TRAX STI Snow Car
Just in time for snow season! DC co-founder Ken Block teamed up with Subaru to design and produce the world’s fastest cat-track snow car. Primarily for reaching alpine backwoods to engage in some fresh boarding, the vehicle is also built for fun as a standalone toy.
Prepared by Vermont SportsCar, performance modifications include 400-hp and features Group N competition rally dampers made by EXE-TC and a KAPS 5-speed close-ratio dog-engagement gearbox. Under the hood sits a 2.5 liter, 4-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled STI engine tuned with a MOTEC M800 ECU.
Not seen is a trailer that will haul up to four boarders and equipment. More info here.
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Konflict (Conflict) - A Short Film
Remember when you were little and playing outside with your friends and someone said lets play ‘War’, ‘Cowboys and Indians’ or ‘Cops and Robbers’? And using your imagination that stick you found turned into a weapon complete with sounds and recoil and the times when you’d argue with friends on whether or not they got hit by your weapon? Well, these kids are doing the same thing but are using their imagination at a much more prodigious level. 
**Note: This movie has subtitles so please turn them on by following the instructions that pop up when you press play!
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Building a Snow Cave - Ray Mears Extreme Survival
While Bear Grylls may have all the charm and reckless abandon that we all love, everyone knows he doesn’t really do half the surviving he claims to on his show.
Ray Mears however has spent his life learning from the worlds Indigenous tribes, picking up skills and dedicating all his time to survival, so he knows a thing or two.
Here he demonstrates how to build a snow cave, which if necessary you could shelter in for weeks at a time until the weather cleared up enough to get to safety. Not many of us are likely to see that much snow any time soon, but its a great bit of knowledge to have.
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Riding Britain's Biggest Runaway Snowball
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When some people decide to roll a large snowball down a hill in Hampstead Heath park in London, do you:
a) Jump out of the path of a giant runaway snowball?
b) Jump ON it?
Oh, like you couldn’t guess what happened next! See for yourself.
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Snowing Nightly in Florida
Celebration, Florida is a planned community near Orlando that was developed by the Disney Company in the 1990s with early 20th c. architecture.
Every night during December the palm-lined main street in the town center is filled Christmas music and artificial snow (tiny soap bubbles) is pumped out of the streetlights.
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Real Life Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen
About a year ago, some third-year students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy created a Calvin and Hobbes scene for fellow students and faculty to enjoy. They even trucked in extra snow to cover up their footprints so the snowmen appeared to be there of their own accord. Awesome.
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Canadian Beer Fridge
This method of beer storage might equally apply for Chicago, Boston, or New York, if the weather prognosticators are correct. It works if you lose power, and in fact is completely carbon-neutral.
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Stunning Frozen Beauty
Maybe it’s just because I live in sunny Southern California and never actually see snow, but it truly fascinates me. Even if you’ve had your lifetime share of cold weather though, you’ll still probably love these photos of frost, snow and ice. Plus, if you actually read the text, you just might learn something new.
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The Snow Farmer
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When a freezing winter gives you thousands of tons of snow, what’s an Alpine farmer to do? Harvest the snow and sell it to ski resorts, of course!
In Austria the biggest “snow harvesters” are the owners of the Grossglockner Hochalpenstrassen AG (GroAG), a 40-mile stretch of road 8,200 feet above sea level which is Europe’s highest Alpine crossing.
GroAG spokesman Dietmar Schondorfer said: “Even if it doesn’t snow, every day we have tonnes of snow dumped on the road by the wind, all we have to do is drive back and forward to scoop it up.
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Snow Face
See what happens when a bunch of students have some free time and a lot of snow?
This image is a 5′ sculpture made out of snow. In March of 2003, there was a huge blizzard in Denver and school was canceled for an entire week. With nothing else to do and artistic frustration to get out, my cousins, brother, sister, and I decided to sculpt an enormous face in the packed snow. I hope you post this work of art – I personally think it’s awesome
I think it’s awesome, too! Link -Thanks, GwenAnn Hua!
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Snow Faces
The folks over at 2pie blog have a pretty neat idea: make a snow print by pushing their faces into fresh powder on cars. The images are all concave, but make for an optical illusion of 3D sculptures!
I saw this circulating on the Net a few days ago, but didn’t get the chance to post it till now. Better late than never! Link
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Penguins in Santa Suits
What could be cuter? Penguins at Everland Park in South Korea aren’t used to snow, so their keepers outfitted them with suits to wear the first time they used their new snow run. Link (embedded video) -via Metafilter
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Toronto Igloo
What to do with all the snow that piles up in a city? Some folks in Toronto made snow bricks and covered a TTC shelter (a streetcar stop) to make it into an igloo! See more pictures at BlogTo. Link -Thanks, Jerrold!
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A Wintery Touchdown Celebration
So, it snowed during the New England Patriots-Arizona Cardinals game today (I’ll let you guess where they were playing). Of course, that means that touchdown celebrations have to be taken to a whole new level, like this one from Patriot Wes Welker:
What do you think? Rude, or funny? Personally, I enjoyed it.
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Train Snow Plow Getting Stuck
Check out this powerful Snow Plow Train get stuck. At first I thought it would keep going but as massive as they are, mother nature has her way.
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