Craig Harrison killed the two insurgents from an astounding distance of 8,120 feet — or 1.54 miles — in Helmand Province last November firing an Accuracy International L11583 long-range rifle.
via British sniper nails two Taliban from world record 8,120 feet – NYPOST.com.
That’s a touch under 2475m, for those you of you metrically-inclined.
Aren’t you glad you didn’t buy this Jennifer Hawkins Airbrushed and Signed Xbox 360 Console for the princely sum of AU $1,053?
Why yes, yes you are.
It all went to charity, though – so I suppose it was for a good cause 🙂
via YouTube – The Simpsons Ke$ha (Tik Tok) Opening Skit May 2nd 2010.
via Buttersafe – Updated Tuesdays and Thursdays » Archive » A Guy Walks Into a Bar.
My favorite part is where he calls this exchange “mad gay” and then spits out “mewtwo” like second nature.
via The Daily What.
It’s funny, because if you ever met Abra in an actual Pokemon game (highly, highly prized Abra, who evolved into Kadabra, who evolved into the uber-powerful physic-type pokemon Alakazam), he’d immediately teleport away unless you threw something like a speed or master ball at him.
Yeah. Pokemon was pretty cool.
A California steel contractor named Mike Leyde recently displayed one such type of persistence by playing a single round of his casual game of choice, Bejeweled 2, for 2,205 hours and 51 minutes over the course of three years. In that time, he collected 4,872,229 gems, earning the game’s highest calculable score, 2,147,483,647, at which point the score display got really perplexed and went blank.
via Man ‘beats’ Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years — Joystiq.
