unique and interesting: August 2007

Friday, August 31, 2007

Monster Spider Web Spun In Texas

Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in Lake Tawokoni State Park in Texas.Spider experts say the web may have been constructed...

300+ Tools And Resources For Firefox

As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. In this list, Mashable has collected over 300 of the be...

Maps For Us has all sorts of strange maps. Like maps of Super Mario World, the Migration of the Wildebeest, Bear Density In Ontario, Rio De Janeiro's Lunatic Asylum, One-Eyed Willy’s Treasure, and many, many mo...

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10 Reasons Why You Should Be CuriousThe 40 Coolest Free Applications AroundOffender LocatorUnnecessary Quotation MarksThe 50 Best Cookie Recipes on the InternetTop 10 Ways to Look Like a Total Toolbag20 Reasons Not to Move to Du...

With the ever encroaching nanny state movement in America, let's stop and look at some of the most silliest things the feds have decided to disallow the use, importation, possession and/or sale of to protect you from yourself.(via Nag on the La...

In many cases the architectural horrors shown on this page were left 'as is,' without any fixes. The tenants and businesses moved into these structures, leaving passersby and photographers to marvel at their idiotic constructi...

Glowing Fingernails

Mini glow sticks are built into the plastic finger nails. Bend the nail gently, attach the included two sided tape to both your own finger nail and the plastic one and watch the reaction.This product is packed in a great looking counter display box...

Miss Teen South Carolina Strikes Back

We've all had our fun at her expense, watching and re-watching her incredible and bizarre answer during the Miss Teen USA pageant.Now, 18-year old Lauren Caitlin Upton offers you the chance to show how smart YOU are! Get the right answers to 7 questions...

Ever wondered how you'd look when you were born posh? Find out with enduring years of public school or ever having to wear a cravat.Upload a photo, create your blue-blooded doppelgänger and experience centuries of breeding in a matter of minut...

From Rats Are People Too, pictures of yawning rats.(via J-Walk Bl...

Nippon Television's producers have obviously never heard of the Geneva Convention. If they had, they wouldn't have treated poor Nasubi the way they did. They wouldn't have stripped him naked and shut him in an apartment, alone with no food, furniture,...

Knight Vs Viacom

Christopher Knight is a writer, photographer and film maker. Multimedia giant Viacom is claiming that he has violated their copyright by posting on YouTube a segment from it's VH1 show Web Junk 2.0... which VH1 produced -without permission -from a video that he had originally created.Viacom used his...

Indian Superman

Superman, with Indian actor Govind Arun Ahuja.(thanks nikh...

Wonderful photographs by Herman Leonard of some of the greatest names in jazz.(via Information Ju...

Panda Bear Cub Development

Here's an amazing series of photographs documenting the first three months of a panda bear's grow...

Remember the video I showed about Miss Teen South Carolina fumbling up a question about why a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a map?The answer she gave has become an Internet sensation.I did show the video because it was rather funny but I...

National Football League team The Pittsburgh Steelers announced their new mascot on August 8. Steely McBeam was the winning entry among more than 70,000 names submitted by Steelers fans around the world. He is a contemporized version of the former Steelers...

Do they have discos in Russia?Yes, they ...

Dark Roasted Blend has an interesting article on dust storms.Dust storms are strong, turbulent winds carrying large clouds of dust.In a large storm, clouds of fine dust may be raised to heights well over 10,000 ft and carried for hundreds or thousands...

It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender. Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast.Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings,...

Strange Things In Google Maps

The MapOfStrange website is a way of recording strange, wacky, weird and wonderful anomalies, sights and oddities from Google Maps and Google Earth.Whether someone has written something in a corn field, or there is an aeroplane flying over rural England, it's all on MapOfStran...

Thank You

It's time to say thank you to all my loyal readers.Here are Hoops and Yoyo with a million thank you's.Don't believe they'll make it to a million?Here's pro...

The coffee shop ordering experience can be intimidating. Here are a few small illustrations to help you wrap your head around some of the small differenc...

Baby Ticker

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Start your baby countdown with a free baby ticker for your signature, message boards, blogs and webpages. You can customize your own pregnancy ticker with the Babystrology baby ticker creator.Babystrology offers a free ticker to add to your blog. They even have tickers...

Lisa Simpson, the young, dynamic woman is determined to change the outcome of the '08 Presidential race.If we can elect a 61 year old with the reading level of an eight year old, surely we can elect an eight year old with the reading level of a 61 year...

