, for example, high volume makes the line turn clockwise, low volume makes it go counterclockwise, and medium volume makes it go straight. The drawing begins at the center. Ze Frank would love to hear back from you with the results of this tool, which is still in beta.

Link - Via: Etre, Via: Neatorama

Six Things You Should Know About Minnesota

Think you know Minnesota? The Coen Brothers movie Fargo may make it seem that Minnesotans are yokels, but the truth is, Minnesota is far, far weirder.

Joshua Post Lee of The Black Table explains the things you should know about the Land of 10,000 Lakes. LINK
Southdale Shopping Center, circa 1956.

#4. We Invented -- and Perfected -- the Shopping Mall.

In the 1950s, Minnesota's shopkeepers figured people wouldn't want to shop at their stores if they had to step over frozen corpses on the sidewalk, thanks to our nipple pointy winters from hell. So when Southdale Shopping Center opened in 1956, it had a roof on it and included 72 stores, anchored by two major department stores, all arranged in a two-level design around a brightly lit center court. It offered free parking, and its 5,000 parking spaces were grouped into lots, well marked by clever symbols to help wind frozen shoppers locate their cars.

We all know it now, but back then it was an odd concept to have an enclosed space where folk could congregate and shop. It was big news that it had air conditioning and even bigger that there was helicopter service from Southdale to downtown Minneapolis. People stopped caring about us being the first so we had to build a more massive structure.

In August of 1992, in sleepy Bloomington, Minn., the Mall of America opened its doors. When it opened, the Mall was 71 percent leased with 330 brand new stores for business, including four nationally recognized department stores. Today, the Mall of America is the largest mall in U.S., and home to Camp Snoopy, America's largest indoor family theme park; Underwater Adventures, Minnesota's largest aquarium; a four-story Lego play place and more than 500 stores. It's so big and popular, the Mall of America is oft-cited as a potential terror target.

And in the coming years, new construction will soon give us the world title. LINK

Logo Generator

Need a new logo and don't want to spend any money? Check out Cooltext.com, a free logo & graphics generator. You can choose from many designs like Alien Glow or Embossed or even Starburst! You can also choose a button type.

Link, Via: Neatorama

21 Free And Paid Alternatives To Adobe Photoshop

There's no doubt that Adobe Photoshop is probably the most popular and powerful image editing software on the market today. However, if all you need to do is retouch photos, create designs, or even design a website template, then there is life beyond Photoshop.

Here are 21 Free and Paid Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop. LINK

How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media

A hand-picked selection of Mashable's social media How-To articles in 2008; some holiday reading, perhaps, or something to refer back to once you restart the daily grind in 2009. LINK

Dopplr

Dopplr is an online service for frequent business travellers. Dopplr lets you share your travel plans privately with a group of friends and colleagues whom you have chosen. It then tells you when people you know will be in the same cities. It also reminds you of people who live in the places you're planning to visit.

Dopplr works on your personal computer and mobile phone. It links with online calendars and social networks. You put in your travel schedule and link to your friends. It allows you to see where everyone is. link

Day Of Birth

Day of Birth basically tells you the day of the week that you were born on. It also tells you other pointless but fun things such as: your star sign, how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive.

The site also provides links to other websites, so you can find more information such as famous people or events that share your birthday. LINK