unique and interesting: July 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation

The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos as children. Each year, over 6,000 people...

Lifted

When an overconfident teen alien gets behind the controls of a spaceship, he must attempt to abduct a slumbering farmer under the watchful eye of a critical instructor. But abducting humans requires precision and a gentle touch, and within a few missteps it's painfully clear why more humans don't go...

How To Predict The Weather Without A Forecast

Long before technology was developed to predict the weather, people had to rely on observation, patterns and folklore to avoid being caught off guard by the elements. In 650 BC, the Babylonians predicted the weather from cloud patterns. In about 340 BC, Aristotle described weather patterns in Meteorologica....

The Père-Lachaise Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the city of Paris, France. It is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life...

10 Products To Keep Your Pets Cool

From Inventor Spot:In summertime, it is important to take precautions against the danger of heat exhaustion and heatstroke for your pets. After all, cats and dogs don't release body heat by sweating. Instead they cool down by releasing heat through their footpads and by panting - ways that aren't always...

The world's largest toilet has opened in Chongqing, China. There are more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 30,000 square feet. Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several topped by the bust of a woman...

Top 40 Best Sand Sculptur...

Spot The Knockoff

Can you spot a fake Prada wallet a mile away? Are you sure? Not only have the counterfeiters who stock knockoff markets become more savvy about replicating telltale details, they're copying niche brands you might not expect.Can you tell faux from fashionable?Try...

The Teachings Of Diogenes

Diogenes of Sinope was a Greek philosopher who lived ca. 400 - ca. 325 B.C. He was the most famous exponent of Cynicism, which called for a closer imitation of nature, the repudiation of most human conventions, and complete independence of mind and spirit.But he was also a very playful philosopher who...

Girls! Get your man and make him yours forever. Don't sit at home alone at night, waiting for the phone call that never comes. Enjoy the thrill that every woman craves.Learn how you too can win and keep the man you love with the Mancatcher Voodoo K...

How To Overcome Papaphobia

Defined as a persistent, abnormal and irrational Fear of the Pope, each year, this common phobia causes millions of people needless distress. The financial toll of this phobia is incalculable. Living with fear means you can never concentrate fully and give your best.Papaphobia will likely cost you tens,...

Animal experts from Paultons Park near Romsey, Hampshire, England, have discovered an ingenious new way to stop their meerkats fighting, by using VapoRub, a humble cold remedy. The staff were concerned that their two existing meerkats would fight with...

The Best Dangerous Science Jobs

A biosafety Level 4 lab researcher and a propulsion engineer have very dangerous jobs. But did you know that grad students are number 6 on a list of dangerous science jobs?Even the most mundane job in science is hazardous if you don't know what you're doing. Grad students in labs around the world are...

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...

Jumping Spider Mating Ritual

An interesting video of a male jumping spider trying to impress a female spider. This particular spider bobs his body and waves gis front legs in a higly specific manner. But the most interesting part are auditory signals, sounding like buzzes and drum rolls.(via Nothing To Do With Arbroa...

Do you know what the corresponding aspect of these two pictures is? Yes, of course you know because you've seen the title of this post. Indeed, both are showing food with 120 calories.More pictures of how 120 calories look li...

We all know that the choices we make and the medical conditions we have affect our lives. This Real Age Calculator shows how greatly we can alter our lives simply by cutting out that donut or smiling more. Answer some questions and get your Real Age.Here...

The Mutato Collection is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables found at Berlin Super- and Farmer Markets.The Mutato Project serves to document and archive the last survivors of biological variety.(via Grow-A-Bra...

Tea too strong? Too weak? Problem solved. This nattily attired tea penguin always brews the perfect cup.Set the timer for your ideal brew time (from 1 minute up to 20) and he lowers the teabag into the water. When the time is up, he lifts it o...

Nano Journeys whisk you away to the micro and nano cosmos. On various routes you can gradually 'shrink yourself' into worlds invisible to us and penetrate into the smallest known dimensions of our universe.(via Ursi's Bl...

The Hornet Spook Light

photographs by Ed Gibson, Grove, OklahomaTwelve miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri, USA, a roughly paved road runs through a narrow canyon. Nearby is the former border village of Hornet, and close to that is the site of what once was a spook light museum....

World Database Of Happiness

The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic wo...

All over the Internet, reports are flooding in of angry computers attacking their users. A closer look reveals they all have one thing in common: a new Nokia N95 was on the scene of each incident.The Healthy Computer Volunteer Group came to a clear...

