The Ultimate Bed, the bed that pays for itse...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
World Clock
A nice world clock with lots of extra information like world population, prison growth, Earth temperature, forest lost, cars produced, e...
Rick Roll
Have you ever been 'Rick Rolled'?Do you know what a 'Rick Roll' is?Click here and you will find o...
FiveFingers
FiveFingers is an alternative to conventional footwear. It's the first and only footwear to offer the exhilarating feelings of going barefoot. FiveFingers enhances your natural walking motion and gently spreads your toes to strengthen foot muscles,...
Beware Of Prince Charles
In the future, if Prince Charles decides to marry, somebody please warn the Pope. Why?Here's w...
Surviving A Zombie Apocalyps
What are your chances of surviving a Zombie apocalyps?Mine are very d...
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Principality Of Hutt River
The Principality of Hutt River is Australia's oldest micronation. It has purported to be a self-proclaimed independent sovereign state since its foundation, but has never been recognised as such by the Commonwealth of Australia or any other state.It...
Domain Hacks
A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that combines domain labels, especially the top-level domain, to spell out the full 'name' or title of the domain, making a kind of pun.For example the second-level domain 'blo.gs' makes use of the top level domain .gs (South Georgia and the South Sandwich...
How To Get Free Food At McDonalds
I'm not suggesting you try this yourself. This is only to show you how easy it is to get free food at McDonald's. But remember, it's actually steali...
Why Of Course... It's A Zorse
The animal in this picture has not been Photoshopped.It's a zorse!Dad was a zebra stallion, mum was a horse. The animal, called Eclyse, can be seen at a safari park in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany.(via J-Walk Bl...
Guerilla Gardening
Yesterday I posted an item about Guerilla Marketing. Presurfer reader cb from digimills said in the comments he prefered Guerilla Gardening. I had never heard of Guerilla Gardening before.Guerilla Gardening is all about the illicit cultivation of neglected...
Beware The Dangers Of Oxygen
There's a caustic substance common to our environment whose very presence turns iron into brittle rust, dramatically increases the risk of fire and explosion, and sometimes destroys the cells of the very organisms that depend on it for survival.This substance that makes up 21% of our atmosphere is Diatomic...
The Radical Rodents
The Radical Rodents are the coolest and hippest mice in the world. They are all mad keen surfers and their names are Chopsticks, Bunsen, Harry and Curly.(via Miss Cellan...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Lion Whisperer
Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of attack. Richardson, 32, who is based in a wildlife conservation area near Johannesburg in South...
Rare 'Smiling' Bird Photographed For First Time
The rare recurve-billed bushbird, recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence, sports a curving beak that gives the illusion of an enigmatic smile. This photograph is the first ever taken of a live bushbi...
10 Useless Or Even Dangerous First Aid Myths
Tip your head back to stop a nosebleed. Slap a raw steak on a black eye. Pee on a jellyfish sting. Suck venom from a snakebite.Old wives tales, that's what these often heard remedies are. If you try any of these myths, you may run the risk of having an adverse reaction or the opposite result of what...
Guerilla Marketing
Guerrilla marketing is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities on a very low budget.Such promotions are sometimes designed so that the target audience is left unaware they have been marketed to.More examples of guerilla marketi...
Weigh Less... Wireless
A free collection of 'Weigh Less... Wireless' cell phone images for the iPhone.The images are meant to help you remember to make healthier choices in what you're eating as often as you can, or if you really want to eat some fast food or a special treat,...
Sonic Chair
The Sonic chair offers a special auditive experience because you sit in the middle of the sound center. Whether you enjoy a symphony orchestra, a pop concert or a radio play - the integrated loudspeakers are finely co-ordinated with your hearing.Several...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Psychological Card Trick
A card trick created by Richard Wiseman. The first time you watch this you probably wonder how it is done. Watch it a second time and I'm sure you'll figure it o...
The Map Room
The Map Room is a weblog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.Launched in March 2003, The Map Room is aimed at...
Driver Destroys Entire Cornfield
This happened just a couple of miles from where I live.A driver who was high on cocaine destroyed an entire cornfield in an attempt to escape from the police. Four police cars were destroyed before the 35-year-old crashed into a ditch and was arrested,...
