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Home Theater: What can $6 million buy you?

To take an opening line from the original author of this post, when it comes to home theaters, I thought I had seen it all. Well, all that was worthy of my critical (yet practical – see: ‘egzak’) eyes… But this, well, THIS, I had never seen until early 2008. Yeah yeah, I know the date because the article is from February 2008 – whatever!

The giant Stewart Snowmatte screen isn’t all that’s impressive! There’s also the Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector – this bad boy is on my “Need/Want” list, too! Just not sure if it’s a “need” or a “want” yet… Outfitted primarily with Snell speakers, Jeremy Kipnis’ $6 million home theater setup is an 8.8 system – that’s right, 8 speakers and 8 subwoofers. Although there are really more than 8 speakers. He has THREE center speakers, as he felt that just the one center was being too overpowered by the eight Snell THX Cinema & Music Reference towers he has surrounding the room.

This beast of a “home” theater is powered by two humongous General Electric 13,800-volt/800-amp step-down transformers next to Kipnis’ garage.

Amplified by two Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers, thirty (yes, that is 30) McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers, and three Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers, 13 Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors run the show.

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The business card guru: Your card is crap, mine is the best

Is this guy for real? I certainly hope not! Thanks to Ariel over at AOL Fanhouse for the tip.

Beatboxing with a flute: Nathan "Flutebox" Lee and Beardyman rock Google London

This is one of the coolest and most original things I’ve seen in a while. At least i think it’s original! I haven’t seen anyone else do this. My apologies to Beardyman, as this post is really about Nathan Lee and his awesomely cool beatboxing with a flute!! Beardyman, you’re pretty awesome, too. This guy‘s not bad, either…

Man, working at Google must be awesome! Do they have shows like this all the time? Don’t forget to click on the “HQ” button when the video loads to watch and hear in high quality!

The Red House Furniture – the most politically correct commercial of all time?

Apparently these two guys go around pitching commercial ideas to small businesses. The Red House furniture store in North Carolina accepted their proposal – this is what they got:

Be sure to click on the “HD” button when the video loads to see and hear it in high definition!

Another amazing "Life’s For Sharing" video from T-Mobile – "Hey Jude" by 13,500 people in Trafalgar Square

When I first came across the great T-Mobile dance video, I thought to myself, “whoever is behind this campaign is a genius”. But I didn’t even know about this video!! Check it out, same idea, same shock value, same fun and engaging style. Enjoy!

Oh, and see how many celebs you can spot – I only spotted one, but I suck at this game…

Be sure to click on the “HD” button when the video loads to see and hear it in high definition!

How to instantly fail a cop’s Field Sobriety (DUI) Test test

No words necessary. Just watch…

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Have you seen the new T-Mobile "Life’s for Sharing" ad?

This is just a great (full-length) ad for T-Mobile. I’m guessing this is for T-Mobile UK, but that is based solely on the British accent at the beginning of the video. I could be wrong… Wherever it’s from, it’s great! I would have been pretty pissed if I didn’t have a camera-enabled mobile with me that day!!

Be sure to click on the “HQ” button when the video loads to see and hear it in high quality!

I love funny email!

My dad has a buddy who sends him about 17 emails a day.

Wait, before I continue – is pluralizing “email” with “emails” correct? Who knows? I’ll keep doing it, because this is my article.

Where was I… Oh, right, the 17 emails a day guy. So this guy sends my dad TONS of emails, and my dad reviews them and sends the worthy ones along to my siblings and I. Some of them are even good enough for me to send to my friends!

Here’s a collection of photos that have been sent to me in recent weeks. I think these are all worthy of a NorthGeek audience…

Traffic in India… WOW!

This was sent to me by a friend that lives in Jabalpur, India. In his email, he wrote:

“Believe me this is the best traffic situation in India. There are places where traffic is 1000 times as bad as this and still there are very few and less serious accidents as compared to North America.”

Pretty nuts! Enjoy.

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