The Conquest is the world’s first series-manufactured high performance motorcycle that can be driven from a wheelchair. The vehicle provides a level of performance and independence previously unattainable.

It is designed for people with disabilities from the waist down. Drivers can roll their wheelchairs onto the vehicle via an automated access ramp. All of the controls are hand operated… martinconquest.com

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In 1789 Thanksgiving was first celebrated in the United States after Congress requested that President George Washington proclaim a

“…day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to peaceably establish a form of government for their safety and happiness…”

After several subsequent US Presidents declared a national Thanksgiving, Abraham Lincoln finally made it an annual event with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. The official date of the holiday was changed from the fifth Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday in November by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939…thegreatgeekmanual.com

Making artistic pieces of furniture from weapons is nothing less than a work of art. Designed by Alexander Reh, the Fully Loaded Chair is made from real shotgun shells. The solid steel chair has been stuffed with once-fired 12-guage shotgun shells. The welded steel frame is gun-blued by hand and can be loaded with many shell options. With the shotgun shells, this chair is really fully loaded and would appeal to those who always want the best and out of the box…bornrich.org

For the Dick Cheney,  NRA card carring, gun lover in you.

The beinArt International Surreal Art Collective was founded in 2006 by Jon Beinart. The collective was formed to increase public awareness and appreciation of contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Art. Each individual artist’s contribution increases the movements credibility in the contemporary art world…beinart.org

Beauty is in the eyes of the…

But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.

George Meredith

The Zen Moo is essentially a bovine rehash of Creative’s Zen Stone MP3 player, offered in two configurations (Moo and Moo Plus), each with four color variations (white, pink, red, and yellow). Like the Zen Stone Plus, the Moo Plus (seen across the top) includes an OLED screen, integrated speaker, FM radio, and voice recorder. A tamagotchi-like game is also included on the Plus model and navigation is controlled via the cow’s plastic horns…cnet.com

Kinda cute,but don’t have a cow over it.

Mickey Mouse turns 80 years old today, and there’s not a gray hair on him. Sure, he’s a little rounder, a little squatter, and he’s been wearing the same clothes for decades, but all in all he looks pretty good…time.com

Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Wille, 1928

Finally, a fashion show for the diet-impaired. Yes the models may still be little waifs, but the clothes themselves completely make up for it. How? They’re all made of chocolate! Apparently the New York Chocolate Fashion Show happens every year, but this time it was extra awesome since the theme was super heroes. Over sixty chocolatiers and pastry chefs carefully pasted skin tight chocolate suits to their models. Iron man and Wonder Woman walked the runway careful to keep their body heat down so they wouldn’t melt their super suits…neatorama.com

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For all the newbies out there

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted ’cause the index doesn’t hash,
then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
’cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.

Suissa, a company quite renowned for making natural wood luxury computers and components, has taken wraps off the Suissa Enlighten. It’s the first modularized PC from the house. Specs include microATX motherboard, Intel Quad core CPU or AMD X2 6400+, single NVIDIA 8800GTX video card or ATI Radeon HD2900XT, 4GB PC6400 memory, 1TB hard drive space, and DVD burner…bornrich.org

Downside, probably runs Vista and let’s hope it doesn’t overheat.