How To Pour Ketchup
Are you one of those people who taps at the bottom of an inverted ketchup bottle, waiting in frustration for the sauce to pour? I am speaking of traditional ketchup bottles, not squeeze tubes, wide-mouth jars, or bottles designed to stand on their heads....
ScienceHack
ScienceHack is a unique video search engine for science videos. Every video is screened and approved based on accuracy and quality by scientists.So far the following fields of science are indexed: Physics, Chemistry, and Space. Coming soon: Geology, Psychology, Robotics and Comput...
The Half-Bridge Of Hope
Nikola-Lenivets is a tiny village in the Kaluga region in Russia. Recently it has become well-known in Moscow art circles thanks to Timur Bashkayev's 'Half-Bridge of Hope,' a giant wedge that plunges over the outcropping's edge and tapers to nothing...
Monday, June 25, 2007
The Dramatic Prairie Dog
Remember the video of the 'Dramatic Prairie Dog' I posted last Thursday? Now someone created a weblog dedicated to the little critter. Dozens of people have send their own version of this vid...
We're Not From Here
Scientist from the University of Massachusetts announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy. It seems we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy.Using...
Apple Form Factor Evolution
Apple Form Factor Evolution. From 1976 through 2007.Here are some amazing pictures of the history of App...
Linkdump
10 Reasons To Drink More WaterWhat Spices to UseTimeline of Web BrowsersFunny VegetablesTop 10 Uses for Used Coffee GroundsTricks to Keep Your House Cool this Sum...
Ancient Astronauts
The term 'Ancient Astronauts' generally refers to extraterrestrials who came to Earth and were in some way responsible for seeding the human race. There are references to these entities in the bible, in ancient art and other texts.Most of us would love to find evidence of ancient astronauts, be visited...
Dead Sodas
Eleven of the most-dead soft drinks, each with its own story to tell, each way past its expiration date.Relive the glories of things you used to dri...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Amsterdam Bicycles
Someone from San Francisco, USA, took 82 pictures of bicycles during 73 minutes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.I stopped in Amsterdam, Netherlands on my way back from a motorcycle trip. During a 73 minute period at one corner of a nice open square, I...
The Hanging Bridge Of Bilbao
I've never seen a bridge like the Hanging Bridge of Bilbao in Spain. Officially opened in 1893, it was built by engineer Alberto de Palacio, a disciple of the Frenchman Gustave Eiffel. The bridge transports people and cars across the river Nervión every few minutes.(via deputyd...
Mid-Air Computer Mouse
Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent...
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...
Wear Your Seat
Creator Olivier Peyricot calls it a self-service design. It's a padded cushion you can wear as a backpack and use it as a seat wherever you are. It doesn't seem to feel uncomfortable wearing it but it does make you look kind of stup...
Ultimate Celebrity
A Worth1000 Photoshop contest.Obviously, Hollywood has been improving its stars with photomanipulation for years: erasing wrinkles, removing fat, filling in bald spots. But they haven't been able to create entirely new paragons of beauty from scratch...
Are You A Computer Geek?
Step aside Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Steve Jobs... because I am by far the Supreme Computer God! At least that was the outcome of the 'Are You a Computer Geek' quiz I took. According to the dictionary a geek is a technically oriented person, someone...
Linkdump
How to Memorize AnythingLaurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks12 of the Best Music Social NetworksDo Not Use Wayne as Your Child's Middle NamePhilosophy of Hist...
Faces For Charity
When you think Formula One cars, you think 'fast', then 'logos'. Well, most normal people do. And for the simple reason they're fast, and usually covered in logos, lots of logos. At Red Bull, we like the idea that our Formula 1 cars go fast, but thought...
Two Year Old Girl Becomes Youngest Ever Member In Mensa
Mensa is the largest, oldest, and best-known high-IQ society in the world. The organization restricts its membership to people with high testable IQs. Specifically, potential members must score within the top 2% of any approved standardized intelligence...
