unique and interesting: March 2007

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Giraffobia

Phobias are covering a whole range of stuff. But the main ones are fairly sensible. Things like heights, poisonous snakes, spiders and giraffes.A lot of people don't understand just how debilitating being a giraffobe can be, some of them even laugh,...

We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.Today, using the electron microscope...

Otters Holding Hands

Ah, this is cute! At the Vancouver Aquarium, two sea otters float around, napping, and holding hands.(thanks Iri...

The 20 Greatest Historical Myths

'Humanities Talks' has a list of the 20 greatest historical myths. It's a nice list although not all of these claims are correct.Newton was not hit by an apple, Walt Disney did not draw Mickey Mouse, Marie Antoinette never said 'Let them eat cake,' Captain Cook did not discover Australia, Thomas Edison...

The 'Amen Break'

The 'Amen Break' is the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music. The 'Amen Break' was a drum-solo performed by Gregory Cylvester Coleman. The break is a frequently used sampled drum loop in hip hop, jungle and drum and bass music. It's 5.20 seconds long and consists of 4 bars of the...

Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. They exist in several variations in many different local cuisines. Most pancakes are quick breads, although some are also made using a...

Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean

When mapping a route from Chicago to London, Google Maps suggests you swim the 3,462 miles across the Atlantic Oce...

Don't be silly! Of course they don't!Or, do they?What appears to be the mummified remains of a fairy have been discovered in the Derbyshire countryside... The remains were discovered by a local man, who wishes to remain anonymous, while walking his dog...

Here's a story that will bring tears to your eyes.The Chicago Tribune posted excerpts from the final letter from U.S. Army Captain Michael MacKinnon to his wife and two young children. Captain MacKinnon lost his life in Iraq on October 27, 2005, when...

This is a picture of a rock formation near a lake in Burma. The photo can only be taken on a specific day once a year when the sun rays touch the rocks at a certain angle.Tilt your head to the left and then look at it again.I'm not sure if this is for...

Crossing The Street In India

It's like Real Life Frogger.(via A Welsh Vi...

Dispelling The Top 10 Nutrition Myths

Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol. Drink eight glasses of water per day. Vitamin supplements are necessary for everyone. All alcohol is bad for you.You've probably heard these pieces of nutritional advice before. Well, they're not neccessarily tr...

Fred's heart stopped beating.Only you can save him.But you got to be quick.Time is running out.(via corsin...

Luncheon Loaf is dedicated to the lost art of luncheony loafiness. Take a stroll through the gallery of loaves from luncheons pa...

60 Years Of Ferrari And Shell

Travelling around the world with Ferrari and She...

The excellent Chinablog EastSouthWestNorth has a series of photos entitled 'Humanizing China.' The photos are grouped in three categories: Survival, Relationships and Desires.(via Metafilt...

World's Fattest Man In Mexico

Manuel Uribe is the world's fattest man and he lives in Mexico. His starting weight was 580 kg/1200 pounds. Now he had a weight loss surgery and lost 160 kg/350 pounds in a few months.He is still over 400kg/850 pounds. After five years he was able to leave his house and come out on the street and celebrate...

Get ready for the coolest, most colorful shades on the planet. Chemists at the University of Washington in Seattle say they are developing 'smart' sunglasses that will allow the wearer to instantly change the color of their lenses to virtually any hue...

Gamer Widow

A Gamer Widow is a term for those who have a relationship with a Gamer who pays more attention to the game than to their partner.... thereby making their partner a 'gamer widow' (female) or 'gamer widower' (male). In general we say 'gamer widow' and encompass both male and female community members.Most...

Accidents In Reverse

Sometimes accidents are funny to watch.It's even more funnier to watch them in rever...

How To Get Rid Of Stuff

How to Get Rid of Stuff is a free resource provided in an effort to aid you in getting rid of those things in your life that you would just rather be without.Like how to get rid of spyware, of a cold, of acne, of cigarette smell, of ants, of blood or coffee stains, and yes, even how to get rid of boyfriends...

