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According to MSNBC, Red Bull sold 4.2 billion cans last year, including more than a billion in the States. “That represents a 7.9 percent increase over the year before, and revenues jumped 15.8 percent to $5.175 billion.”

The drink has made Founder Dietrich Mateschitz one of the world’s richest men and the richest in his native Austria. According to MSNBC, “at the end of 2004, he had just 2,605 employees; in 2010, Red Bull employed 7,758 people — which works out to more than $667,000 in revenue per person.”   …  More

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Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter is rarely seen without a Hawaiian shirt.  San Francisco Chronicle reporter Peter Hartlaub interviews Pixar’s John Lasseter in his closet, where the Oscar-winning animator keeps 374 festive shirts separated by subject

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maddox-jetThree years ago The Kneeslider showed you a pretty basic pulsejet powered bicycle Robert Maddox had for sale. As projects go, it was pretty neat and after our short article Bob started getting attention from everywhere, you might say things have been (ahem) buzzing for Bob ever since. Well, he’s still at it, building more and bigger variations of these jets and strapping them on to all sorts of wheeled vehicles and he’s even got a plan for using several really big pulsejets all by themselves, who needs wheels? So when I got a note from Bob the other day, I thought I’d take a look to see what was up and the news is plans and kits so you can build one yourself   …  Pictures & Details

A home built turbine … oh yeah!

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The French crazy twin sisters Anouck and Elo are taking a shower while inline skating down… It’s so funny and sexy!!

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