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Over the weekend I was able to get sometime at the paintball courses out here in Thailand. The courses are actually just jungle with some forts and miscellaneous vehicles for reference points. Paintball is a huge hobby for military guys and a great way to hone your military skills. Most bases offer paintball courses, and of course you can always set up your own in your backyard. Today well list out where to get the latest paintball gear online.

Ultimate Paintball Gun Store, obvious by its name, carries a large selection of hot paintball manufactures such as: Tippmann, Spyder, Smart Parts, Dye, Draxxus. The list doesn’t stop there so you can easily compare prices, check out the latest styles, and research extreme paintball gear to find which is best for you.

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Starting today and going on until Sept. 30, 2007; we are running a special sale on the Toshiba Tecra A8 Britebook Series that we have customized. These Toshiba notebooks feature the latest Intel Duo Core 2 processor and we packed in as much as we could. If that wasn’t enough we decided today to slash the price and reduce the monthly payments on the laptops as well. This is only for a limited time, so if he have been thinking of getting a new laptop - NOW IS THE TIME!

800 Tru BriteBook - $89 a month

• 15″ (1280 x 800) Widescreen XGA TruBrite TFT
• Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 CPU 1.66 GHz
• Intel 945GM Express Chipset
• 1024 MB PC-4200 DDR2
• 80GB 5400rpm SATA-150 Hard Drive
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• 8x DVD RW+- Combo Optical Drive
• Intel Wireless ABG
• Finger Print Reader Security
• Microsoft Vista Business Edition
• Carrying Case

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800 Tru BriteBook PRO - $109 a month

• 15″ (1280 x 800) Widescreen XGA TruBrite TFT
• Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU 2.0 GHz
• Intel 945GM Express Chipset
• 1024 MB PC-4200 DDR2
• 120GB 5400rpm SATA-150 Hard Drive
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• 8x DVD RW+- Combo Optical Drive
• Intel Wireless ABG
• Finger Print Reader Security
• Microsoft XP Professional Edition
• Carrying Case

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Technical Specifications >>>

Sorry, YouTube and How Stuff Works said it was evil to have their video available to the general public and the videos were taking down. So you are left with the following video:

I like YouTube and I like How Stuff Works - but man - they are so big now and have become overcome with legalese and rules. Another thing ruined, but you can not stop progression. Napster - LimeWire - Bit Torrents - YouTube - Google - Linux have all contributed and spawned out in so many directions that I do not understand why they even attempt to stop it. I think it looks bad on them. Instead they should focus on being dynamic and adjusting to the flow.

Time will tell ….

Making the rounds to an Email box near you! I just got it and found out that this has been circulating for some time. Below are photographs of a prototype aircraft known as the Talon. Reportedly it was taken onboard the USS George Washington CVN-73 for catapult fit checks. It noted that it was not exactly still Top Secret but certainly not yet made public.

The specs that were known were list to be a Mach 3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range), super-cruise stealth fighter / bomber / interceptor with approximately a 4,000nm range.

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I few years back I caught a great show of the Chinese Dance Troupe making their rounds through Asia. The show was amazing and very trippy. As a military brat I was lucky to be exposed to many cultural sites and sounds. Many other brats like me and military members do not venture outside the tourist trails let alone the gates of the base. I stumbled on to it and was surprised to see a video existed of it. Actually, Google knows all and sees all, so I should not have been that surprised. Anyways I dedicated this one to all the barrack rats out there:

Here is their background which you will find equally interesting. I am sure the world will be stunned again with the 2008 Olympics right around the corner:

There is an excellent dance, called the Thousand-Hand Guanyin. Considering the tight coordination required, their accomplishment is nothing short of amazing, even if they were not all deaf. Yes, you read correctly. All 21 of the dancers are complete deaf-mutes. Relying only on signals from trainers at the four corners of the stage, these extraordinary dancers deliver a visual spectacle that is at once intricate and stirring. Its first major international debut was in Athens at the closing ceremonies for the 2004 Paralympics.

It had long been in the repertoire of the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe and had traveled to more than 40 countries.

Its lead dancer is 29-year-old Tai Lihua, who has a BA from The Hubei Fine Arts Institute. The video was recorded in Beijing during the Spring Festival celebrations this year.

During a family member’s, who is a former Marine, recent vacation in the Richmond area, he met a family who had pulled into the same motel. They had a Marine Corps sticker on their vehicles so obviously he was interested to learn when he had served. He said that he hadn’t but that his son had and was killed in Iraq recently. He then told him about what the program below, and then told me about it. Maybe you can send some small items maybe you can’t. But this is non-political and a small way to show support. Think about it anyway. It’s nice to live in relative safety and FREEDOM! Think about those that provide that for you!

At The Least, Please Help Get This Message Out To As Many People as Possible! It is A Wonderful Way to Support Our Troops and Provide Them With A Little Comfort From Home.

Remember there are two battle fields. The one overseas and the one here at home. It seems like we have to battle the media and the cowards in congress. The American’s of the World War II era helped shaped the great lives we share today by greatly helping the outcome of the War by sacrificing a little bit of their time and little bit of their luxuries.

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Mission Statement:

We are a non profit organization. We do not support nor oppose the war. Our only interest is in supporting the brave men and women who put their lives on the line everyday to protect our great country. Their mission in Iraq is a difficult one, both physically and mentally. Our goal is to show them how grateful we our for their service and sacrifice.

Our mission is to send some of the comforts of home to those who so diligently watch over and protect us.

