Bicycle Stunt

It’s Thursday. It’s wild enough to send a bike flying through one moving truck—but Red Bull rider Matt Jones cranked the madness up to eleven by aiming for two trucks barreling past each other in opposite directions. A car towed him up to speed while a pair of autonomous Scania rigs handled the split-second timing. The margin between nailing the stunt and eating pavement? Less than a full second.

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Bowling Anyone?

It’s Wednesday. 3D printing is just downright cool—it’s like having a tiny factory on your desk that turns imagination into something you can actually hold. One minute you’re staring at a digital model on your screen, and a few hours later you’re holding that exact thing in your hands, layer by precise layer. Today’s 3D printers can do it all—whether it’s custom gadgets, replacement parts, wild art pieces, or maybe even your own… bowling alley?

Maker Danny Lum spent a year and a half designing, engineering, and building a fully functional miniature bowling alley—complete with an automated pinsweeper and pinsetter, camera-based scoring, and a motorized ball return. Now that it’s finally finished, he’s releasing everything you need to build your own: 3D-print files, materials lists, wiring diagrams, code, and step-by-step instructions, all available through Kickstarter.

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It’s a Long Way to the Top

It’s Tuesday. I’ve been an AC/DC fan since I was a teenager in the 80s. My absolute favorite song of theirs has always been It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll) from the 1976 High Voltage album. It’s one of those rare rock anthems that punches you in the face with pure attitude and then completely surprises with—of all things—a killer bagpipe riff! Bon Scott whipping out the pipes is pure rock ’n’ roll chaos—bizarre but somehow totally badass. The guitars are snarling, the rhythm is driving, and then suddenly you’ve got Bon wailing on bagpipes! It’s crazy, it shouldn’t work, but somehow it does and it turns the whole song into this glorious celebration of doing things your own way—loud and proud, as only AC/DC can deliver.

AC/DC has been back on the road, and before their show in Melbourne, something downright epic happened: 374 bagpipers gathered to try and set a world record for the largest bagpipe ensemble. Not only did they pull it off—they shattered the previous record of 333 pipers set in Bulgaria back in 2012. And, of course, you can guess what song they fired up!

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February 21, 1976

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