Cup Speed Stacking done in 6.69 seconds: a world record?

This is the fastest I can find on youtube. Apparently the world record is 5+ seconds; if you have a video link of that please inform me. Thanks.

Players start with 3 stacks of drinking cups arranged left (3 cups) - middle (6 cups) - right (3 cups). They then do a set routine.

Dion Tiu: the world’s top Minesweeper player: 37 seconds in Expert Mode

Dion Tiu, 20 of Australia set this world record apparently earlier this year. He has held and broken the world record 3 times.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen a.k.a. Sturmgeist89 posts ominous video on YouTube, hours later shot dead 7 people, then commits suicide

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On 7th November 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18 posted an ominous video on YouTube, predicting a massacre at his former school. A few hours later, he went to that school, Jokela High School in southern Finland and shot dead 7 children (5 boys and 2 girls) and 1 woman: the school principal.

He walked from one classroom after another, knocked on the doors and shooting through them with a .22-caliber handgun. The school has some 500 students.

He was rushed to hospital after shooting himself in the head and later died.

The YouTube video is set to a hard-driving song by KMFDM called “Stray Bullet.” Eerily, that same song was posted on a web site maintained by Eric Harris, one of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

It shows a still photo of a low building that appears to be Jokela High School. The photo then breaks apart to reveal a red-tinted picture of a man pointing a handgun at the camera:

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A teacher said: “It felt unreal, a pupil I have taught myself was running towards me, screaming, a pistol in his hand.”

The YouTube video is entitled “Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007″ and apparently posted by Auvinen using the handle Sturmgeist89. “Sturmgeist” means storm spirit in German.

The full text of his “manifesto” at his homepage at YouTube read as follows:

Sturmgeist89
aka NaturalSelector89 (3/15/2007 - 10/19/2007).

YouTube suspended my previous account but I am back now :) My new account name is German and means “Stormspirit” in English.

Name: Pekka-Eric Auvinen
Age: 18
Male from Finland.

I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and godlike atheist.

I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand… You will proprably say me that I am”insane”, “crazy”, “psychopath”, “criminal” or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animl, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don’t want to be part of this f—-d up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving… only worth killing. But… When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name… When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets… When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice… When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority… In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

Long live the revolution… revolution against the system, which enslaves not only the majority of weak-minded masses but also the small minority of strong-minded and intelligent individuals! If we want to live in a different world, we must act. We must rise against the enslaving, corrupted and totalitarian regimes and overthrow the tyrants, gangsters and the rule of idiocracy. I can’t alone change much but hopefully my actions will inspire all the intelligent people of the world and start some sort of revolution against the current systems. The system discriminating naturality and justice, is my enemy. The people living in the world of delusion and supporting this system are my enemies.

I am ready to die for a cause I know is right, just and true… even if I would lose or the battle would be only remembered as evil… I will rather fight and die than live a long and unhappy life.

And remember that this is my war, my ideas and my plans. Don’t blame anyone else for my actions than myself. Don’t blame my parents or my friends. I told nobody about my plans and I always kept them inside my mind only. Don’t blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this. This is my war: one man war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world! No mercy for the scum of the earth! HUMANITY IS OVERRATED! It’s time to put NATURAL SELECTION & SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST back on tracks!

Justice renders to everyone his due.

Country: Finland

Occupation: Unemployed Philosopher, Outcast

Companies: Human Race (evolved one step above though)

Interests and Hobbies: Existentialism, Freedom, Truth, Misantrophy, Social / Personality Psychology, Evolution Science, Political Incorrectness, Women, BDSM, Guns (I love you Catherine), Shooting, Computer Games, Sarcasm, Irony, Mass / Serial Killers, Macabre Art, Black Comedy, Absurdism

Movies and Shows: The Matrix, A View To A Kill, Falling Down, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Last Man Standing, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust), Saw 1-3, Lord Of War, The Deer Hunter, True Romance, The Untouchables, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Idiocracy, They Live, Apocalypse Now, End Of Days, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Dr. Strangelove, House MD (TV), Monty Python, TV Documentaries Relating To History

Music: KMFDM, Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Nine Inch Nails, Grendel, Impaled Nazarene, Macabre, Deathstars, The Prodigy, Combichrist, Godsmack, Slayer, Children Of Bodom, Alice Cooper, Sturmgeist, Suicide Commando, Hatebreed, Suffocation, Terrorizer

Books: Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 1984 (Orwell), Brave New World (Huxley), The Republic (Plato), all works of Nietzsche

Hours after the shooting, the user’s account was suspended.

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen told reporters the shooting was an “extremely sad event”.

The video is however still available at liveleak.com:

Then there is another video of him practising shooting and smiling while waving at the camera:

Source
The Star, 8th Nov 2007
news.com.au
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Stacking 12 plastic drinking cups in 1.43 seconds

This has to be seen to be believed.

Buffalax’s hilarious version of a Hindi music video

Buffalax is a comic genius. I haven’t watched a Hindi music video in its entirety for a very long time, until today. Usually I’d just skip, or fast forward the singing part.

This has to be seen to be believed, guaranteed to make one laugh uncontrollably ;-)

Marie Digby betters Rihanna at Umbrella

Then again, I’m always a sucker for acoustic guitars…

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Paul Anka did the greatest cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, in swing no less

This easily tops Weird Al’s spoof or even Kurt’s low-pitched version on Top Of The Pops! I bet the audience never saw it coming.

This has been called the best cover of ABBA’s “Knowing Me, Knowing You”

Evan Dando of The Lemonhead’s take on ABBA’s classic can be heard from 1:08 onwards.

This surely will brighten up your company’s annual dinner

An apparent transvestite mimes to Nasib si Janda (lot of a [female] divorcee) at a dinner function in Selangor, Malaysia.

Must have practiced a lot!