A Typical Day at Work

Geech by Jerry Bittle

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"I am not happy about the way things are.  I pray for President Obama every single day.  But tell you what.  Homey made this bed, now he has got to lay in it."

-- "Actor" Stephen Baldwin at the CPAC convention today

NASCAR Basics: Window Strips & Roof Flaps

An article at NASCAR.com explains how the new window strips are supposed to keep the Cup cars from going airborne at Daytona and Talladega...

"If you ride down the highway and you put your hand out the window and you hold your hand in the direction the car is traveling, there's not a lot of resistance," Darby said. "But turn your hand sidewise and it'll come back and slap you in the forehead. It's a very similar effect."

"If you picture the strip on the car, and you're going down the straightaway, it really doesn't have that much effect. But as the car starts to spin and the strip now sees the air pressure, it does two things. It slows the rotation of the car down, and as the air comes across it, it packs air on top of the trunk lid to help push the car back to the ground before it lifts."

And the reason why the trunk fin is on the left side of the window is also inherently logical.

"It's actually lined up with the left edge of the left roof flap," Darby said. "Because as the air hits that fin, part of what happens is that the airflow travels up to the flap. There's a misconception about the flap. A lot of people think that air pressure blows them open. It's quite the contrary.

"The flaps are contoured on the top and it works much like an airplane wing to where the airspeed that travels over the flap actually pulls it open. If we can put more air to the flap and accelerate where it goes across it, then it's going to open faster and stay up stronger. So part of the air helps deploy the flap and the rest of the air -- because the trunk lid is wide and you have more surface area to come across -- helps hold the car back down on the ground."

Even though the trunk fin seems to be the best solution for Daytona and Talladega at this point, Darby said the process is always evolving -- and more improvements may come from additional wind tunnel testing.

Authority

Film student Ronnie Bruce created this video for a class project on typography. He chose a poem with a great message...

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Sarah Palin Is a F**king Retard

Just some subtle satire...

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"Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money."

-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele

I'll just have to take his word for that.

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"Speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.  No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. For me personally, it comes down to integrity -- theirs as individuals and ours as an institution."

-- Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee

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