What, these guys revamped the red scarlet machine again?

Believe it. After dominating the sport of Formula 1 for as long as I can remember, Ferrari failed miserably in the last two years. Well, second-best is really not that bad but by Ferrari’s standards? You might as well call marriage a ‘’joyful'’ experience.

But that’s entirely a different story altogether. And going back to our topic, yeah, Ferrari has a new car. Add that to the team’s new ace driver, Kimi Raikkonen, and we have one exciting F1 season Ferrari HAS to win.

Why? Well, if all these changes these guys made turns out to be all for nothing, then I guess we would never see the red Scuderia dominate the sport again… EVER.

But hey, at least the new Ferrari F2007 gives them new hope.

The F2007, which is the fifty third single-seater built by Ferrari specifically to compete in the Formula One World Championship, has been significantly modified when compared to their 2006 F1 car, the 248 F1.

The design was revised to accommodate a new front suspension that represents a major conceptual innovation, mainly in terms of aerodynamics.

The shape of the side-pods and their openings are…

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Ultimately cool sport? Racing. Travel? Space. Fashion? Clothes you can wear for both.

Auto racing on Formula One and NASCAR is to speed racers as outer space is to, um, floaters. Not surprisingly, they’re often the same people, and this has to be their wet dream come true: those two sharing mutual unreachability in cost of travel, the rush, and now, jumpsuits as spacesuits.

The spiffy-looking car racing uniforms worn by schicons of cool in their McLarens and Ferraris have been cited as references to designing spacesuits that will be worn by the first wave of mass space tourists — civilian passengers to the newest luxury travel destination, outer space. In true F1 and NASCAR fashion, the spacesuits will bear the colors and logos of the rocket firms on which space tourists are flying. This, according to Orbital Outfitters, a new company based in Los Angeles.

“When someone puts on an IS3 [sub-orbital space suit], they will be protected by the best technology we can muster. Yet they will look like they have stepped off the set of a science fiction movie,” says Orbital Outfitters president Rick Tumlinson. Sci-fi isn’t far from the truth about space travel, which categorically can be afforded by no one else but the filthy wealthy. The rest of us can settle with flight fantasies as we race horses online or steal an Aston Martin on Grand Theft Auto.

There are travel agencies, and then there is a space travel agency. Space Adventures offers tour packages of spacewalks 350 km (220 miles) above…

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I’m quite surprised Pat Robertson is not dipping his sloppy unsolicited fingers in the current middle east war and teling Hezbollah they were being bomb as punishment for their sins.

A more surprising phenomena occured, however, after the uber conservative Republican pastor  announced he is finally convinced that global warming isn’t just some fictional doomsday scenario concocted by the "far left environmentalists".

"It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air," he said. The 76-year-old Robertson told viewers that was "the most convincing evidence I’ve seen on global warming in a long time."

We’re not sure if Al Gore will be convincingly happy with Robertson’s change of heart. Although that would appease him in a way after George Bush snubbed the premier of his film, An Inconvenient Truth. Presumably because the President cannot comprehend complex issues beyond "war on terror" or "roasted pig".

Or maybe Dubya thought it was a film about the 2000 Presidential Elections Florida counting series.

But isn’t it great that Robertson realized just how real global warming is because his air-conditioning fails to work property from too much…

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Have you fulfilled your sex fantasies? Until I hump Jennifer Aniston, I’m yet to fulfill mine.

Well, as far as sex fantasies are concerned, there’s one sex fantasy you shouldn’t be trying. Well, THAT is according to these so-called ‘’experts.'’ But who are they to tell you what you should do and NOT do eh?

Apparently, experts say that having sex in outer space have ‘’definite downsides,'’ whatever the hell that means.

Having sex in the weightlessness of outer space is the stuff of urban legends and romantic fantasy but experts say that one may experience ‘’space sickness'’ and the difficulty of choreographing intimacy. Not to mention sweat and other bodily fluids to get in the way.

‘’The fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality,'’ NASA physician Jim Logan said at the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2006 conference. Nevertheless, Logan and others say the study of sex and other biological basics in outer space will be crucial to humanity’s long-term push into the final frontier.

‘’Sex in space is not just a good idea, it’s survival,'’ said Vanna Bonta, a writer who blends romance with space travel and quantum physics in the novel ‘’Flight.'’

According to Bonta, sex in space would likely be ‘’hotter and wetter'’ (hmm… what’s wrong with hotter and wetter?) than on Earth because in zero-G…

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I’d promise you the moon and the stars, but then I’d be lying. What I can promise you is a trip into space. For real. Spacewalks are now available as luxury travel for painfully wealthy jetsetters.

You know all about travel agencies but ever heard of a space travel agency? There is one out there: Space Adventures. It is offering the luxury destination of a lifetime – spacewalks 350 km (220 miles) above Earth.

Jumpin’ Jupiter. We’re not talking Air Jordan kind of spacewalks here. Free online basketball tips are all good but this, my friends, is the real deal. Truth is, the space travel package totally lets you play astronaut, or cosmonaut.

