Flying Wing Aircraft...

For some reason I have always been fascinated with any form of transportation design whether it was cars, boats, planes or trains.

The evolution of the flying wing aircraft is amazing.  Having a solid wing design cuts down on noise, resistance and increased stability. It also benefits from a enormous payload capacity, and much larger fuel capacity.

Pictured below are a early prototype for the B2 and in the second image is the B2 Bomber.  The last three images are of a Boing Prototype flying wing airplane in the last three shots.

Northrop Aircraft Company pioneered the flying-wind design and built the YB-49, which first flew in 1947.

The B2 bomber is a descendent of the Northrop YB-49. 

$1.5 Billion B2 Bomber Video Crashing Caught On Video...

First watch this CBS video story on the B2

Here is the $1.5 Billion B2 Bomber Crashing:

Jake's Quote of the Day: Confucius Proverb...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. —Confucius

Lamborghini Gallardo...Great Lines

The Two Steves...The Other Apple Steve

Turns out I was not the only one who noticed how gaunt Steve Jobs looked at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference last week.  Fortune has a great write up on what is likely the case.

I hope that Steve is o.k. and wish him the best.

You can read the Fortune article by clicking here.

On the left Steve Jobs looks more like Steve Wozniak or Santa Claus.

Steve Wozniak Teaches Kathy Griffin How To Ride A Segway...

This is so funny!!! Woz and Kathy are like Laurel & Hardy.  The Bravo channels new show stars Kathy Griffin and is named "My Life On The D List."

In this segment, The Woz teaches Kathy how to ride a Segway.

You can watch the video by clicking here.

This scene is so funny when Kathy's dog bites Steve Wozniak!!! You have got to love Steve!!!

Jake's Quote of the Day: Albert Einstein on the Universe

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. 

"The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. 

"It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." —Albert Einstein

1800 Year Old Roman Glass Gaming Dice Piece...

This Roman glass gaming dice from the second century was auctioned of by Christie's recently for $17,925.

Nobody has been able to figure out what the mysterious markings mean or how the game was played...

What Does Life Mean To You ?

I want to share something with you. I am politically and religiously agnostic.

I vote purely on the issue and base my decisions upon my perceived content of peoples character.

That being said, I really like Barack Obama. 

Almost everything he says resonates well with me.

There is no question that Barak Obama is a superb orator, something I believe the oval office of the United States can use.

I have not made my decision on who to vote for yet.  I will listen carefully to both messages and then make my decision.

I thought I would pass along this superb Father's Day speech by Barack Obama on the significance of being a good father.

Enjoy...

Jake's Quote of the Day: Charles Swindoll on Attitude...

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. 

"It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. 

"The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. 

"We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. 

"We cannot change the inevitable. 

"The one thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. 

"I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. 

"And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." —Charles Swindoll

Floating Cities of The Future..

Floating Lilypad cities of the future might make sense?

At least, that is what Architect Vincent Callebaut's vision is.  Vincent designed each floating lilypad city so support 50,000 people.  

The floating cities are completely self-sustaining and have a zero-emissions footprint.  

They use wind, solar, tidal and biomass power to generate energy.  Vincent's ark has skin made out of titanium dioxide that allows it to combat rising atmospheric CO2.

Now if he could just figure out how to make them fly, they would look like Independence Day all over again...

Cool BMW M1 meets the Concorde Shot...

Awesome Lamborghini

This Shot Says It All...

jake's Quote of the Day

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in. —Erma Bombeck

Cool New 3G iPhone Commercial

Jake's Quote of the Day

The best time to handle a problem is before it ever comes up. —Anthony Robbins

F-35 Supersonic Joint Strike Fighter...

The Joint Strike Fighter F35 is an amazing design.  

The way it can take off and land like a helicopter is incredible.  

Check out the video below:

Steve Jobs Video Interview on 3G iPhone...

CNBC's Jim Goldman interviewed Steve Jobs after the launch of the 3G iPhone.

Click here to watch the video and scroll down the page.

Great Steve Jobs Video Interview on Macbook Air Design History...

Great Steve Jobs CNBC Video interview on the introduction of the Macbook Air and a discussion on the iPhone.  This video is 6 months old, but fascinating...

Click here to watch video and scroll down the page.