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Germans Dangerously Race Office Chairs Down a Hill for Sport

If there's a more illustrious sport to come out of Germany this year than office chair racing, I'd like to see it. The first ever German Championships in Office Chair Racing took place on Saturday in Bad Koenig-Zell, and it consisted of 70 people riding their office chairs down a 560-foot course without breaking their chair or themselves. The real tricks looked to be surviving the initial ramp and the second ramp further down the course that were designed to throw people off. Those crazy Germans! [Reuters]

11:26 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Adam Frucci
5,012 views, 17 comments

Latest by pipichua: ok... stop being geeky.... none of u guys have seen Jackass? more »

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Bubble-Blowing Dish-Scrubber Taunts ADHD Sufferers

Time to focus, lots of dirty dishes to clean. Oooh look, a bubble! Wow, I can blow more bubbles? Yay! Bubble bubble bubble, bubble bubble bubble. I'm tired of blowing bubbles, let's do Jumping Jacks! Yay! Jumping Jacks stink, let's eat candy 'til we puke! Yay! So sick, so many dirty dishes, the best $5 I ever spent. Firetruck! [Bubble Scrubber via Boing Boing]

1:00 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,960 views, 23 comments

Latest by Darkest Daze: Sadly, I was about to comment, but then a squirrel ran outside my window and I started... more »

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ABC Adds HD Streaming Channel to their Web Player

ABC has just added an HD channel to their online streaming player, allowing you to watch episodes of shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and The Bronx is Burning in hot, hot HD quality. It's still in beta, and it'll obviously require a pretty decent connection to run properly, but it's pretty awesome that you can now see HD episodes of modern classics like According to Jim whenever you want. So go ahead, try it out and let us know how it works. Don't pretend like you have work to do or anything; we know better. [ABC]

12:00 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,563 views, 7 comments

Latest by meatwad: i was gonna call shenanigans, as the requisite compression doesnt really make it "HD" in my eyes despite perhaps having more »