Its funny how we have alot of time on our hands here at theRaters HQ. One of our good friends came in the other day and brought in this instructional series about increasing your vertical leap and running a faster 40. A few of us used to be college athletes and we were always trying to accomplish this with the hope of one day being scouted for the pros. Well we never made it, the internet took over our once polished bodies and made our fingers stronger than our legs.

A couple of us at theRaters have been interested in learning a second language and finally decided that Spanish would suite us well. We have been shopping around for spanish tutorials and books and to our dismay there is alot of garbage out there. Most of the learning guides seem like copy and paste products from a spanish dictionary. However we did finally find a product that was exactly what we needed. Not only did it teach us how to speak spanish, it also taught us how to have a full on conversation in spanish. You can read up on the product yourself here.

First they invented the wheel, and yet only now, at long last, has a device been created that makes use of the wheel in the way it was originally intended; to carry beer and beer-drinker alike from place to place. In style. Chilled.

Is Tenacious D the biggest joke ever laid on hard rock music - a duo self proclaimed “the greatest band on Earth”? One that mocks the metal genre’s Gothic darkness and florid pomposity with jokey, overblown original songs about might and right?

Or are these nebbishy dudes really the true keepers of the flame?

We noticed that alot of users are coming to this site looking for the oakland raiders. So we decided to go ahead and rate the raiders, not to be confused with “raters”.

The Raiders may be 2-8, but they have played better then their record indicates. Although their offense is still among the worst in the NFL, the Raiders’ defense is playing well…