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Jensen Kimmitt – Do Me Cause You’re The Yo-Yo Guy

When I was a child (and for many of my teenage years), I obsessed over the all powerful yo-yo. I would spend hour after hour practicing, and the result was that I was just slightly better than someone who hadn’t used a yo-yo before. Clearly, the world yo-yo championships were not in the cards for me.

Thankfully there are talented yo-yo masters, and this video of Canadian national Champion Jensen Kimmitt winning the

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HD Video of Transit of Venus 2012

The transit of Venus occurred on June 5, 2012; if you’re reading this today, let me assure you, you won’t be alive to see it live again because the next time it happens it will be the year 2117 and 2125.  The “Transit of Venus” occurs when the planet Venus travels directly between the sun and earth, leaving a shadow as it moves across space.  This Venus transit lasted for 6 hours and 40 minutes and unfortunately I wasn’t able to see it live because it’s always cloudy and raining here and I also forgot all about the event.

For those of you that missed seeing this spectacular event, we have this very cool high definition video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) showing a shadow of the planet Venus travel across the surface of the sun.  The video shows different shades of the sun, I’m assuming using different filters.  Hit the jump to see the video.

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The Evolution of Comic Books – The Modern Fairy Tale?

Good day and salutations gentlemen! Today we shall be discussing an art form that has received new appreciation in recent years. An art form, that is a great fusion of story telling and design. An art form, once thought to be reserved for children. Ranging from the professionally produced graphic novels, to the free comic book at your local shop, today we recognize the modern fable. Please, bear with me as I attempt to wax philosophical.

As mentioned above, Comics have and still suffer from a stigma. One that relegates them to the realm of children, or individuals lacking in a certain level of maturity of personality and thought. It’s an easy assumption to make after all. Animation is generally reserved for

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Fine Examples Of Amazingly Terrible Tans

When anybody mentions that they went to the tanning salon, the first thing that comes to mind is that terrible show “Growing Up Gotti” and the teenagers that were on the show. It’s no surprise that the pictures below mainly consist of Guidos. I’m just surprised that their friends haven’t told them how

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How To Basic – Learn to Smash… er, Cook, Everything!

One of the hardest parts of being a man is that many of you really aren’t inclined towards cooking (or cooking well, anyhow). And you know what? That’s okay. We’re here for you for your entire journey towards becoming a finished man. While we may not do a lot of recipe based stuff, we discovered the best man-cooking YouTube channel ever and we’re bringing it to you: How To Basic. You’ll learn all sorts of useful cooking skills, like how to properly prepare a chicken, how to put milk in your tea, how to make a creamy squash soup, and more. These detailed, expertly thought out videos are definitely all about “how to” cooking and definitely not just some guy smashing eggs and throwing food all over his house. We wouldn’t do that to you. (Yes, we would- smash EVERYTHING after the jump.)