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Dictionary of Management Jargon100 Free Full Version Games to DownloadShort Guide to Comparative ReligionsAntioxidant Reverses Aging in B...

Hagerty Insurance, a specialist in collector cars, surveyed its policyholders for their picks of the worst car designs of all time.Here are the top 10 worst design picks, with comments, from the nearly 2,500 Hagerty customers who participated.(via Tom...

Can you imagine an Internet without pictures of cats? I can't! So, here are some pictures of cats in various sleeping positions.(via J-Walk Bl...

Ah yes, this will certainly help you loose some weight. The Diet Fork. And why? Because the Diet Fork allows dieters to 'scoop less' food during meals.The Diet Fork is shorter and dulled teeth are inhibiting users from grasping larger pieces of food...

Covini C6W

Covini is a small car company from Castel San Giovanni, Italy, and founded by Ferruccio Covini in 1978. Currently the company is developing the new Covini C6W, a six wheeler car.The six wheeled design offers many advantages over a conventional design...

A Nice Gesture is a website by my countryman Jeroen Arendsen who is currently working on a gesture recognition project at the Delft University of Technology here in the Netherlands.The language of gesture is rich in ways for individuals to express a...

Move your mouse pointer slowly from top to bottom.Be patient, it takes a while to lo...

The man with the largest hand in the world will be looking forward to a normal life after undergoing radical plastic surgery at Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital. Liu Hua, a 24-year-old Jiangsu Province native, was born with a left thumb, index and middle...

The Shoe Project, by Norwegian photographer Ellen Ugelstad, pairs head and shoulder shots of people with shots of their shoes. All pictures are taken in San Francis...

World Of Solitaire

Play a game of online Solitaire. Games to choose from are Canfield, FreeCell, Klondike, Pyramid, Seahaven Towers, Spider, or Yukon.Loads of options and decks to keep you busy for a while. Keep in mind that playing this online version of Solitaire can be very addicti...

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...

WatZatSong?

WatZatSong is a community website that allows you to name a song that you have stuck in your head but of which you know neither the artist nor the title, or help other people when they are looking for a song name.Sing or hum a tune in your microphone or, if you already have a sample of the song in a...

Best Of Presurfer

It's been almost a year ago that I started hosting this site on blogspot. Here are the 6 most viewed post from the past year. 500 Years Of Women In Art. A great morphing video of 500 years of female portraits in western art.Ethan Haas Was Right. A series of very difficult puzzles. You'll see a pattern...

Beautiful panorama picture of New York at nig...

What Did She Just Say?

Question to Miss Teen South Carolina: A fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a map. Why do you think this is?Answer: I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so, because, uh, some... people out there in our nation don't have ma...

With Thumbalizr you can take screenshots of any webpage you want. Use it for your presentations, documentations, visualisations or your webpage.Just enter the target-URL and press the 'thumb it'-button. Wait a moment and a screenshot of the desired...

Interesting facts about airports like the world's steepest runway at Courchevel airport in France. The world's shortest commercial runway at Yrasquin airport in Saba. The world's most insane runway location at Princess Julianna international airport...

The Greedo Assassination Conspiracy Page

Remember the original 1977 Sci-Fi classic Star Wars? Remember the scene where an alien bounty hunter named 'Greedo' tried to assassinate the legendary Han Solo? But failed!The McGill University Department of Exopolitics took it upon themselves to examine...

There are some extraordinary human beings intent on changing their appearance permanently for reasons that will forever baffle most people.Body modification is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons,...

Famed writer Stan Lee (Spider-Man, X-Men, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four) is bringing the world another Superhero: Paris Hilton. Lee says he plans to make an animated cartoon TV show with Paris Hilton.I have a first-look deal with Disney. That means...

Top 10 Deadbeat Celebrity Relatives

Al Gore's son was arrested last month for flooring a Prius full of weed and pills down a California highway. But Albert Gore III is hardly the first celebrity relative to embarrass his more important, less frequently arrested family members.Let's see how the newcomer measures up against these notable...

Evolution

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Not all of us can afford to check the option box for a sunroof when buying a new car. But now the days of cruising with unadorned sheetmetal over your head are over, even for the cheapest tight wads among us.The self-adhesive sunroof is a miracle of...

