All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Conga drums; metal plating; buttons.
• 6PM, VH1 - And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop: Back in the Day. The birth of hip hop establishes four elements of hip hop culture.
• 6PM, Travel Channel - Tornado Chasers: A group of [...]

Jim Ryan built this 1/24th scale remote-controlled Chinook helicopter. It doesn’t do much more than take off, wobble in the air, then land, but for a hand-built model I think that’s more than okay. Just getting a tandem-rotor R/C chopper to get up in the air at all is impressive.
Bonus link: a fan-made video of [...]

There are two general schools of thought when it comes to Lego models: using as many parts as it takes to achieve the design you want, often ending up in a giant-sized model (example); using as few as parts as possible to get the basic idea across, still preserving the basic shape (example). Neither is [...]

Even before I learned to love beer, I loved bottles. Not necessarily rare or old bottles, either. I recall finding some beverage that came in a thick cobalt-colored bottle as a teenager and spending far too much time getting the label off so I could put it in my window.
When I was even younger, my [...]

David Smith was a giant fatty, covered in over 600 pounds of loathsome man-cracklin’. Then, amazingly, he lost it all, slimming down to a healthy 230, several pounds of which were unneeded skin. Smith is now undergoing surgeries to have that skin removed.
Which answers the question: better corpulent gravy grub or skinny Hellraiser extra? Looks [...]

A two-engine commuter plane made a “wheels up” landing in New Zealand this morning after circling for half an hour attempting to get the landing gear to work.
“I’m absolutely amazed at the quality of the landing,” he said.
“Watching from the side of the runway, he was right down the centre, he didn’t deviate. It was [...]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Footballs; electric guitar amps; marbles; propellers.
• 6PM, National Geographic - Sweet Tooth: Complex engineering, top-secret recipes and technology go into the creation of confections.
• 6PM, Science Channel - Extreme Engineering: Subways in America. New York’s subway system keeps the city running.
• 6PM, [...]

It takes greater and greater things to trip my lust breaker these days, but these amazing crafts from Take-G Toys have done. I want to possess them utterly. Fortunately for me, these pieces are only one-offs and aren’t for sale, considering I probably couldn’t afford to buy gorgeous, hand-made wooden robots.
Someone break into Japan and [...]

The Daily Mail* is running the tale of Martin Sargeant, an air show pilot who diverted his failing Spitfire away from crowds when he discovered they’d gathered on an auxiliary runway.
“He decided to try to head for the tarmac runway instead - but it would have been difficult for him to head there. The next [...]

All times eastern.
• 6PM, History Channel - Modern Marvels: Gangster Guns. Colt .45s and .38s; Tommy guns; Whippets; Browning automatic rifles.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Residential water heaters; air bags; jelly beans; ice resurfacers.
• 6PM, National Geographic - Ultimate Earthquake: The seismic activity of the world’s deadliest earthquakes.
• 6PM, [...]

Things have been slow around here, I know. I’m actually ramping up on a couple of non-Dethroner-related projects that I hope to announce in the next few weeks, which has caused me to slack off here. I don’t know when and how Dethroner will shape up in the near future, but I haven’t thrown in [...]