Sculptor Jen Stark makes beautiful, hypnotic statues by precisely cutting patterns out of layers and layers of bright-colored construction paper.(via Boing Boi...

Search Engine Smackdown

Search Engine Smackdown is a fun flash game where you can be the Google founders (Larry Page and Sergey Brin), Yahoo founders (Jerry Yang and David Filo), or Microsoft founders (Bill Gates and Paul Allen) and duke it out with each other in a wrestling...

Michael K. Brandow - Lawyer

Michael K. Brandow is an experienced trial lawyer with more than 16 years experience in Illinois Workers' Compensation and employer liability matters.But Michael is not your every day lawyer. He really gets his teeth in a case. He's a tiger! Just look at his picture on his si...

Liesweiter is a German weblog with some interesting articles. That is, if you can read them. Liesweiter is almost completely set in morse code. Although it doesn't read easily and quickly, I can understand what the articles are about because I was a...

Google Job Opportunities

Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals.The Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.)...

From American Inventor Spot:When you and your lady are going out together, you somehow end up holding her purse. It would be ok, if her handbag was something manly or cool like a man purse or a hunting knife, but inevitably, it's something dainty with...

Bao Xishun, 55, from China is 7 foot 9 inches tall. He has never been married or even dated because of his extreme height. In February this year, he met a 28 year-old girl named Xia, and they fell in love.Just a couple of days ago, Bao Xishun and Xia...

The Reality Of Running Away From Stuff

We've all seen movie characters escape from a lot of stuff. Some of it almost believable, some of it downright silly. The movie The Time Machine shows our heroes free-climbing up a 100 foot cliff and then racing to safety up a mountain to escape a large explosion. In The Mummy Returns, a hero actually...

Mini Wonderland Hamburg's warehouse district in Germany is home to one of the world's largest model railway tracks. Every half hour, day turns to night in this miniature world. This is one of the biggest mock-up railways of the world.Over 450 railway...

Zoomquilt 2

Zoomquilt is a collaborative art project from 2005. It involves the use of optical illusion, and a series of interlocking frame images to create a never-ending series of images when compiled in a programmed loop.You certainly remember the original Zoomquilt.Now...

Many people have the dream of being a gypsy, a dream of travel and freedom. For every housetruck or housebus, there is an artist who has built it to meet their individual nee...

The Builders

Not sure if I posted this one before.Bizarre creatures attempt to find answers to big questions.(via Everlasting Blo...

Linkdump

Gummi Bear Sculptures10 Reasons You Aren't Rich10 Ways to Create a Breakthrough In Your LifeHow I'd Hack Your Weak Passwo...

The Car Music Project was conceived in late 1991 by composer Bill Milbrodt when his personal car, a battered and road-weary 1982 Honda Accord, was nearing the end of its useful life.After the car was entirely dismantled, metal sculpturer Ray Faunce...

The Wind Tunnel Footbridge is a new covered bridge for the 21st century; a design proposal for a new kind of wind activated footbridge made of steel and aluminum. As the wind blows, the five wind turbine wheels turn at different speeds around the people...

Chelsea Guitars.(thanks Elli...

The Onitsuka Tiger shoe is made of Japan. It's made out of tiny images and every image links to something Japanese on the Internet today. Click on the shoe and see were it takes you.Just remember the world wide web is pretty big and Onitsuka Tiger cannot...

Ticker Maker

Here's a nice RSS Ticker Maker. The Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube which I'm using here is one of several mashed-up news tickers that use the new Pipes service from Yahoo! to deliver up-to-date data in a dated style. Clicking on the spinning newspaper gets you to the post in full on this website.iframe#flowpop...

Chocolate, in all of its varied forms, is probably the world's favorite confection. Several psychiatrists have recently speculated that, because the substance contains phenylethylamine, depressed people may resort to chocolate binges in an unknowing...