Spy Letters Of The American Revolution

The Revolutionary War was not fought by proclamations and battles alone. A major component of the war was the challenge of organizing military strategies over thousands of miles of battlefield. From the very beginning of the war, a complex network of...

One Of My Sites Got Ripped Off

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But when that imitation goes as far as copying the complete content of one of my websites, including my email address and even using my name in the 'posted by Gerard' line, it's not flattery. It's a rip-off.That's exactly what happened with...

Is there anything worse than this?(thanks Bri...

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14 Foods that Lower CholesterolWay Too Many Questions45+ Web Operating SystemsWhat Not to Crochet25 Worlds Weirdest Anim...

Big Huge Thesaurus

Don't know what to write about? Big Huge Thesaurus provides 'millions of possible story plots.' The site serves up good, bad, but most of the time completely silly ideas, like:* Close friends miss an important meeting in Paris.* A witch must return money stolen from the mob.* A bellhop finds herself...

Alabama Potter Jerry Brown Throws A Jug

(thanks Dav...

You Can Get Arrested For That?

Did you know that in the United States it's illegal to fish while wearing pajamas in Chicago, Illinois? Or enter a theater within three hours of eating garlic in Indianapolis? Offer cigarettes or whiskey to zoo animals in New Jersey? Fall asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota?Englishman Rich Smith...

13 Of The Worst Fake Accents In Film

Sometimes a movie is released where someone speaks an accent so bad you can't help but notice. Deputydog posted a selection of 13 of the worst fake accents in fi...

Moan My IP

This website shows your IP number and some other additional information about your system. But it doesn't only show your IP number. No, a sexy girl is moaning your number. That's right. Moani...

In the newest version of Google Earth you can explore the heavens like never before. Switch your view to see the sky above your Earth location, and explore far-away galaxies, nebulae, and more.Zoom in to see imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope,...

A series of funny and unusual situations in which photographers (and their gear) find themselves, in search for that all-around perfect shot.From Dark Roasted Ble...

Here are some browser statistics from this site. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the leading browser if all browser versions are combined. Numbers are in percentages.But The Presurfer is most visited via Firefox...

Virginia is still for lovers, but the state's tourism agency will eliminate images of people making heart symbols with their hands in its upcoming advertising campaign because the gesture is also used by a violent street gang.The Virginia is for Lovers...

Imagining The Tenth Dimension

Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is the fourth spatial dimension.The ideas in this 11-minute animation come from chapter one of a new book called 'Imagining...

Fun With Labels At The Asian Mark...

Gnaritas Monstrum by Seth Kendall is an animated piece where two young girls flee a terrifying monster. The monster corners the girls and they are forced make a difficult choice. It is essentially a 'loss of innocence' story.Gnaritas Monstrum was the...

The Secret History Of The Nazi Mascot

The story of Alex Kurzem, now living in Australia, who at the age of five, had been adopted by the SS and became a Nazi mascot. He was paraded as 'the Reich's youngest Nazi' and he witnessed some unspeakable atrocities. But his SS masters never discovered...

YouTube-Style Embeddable Google Maps

Yesterday Google Maps announced a new feature that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps; clickable, draggable, and zoomable.Go to Google Maps and pull up the map...

The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Killed

Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome.(via Dark Roasted Ble...

A 78-year old one-legged Emirati father is lining up his next two wives in a bid to reach his target of 100 children by 2015. Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, 60, has already had 15 brides although he has to divorce them as he goes along to remain...

10 Things Your Restaurant Won't Tell You

If you think that Monday, when restaurants tend not to be crowded, is a great time to eat out, think again. You're being served all of the weekend's leftovers.Distributors typically take Sunday off and make their last deliveries Saturday morning, which means that by Monday any food not used over the...

The 1000-Hand Goddess Of Mercy

A once-in-a-year event in Japan. 24 hours of TV, a lot of artists, a lot of events, and the funds are all for charity and the disabled. This is the show of the 'Senju Kannon,' The 1000-hand goddess of Mercy.(via Neatora...

Google Maps with cloud cover satellite imagery. Cloud images are updated every 3 hours. See your own weather from above!(via Grow-A-Bra...

Scary For Kids

Scary For Kids, the website that brings you all the scariest things on the internet, designed to spook you, creep you out, freak you out, chill your bones and tingle your spine.They've got Scary Pictures, Scary Games, The Scary Maze, Scary Videos, A...

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