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Alltop is Guy Kawasaki’s latest project, and it’s “a ‘dashboard,’ ‘table of contents,’ or even a ‘digital magazine rack’ of the Internet”.
It’s also just a direct rip and expansion of Popurls, which means much of the blogging world is up in arms about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of Alltop.
However, if you’re looking for a site that groups all of the top stories together from top sites and then arranges them by topic, Alltop might be just what you’re looking for.
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The world lost a legend on Friday, as Robert Craig “Evil” Knievel died at age 69.
Always a self-promoter, Evil’s Caesars Palace jump is a great example of the type of man he was:
Knievel used his own money to have actor/director John Derek produce a film of the Caesars’ jump. To keep costs low, Derek used his then-wife, Linda Evans, as one of the camera operators. It was Evans who filmed Knievel’s famous landing. On the morning of the jump, Knievel stopped in the casino and placed a single $100 dollar bet on the blackjack table (which he lost), stopped by the bar and got a shot of Wild Turkey and then headed outside where he was joined by several members of the Caesars staff, as well as two scantily clad showgirls. After doing his normal pre-jump show and a few warm up approaches, Knievel began his real approach. When he hit the takeoff ramp, he felt the motorcycle unexpectedly decelerate. The sudden loss of power on the takeoff caused Knievel to come up short and land on the safety ramp which was supported by a van. This caused the handlebars to be ripped out of his hands as he tumbled over them onto the pavement where he skidded into the Dunes parking lot. As a result of the crash, Knievel suffered a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist and both ankles and a concussion that kept him in a coma for 29 days.
RIP Evil; you will be missed.
[Wikipedia - Robert Craig “Evil” Knievel]
[Via: CO-ED Magazine]
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