unique and interesting: September 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Le Courage

Belgian beer brewer Stella Artois has launched 'Le Courage', an interactive game pushing Flash to the limits and showcasing unique video and great interaction.'Le Courage' is an epic journey back in time. Taking place on the flat earth of the 14th century,...

Pinkle, the search engine that's pretty in pink. Pinkle is created by Amy.I'm Amy, welcome to Pinkle my little oasis of pinkness in an otherwise dull world. I love pink. I have pink shoes, pink clothes and pink wallpaper but Google was still boring...

Demographics are the statistical characteristics of human populations, such as age and income. Demographics are used to identify who your customers are (now and in the future), and how likely they are to purchase the product you are selling.Microsoft's...

For high school students everywhere, this revealing amphibian may be a cut above regular frogs. That's because the see-through frog does not require dissection to see its organs, blood vessels, and eggs.Masayuki Sumida, a professor at the Hiroshima...

'I sing all kinds' and 'I don't sound like nobody' Elvis once said in the early fifties to Marion Keisker, secretary of Memphis Recording Service. He made his first record - 'My Happiness' - at the SUN Records Studio in Memphis Tennessee, founded by...

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...

A Mosquito Ringtone - or Teen Buzz - is a cellphone ringtone that many adults (at least people over 30) cannot hear. This is due to presbycusis, a normal loss of acute hearing that occurs with advancing age.In settings where cellphone use is forbidden...

These rust and scratch stickers are designed to make your beautiful bike or car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it's not worth stealing due to its apparent shabbyness. This anti-theft device is not guaranteed to work in any...

The Rubber Hand Illusion

An experiment where a woman sees a rubber hand plausibly positioned to extend from her arm while her real hand is hidden. If the fake and real hands are stroked simultaneously, she may feel the stroking in the location of the rubber hand, not the real one.It is believed this illusion is associated with...

Victorian writer Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer (1802-1878) was a woman of deep piety - and of even more profound prejudices. In the mid-19th century, she wrote the definitive travel guide to the world. There was just one problem: she had never set foot outside...

For Sale: My Handwritten Journal

Someone called 'xilliontherockopera' tried to sell a handwritten journal on eBay.The winner of this auction will receive my handwritten journal where I have described the four messages of Jesus Christ who has appeared to me.Jesus revealed four specific things to me: #1: The precise location of Heaven,...

Church Bloopers

Church Bloopers? Yes, even in chur...

32 Amazing Bridges from Around the Wor...

Anti-Ticket Donut

Have you ever been cruising down the freeway, minding your own business when suddenly you look at the rearview mirror, only to be blinded by flashing red and blue lights?Then this is the product for you! The Anti-Ticket Donut! Now you can be ready for...

This is a PDF document. A homage to the Knight Rider. The Do-It-Yourself Posable Paper David Hasselhoff. With removable chest hair carpet, 'one button's enough' shirt, and German singing sensation micropho...

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A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. It is usually characterized by an oppressive social control, such as an authoritarian or totalitarian government. It's an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is...

20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing

Nothing means no thing, not anything, something that has no existence. Nothing is commonly understood as the lack or absence of anything at all.Colloquially, the term is often used to indicate the lack of anything relevant or significant, or to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.20...

Let some real fortune-tellers on a steady diet of tea leaves and tarot cards determine the perfect home for you. Just answer a couple of questions, and they will show you the house of your dreams.Here's a blueprint of my dream house:Your kitchen is someplace...

Ashtray Trust

On the 1st of July 2007 England went smoke free. A new law was introduced to make virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces in England smokefree. A smokefree England ensures a healthier environment, so everyone can socialise, relax, travel,...

Very well done advertisement for the Nissan Rogue.(thanks jrapsju...

Renault Ballet

Here's another car commercial. This time it's a Renault ballet choreography. You've probably seen these car ballet movies before, where everything goes perfect. Well, not alwa...