Famous Pairs is a deliciously absurd collection of portraits celebrating some of history's most noteworthy twosomes. From Adam and Eve, to Bonnie and Clyde, to Bill Clinton and you-know-who, you've never seen couples captured in quite the same way.Here...

Manwash

You all know what a carwash is.But have you ever heard of a manwash?It's the same! Well, almo...

The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company

We collect naturally dried elephant dung from elephant conservation parks and bring it back to our paper-making factory. We then pre-rinse the elephant dung with water, leaving only the fibrous materials from the grasses, bamboo and fruits they've eaten.Afterwards, we place the fibers into a giant pot...

A Worth1000 contest.Celebrities always have to have the latest accessories: expensive purses, chihuahuas, adopted African children... whatever it takes to stay in the limelight.This year, the latest new trend is miniature clones, as made popular in...

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...

It's a dude. You see him still standing here but trust me, he's going to fall.(via Reality Carniv...

How to go frozen lake fishing?Take a frozen lake. Put a cabin on it.Drill some holes. And there you go!Frozen Lake Fishi...

10 Steps For Boosting Creativity

Imagine what life would be like if you could generate a string of wild ideas at will. And to be known by everyone as a creative genius.Here are 10 steps for boosting your creativity.But please, take it 'cum grano salis.' A measure of healthy skepticism should be applied regarding these claims, at least...

My, according to this map there is a lot of trouble going on in the world.The Global Trouble Alert Map aggregates over 50 types pf disaster and misfortune in real time. Clicking on the icons gives a zoomed-in Google Maps view along with newswire info...

Free Photo Booth

A free photo booth?You know you will get pranked.(via constant ravin...

What Would I Be If...

Gotinha of BLOGotinha gave me a challenge.What would I be if I were...If I was an hour of the day... I would be the hour between 20.00 and 21.00If I was a planet... I would be EarthIf I was a direction... I would be straight aheadIf I was a piece of furniture... I would be a couchIf I was a liquid......

Ad Slogan Tournament

Slate has an advertising slogan tournament. Which commercial catchphrase is the best of all time? You choose between pairs of advertising slogans and decide who moves on to the next round.Then choose again on your favorites to advance them through the tournament.My winner is 'Got Milk?' from the California...

Wake N' Bacon Alarm Clock

An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon. A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n' Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking...

Cities Around The World

Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographic Society Library.The images selected for this project focus on architecture, city life, people, transportation and other aspects of urban development, such as neighborhoods, commercial...

As a matter of fact, if you surf the net as much as I do, you do see these things every day.Pictures from a PowerPoint Slide Show by Hakan Altund...

The Incredible Mouth Band

A band that instead of playing instruments, just repeatedly spoke the title of their instrument to the tune of the so...

The 50 Most Important People On The Web

Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web.PC World considered hundreds of the Web's most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the W...

Doors will soon open to reveal one of the mysteries of the Great Pyramid in Giza.Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he will show what lies behind secret doors inside the 4,500-year-old pharaonic mausoleum by the end...

Profile Of A Memphis Belle

Meet Anna Clifford. She looks kind of normal, doesn't she? The 25-year old Tennessee woman was arrested on a drunk driving rap. According to Memphis cops, Clifford was weaving across the road in a 2000 Chevy when she was pulled over.Nothing special...

A life size whale on your scre...

The Museum Of Lost Interactions

Do you know what a richophone is? Or a prat sampler, an acoustograph, a chordmaster, or a pester?The Museum of Lost Interactions has a collection of forgotten communication and entertainment media.(via Optical Poptitu...

Woody Rat is traveling the world.My name is Woody. I live in Vlezenbeek, close to Brussels, the capital of Belgium. I left my home and my family to start my journey on June 6, 2006. My mission: to see the world! If I am your guest today, it's thanks...

World Against Toys Causing Harm

W.A.T.C.H.'s annual '10 Worst Toys' list nominates representative toys with the potential to cause childhood injuries, or even death. W.A.T.C.H.'s annual 'Toy Conference' has generated extensive national press and media coverage.Because of these efforts, and the positive response from both the media...

