I saw this episode on Top Gear (which is an awesome show BTW) wherein they raced a Bugatti Veyron against a Euro-fighter.  The fighter jet had to go 1 mile vertical and back and the Bugatti had to go 1 mile horizontal and back. 

Well here is a home video of the event.

Pretty cool.

Oh alright, here's the original:

1. Cool blog

If you haven't read RoughType by NIcholas Carr well...you should...Always insightful. He writes about the topics that I wish I had thought of first. Sometimes I do think of them first but usually not.

Definitely a daily reader

2. Cool Web Thing: Fractal World Gallery

Are you tired of the average wallpaper? do you want something different? Then go over here. These are incredible. Fractal World Gallery

I read a book series by Tad Williams a couple of years ago called: Otherland. I don't know why exactly but these fractal pictures remind me of those books.

3. Cool Real World Thing

So to jump back to a post from a few days ago [linky - SR71] I went and found a couple of videos of the SR-71 Blackbird. video. It looks like something out of Star Wars.

4. Cool Science

Ruben's Tube: real live sound visualation with flame.

How fast was the Blackbird? oh yeah...that fast.

heh: Good joke: The King of Speed.

"Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?"

There was no hesitation, and the reply came as if was an everyday request:

"Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

Gimme a second heh for that one