This week the US Air Force achieved the first supersonic flight using alternative synthetic fuel, booming a B-1B Lancer without problems over the White Sands Missile Range airspace in New Mexico. The supersonic strategic bomber, designed to deliver atomic weapons, will be able to start Armageddon at $30 to $50 less per barrel while helping the environment and without depending on foreign oil. You read that well, you commie hippie treehuggers: war is getting cheaper, and it will help climate change, nuclear winter excluded. Looking at its composition, however, the synthetic fuel is certainly not as harmless as other alternatives.
Unlike other aircraft fuel efforts, like hydrogen-fueled airplanes planes or vodka with Red Bull, the synthetic fuel used in the B-1B is actually derived from natural gas using the Fischer-Tropsch process. The 50% synthetic fuel and 50% petroleum gasses mixture, however, is as capable as regular fuel, feeding with ease the […]

Original post by Jesus Diaz

Here’s a nifty idea. Take a Page-A-Day Calendar, bore a hole in the middle and place a clock in it. That’s basically what designer Henk Stallinga did when constructing this Clock Calendar. With 365 pages we would suggest that if anyone were to start using this thing, start sometime around January. That way your not ripping off hundreds of pages to get to the correct date.[apartment therapy]

Original post by Christopher Mascari

It’s the weekend. You should either be consuming alcohol or playing with fire. Or better yet, both! (That was not an official endorsement by Gawker Media—so if you do this project trashed and rocket a ball of fire up your nose, don’t sue us.) Anyways, making a fireball shooter is a wee bit complicated and requires quite a few parts you won’t find at Wal-Mart, so you’re going to want get started Saturday morning if you wanna impress your buddies and burn your eyebrows off Saturday night. Not convinced? I’ll repeat: Fireball. Shooter. [MAKE]

Original post by matt buchanan

BusinessWeek can’t leave a juicy rumor—that Apple’s finally considering going down the iTunes subscription path—untouched. Whereas the NYT and FT seem to be getting their info from label execs, BW claims their sources on the Apple side of the things say “no such talks are under way.” So, what’s really going on? Here’s how we’re digesting this specu-flustercuck.
The labels, particularly Universal, are known to be hot on a subscription deal, since it’d provide more reliable revenue from iPods—BW notes the average iPod owner buyers “fewer than 30 than songs” and rips or steals the rest. Apple, on the other hand, is already balling with iTunes just the way it is—now the no. 2 music retailer in the country—and it’s really just money icing on the wildly profitable hardware cake. And if it’s not busted, why tinker with it?
Since the labels really want a subscription model, it makes sense that label […]

Original post by matt buchanan

Mobile applications are turning into big business, and Nokia is looking to launch a few start-ups on their way.
Nokia’s developer arm, Forum Nokia, announced the results of its Mobile Rules contest Wednesday night at San Jose City Hall. Nine companies were chosen, representing four application categories, best business …

Original post by Tom Krazit

With this limited edition Justice League of America bat-signal prop replica you can summon the caped crusader from the