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7 days, 4000+ miles (not including 2,000 miles to and from the start in Indiana!). The race begins May 6th, 2006

Car and Driver's Cannonball One Lap of America is widely known in the U.S. sports car scene as one of the most difficult and demanding endurance races in the country. The event, as it always has been, is foremost one of endurance and vehicle preparation. No support crews are allowed. The tires that are used on the street are the same ones that are raced on (one set per team with no more than 2 spares allowed). Although scoring is based on performance at the racetracks, the vehicles and their drivers must survive over 4,000 miles of driving interspersed with the finest meals available at gas station convenience stores. Personal hygiene takes a holiday and friendships (sometimes marriages) are stretched to the limits as these competitors battle fatigue, weather, traffic and the demands of high-speed competition with both unknown amateurs and seasoned professional drivers like Parnelli Jones, Price Cobb, John Buffum, Elliot Forbes Robinson and Hurley Haywood.

My friend Jeff MacGregor from Offset Racing will be competing with teammate Jim Smola in his 1985 BMW 325e. Jeff reports "I have 2 races left this season, then my BMW goes under the knife for a transplanted 300+ hp Ford engine, roll cage, and every thing Super-Sized for 2 guys to live in the damn car for a week."

The race is used by many as a charity fundraiser. Offset Racing is raising funds for the National MS Society

Cannonball One Lap of America

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RPS-15 is the creative and complex game of rock paper scissors with 15 hand gestures for a total 105 different possible outcomes. With newly added expressions such as snake, fire, devil, lightning, sponge, air, water, wolf, tree and others, the concept of "scissors cut paper" is taken to a whole new dimension: Scissors swish through Air, carve Tree, cut Paper, Snake, Human , Wolf & Sponge. Paper meanwhile fans Air, covers Rock, floats on Water, rebukes Devil & Dragon, outlaws Gun, and Defines Lightning.

The creator admits that occasionally logic is sacrificed (Tree beating Devil etc.) however trying to make any sense out of 105 different options is complicated enough as it is.

Rock Paper Scissors 15

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Double Edge Films presents the story of a mysterious DJ sent to a busy city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our every day lives.

The story is an oft used one but with a twist (of the record that is). Funny, clever and moving, the short film is every bit worth the 10 minutes it adds to your life.

Recommended!

Double Edge Films Theater Presents: SPIN (mirror here)