wikiHow

wikiHow is basically a big wiki-style how-to manual. Check it out, there are some interesting articles in it.

The Brewing Encyclopedia

Brewwiki is basically a wikipedia for people who brew their own beer.

Keywords

Welcome to the visitor who arrived here after searching for:

"a backhoe weighing 8 tons is on top of a flatbed trailer and heading east on interstate 70 near hays"

Old School Word Processor

Dark Room is an old school word processor (complete with the green text on black background) for those who don't want a word processor for the features but for the typewriter abilities.

I haven't tried it yet. Dane, you'll probably like it ;-)

Really Big Bees Nests

Definitely check out the article - the picture is worth it.

Cow Accents

Apparently, cows moo with accents depending on whence they hail.

Square Watermelons

Yep, it's true.

Where the Internet Lives

Here is a video from c|net about Equinix, the company that operates the data centers where much of the Internet is hosted. If you're kinda geeky, you'll enjoy it.

Engineering Word Problem

I received this via email and had to post it:

Engineering Word Problem


A Backhoe weighing 8 tons is on top of a flat-bed trailer and heading east on Interstate 70 near Hays, Kansas. The extended shovel arm is made of hardened refined steel and the approaching overpass is made of commercial-grade concrete, reinforced with 1 1/2 inch steel rebar spaced at 6 inch intervals in a crisscross pattern layered at 1 foot vertical spacing.

Solve: When the shovel arm hits the overpass, how fast do you have to be going to slice the bridge in half? (Assume no effect for headwind and no braking by the driver...)

Extra Credit: Solve for the time and distance required for the entire rig to come to a complete stop after hitting the overpass at the speed calculated above.

Dliveo

Dliveo is a free web-based file delivery tool. Think of it as FedEx for files. Check it out, it's pretty cool, although it does have some limitations, e.g., you have to register a different account for each computer on which you want to use it, rather than being able to tie them all to an individual email address.