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A new bike frame technology, it is supposed to be ultralight and ultrastrong.

If a simple polygon can hold up a pharaoh’s tomb for 4,500 years, it should survive some off-road riding. That’s the thinking behind the 2.75-pound Arantix mountain-bike frame from Delta 7 Sports. It’s 10 times as strong as a steel frame of the same weight would be—enough to survive the company’s informal “run- over” test with a Ford F350 pickup.

The Arantix draws its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio from rods composed of several hundred layers of carbon fiber, wrapped tightly with Kevlar cord and woven to form a long series of little pyramids. The rods intersect to create hundreds of stress-bearing joints that add strength and isolate damage, so a crack in one part of the frame won’t spread to another and wreck your ride.

Because each frame requires up to 300 hours of hand-weaving, Delta 7 will make only 200 this year, selling for $7,000 each starting in the spring. Spread over a few millennia, that’s a bargain.

Picture and quote from Popular Science

This is an awesome bag. I would guess that it is less effective then a traditional mummy bag but…I want one!

you can read more about it here.

I thought this was a great idea.

(HT: AtomicHTTP)

A chart to decide what to eat. Follow the link.

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(HT: Bike Fix)

A bacon wallet, I want one! you can get one too at What on Earth

I don’t know why but popping bubble wrap is fun but it is! When there is a sheet of bubble wrap sitting on the floor there is something about it that just draws you to it, you just have to pop… at least one. Well now you can electrically pop the bubble wrap where ever you are!!!

Papa Johns now offers a service that allows you to order your pizza with text messaging!!!

My favorite show of all times is The Office. One of my favorite episodes is the one where Michael Scott burns his foot on the George Foreman Grill. Here is what he says.

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it’s good for me, it’s the perfect way to start the day.

Another great smell would be fresh donuts! William Sonoma sells the solution for that.  The mini donut maker!!

A while back the trivia question at Caribou Coffee was “What is a group of crows called?” I was able to receive 10 cents off of my medium moosed white chocolate mocha because I knew that the correct answer is a murder. I knew this from watching the movie A Murder of Crows. So, remember kids to watch tv as much as your can and maybe someday you can get 10 cents off of your specialty coffee drink.

Here are a few more unusual names for groups of animals.

(ht: Howstuffworks)