Not everyone could be like Mike. Jordan will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame on tonight, a final honor that follows all the championship rings and MVP trophies he collected during his career. He joins David Robinson and John Stockton, a pair of his 1992 Dream Team teammates, and coaches Jerry Sloan and C. Vivian Stringer in a distinguished class. Look through a photo gallery of his finest moments!

It’s a touch of old Vegas: Vintage neon signs are being restored and will adorn a stretch of downtown’s Las Vegas Boulevard.

About 17 signs, some from casinos dating to the 1950s, will be part of the boulevard’s Scenic Byways Plan, said Danielle Kelly, operations manager for the Neon Museum, which is providing the signs.

The signs — including the horseshoe that once topped Binion’s Horseshoe casino and the slipper from the Silver Slipper next to the New Frontier casino — recall earlier years of the city that grew out of the desert to become America’s gambling mecca.

The Hacienda horse and rider from the Hacienda Hotel, where the Mandalay Bay stands today, was already on display. Other sign candidates include those from the Algiers Hotel, the Black Jack Motel and the City Center Motel.

So far the project has gotten $240,000 from the sale of Las Vegas Centennial license plates to refurbish three signs. About $900,000 from the city went for median improvements in the Cultural Corridor.

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The 36-year-old admitted he had placed his life at risk by performing the daredevil stunt.

‘This was a very dangerous stunt because there were so many factors to consider,’ he said.

‘The roller caster is wooden and so unlike rides made from iron and steel there was always a chance of the odd nail or screw that would not be entirely flat.

‘If the skates were to catch a stray nail then I could have fallen and I would almost certainly have died.’ Spending two months planning the outrageous stunt, Mr Auer also designed and made the monster skates, which took him a total of 110 hours’ work.

But he said there was no room for error and he used 16 rolls on each shoe.

‘When I reached the first drop I was 30 metres high and this allowed me to reach speeds of 90kmh on descent.,’ he said of Saturday’s stunt. Full Story plus more pics

Due to an increase of crashes in New Zealand during stormy weather, a billboard that “bleeds” was put up in an effort to stop the deadly crashes. Whenever it rains, the ads will leech “blood” and they say it is working. Maybe because parent’s have to pull over to stop their kids from screaming after seeing it? Who knows but one thing is sure, entering the Code Word “WTF” will give you points for Jack’s Kickbacks!

Amazing photo taken in Austraila showing fireworks, a comet, and a huge storm. Source

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This little robotic bug may soon be crawling through your lungs zapping tissue! Yes, it’s true. Good news is it will zap tumors. For now….dun dun dun

Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a miniature crawling robot, called ViRob, that can crawl through your lungs, find a tumor, and zap it with drugs. The bot, which is one millimeter long and four millimeters from end to end, can snake its way through the body, slipping into blood vessels and navigating through the respiratory and digestive systems, Innerspace style. Full Story

The article also says it can “race through a vein and burrow into an organ” Sounds a bit disturbing, cancer killing bug now and scifi horror movie the next. I can see it now…

Japan has recently been designing a lot of Robot Statues. Here is one of them in progress, strange but cool!