Fakie News
A rambling collection of things that stoke us
FAST FORWARD: 30 YEARS OF THE LEGENDARY BANKED SLALOM
By confirming that gravitational waves are produced by the extreme collisions of massive objects in the universe, it gives scientists a new way to explore space. Instead of just looking at the cosmos in infrared, optical and ultraviolet light, researchers can now use gravity as another way to investigate.
But the book isn't necessarily closed on the time travel question.
Some scientists haven't yet counted out the idea that this discovery could lead to something unexpected way down the line.
“The discovery will allow us to explore space and time in a spectacular new way," physicist Brian Greene told Mashable. "Might that one day yield breakthroughs in space travel or perhaps even in time travel? Who knows. But deep understanding is the first step forward.
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He’s the only known illicit chemist to have built his own mass spectrometer, a machine that determines the structures of organic molecules, to ensure the purity of his compounds.
“This guy can make dope out of the dirt in your pockets,” a Washington State drug agent told the Canberra Times of Marquardt in 1993.
John Madinger, another retired narcotics agent who first met Marquardt after the black-market scientist was busted cooking methamphetamine in Oklahoma, scoffed at the idea of comparing Marquardt to WALTER WHITE, the high school teacher-turned meth-making kingpin in AMC’s TV series Breaking Bad. The fictional character, Madinger said, has nothing on the real deal.
“Above [Walter White] you've got Marquardt, who can manufacture the precursors and analyze them with a machine that he built himself, and installed in his laboratory,” he said. “Nobody's ever done that before in the United States or since. He's the only one.”
In Russia Your Ice Breaker is a Truck
10 years since J Dilla exited and he is still ahead of the game
Photo: Raph Rashid
Not that you need an excuse, but today is a fine time to throw on Donuts, pour a nice cup of coffee, and read this bit about the highly influential album.
Peanut Butter Wolf: To me, Donuts was a combination of all different styles of music. Prog rock, sweet soul, early electronic music, you name it. It reminded me of how I always heard that hip-hop began with a select group of DJs in the Bronx trying to expose people to songs they’ve never heard regardless of genre rather than just playing whatever disco song was big at Studio 54 and the radio.
Mons Roisland is Shifty-Shifty
Mons Roisland Switch Backside 540 Shifty-Shifty at Air + Style...Mons Roisland with one of the most stylish tricks at Air + Style Innsbruck.Switch back 5 shifty-shifty like a boss!
Posted by Onboard Snowboarding Magazine on Monday, February 8, 2016
Kevin Durant - Superbowl Photographer
The biggest thing I learned is something I knew on a certain level … but didn’t know until tonight: that sports photography is hard work and it takes a lot of skill and focus in a crazy atmosphere with a lot of distractions. I have a ton of respect for the people who do this as a profession. I’ve got many more hours to put in, and I’m thankful to The Players’ Tribune and NFL.com for giving an amateur a foot in the door.
Jeremy Baye - hot rod builder
When I was skating, skateboarding was punk rock. When I was a little kid—11 or 12 years old—skateboarders were mostly punk rockers, and it was as if we were against the jocks [laughs]. It wasn’t like we hated each other or anything, but it’s just sort of like that’s what skating was…sort of the antiestablishment thing to do.
And then I started snowboarding. At the time, snowboarding was the anti-skiing; it was like, “We’re badass. We’re cooler than you are!”
And hotrods—the stuff that I like—are sort of the anti-everything. They’re different, and they’re badass. That’s why people like ’em, and like to look at them. They look unsafe, and that’s what scares people.
That’s sort of why you have one, because you’re thinking, “Man, that’s cool. That’s not the stock car. It’s different from what everybody else has.”
History of Japan
Not to be presumptive, but this is probably the most entertaining history of Japan that you will watch today, possibly the most entertaining thing you will watch period.
Critical Condition - 1991
What happens when you try to break a tree with your leg
What happens when you try to crush rocks with your forehead
Be the weekend warrior you wish to see in the world
All Your Drones are Belonging to Us
Don't think about filming your part with a drone in Holland, besides the obvious flatness, those crazy Dutch have trained some eagles to take down drones.
Spin, spin, spin to win
What Would Steve Rocco Do?
What was it about Powell that made you attack them. Why not attack Vision or Santa Cruz?
We never attacked any company. We only retaliated. First Powell ran an ad making fun of us small skater-owned companies. Then Vision demanded that our distributors cancel their orders and stop buying from us. That’s when I realized that business was war and these guys were out to get us. By that time I had loans to pay back and skaters to support. I had no choice but to fight back.We publicly retaliated against Powell by running an ad making fun of ourselves for being stupid enough to have a skater owned company. And then making boards satirizing the Powell graphics we realized we could make lemonade from lemons. Retaliation against vision was more subliminal. We started a company with their main rider, Mark Gonzales. Mark wanted to do something that was the opposite of Vision so we called it Blind.
4-D Printing
In this case, the fourth dimension refers to time. The objects begin as a gel composite drawn onto a flat surface, then expand into a three-dimensional shape when submerged in water. The gel contains tiny fibers of cellulose, an organic compound found in plants. How these fibers are aligned determines their stiffness and the degree to which they'll swell when placed in water.
It was -22F on Sunday and 52F two days later in Vermont, perhaps there should be some more concern.