MTV brings back the pains of puberty. Director Clay Weiner created some character-driven tales about that miserable time known as puberty.Zits, farts, burps, doo-doo's, boogers, and all the other joys of young adulthood are together again in these...

After almost five years of sustained construction effort, in the late Spring of 1868 the Central Pacific Railroad finally 'conquered' the Sierra Nevada Mountains with the successful completion at Donner Pass of its 1,659-foot Tunnel #6 (aka 'The Summit...

Heavy Seas

Footage from a helicopter of the passenger cruiser 'Voyager' caught in heavy seas.(via Ursi's Bl...

The Wave Chaise is a design by Roberta Rammê from Brazil.Designer's own words:Imagine a furniture to wear... then dress it with an innovator design, intense colors, ergonomics and technology appeal. Like in fashion, the point is to unify beauty, comfort,...

Bugs Rock is an animated website by the Metro Toronto Zoo to celebrate the arrival of Jeb, a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach. Jeb plays in a rock and roll band. Hissing Cockroaches are the largest of their kind, wingless, and because of their entertaining...

What We Are Searching For

Philipp of Google Blogoscoped has hacked together a little page that randomly juxtaposes actual search queries from the AOL log files leak with portraits found on Google Imag...

Father Or Mother Of Something

Wikipedia has a list of men and women described as father or mother of something. This does not always mean they invented, discovered or originated the thing with which they are associated. It also does not mean that they always have been or currently are considered a father or mother of it.Examples...

Snow rollers are cylindrical masses of snow that range from the size of a fist to about 4 feet long. They resemble bales of hay. It's the same principle as making a snowman, except it's nature doing the rolling.The snow has to be fresh and moist enough...

Canned Radiation from Three Mile Island produced by Brenster Enterprises of Etters Pennsylvania. This was probably the most popular souvenir associated with the accident at Three Mile Island. The six suggested uses indicated on the label were:* Remove...

First Video Of Grand Canyon's Glass Skywalk

A few lucky visitors got an early glimpse of the Grand Canyon's Glass Skywalk which officially opens on March ...

Encyclopedia Pictura is a directing collective of a group of friends who all went to the Academy of Art in San Francisco. They make very bizarre, creepy, and insane vide...

Windows Vista - Arrogance And Stupidity

From Andrew Grygus:Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Federal Aviation Administration, technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies. These organizations are...

Neatorama has a nice article about the 10 most magnificent trees in the world. From the Lone Cypress in Monterey to the amazing Baobab trees of Madagasc...

Linkdump

Stockholm SubwayWinter on MarsHow Police Interrogation WorksGreek Gods Family TreeThe Ultimate Google Search Gu...

Beautiful Dixie.(thanks Lin...

Shorpy - The 100 Year Old Photo Blog

Shorpy is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating.Shorpy starts with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey...

On April 1st, two fools who barely know each other will travel from Hong Kong to London in 4 months and 10 days, culminating in a black tie gala on August 11th.Heath Buck and Douglas Campbell will be using the internet to directly connect people to...

Search With Kevin

Every time you search the with Kevin web you stand a chance of winning a prize from Kevin Federline. SearchWithKevin.com is a Yahoo! powered search engine that offers you the chance to win cool prizes from Kevin Federline every time you search.Every day they pick random winning times. If you are the...

Gotta Go Briefcase

The Gotta Go Briefcase is the #1 briefcase when you have to go #2. From American Inventor Spot:The Gotta Go Briefcase will surely inspire the business savvy men and women of the world climbing the corporate ladder who will stop at nothing to get an...

Mind refers to the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will and imagination.Second Attention MindSearch helps you find the best mind expanding news, articles, media...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Aliens

Where are they lurking?When will we find them?And will pictures of naked people impress them?20 Things You Didn't Know About Alie...

This is just weird. A coffin computer with some front side ports and jacks, an LCD screen embedded in the coffin door, and a slide out keyboa...

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