“It was almost instinct — off training,” Petry said of his response to the situation. “It was probably going to kill all three of us. I had time to visually see the hand grenade. And I figure it’s got about a four-and-half second fuse, depending on how long it has been in the elements and the weather and everything and how long the pin has been pulled. I figure if you have time to see it you have time to kick it, throw it, just get it out there.”

That’s when Petry picked up the grenade and threw it away from him and his buddies. As it turns out, he did have the time to save all three of their lives — but not time to save his hand.

The grenade exploded as he threw it — destroying his throwing arm.

Via Gizmodo / Army

Source: Care2

Also the new Macbook Air - Wow!

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it’s not always clear when to use what tool and how to use it effectively. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before.

However, you don’t need to muddle through numerous Photoshop features and extensions for every design problem. You can use professional suggestions instead, e.g. professional step-by-step tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time.

View list of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials (Best Of)

Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

Here’s a great tune being played on a single guitar with 2 musicians.

Apparently this woman (the blonde in the video) scammed 2 people into thinking they were buying 2 cell phones and received 2 photos of cell phones instead. Then the scammer opts to go on Judge Judy!
Beware of eBay scammers!

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And wait about 10 secs.. (or until something happens). You won’t be disappointed!

It was brought to my attention by Chris Pirillo, thanks!

Gerry was also on Jimmy Kimmel Live performing this same song.

They put a map (using Google Maps API) up on the blog showing where all the submissions came from, pretty amazing!

Read the full story on the Gmail collaborative video

Deer jumps over the biker!

Just wow!

More pics and comments about this death mask tattoo

On a beautiful day in 1997, researchers working at Pereirinha beach, off the southern coast of Brazil, observed a little dog going into the sea and swimming towards the dolphins. To their surprise, the dolphins approached the dog and then started throwing it into the air. The dog seemed to enjoy the ‘game’ and continued playing with the dolphins for more than an hour. From then on, different dogs were seen trying to interact with the dolphins.

Read how smart these dolphins really are!

I saw this today and thought, “Don’t try this at home kiddies!”.

I’m totally loving it! Watch the Google Maps video introducing some of the new features:

Read more about Google Maps now having draggable driving directions!

Of course the truck driver didn’t know he had a guy stuck as his new hood ornament. Carpenter (the man in the wheelchair) was pushed in his seat the whole time and by some kind of miracle completely unharmed.

“I was happy. Thank God it was over,” Carpenter said. “I thought it was kind of like a fair ride. I don’t remember feeling any bumps though. I must have, but the road must have been pretty smooth.”

You have got to see the pictures and news video of man in wheelchair going for the ride of his life

Read more about the SawStop

There are some more video examples on the use of it on Microsoft website, really cool stuff, although I think its target right now are commercial applications.

Microsoft launches Surface

The child had no serious injuries as a result of this knock down, although he did get some stitches which is serious enough for this toddler. I haven’t seen any comments regarding the player’s fast thinking movement, so kudos goes out to the player, this could of turned very badly without his instant reaction timing.

Read the full story on the 4 year old in the sidelines injured

What you see here is a sex doll for dogs, and yes, it does accommodate all sizes.
So when little Fifi starts humping the pillows, you can throw the HotDoll at him and everything will be good in the world again.

From Gizmodo

From the pics shown, it looked like the croc got the better half below his elbow. Pretty gruesome, you are warned!

Take a look at a crocodile with an arm in its mouth

Current photo from NationalGeographic.com

Makoto Nagano is a 34 yr old fisherman. Recently he succeeded to complete the last phase of the Japanese game show: Ninja Warrior. Of more then 500 contestants only 1 other man completed it before he did!

The best Youtubers of 2006 are presented one after the other in this video.

See the Youtube Award winners