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Age Progression
Forensic Compositing does age progression/regression to help investigators solve crimes and find missing people. This service is also available for the general public. Ever wonder what your child will look like in 10 years? Have you lost a loved one...
The Battle Of Los Angeles
Something very odd happened in the early mourning hours of February 25, 1942. An aircraft flew over LA County that sparked an air raid alert. Searchlights and guns were locked onto the aircraft for about an hour. That alert was unlike any other.The...
MythBusters Results
MythBusters is an American popular 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.MythBusters Results shows the outcome...
The 80s Movies Rewind
A site to learn about those awesome retro movies that made the '80s one of the most exciting and diverse in cinema history. Like an online eighties encyclopedia, there are pages full of info, pictures, trivia, soundtrack details, trailers, filming locations and much, much mo...
Friday, June 22, 2007
What's My Blog Rated?
If this blog was a movie, what would it be rated? I try to keep this weblog accessible for all ages. You won't find any shocking items, obscene writing or pictures of naked ladies here. And I think I'm doing a good job with that, because my blog was...
The Women Of Wikipedia
From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, Wikipedia features women scientists, artists, entertainers, leaders, and entrepreneurs.The Women of Wikiped...
The Weird Things People Eat Around The World
Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hou...
Map Machine
This is the Tele Atlas map machine, a Toyota van tricked out with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, laser range detectors and global positioning hardware.In 2004 Tele Atlas, a Dutch company, started Mobile Mapping, a state-of-the-art field...
The Abydos Helicopter And Secrets Of The Golden Section
At Abydos, Egypt, in the ancient temple built by Seti I, and his son Ramses II, on a heavy stone slab supporting the ceiling are hieroglyphical writings, which are illustrated by a most eye catching, and thought provoking scene - an array of four futuristic...
Thursday, June 21, 2007
GorgeousPil
Alex Chiu is a San Francisco, California businessman who has invented a number of products that he claims achieve remarkable results in healing. He is best known for his Immortality Device.Now he has a new product called Gorgeouspil.This pill was named...
Journey To Chernobyl
Yesterday I posted The Ghost of Chernobyl, a series of photos of dead towns around Pripyat 21 years after the major nuclear power plant accident on April 26, 1986.Presurfer reader Mark visited the Chernobyl area in June 2006> He toured the Chernobyl Plant (including the Reactor 4 control room), several...
Sorted Books
Sorted Books is a project by Nina Katchadourian. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from...
Bacon Robots
Use our simple reservation system to schedule your appointment when you want it, and select the type and quantity of bacon. Do not make a mistake when filling out your information. Lying to the computer is punishable by death.When your appointment comes,...
Inkjet Printers Are Filthy, Lying Thieves
A new study says that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted when users toss them in the garbage.According to the study, users are tossing the cartridges when their printers are telling them they're out of ink, not when they necessarily are out of i...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Hillary Spoofs 'Sopranos' Finale
A diner and a jukebox. A nostalgic song. A long fade to black. It worked as a finale for 'The Sopranos.' It now marks a new beginning for 'The Clintons.' Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign unveiled its new campaign song with a web video that spoofs the final scene of the popular HBO mobster...
Weird Discovery Made On The High Seas
In August 2006, the yacht 'Maiken' was travelling in the south Pacific when they came across a weird sig...
Vatican Issues 10 Commandments For Motorists
Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.That's one of the 10 commandments the Vatican issued yesterday. The set of commandments tells motorists not to kill, not to drink and drive, and to help fellow travelers in case of accidents....
Most Photogenic Chess Players
Most photogenic chess players of the Torino Chess Olympiad 2006.(thanks San...
Have A Slogan
Terrible things mixed with popular commercial slogans. Click on Murphy (that's the guy pointing his finger) to generate a random slogan.Get your own slogan generator.(via Larry Hnetka Goes HMm...
Linkdump
39 Ways to Live, and Not Merely ExistOld VinylWorst Photoshop EverThe World's Worst Currenc...
Company Of American Girls
Art, female identity, and day-to-day life intersect in Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs. Deeply focused on the worlds of her daughter and other girls, Pinney's work tells a story of girlhood as it's being written.(thanks The Morning Ne...
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