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Top Ten Of Worst Natural DisastersWhat Road Signs Really MeanPrevention's Anti-Aging Gu...

And you thought superheroes existed only in fiction? Inspired by fiction superheroes such as Batman and Superman, these people wear masks and capes in order to fight real crime on the streets. Here's a list with 10 of the most famous real-life supe...

Historical Sounds

Historical Sounds in MP3 Format is a collection of audio files intended to archive the greatest speeches in recorded history. Most of the files are from the 20th century, but there are a few exceptions, such as the Edison recordin...

Clever Google Tricks Worth Knowing

Find the face behind the result, find free anonymous web proxies, judge a site by its image, Google for music, videos, and ebooks, and some other clever Google tric...

10 Worst Drivers Ever Caught On Video

This is about people that obviously lack the requisite skills to operate a motor vehicle - who were also unfortunate enough to have the evidence caught on fi...

Things That Are Difficult To Say When You're Drunk

There are things that are difficult to say when you're drunk. There are also things that are very difficult to say when you're drunk. And then there are things that are downright impossible to say when you're dru...

Over 50 redheads rode the subway together and protested a Manhattan Wendy's for their 'racist logo.'(via Cynical-C Bl...

A Study On Phone Carrying

Information from a series of Nokia street surveys conducted between 2003 and 2006 that explored where people carry their mobile phones and why.The mobile phone's effectiveness as a communication device is partly dependent on its owner noticing incoming communication and it was assumed by the authors...

The Virtual Egyptian Museum brings you a collection of antiquities never shown before in the New World. No one has seen any of these artifacts in a 'real museum' for the past 25 years.In the Virtual Egyptian Museum, the almost unlimited amount of space...

System Administrator Appreciation Day

ployees may often take for granted that when they arrive at work, all they need to do is turn on their workstations, click on some desktop icons and start checking e-mail and doing their work. But, somewhere at the company headquarters is a room with lots of machines, lots of wires, lots of blinking...

Songs for Ice Cream Truc...

List Of Artificial Objects On The Moon

A list of artificial objects on the surface of the Moon. They have been abandoned after having served their purpose. The list does not include smaller objects such as the retroreflectors and Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package.Nor does it include several commemorative or personal objects left there...

I Like Turtles

Ten-year-old Jonathan Ware of Milwaukie, Oregon, was asked by a reporter what he thought of his elaborate face paint. Jonathon stared zombie-like into the camera lens and said, 'I like turtle...

The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology here in the Netherlands has embarked on a four-year project to develop 'the ultra-eco-friendly plane' which happens to be a flying saucer.The faculty is currently hard at work recruiting...

The Collected Works Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche is unchallenged as the most insightful and powerful critic of the moral climate of the 19th century. His exploration of unconscious motivations anticipated Freud.He is notorious for stressing the 'will to power' that is the basis of human nature, the 'resentment' that comes when...

The Mafia has controlled everything from the street corner drug trade to the highest levels of government. Glorified by movies and television, hounded by law enforcement officials, marked for death by their enemies, mobsters live violent and often brief...

Oscar is a hospice cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Oscar seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final...

101 Amazing Earth Facts

What is the hottest place on Earth? And the coldest place? How far does regular dust blow in the wind? Has the Moon always been so close? What is the wettest place on Earth? How old is Earth? Are rivers alive?101 Amazing Earth Fac...

People who work at their desks all day tend to stay in one position for a long time.Physical Activity at Work has videos that are designed to counter the effects of sitting at your de...

With its detailed satellite photos, Google's interactive map lets everyone be a virtual globetrotter. And some of the things to be found are downright bizar...

Camera Illusion

This is an interesting camera illusi...

A series of Photoshopped movie posters starring fish.(via Neatora...

Messin' With Sasquatch

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While Dudeism in its official form has been organized as a religion only recently, it has existed down through the ages in one form or another. Probably the earliest form of Dudeism was the original form of Chinese Taoism, before it went all weird with...

Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like science fiction, doesn't it?Unfortunately, the scenario isn't fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters,...

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now British newspaper The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush...

The Orb is a new generation of mobile structures created specifically to fire the imagination of a younger, style conscious generation. It has been designed to appeal across three distinct markets: commercial show units, holiday park homes and adaptable...

