unique and interesting: January 2007

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Britney Spears and Paris Hilton Stolen Video

Remember, you saw it here!
The Britney and Paris stolen video.

Brit & Paris Stolen Video - video powered by Metacafe

A beautiful gallery of Lower Manhattan skylines.

(via Grow-A-Brain)

A Dog's Body

A dog's body is similar to ours. Each of us has a skeleton that holds our body together. Inside our skeleton is a brain, a heart, and lungs. We both have backbones.

Can you think of other things that we have in common with dogs?

(via Information Junk)

Gelli Baff turns bath water into goo... and back again! Simply run your bath, add Gelli Baff and watch in amazement as your boring bath water magically turns into a fun, thick goo. The goo is a completely harmless powder that soaks up 400 times it's own weight in water. When the fun's all done, add the disolver sachet and the goo dissapears.

Gelli Baff is totally safe. It's developed by the leading beauty and spa products manufacturer Gelicity Skin Technology and conforms to strict cosmetic testing regulations.

Drifting - by Andy Mckee

One of today's finest guitarists, Andy McKee is hailed by many musicians in the acoustic world as the most promising fingerstyle guitarist to arrive on the scene in some time. Over the last thirteen years, Andy has cited numerous influences from Metallica, to Bjork, to Don Ross, to Tchaikovsky, and has created a unique voice on the acoustic guitar by drawing from these inspirations.

(via Reality Carnival)

Linkdump

2007 List of Banished Words

Letter Frequencies

404 File Not Found in Different Languages

Pro Guide to Google Searches

Blender, the Ultimate Guide to Music, has an article about the 10 worst rock star plane crashes.

What is it about famous musicians that makes them believe it'd be a swell idea to charter a small, unreliable aircraft through inclement weather? Music history is quite literally littered with the tragic wreckage of such ill-fated journeys. Blender examines the 10 worst rock & roll air disasters and the sometimes dubious decisions that led to them.

(via Neatorama)

The Human Marvels

The Human Marvels website presents for your edification evidence of plausible and near impossible prodigious, curious, eccentric and unusual human beings who stand as testaments to the variety of humanity.

Pictures of 'not so smart' people.

2007 Already Sucks Button

Deep down, you know it's true. The war. The economy. Your job. Your relationships. This button sums it all up. You really can't get more negative than this button.

In one short phrase, it condemns an entire new year to the trash heap. Be the first in your neighborhood to recognize 2007 for what it is... one mess of a year.

More stupid products from Stupid.com.

Claudia Mejia from Sanford, USA, says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee. The woman says the hospital won't tell her exactly what happened.

Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. She was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given. The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them.

Ryan Burghard makes multi-media wearable art fashion accessory masks.

My work explores the current notions of male and female gender roles through symbolic artificialities. Our society's interest in the construction of monstrously perfected bodies, attempts at creating categorical sexual identities, and our cultural investment in artificial realities through modern advertising are source material for my creation of a new anthropological study of our modern sexual identities.

(via Everlasting Blort)

Iraqi Traffic Jam

You may sometimes curse about all these traffic lights that are hampering your journey. But see what happens when there are no traffic lights at all.

(via J-Walk Blog)

Is Your Local Wal-Mart Safe?

For years, public reports have chronicled the terrible problem of crimes at Wal-Mart stores. Horrific reports of rape, murder, kidnappings, robbery and assault at Wal-Mart stores. For many police officials, the issue of crimes at Wal-Mart stores has been 'overwhelming.'

A study of official police reports proves how serious the issue of crime at Wal-Mart stores still is for many towns and cities across America. The shocking new report, titled 'Is Your Wal-Mart Safe?' is a study to analyze official police reports of incidents at 551 Wal-Mart stores.

How safe is your local Wal-Mart?
Enter your zipcode to find out.

This Valentine's Day you can send your messages sealed with celebrity kisses. You can buy stamps with different postage denominations, each stamp depicting a print of a celebrity kiss. From Jessica Alba to Persia White.

Twenty procent of the net sale will go to The Humane Society of the United States.

Lapses In Light

A beautiful panning timelapse experiment, shot on a Canon 20d with some custom controllers.