You get 190 hours of training at the Star City cosmonaut school near Moscow. 16 days’ stay aboard the International Space Station. Round-trip rocket flights from Kazakhstan. And the finale – a chance to float outside the orbital outpost for 90 minutes, which is how long it takes to orbit Earth once.

Sheesh. Excuse me while I drool. So what does walking in space cost these days? Well, money talks in spacewalks. Each trip costs £19 million pounds. Now that’s gotta hurt.

Seriously, the amount isn’t so out of this world. You will be wearing a spacesuit worth £6.5 million pounds each, with its own life-support system and designed to protect from extreme temperatures. Safety tethers will anchor you to the space station hurtling about the planet at five miles per second. A cosmonaut will be with you the whole time.

Arthur C. Clarke was right on the…

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Armageddon before Fourth of July perhaps?

Yup, apparently, a huge asteroid, approximately a half-mile in diameter, will make a very close encounter with the Earth right before Fourth of July. Yup, on July 3 to be exact.

Well, that is according to a Local 6 News report.

The asteroid is named 2004 XP14 and will be as close to the planet as the moon at around 12:25 am Monday morning.

The exact size of the said asteroid is not known as of press time but astronomers are hoping to get a better reading as it approaches closer.

Now what kind of shit is that?!? Ya’ll will wait for it to get closer first? Goddamn, it could be as big as the goddamn sun that can send us all to hell for crying out loud… Sheesh…

It’s nice to know where Americans’ hard-earned dollars go…

The 2004 XP14 asteroid was discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) on Dec. 10, 2004.

Due to the proximity of its orbit to Earth and its diameter, 2004 XP14 has been…

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I currently own this Motorola cell phone with minimal features. Well, minimal if you compare it to other more sophisticated models kids nowadays carry around.

Colored screen, browser, scheduler, camera. It lacks an mp3 player, or fm/am radio, no infrared, no bluetooth function, and whatever else manufacurers want to put into their products.

Still I rarely use those features. I don’t use my phone to browse the Internet, I have my computer for that. I don’t use the phone camera, I recently bought a decent digital camera with very good resolution. I don’t use the scheduler because I’d rather write my schedules on a piece of paper.

I certaintly don’t miss the radio or mp3 player, I have a boom box with a fine-sounding CD player. Nor the infrared and bluetooth because I don’t use them.

I only needed a phone for chrissakes, one I can use to make a call and send text messages with occasionaly. Now there’s the 3G technology. Frankly I’m not interested in seeing whom I’m talking to. I already know who they are most likely.

Cell phones are the biggest marketing scam of this generation. Trying to…

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Your doctor has told you time and again to quit smoking. You’re at high risk of dying from lung cancer if you don’t.

Easier said than done.

If you’re a true-blooded smoker, you’ll be moving heaven and earth just to try and prevent yourself from puffing nicotene into your bloodstream. There could be the next best thing, however, this solution puts you at high risk of spending time in jail.

Doctors now agree that smoking pot won’t give you lung cancer.

Marijuana smoking does not increase a person’s risk of developing lung cancer, according to the findings of a new study at the University of California Los Angeles that surprised even the researchers.

They had expected to find that a history of heavy marijuana use, like cigarette smoking, would increase the risk of cancer.

And guess what, they didn’t.

The argument was there are as many cancer-producing carcinogens in marijuana as there are in tobacco, ergo you get the same disease. But researchers were surprised to find out that one and one don’t always make two.

Marijuana is just a heavily misunderstood drug. With more research, I bet my arse we can find more medical benefits from cannabis and use it in…

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Admit it, it bears a striking resemblance to Oprah Winfrey…

Religion claimed that humans were created by God in His own image and likeness. Science, on the other hand, claims that humans EVOLVED from monkeys. Who’s accurate?

The results of a study of human and chimp genomes can finally answer that question.

A new genetic analysis suggested that the earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees, creating a hybrid specie in the process.

Yeech…

Based on the study of human and chimp genomes, the scientists believe the split between the human and chimpanzee lines occurred much more recently than previously thought - no more than 6.3 million years ago and perhaps as recently as 5.4 million years ago. - MSNBC

Scientists claim that the human and chimpanzee ancestors began branching apart on the primate evolutionary tree about 9 million years ago. (Primate evolutiona… What the fuck is these guys talking about?!?)

However, according to…

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Agent Neo says: ‘Keep your head down, Thumper.’

Watch out Geordies: there’s a thumping great rabbit on the loose and he’s coming to get you!

And it’s not even a PR stunt by the Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit lot.

This fluffy fat fella is proving all-too-real. Curses.

The eyes of the world are on a tiny North village after a rampaging rabbit began terrorizing allotments. Residents in Felton, near Alnwick, Northumberland, have been inundated with phone calls from around the globe for updates on whether their "feaster" bunny - dubbed "the Were-Rabbit" after the Wallace and Gromit film - has been caught.

The monster muncher, which appeared last week, has been nibbling its way through the 12 allotment holders’ prized produce. They say the rabbit is "for the chop" when it is caught. Those who say they have witnessed Felton’s black and brown monster describe it as a cross between a rabbit and a hare with one ear bigger than…

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