We appreciate all the supply donations you have to offer. Please click here to learn more about where to send them. http://www.adamconboymemorialfund.org/

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If the previous post about the Airborne Laser Weapon got you thinking, check out the video below which runs through steps on how to make your own high powered laser.

Careful where you point the thing and do not forget, UN protocol outlaws permanent blinding as a combat tactic!!!!

Time and time again your network administrator advises you to change your password and then further instructs you to use a minimum amount of characters made up of various letters, numbers and symbols. We all know this is annoying and causes a grief to remember a long list of passwords for each account. Well, if you have ever wondered what all this was about, here is an interesting table that shows how long it would take to hackers to crack an account from various hacks and attacks with easily found hacking tools. It may cause you to think again we deciding on a password for very important and private accounts.

Click Here To See How Long it Takes to Hack Passwords

Geeks and programmers have a mundane job that would send most of us to the looney bin. These computer nerds are able to take the 1 and 0 that make up are digital world and help the computer translate it to us, so we may understand it. To help add excitement, a personal touch, and leaving their signature; computer nerds have become notorious for leaving hidden codes that were not authorized. These codes and hidden secrets have been named Easter Eggs. They are found in most of your DVD collections, computer games, and even hardware. Microsoft is no exception to this geeky trend. So for those of you who have upgraded to the new Microsoft Vista here is one for you to check out.

Hidden on the cover of the Microsoft Vista CD is a tiny holographic image of 3 of the programmers. Now you may say these guys have just to much time on their hands, but these people that figured this out also have too much time to spare. Click the Windows Vista Image to View The Slide Show!

Pac Man is a deep rooted cultural icon for most Americans and Japanese. Developed in 18 months by a Namco employee in Japan, the game was released as pakku-man. Pakku represents the sound made when opening the mouth and the shaped was part inspired by a pizza missing a slice and by usuing a rounded Japanese character for mouth or kuchi in Japanese.

Later the game was released in America under the title Pac-Man since Puck-Man closely resembles a bad word and doesn’t sound as cool. The game soon became a worldwide phenomenon within the video game industry, resulting in numerous sequels and merchandising tie-ins. Pac-Man’s success bred imitation, and an entire genre of maze-chase video games soon emerged.

Here’s your chance to experience or re-experience the joys of Pac Man. Try your shot at reaching the rare title of a perfect game (To attain the maximum possible score of 3,333,360 points by eating every fruit, every Power Pellet, every blue ghost and every dot for 256 boards without losing a single life) or conquering the unconquerable and infamous split screen level.

Click The Image To Start Pac-Man

Let’s face it, not everyone can afford to go out and blow hundreds of dollars on a versatile touch screen or home automation system in order to simplify their life. Whether a hardcore audiophile or casual TV watcher, somehow we still end up with way more remotes and portable handheld devices than we can handle of course resulting in many valuable hours wasted searching when one is lost.

The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler (aka Remote Wrangler) has taken a novel approach to remote control storage that will be sure to take the world by storm, that’s right it’s not a jock strap, it is in fact an ingenious piece of headgear specifically designed to keep you remotes under control.

Made from a stretchable fabric and utilizing Velcro for its anti-gravitational properties the device can store all manner of remotes and gadgets round the users dome. As an added bonus it also doubles as a battery-powered temporal massager, what more could a couch potato want!

There are two styles available to suit ones taste, first is the red white and blue “Retro Sportsman” model, which has proven to be very popular in the Asian market. The other is the demure “Antique Olive ” model that caters to the conservative crowd who may prefer a more discreet and formal appearance.

So if you’re single (or would like to be), have no friends whatsoever, and don’t even mind personal humiliation, keep an eye out for the Remote Wrangler to hit electronics prank departments sometime in the distant future.

Israeli women play a vital role in the Israeli Armed Forces. All citizens are drafted at the age of 18, the guys are required to complete of 3 years service and the women 2 years. With a whole country of 18-20 year old ladies attending the Armed Forces perhaps the guys would not have to be automatically drafted if some these pictures were used in recruitment campaigns.

Here is a Collection of Israel’s Military Armed Forces Finest!

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It seems the widley popular Nintendo Wii has surpassed its gaming expectations and is now being used by a Vancouver Gym as a Virtual Personal Trainer.

The Canadian Health Club Studio 55 is offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the treadmill or cycling classes - The Wii Workout Station. Clients at the health club are encouraged to use the Wii as part of circuit training, warm-up or cool-down, with the system set up in a 400 square-foot theater room with a large projection screen.

While some other gyms have combined stationary bikes with PlayStations and Xboxes in a bid to win younger clients, a spokesman for Nintendo Canada said this is the first they have heard of a gym using the Wii in its schedule.

Nathan Mellalieu, the owner of Studeo 55, said he decided to bring video games into a fitness environment after watching how much fun some children were having and, more importantly, seeing them sweating.

“We are always trying to break down paradigms and keep things fresh. It is used here to break up the monotony of traditional workouts,” he told Reuters.

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Great video clip, from the cockpit of a U.S. Military Jet turbo-prop, of a fighter pilots naval aviator’s view when landing on a runway flight deck of a military nuclear powered aircraft carrier during a military exercise in the middle of the ocean.

Can anyone give us any information on the type of Jet this pilot is flying or which carrier they are landing on?

Transformers are amongst us and they are battling to be Number 1. Well they aren’t actually The Transformers, but from the previous post this is a good follow-up with actual combat robots. Welcome to the future of ultimate fighting. K1 was a popular fight club in Japan, but Robot battles are quickly sweeping the popularity and gaining support from fans (nerds like me). Check out the video to see what I am talking about

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