Bike magic

Bike Kill festival of custom mod bike designs and hacks

He are topgun bike complete with Goose and Maveric riders. I particularly like what I hope if the girls fake mustache.

Zod kitchens, this is such a good spoof!

Two interesting series of underwater photos

This is such a terrific image I have no idea if it was done in photoshop of if someone managed to take this the good old fashioned way. Either way this is one of a number of very cool well thought out shots!

This image is a great shot and is so beautiful even when it has it's tounge in its cheek.

Homebrew eco vehicle race

Wayne Keith is headed to Las Vegas in an old Dodge pickup that runs on, of all things, wood. He gets about 1.6 mpp (that's miles per pound) and reckons he needs about 1,000 pounds to get there. No problem. He's carrying a chainsaw and a list of lumberyards along the way.

Such are the provisions you need for Escape from Berkeley, a madcap alt-fuel race that mashes up Mad Max and Cannonball Run with a touch of the Darpa Challenge and Burning Man. If the rules are simple -- no petroleum allowed, and fuel must be scavenged along the way -- the challenge is anything but.

"The basic premise is build a vehicle out of junk, we'll give you the equivalent of one gallon of gas and you have to drive 600 miles to Las Vegas. Oh, and you can't buy any fuel along the way," says Jim Mason, the artist and inventor behind the race. "That's a pretty heavy stone to carry."

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