Robot sculptures by Gordon Bennett, made from a mixture of found objects which are both old an new. The parts are found in various places including garbage dumps, basements, construction sites, and garage sales. (via Everlasting Blo...

Uniqlock

It's a clock, but a very unusual o...

The sea contains untold numbers of strange and bizarre creatures. It is said that we know more about our own solar system than we know about our oceans.Indeed, some creatures of the sea can seem more alien than anything you can imagine. But even worse,...

Pikifx is a website that allows users to upload their image and add a range of cool effects while online. Basically you can make your images look cool without having any desktop software installed or the knowledge on how to use the software. You can...

The official site of the saddest caveman in the world.(via Miss Cellan...

What would happen if you were to connect all the ZIP codes in the US in ascending order? Is there a system behind the assignment of ZIP codes? Are they organized in a grid? The result is surprising and much more interesting than expect...

Ice cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products, such as cream, combined with flavorings and sweeteners, such as sugar. In the fifth century BC, ancient Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of Athens. Roman emperor...

Accidents with ships, containers or on containertermina...

The Which Lolcat Are You? Test

You've heard of lolcats, haven't you? If not, go here.Now there's the Which Lolcat Are You? Test. Answer questions and be awarded the title of one of 8 notorious lolca...

Eight Things

I have been tagged with a blogging meme by Jon Baas. The rules state that I must share eight little known random facts about myself. So, here we go!Eight little-known facts about me:*1. I spent my education on a boarding school where, at the age of 11, I had to speak French because the school was founded...

My Faux Paws was born when our resident designer, 'Vyra Wag,' was looking for a way to combine two of her favorite things, animals, and dressing people. 'Ms Wag' worked on many shows, usually involving herself in sets, props, and, what else? Costumes!Even...

Atlas Of Faiths

A map of the world's different religio...

Laws Of Cat Physics

* Law of Cat Stretching: A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken. * Law of Furniture Replacement: A cat's desire to scratch furniture is directly proportional to the cost of the furniture.* Law of Cat Sleeping: All cats must sleep with people whenever possible,...

Weird Facts

While driving from Beloit, Wisconsin, company founder Benjamin Hirsch, the developer of Plastone car polish, stopped at a place named Turtle Creek, rested by a stream, and was struck by his reflection in the water.Realizing that his car polish provided a wax coating as tough as a turtle shell and as...

Haruo Suekichi from Japan has made thousands of watches, each with an individual name. His watches are not like anything you have ever seen. He's a Steampunk Watchmaker.Steampunk refers to a subgenre of speculative science fiction which came into prominence...

What happens when you put eggs in the microwave? Or a football, ketchup packets, gummy worms, christmas lights, soap, or crayons?Look what happens when these items are heated ...

Traffic Wardens Need Love is a movement of people who feel traffic wardens need more love. They are only doing their job, and everybody seems to hate them.This website is a portal for traffic wardens all over the world to come to visit and see just...

45 Freeware Design Programs

Do you like to draw, edit images, illustrate, create animations, or do some 3D modeling? Then here are 45 design programs to download that are absolutely fr...

Leonardo da Vinci wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however.He usually used 'mirror writing,' starting at the right side of the page and...

People playing chess on roller coasters, inspired by a web com...

Arnold Height

One of the world's most puzzling questions is 'How tall is Arnold Schwarzenegger?' This is unknown, although it is estimated he's somewhere between 5'9" and 6'2". Arnoldheight.com is a team consisting of around 200 scientists working around the clock...

Who Is Miss American Pie?

The meaning behind the lyrics of Don McLean's American P...

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Contemporary Japanese Bamboo ArtThe Art of Living in Small PlacesTop 10 Weirdest ToiletsThe English-to-American Dictionary200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productiv...

The most accurate time piece ever invented! Precisely accurate in all time zones throughout the entire universe. A timely reminder of the only moment that really matte...

Thriller

Michael Jackson's Thriller by 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippin...

New York Subway Map Of The Intern...

News Anchors Can't Stop Laughing At Falling Model

NBC anchor Jim Vance reports on a story out of Paris Fashion Week, where a runway model fell down not once, but twice on her way back from the end of the catwalk. Vance and company can barely keep it together to finish reporting ...

What a great idea. The major goal of the Five Day Weekend is simple: to reverse the workweek so that Americans clock in for two good days of work, followed by five well-earned days off.Why? Because overwork has become a major problem for Americans,...

If today is your birthday, here's a funny birthday so...

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