(via Say No to Crack)

10 Shopping Tricks That Stores Hate

Stores are always trying to get you to do what they want. But what if you refuse? What if you do what benefits you and not the store? Aside from outright fraud, what are the things that you can do to come out ahead?

The Consumerist has put together 10 tips that will help you save money, but probably won't help the store. That's why they hate them. And you.

Did you know there was a fly named after Bill Gates, founder and head of the Microsoft Corporation? Like geographic features, species are sometimes named after prominent people. This fly (Eristalis gatesi) was named after Bill Gates in recognition of his great contributions to the science of Dipterology.

Bill's fly is only found in the high montane cloud forests of Costa Rica.

Clarus, The Dogcow

Clarus the Dogcow is a bitmapped image first introduced by Apple Computer. It is the shape of a dog with nose and spots that look like a cow, originally created in 1983 as part of the Cairo font by Susan Kare.

As the Apple developers were working on the original version of the Macintosh Operating System, they needed small images to represent common activities on the computer: starting up, deleting files, showing your printer paper orientation, and waiting for things to happen.

One of the fun images Susan Kare decided to place inside Cairo was that of a tiny dog. An image that, little did she know, was soon to become her most legendary icon of all.

A 2,500-year-old mirror worth almost a million dollars was dropped and smashed on a Chinese TV show. A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor. It shattered into pieces, shocking the audience - especially owner Chen Fengjiu who was sitting in the front row.

(via Neatorama)

Lea, Our Alien Friend

From EARS, Evidence of Alien contact Revealed in Scripture:

Lea doesn't live here on Planet Earth with the rest of us. This gives her a very unique and interesting perspective on Biblical topics. When I first started posting Biblical topics here, she contacted me through members of The Lightside group of Appleton Wisconsin and offered to provide her take on things in an effort to help people better understand some of the topics.

Lea physically resides on an actual ship. In fact, she was recently honored with a new ship. I have to admit, I know this section of the EARS site contains controversial channeled material. Many people have downright dismissed the whole EARS concept because it does contain channeled material. I have found that Lea would be appalled if anyone simply accepted what she had to say as the gospel truth without question. She stresses the fact that she is NOT God and would never presume to speak for God.

(via Everlasting Blort)

A pet supply store offers a 'pet spa.' It has a device that will wash and dry your pet. This particular cat did not like it at all. It must be said that the owners stopped the machine early.

(via Optical Poptitude)

The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines

Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: 'Google.' Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com.

In the other .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that this list is limited to a mere 100.

Portraits of gun owners in their homes by Kyle Cassidy.

I started wondering just who they were, what they looked like, and how they lived. Such was the genesis of Armed America: Portraits of American Gun Owners in Their Homes. The idea was to photograph a hundred gun owners, in their homes, and do a gallery show. A cowboy in Texas, a survivalist in Montana, a deer hunter in Pennsylvania, a sheriff in Georgia, a soldier in Idaho.

(via Everlasting Blort)

Pimped Out John

The ultimate toilet now exists. Roto-Rooter's 'Pimped out John' is outfitted with every feature a modern king or queen could want in a bathroom throne, and underneath all of the trappings, is a superb Kohler toilet. This amazing commode is fully loaded with the following 'luxury enhancements.'

There's even a chance to win this gleaming monument to personal convenience. Only one lucky person will win by entering Roto-Rooter's online 'Pimped out John' sweepstakes.

Nineteenth-century medicine provided caricaturists with a wealth of material. Artists humorously exaggerated medical conditions and physical characteristics. Bulbous noses, protruding stomachs, and hunched backs were some of the more common features drawn to extraordinary proportions.

Bizarre treatments, massive doses of pills, and excessive bloodletting, prescribed by trained physicians and quack doctors alike, were all lampooned. Suffering and discomfort from disease and the patient's reaction to medical treatment were also fodder for the satirist's pen.

An on-line gallery for mask collectors and folk art lovers featuring tribal masks from Africa, India, the Himalayas, Asia, China, Korea, Java, Bali, New Guinea, Northwest Coast America, Mexico, Guatemala, the Caribbean, and Native America. Also included are masks for Halloween, Party, Drama, Art, and Protection.

Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City joked that shopping was her cardio. Evidently, she's not the only gal who likes a good retail workout. According to a recent study by GE Money, the average woman spends 399 hours and 46 minutes shopping each year.

If the time trolling stores were limited to typical 9-to-5 business hours, it would add up to nearly nine years of retail therapy over a lifetime. The study reported that food shopping was the most labor-intensive retail activity, followed by outings for fashionable clothes.

(via The Internet Weekly)

Search With Meat Loaf

Now you can search the Internet with Meat Loaf. Not the bread, the singer! How does this work? Every day Search With Meat Loaf picks random winning times. If you are the first person to search after the selected time, you will win a prize or a sweepstakes entry. Prize winners, will receive their prize within two weeks. No registration is required.

The best way to win a prize is to make Search With Meat Loaf your primary search engine, and use it whenever you need to search the web. You are limited to 20 qualifying searches per day and clicking on search results or sponsored links will not increase your chances of winning. Each household is limited to two prizes per month.

Home Schooled

Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson.
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.

Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.

Title: I'm Not a Magician, I'm Just Really Smart.

click on the picture for real size

David Shrigley List of Photographs.

Your New Homepage

Did you know that YOUR HomePage is the page that opens every time you open your browser? And did you know that you could change what is on it?

I didn't... I thought I was stuck with what the browser people wanted me to see until a friend told me how easy it was to...

Name The Band Quiz

If I say Francis, Rick, Andy, John and Matt, what band do you think of? And what is the name of the group were James, Alistair, Robin, Earl, Norman, Brian, Michael and Terence play their thing?

The Name the Band Quiz.

Not everebody like Valentine's Day. Many people see it as a rich mine for the candy, greeting card and flower industries. Single people sometimes feel bad because of their exclusion from the mainstream celebration of this day.

Cafepress invited their community of independent product designers to compete in an unique Anti-Valentine's Day sales contest.

(via dymer's dream)

Animal Diversity Web is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology. Animal Diversity Web has thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds.

Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups.

Animal Diversity Web.

(thanks Jason)

Linkdump

Stuff People Write on Money

How to Detect a Lie?

Cute Otters

15 Tools Every Homeowner Should Own

Humans And Sparks

Are you an 'Electric Human?' Do you get doorknob sparks even in the summer? Zap your loved ones? Kill all computers, wristwatches and light-dimmers?

Static electric sparks can be irritating and their cause sometimes seems mysterious. Most people have encountered painful car door sparks, as well as those wintertime sparks from doorknobs and large metal objects. What can be done to stop them?

Here are some cures.

Melting Glacier

Spectacular pictures of a melting glacier. If you haven't seen something like this before you might think it's Photoshopped, but it's not. It's real! These pictures are all over the Internet and most are calling this a tidal wave. It's not, it's a melting glacier.
Does anyone know where this is?

Sasuke Obstacle Course

Sasuke is a competition held in Japan, produced by Monster9 and broadcast on the Tokyo Broadcasting System television network twice a year. It's an incredible athletic challenge were competitors have to complete 4 stages full of obstacles, each stage more difficult then the last.

Only two men have ever accomplished the whole course. Kazuhiko Akiyama and Makoto Nagano. Seen here is 33 year old Nagano.

E&E Hallström Haute Couture is a new venture by sisters Eleonor and Eva Hallström. Hallström Haute Couture brings the height of fashion to your pampered pup. Exquisite doggie garments are made entirely by hand and entirely from scratch.

Each expertly tailored article of canine clothing incorporates an original design that has been cut, sewn, knit, embroidered, and otherwise embellished by the sisters themselves.

(via Ursi's Blog)

The End Of The Googlebomb

A Googlebomb is a campaign that causes a particular Web page to rank first in the Google results list based on specific keywords. The first Google bomb was unleashed in 1999, which caused the Microsoft home page to rank first for the key words 'more evil than Satan himself.' Another famous Google bomb in 2004 produced a biography page of George W. Bush as number one for the keywords 'miserable failure.'

