Life sized Gundam fully assembled!!!

From the totally awesome department, the Japanese have completed a life sized Gundam model for the 30th anniversary of the franchise. I have totally fallen in love with several of the newer anime such as Macross Frontier and Gundam 00, because they have a level of story telling and visual quality that American animation rarely reaches. Photos below from site Moé Passion.

Assembled Life Sized RX78 Gundam Part 1 MoePassion

*Link leads to an otaku fan site and may have images that are NSFW and/or disturbing to some viewers.

Planet Earth...

How in the world did I miss this a couple of years ago? I must have been stuck in some sort of media blackout that prevented me from getting to a television or something, because this is pure awesome...

Speaking of pure awesome, there is a new image taken of the International Space Station in its new current state... hi-res image below...
















Closing out the night, I've been working on learnin' me some Photoshop, and that little project has come along a bit more quickly than I thought, so I should have some goodness to roll out soon.
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NASCAR ain't got nothin' on F1...

NASCAR, still stuck in the past, using old tech, antiquated ideology, and racing's equivalent of "professional wrestling", needs to get serious and start looking at what their European counterparts are doing.  This is a video about the new cars for the F1 2009 season, showcasing a new tech, KERS (Kenetic Energy Recovery System).  In short, KERS stores waste energy from braking much like production hybrids, then transforms it into a once per lap 6.5 second 85 horsepower boost, courtesy almost any racing video game ever made (except for NASCAR games, that is).  I call that awesome.  

Make no mistake about it, compared to this, the racing we get over here in the states might as well be with a horse and buggy.