H2Om is the world's first interactive water. While you drink, use the words on the label as the driving force in creating your own intention. Visualize great, extraordinary, vivid, mental creations.For the good of you, for the good of mankind, for the...

With the growth of online activities such as blogging, vlogging, podcasting, skyping, texting, dating, trading, buying, and selling, NOSO offers an oasis to the 21st-century Web 2.0 junkie.NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from...

From Inventor Spot:Japanese chewing gum differs from American chewing gum in many ways, and that probably is a result of the practical way Japan looks at chewing gum. Since it's merely chewed for a while and then disposed of, it just makes sense for...

Canadian entrepreneur Peter Sandler developed the first all Solar electric bicycle driven completely from power derived from the Sun's rays. The 'Sunny Bicycle' has light absorbing solar panels built right into the wheels, creating continual power from...

Hillary Laughing

From The Daily Show: Hillary's Laugh Track(via J-Walk Bl...

Mount Rushmore singing the 'Teddy Bear's Picnic Son...

Disposable Web Page

You can create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want. Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little hassle as can be.Each disposable...

The New England Lighthouse Blog has news reports and vacation information about American Lighthouses and photographs of New England Lighthous...

Tootsie Pop

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?I say thr...

If You're Going To Die, Do It Differently

In Japan, Kenji Urada was killed when a robot at the Kawasaki factory where he worked mistook his head for a component that needed tightening up. Ouch!More ways of dying different...

Surreal Paintings by Vladimir Kush.(via alex mize...

Photos taken by Gabe Kirchheimer during Burning Man 2007. Burning Man is always weird and sometimes controversial. Like these weird pictures of the 'Friendliest Concentration Camp on the Playa,' Barbie Death Camp.(via Grow-A-Bra...

Astronomy Picture Of The Day

A beautiful photo of the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupting. It happened last year.Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows visibly pours down the sides of the 5,000-meter high Tungurahua, while a cloud of dark ash is seen being ejected toward...

The tallest building from each U.S. state in one skyline in a universe where physical space and proportion have no meani...

Google Sued For Crimes Against Humanity

Pennsylvania resident Dylan Stephen Jayne is suing Google for crimes against humanity and is asking the court for $5 billion in damages. The charge: his social security number, when turned upside down and scrambled spells Goog...

Married to the Sea is a comic created by husband and wife Drew and Natalie Dee. The comic depicts one-window cartoons provided of text by the site's maintainers.The subject matter on Married to the Sea seems to draw from all spheres - popular music...

Russian Tuning and Car Modificatio...

Top 10 Bizarre Musical Instruments

Since the advent of electronic instruments and the need by composers to produce unique and new sounds, many unusual instruments have been invented or restored to life. Here's is a list of the ten most bizarre instrumen...

Tired of the same boring hotels?There are plenty of unusual hotels around the world that could provide for any tourist a more interesting and special accommodation.Some of them are finished and just waiting for you, others are projects or in construction....

Humans have always used the color of a food to form judgments about its desirability. The act of eating - and deciding what to eat - is a multi-sensory experience, synthesizing perceptions of sight, taste, smell, and touch. Color provides visual information...

Land Walker

The Land Walker is a one-man, two-legged supposed walker transport. Made with the assistance of P.A. Technology, the walker is copyright of the Sakakibara Kikai Company.The vehicle's design features a cockpit, two legs, and two air cannons. The legs end in feet containing wheels that help push the walker...

If you don't have the sources, the materials, or the money, you have to be very inventive. Gadgets for Africa: Solving everyday problems with African ingenui...

10 Google Services That Get No Love

If you were to interview a broad cross-section of Internet users and ask them about Google services, probably most of them would enthusiastically talk about Gmail or Google Reader. At the very least, they would mention Google's search engine.But how many people do you think would discuss being able...

Rolling Different Tires Down A Ski Slope

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Sketchcast

Sketchcasting is a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back.Sketchcasting is new but it's based on an old principle: the whiteboard (or the napkin in a bar) on which...