Google now has developed an algorithm that helps them detect Googlebombs in many different languages. Although Google does not claim that this change handles every prank that someone has attempted.

Unusual Billboard Signs.

(via Look At This...)

A circular bike made by Robert Wechsler.

Nine salvaged bikes were reassembled into a carousel formation. The bike is modular and can be dismantled and reassembled. It is normally left in public places where it can attract a variety of riders.

(via Grow-A-Brain)

Icy Streets

Watch this crazy home video of cars colliding on the icy streets of Portland.

113 Photos of people in the Moscow subway.

(vua Dark Roasted Blend)

Pick your style by browsing the styles to the left under the create business cards link to see thumbnails of all the styles.

Choose the 'full bleed' (image prints to the edge of card, 8 cards per page) or 'no bleed' version of the style you have selected.

Enter your information, only checking the boxes of items you wish to include. Choose two colors and one background color.

Make your PDF by choosing single or multiple card per page, cutting guides or not, and selecting 'Make PDF.'

The Online Business Card Maker.

(via Ursi's Blog)

Every MythBuster Myth On One Page

MythBusters is an American pop science television program on the Discovery Channel starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends in popular culture.

Here's a page that has every myth explained. There were 308 myths in total of which 55 were confirmed, 9 partially confirmed, 9 partially busted, 50 plausible and 185 busted.

Today is 'Australia Day.' It commemorates the landing of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788. The day on which Captain Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales. Australia Day is marked by civic celebrations around the country, including the Order of Australia and Australian of the Year awards for outstanding achievement.

Fireworks celebrations are held in many towns and cities around the country. The Perth Lotterywest Skyworks display is billed as the largest Australia Day celebration in the country, with more than a third of the city's population lining the river foreshore for the display.

Roll the toilet paper!

(via Grow-A-Brain)

Mojo The Monkey

Mojo is a monkey. Mojo likes typing. If you see mojo type a real word, make it yours by tagging it. To tag a word, pause Mojo, highlight the word, and click tag. If no one else has tagged the word it will be your own!

One Man Band

Snack Helmets

If you'll be sitting at home watching the big game, you might as well make the most of it with some junk food in a replica Snack Helmet.

The Snack Helmets, which cost $50 each, have a large container up top for chips and a smaller tray with two compartments in the facemask for peanuts, candy, dip or your favorite antacid.

(via tatakidai)

I Got My Job Through 'Second Life'

Second Life is a virtual reality community in which you create an identity, meet people, buy land and build your own objects. It is a 'massively multiplayer online role playing game', but one that offers users total freedom to create and interact as if they were living another life.

Launched in 2003 by Philip Linden, first-time users create a name and a graphic identity. The Second Life world is a group of islands in the tropics. Using the keyboard, one can move around at will and even fly over them.

The most radical dotcom 2.0 recruitment wave is happening in virtual reality thanks to Second Life. Instead of posting a resume on Monster.com that will hopefully net a flesh-and-blood job interview, your avatar can be interviewed and hired all within Second Life, often for jobs possible only in virtual reality. Fortune's Katie Benner explores the cutting edge of corporate recruitment.

How can you create a true snapshot of our global society, and sum up its diversity in one single picture? Simple. Get together one million ordinary people from all around the world, and get them to work on the picture together in the world's largest ever artistic collaboration. A collaboration where everyone is equal, where all outcomes are valid.

You are asked to draw a small square image. You don't need to be an artist or be able to draw - you can make patterns, write words, doodle - whatever you want. Your image will be one of one million images that will make up the entire picture.
The One Million Masterpiece.

Linkdump

Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks

How to Fake a Web 2.0 Logo

Choosing the Right Sunglasses for Your Face

Kitchen Tips

Genealogy of Influence

A shark with the ugly proportions of the pre-historic era has surfaced near Japan offering a rare view of this denizen of the deep.

The 'Frilled Shark' is hardly ever seen because its habitat is 600 metres or more below the ocean surface.

Fractals are geometric patterns that are repeated at ever smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. Fractals are used especially in computer modeling of irregular patterns and structures in nature.

Objects that are now described as fractals were discovered and described centuries ago. They can be found in indigenous African craft work. Artists were seeing fractals in nature and transfered the patterns in painting, design and sculpture.

