Costas Recursos’ Blog

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Body surfing is fun. Road rash isn’t.

This video features a man who is body surfing… inches from the road… down a very steep mountain… in the Swiss Alps… and he is passing other motorists! I thought street luge was nuts, but that is just insane. One wrong move and you are either flying off a cliff, peeling what’s left of your skin off the pavement, or being disembodied by a passing car. I am truly amazed at how fluid and controlled his decent is. He appears to be able to turn on a dime, despite the awkward suit and the hair raising speed.

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The ride is located in South Africa and it is apparently the world’s fastest, longest and tallest zipline. The guys are basically descending a small mountain, so I can believe it. They put the rudder fin between your legs to keep you straight, but at 100 MPH I’m surprised they don’t give you some wings as well.

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The man with a bullwhip and a fedora is back. Indiana Jones, one of the more memorable characters in film history, will be returning to the screen this summer in “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Vanity Fair has just released an interesting article about the franchise and its three main players: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Harrison Ford. A trailer for the movie has yet to be released, but the poster is available for viewing after the jump…

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Images of the Year Competition 2007 -PopPhotoDecember 2007 via Photojojo. See also: Reuters Pictures of the Year

I now have one more thing to do before I die.

The Macau Sky Tower is located in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now part of the People’s Republic of China. It was created by casino billionaire Stanley Ho Hung-Sun after he saw a similar tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Measuring 338 m (1,109 ft) in height from ground level to the highest point, the Macau Tower features a number of extreme actives, including the skywalk, mast climb, sky jump, and of course, the ever popular bungee jump.

The leap is taken from the main observation deck, 233 meters (765 feet) above the ground. This happens to currently be the world’s highest bungee jump from a standing structure (there are “higher” jumps). There are a few videos of the jump after the jump.

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The extremely popular bittorrent tracker site, Demonoid.com has been revived after months of down-time. The details have not been released as to why they were down other than the note you received when visiting their website claiming it had something to do with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

Torrent Freak has a good follow up and speculative article on the subject.

The US Military blotted their newest, least operational spy satellite from the heavens this week. Regardless of WHY they did it (and it seems like everyone has an opinion on this one), or the fact that the Chinese already pulled off this same trick just over a year ago, you have to admit the idea of one object striking another at a speed of 22,000 MPH while orbiting 130 miles above the Earth is still impressive, if even just for the fireworks. While geeks and nerds like us would have lined up to watch this on Pay-Per-View, the military was kind enough to release footage of the impact to the general public, and at least one major news source has compared the footage to demise of the Death Star.

Ryan Block of Engadget demos the most recent firmware and hardware release of the Art Lebedev OLED keyboard.

Using just a Nintnedo DS and two jailbroken iphones these three people composed a sweet jam session and caught it all on video.