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The Top Twenty Starship CaptainsTop 10 Inventions of the Middle AgesDental MannequinArt on Lea...

72 Scenes from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the movie scene to which they ref...

Skyplay depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky and real clouds at that moment with another obje...

Seven Years

Today, The Presurfer celebrates its 7 year anniversary. Seven years ago when I started this weblog, I never realized that one day I would come up with these numbers:Seven years, 2,555 days, 21,928 posts, over 4,700,000 visitors from 168 countries, thousands...

Longevity experts say that everyone has two ages: your chronological age and your real age. Your real age is determined by your lifestyle rather than your birthday. I have always looked younger than I am, I'm young at heart and my exam results prove...

Today is the Day is... well, weird.But I think it's art.(via Dark Roasted Ble...

Need a compliment? Use the ComplimentBot 4000. ComplimentBot 4000 is a random compliment generator for those moments when you could use a little extra prai...

Grumf Sings... Barry

Grumf, a character created by Ludovic Savonnière, sings Barry White.(Congratulations to Everlasting Blo...

Klokoo is an online alarm clock. Before you go to sleep you must choose an alarm and set the volume of your speakers or earplugs high enough and click on the button 'Test the sound.'You can also add an RSS/Atom feed which is updated on wake up.(thanks...

TomTom Mapshare Feature

TomTom is a Dutch manufacturer of navigation systems. One of their latest products is the TomTom GO 720. Nick's Techno Picks explains the new mapshare feature. Be in for a surpri...

They said it couldn't be done! That brilliant invention called The Spork has now been bested with the Super Spork! A common spork is an eating utensil with a spoon on one end and a fork on the other. But the Super Spork also has a knife built right...

A Compendium Of 150 Monty Python Sketches

Comprised of British performers John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, along with American animator Terry Gilliam, Monty Python was an international cult phenomenon, honing their singular blend of broad slapstick, edgy black comedy and social commentary in a string of...

Burp

The ladies show the guys how it is do...

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For when flipping a coin just seems so 20th century, the Universal Decision Maker makes your daily decisions both easy and entertaining. Just think of something you have to make a decision about, then click the Start butt...

Car Ads With Male Models

Here's something else. Car ads with male models.It should not be allowed.(via Dump Trump...

I really don't know what this site is all about. It's plastered with words like 'One Love, One Nation, Love Nation. Tesla, Angel, Light, Time, Continuity, Free Energy, Zero Point Energy, Resonance, Golden Mean, Ascension, Eternity, Absolute Reality,...

Two guys, Ace Berg and John Rendall, raised a lion cub who they named Christian, but sadly he got too big for them to take care of. So they decided to release him in Kenya, to live as a wild lion.In this footage, a year has passed and it looks like...

23 Simple Health Tips For Bloggers

As a blogger, your well-being should be something you think about. You should pay attention to the state of your body and the state of your mind. Do you find yourself feeling sluggish a lot of the time? Do you find yourself feeling depressed?These are signs that your body is giving you that are indicative...

Today's world as we know it, is like it is because of Stanislav Petrov. Stanislav Petrov is a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, potentially avoided a nuclear attack on the USA.Assuming the reports...

A photographic collection of faces found in everyday places.(via b3...

Good Ride

A guy from Russia posted this photo of his newly bought Honda on his site. Just a few days later he posted some other phot...

More than 70% of the world's toys are made in China. Lately, Chinese toys have been set in a bad light because of fears that they are covered in dangerous materials. In the US, millions of toys have been sent back by worried parents or taken off the...

Just For Laughs - Death

Here's a very morbid prank from Just for Laughs.(thanks Lin...

From Inventor Spot:Well, I was having a crappy day and it got me thinking that the world is full of crap... literally. So I went on my merry way to prove my hypothesis true... and I have. Here are my best finds for all the things inspired by the poop...

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