Fun Facts About The End Of The World

From Neatorama:

Whether it's two billion years from now, when the Sun will no longer provide enough heat to support life on earth, or two hours from now in a nuclear holocaust, life on earth will inevitably come to an end. All religious traditions grapple with this fact. Here's what they've come up with so far.

Mini Ocean Critters by Milton Manetas.

(via Everlasting Blort)

3 Bengal Cats On Exercise Wheel

Dumbest Movie Inventions Of Al Time

From American Inventor Spot:

If you're in Hollywood you get death, destruction, a shattering of time/space sensibilities and occasionally just plain overall badness for most of mankind! A glance through Hollywood history shows a steady stream of well-intentioned (and ill-intentioned) inventors whose ideas have a tendency to blow up in their faces.

What on-screen inventors are in sore need of government regulation? What Hollywood inventions won't be showing up anytime soon on QVC? Here's a look at some of the dumbest movie inventions ever to grace the silver screen.

Since December 27, 1998, Australian photographer Neil White has taken pictures of the sunrise every day. He takes 36 photographs at different locations, then takes the best to put on his site.

Parent Hacks

Daily parenting tips and ideas from the real experts, actual parents. Parent Hacks is a collaborative weblog that collects parents' tips, recommendations, workarounds, and bits of wisdom in a single pot so we can all partake.

Parent Hacks finds the little tweaks that make this crazy adventure go a little more smoothly.

Sergey Brin's New Home Page

A fake home page for the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

Hello! I'm Sergey Brin. I'm starting to make my new home page for you! Currently i'm in Google. I'm a lucky man, and i want to say 'Thank you!'

(via Google Blogoscoped)

State Of The Union 2007

James Adomian is back with his fantastic Bush impression and another pre-emptive satirical strike on this year's State of the Union address. Also starring Dick Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

(via Everlasting Blort)

66 Succesful Bloggers And What They Can Teach You

What can 66 succesful bloggers teach you. A list taken from Ted Demopoulos' book 'What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting.'

Stop Sylvia Browne

Sylvia Browne. It's a name which causes strong reactions in a lot of people. Sylvia Browne is a popular spiritualist who offers paid psychic consultations, or readings. She claims to be assisted by a 'spirit guide' known as Francine.) Browne gained fame through popular appearances on TV and radio talk shows including Montel Williams, Larry King and Art Bell.

To her fans she is a down-to-earth, spiritually deep woman. To skeptics, who believe that she has not proven any of her purported abilities, she is almost certainly a fraud, using stage tricks such as 'cold reading' to simulate psychic abilities, preying on the grieving, the ill, and the spiritually needy.

One Island - One House

Off the coast of Dubai there's an archipelago of artificial islands, shaped like the continents of the Earth. Together, the islands are called 'The World.' The project is inspired by the artificial Palm Islands also being built in Dubai. The World will consist of 250 to 300 smaller private artificial islands. The entire project is slated for completion in 2008.

At the moment there's only one island occupied.

(via Look At This...)

What Do We Care About?

On a day when 55 people were killed by bombs in Iraq, the most read story on BBC news was news of a duck who survived gunshot wounds and two days in the fridge. The story was also more popular than Hillary Clinton's announcement to run for President in 2008.

Lisa (nickname Lisen) searches the Internet for the latest tennis news. The result is a weblog called 'Pro Tennis Fan.' The site brings you the latest news, latest photos, links to official player sites and live scores.

If you are a tennis fan, this is the site for you.

(discovered in Baltimore Diary's blogroll)

You've seen these wanted posters. They will generally include a picture of the criminal himself when a photograph is available, or of a facial composite image produced by a police artist. Wanted posters are usually produced by a police or other public government body for display in a public place.

Composite images for use in wanted posters can be created with various methods, including EFIT, an Electronic Facial Identification Technique via computer. EFIT is the most realistic and successful computerized composite system available. Originally designed for artists and non artists, it has been made the most widely used system by detectives and investigators around the world.

