Patrick

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3458226/The-artist-who-makes-sculptures-out-of-old-hubcaps.html Pretty cool. Via Digg.

Hello, After weeks of nominating and voting, the KarateForums.com Awards 2008 have now come to a close. It is now time for us to announce the winners. Before I do so, I wanted to congratulate everyone who was nominated and everyone who won. If you did not win or were not nominated, please do not take it badly. These awards do have meaning, but they are also for fun and not everyone can win or be nominated. Please join me in congratulating our winners. Thank you to everyone who participated in the process by nominating and voting. You selected the nominees and decided the winners. Without further ado, here they are: 1. Member of the Year: (tie) tallgeese, Tiger1962 and joesteph 2. New Member of the Year: tallgeese 3. Community Spirit Award: bushido_man96 4. Staff Member of the Year: DWx 5. Funniest Member of the Year: The BB of C 6. Article of the Year: Women and the Martial Arts by Kieran-Lilith For past winners, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/awards.php Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com.

My pleasure. Patrick

Voting is now closed. Thank you to everyone who voted. Results will be announced soon. Thanks, Patrick

Tonight is the night. Please get those last minute votes in! Thanks, Patrick

Pretty cool video of a giraffe investigating a video camera at the zoo. Via Digg.

Here's another new trailer released to fan sites yesterday: http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/1973 Via Digg.

Hey all, Voting in the KarateForums.com Awards 2008 is closing soon, so I wanted to put up a note here. Through the KarateForums.com Awards, we recognize some of the great contributors to our community. You nominate, you vote and you decide. So, please take a moment and vote: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2008-vote-now-vt35177.html The more valid votes that we get, the better the awards are. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, Patrick

Voting closes tomorrow night! If you haven't voted yet, please be sure to do so! Thanks. Patrick

Via Digg.

Check it out: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/watchmen.html?showVideo=1 Via Digg.

Hey all, Voting ends on Saturday, so I wanted to put a call out once again: please be sure to vote if you haven't! Thanks, Patrick

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/scenes_from_antarctica.html So many neat pictures. 27 is incredible! Via Digg.

Thought this was pretty cool: http://www.instructables.com/id/LeGummies_brick_shaped_gummy_candies/ Via Digg via Gizmodo via MAKE.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/up/ Looks pretty cool.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?columnist=rafael_dan&id=3691133

Happy Birthday.

Thank you for the votes that have been made so far. If you haven't voted yet, please do! Thanks, Patrick

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3064427 I thought this was a really great capture. Via Digg.

I thought this was a cool picture set (of burger related photos!): http://www.urlesque.com/2008/11/07/top-11-weirdest-burgers-a-tribute/ Via Digg.

http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2008/11/06/Man_credited_with_5_holes-in-one_in_week/UPI-49011225990815/ Via Digg.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars We were always Nintendo fans, but this is a great article for those that played the Sega Genesis. Via Digg.

Hello, Welcome to the voting period of the seventh annual KarateForums.com Awards. Through these awards, we recognize just a few of the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to KarateForums.com in the past year. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2007 and October 18, 2008. You submitted your nominations and, from those, we have our KarateForums.com Awards 2008 nominees. In all, 12 different members have been nominated in the various categories that make up this year's awards. They are tallgeese, Tiger1962, Throwdown0850, joesteph, bushido_man96, DWx, ps1, pittbullJudoka, The BB of C, Kieran-Lilith, Taylor and NightOwl. Congratulations to all of you. With the ballots crafted, it is now time to vote. In order to do so, you must have a KarateForums.com account registered on or before October 18, 2008. There is just one guideline to keep in mind when voting: 1. Do not attempt to artificially inflate our vote totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading votes, encouraging people to vote indiscriminately (publicly or privately), mass mailing/posting and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. Individuals found to be participating in these activities will be disqualified from nomination in any category. Please note that you do not have to vote in every category. You can vote for as many or as few as you would like - please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid votes we get, the better! The categories are listed below. Please click the link(s) and vote in the poll(s). Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/member-of-the-year-vt35176.html New Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/new-member-of-the-year-vt35175.html Community Spirit Award http://www.karateforums.com/community-spirit-award-vt35174.html Staff Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/staff-member-of-the-year-vt35173.html Funniest Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/funniest-member-of-the-year-vt35172.html Article of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/article-of-the-year-vt35171.html So, that's all there is to it. Please vote. We need as many valid votes as possible! Voting will be closed on November 15, 2008 at 9 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to private message me or reply to this thread. Please do not post a reply on the poll threads. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com.

Please vote for the Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2008. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the non staff member who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. You don't need to be a martial arts expert to win this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Here are the nominees: tallgeese http://www.karateforums.com/member12484.html Tiger1962 http://www.karateforums.com/member12378.html Throwdown0850 http://www.karateforums.com/member12369.html joesteph http://www.karateforums.com/member12658.html Voting will be closed on November 15, 2008 at 9 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the New Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2008. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the non staff member, that registered on or between the dates of October 19, 2007 and July 18, 2008, who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. You don't need to be a martial arts expert to win this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Here are the nominees: Tiger1962 http://www.karateforums.com/member12378.html tallgeese http://www.karateforums.com/member12484.html Voting will be closed on November 15, 2008 at 9 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.