Linkdump

101 Free Games

The 7 Hidden Pages Within Your Firefox Browser

Comics With Problems

Cool 3D Effects on Pictures

50 Fun Facts About Credit Cards

Read your email, surf the Internet, view photos, watch movies, and play games all from your coffee table. The 'surface tension' arcade table is designed to discreetly bring the finest contemporary personal entertainment to the heart of your living space.

Available in three sophisticated finishes, these arcade game tables cleverly conceal a vast playground in an elegantly handcrafted piece of furniture.

(thanks Raluca) (via Blog PCNews)

Every Ad In Times Square

David of Ironic Sans wondered how many ads there were in Times Square. So he took his camera and made pictures of every ad in Times Square. Then he published all the ads on his blog. On one page.

The Vikings were members of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century. Overpopulation at home, ease of conquest abroad, and their extraordinary capacity as shipbuilders and sailors inspired their adventures.

The Vikings enjoyed a healthy diet, with lots of protein. Archaeological evidence shows that the Viking settlers in England ate a wide variety of fruits, nuts, and grains; as well as meat, fish, and shellfish. The Vikings ate two main meals a day, one of which usually consisted of some kind of meal or porridge.

(via Information Junk)

Bryan's 'I Love Trista Page'

Bryan loves Trista and one day he will marry her.

They do everything together.

It's just a shame that Trista only has one facial expression.

The Real Frankensteins

Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets. So the carefully-vetted journalists who were allowed past the forbidding perimeter fence on a cold February morning in 1954 were both apprehensive and curious about what lay ahead.

Led to a courtyard outside an austere brick building, they waited in the bright winter sunshine to find out why they had been summoned. What they eventually looked at was the strangest looking looking animal they had ever seen.

Related articles:
Stranger than Fiction
Demikhov Experiments.

The size of the average person has increased dramatically over the last century. Most toilets made today are manufactured from designs dating back to the early 1900s. In the past, the pleadings of big and tall people went unanswered.

For this reason GJTC engineers, medical doctors and artists took to the task of creating a new generation of products satisfying the needs of today's customers. They created the most comfortable and safe toilet for Large-Size people in the market. The other challenge was to make a toilet that could also be used by any size person.
The final result was the creation of a 'size friendly toilet.'

You have certainly seen this picture before.
It's the famous Microsoft group photo from December 1978. You may recognize a very young Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Marla Wood and Bob Greenberg.

What happened to them?
When did they leave Microsoft, and why? What are they doing now?

(via Look At This...)

What would a computer be without a keyboard? Here's a compilation of the coolest gadgeteering keyboards ever made.

Wild Recipes

Wild Recipes is about utterly outrageous recipes. The site is dedicated to the weirdest food people actually eat. If you have a dish you love eating, but your family and friends think it's repulsive, this is your chance to share it with the world.

Home Schooled

Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson.
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.

Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.

Title: The Legend Continues Part VII.

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The Best Website In The World

Look what I found when I was searching for the best website in the world.

Famous Left-handers

Approximately 8 to 15% of the adult population is left-handed. Studies indicate that left-handedness is more common in males than females. Left-handedness, in comparison to the general population, also appears to occur more frequently in identical twins.

I'm left-handed. Well, sort of. I'm actually ambidextrous which means I'm using my left hand for some tasks and my right hand for others.

Here's a list of famous left-handers.

(via Information Junk)

The first breakthrough in photography was in the area of making permanent images. In 1727 Johann Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. Thomas Wedgwood and Sir Humphry Davy created what we now call photograms.

French physicist Joseph Nicéphore Niepce made the first negative in 1816 and the first known photograph in 1826. In 1827 Niepce started his association with Louis Daguerre. In 1839 he announced the invention of a method for making a direct positive image on a silver plate - the daguerreotype.

Read more about early photography in this great article from Neatorama.

Linkdump

20 Ways You Waste Money on Your Car

Thousands of Free Satellite TV Channels

Steel Animals

Top 100 Advertising Campaigns

Do You Deserve Your High School Diploma?

What gaps in knowledge do college professors notice that their incoming freshman have? What was your high school education worth? Answer these simple questions that the average high school graduate should know and see if you can pass.

My results:

Do you deserve your high school diploma?

(via The Soap Box)

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