Sporting events garner so much media attention these days that you can be certain that anytime something goes wrong, someone will catch it on film.This is a list of 30 of the most brilliant (and often hilarious) sporting photos caught on fi...
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Project Cartoon
You're probably familiar with the above cartoon 'How Projects Really Work.' Now you can create your own version of the cartoon by drag-and-dropping the cells, than editing the captions. You can save your cartoon and get a unique URL that you can bookmark...
A List Of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
There are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake - the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects. Including,...
The 272 Fast Food Items Highest In Calories
A Calorie Counter went through the nutrition facts of literally every single item from the menus of 25 popular fast food restaurants to put together a list of what ended up being the 272 Fast Food Items Highest In Calori...
Christopher Knight For School Board
This is the now-infamous 'Star Wars' commercial that was made for Christopher Knight's campaign for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006.It wound up being featured in The New York Times, on the Fox News Channel, every major newspaper in the state, and it was screened at the Pixelodeon Independent...
Top 10 Food And Drink Hacks
Do you know how to close chip bags without the clip?Turn a CD spindle into a bagel tote?Clean anything with vinegar?Build a fire with chocolate and Coke?Avoid crying while chopping onions?Open a beer bottle with a piece of paper?Here are 10 food and drinks hac...
Baby Born With A Full Head Of Ginger Hair
Every parent hopes their baby will attract admiring glances. But adorable as she is, Katie-Lee Webster receives attention for only one reason - her spectacular shock of ginger hair.At only ten weeks old she already has the flowing locks of a child several...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Outrageously Politically Incorrect Adverts
In a politically correct age, they seem like outrageous anachronisms. And there is no doubt these adverts - many taken from the first half of the last century - reveal just how much women used to be caricatured as downtrodden housewives or hair-brained...
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
According to the Webby Awards this is one of the most influential online videos of all time. The band 'OK GO' on the threadmi...
How It Sucks
HowItSucks.com rates products based on recent reviews from other users. The rating system is simple: the longer the red bar, the more it suc...
What Happens Behind The Scenes
From individuals to countries, we often want to persuade others to perceive things a certain way or to think a certain way. There are many standard techniques for doing this.You can use these techniques to do your own persuading, and you can also use...
Walking The Dog
All photos in this gallery were taken within a radius of about 3 miles of our home in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, mostly one handed while hanging on to an impatient dog with the other ha...
Linkdump
The Blogger's Guide to SEO17 Ways to Get Free BooksBent ObjectsTop 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Id...
Dada Dolls
Dada Dolls by Californian artist Elaine Benjamin. Created almost entirely of recycled elements. Click on a Dada Doll to read its own sto...
Strictly No Photography
Strictly No Photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever wanted to see...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Morality Quiz
Morality refers to ethical issues - principles of right and wrong conduct - as well as instances of real behaviour - the manner in which individuals comply more or less fully with such standards.Time has a Morality Quiz which offers some of the dilemmas...
Earth Ball
New Way 2 Live, Grow Food, 4 Earth Citizens, All Around OUR Planet. Working 2, End All War - Clean Up OUR Earth - Create Earth Ball Homes. OUR Young Earth Citizens - Around OUR Planet Can Now Look Forward 2 the "volkswagen" of Earth Ball - Hom...
Over 20,000 Teddy Bears On The Ice
I don't know if this is a tradition with the Portland Winter Hawks, but their fans threw what was reportedly a world record 20,372 stuffed animals on the ice after what they thought was their team's first goal of the season - a goal which officials later disallowed.(via Arbroa...
Peaceful Progression Smoke Alarm
Awake to your next fire calm and refreshed with DigiPliance's Peaceful Progression Smoke Alarm. Choose the perfect way for your family to wake up - from the peaceful sounds of the rainforest, to the celebration of Dixieland jazz, or the hot pulse of...
FoodTube
FoodTube is like YouTube, but for food and drinks. Enter your food or drink in a search box and find a video recipe, or add your o...
London Tube Announcer Sacked
The woman known as 'the voice of the Tube' on London's underground has been sacked after criticising the network and making spoof announcements including making fun of US tourists.Emma Clarke has for the last eight years been famous as the voice warning...
Monday, November 26, 2007
Jellyfish Aquarium
The Aquapict Jellyfish aquarium shows beautiful color-changing jellyfish swimming as they do in the deep sea, but none of them are real.Made with highly-realistic silicone, the jellyfish swim and change color subtly with the five-color LED lighting system....
Lingro
Lingro is a very cool dictionary. When you enter a website's URL into the box on Lingro, a page will be created of that same website where every word is clickable.Here's a example of The Presurfer. Click on any word to get an explanation of that word.At the moment Lingro is available for English, Spanish,...
Death By Booze
Find out how many of your favorite alcoholic beverages it would take to send you to a drunken grave. Look for your beverage of choice, enter your weight, select your gender, and see how much you have to drink before the alcohol kills you.I don't drink...
The Top 10 IT Disasters Of All Time
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years. There are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both financially and in terms of reputation...
Strandbeest
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who creates what he calls 'Kinetic Sculptures,' where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only.The robots are made from plastic yellow tubes. One of his most famous kinetic sculptures is 'Strandbeest,' which means Beach...
The Painted World
Old photographs with some paint added.Some look nice, but a lot don't.(via J-Walk Bl...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Every Image We Have
Over many years, a guy collected rolls of undeveloped film from cameras he found in antique stores. He finally had them developed and ended up with several hundred images that he's placed onli...
What Makes 100%?
While 'Hard work' and 'Knowledge' will get you close, and 'Attitude' will get you there, it's the 'Bullshit' and 'Ass kissing' that will put you over the top.What Makes 10...
Always Green Grass
Always Green Grass Painting Company, Inc. will paint your grass a lush and beautiful natural green color during the dormant fall and winter months and during the summer months due to lack of rain, drought, over fertilization and fungus.This means no...
Pistol Hairdryer
A hairdryer shaped as an antique pistol.Just pull the trigget to switch it on.(via Boing Boi...
Wooden Car
Vasily Lazarenko, an Ukrainian man, gave up his job, sold his two other vehicles and spent one and a half years in his garage to create his dream vehicle. His literally half-modern, half-retro car has a wooden body made of thousands of oak par...
Wild Animals
Think of your favorite teddy bear. Now imagine it's been ripped open, gutted, and turned inside-out.That's what Kent Rogowski's Bears series has done to the iconic stuffed animals of our childhoods.(thanks Stanl...
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...
Mayor Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers
Mayor Ken Williams of Centerton, Arkansas, resigned last week claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.He said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.Williams...
MagMyPic
Fake magazine covers with your picture.Upload any picture to create your own cover.(via Ursi's Bl...
Nerd Scholarship
The only online, micropayment-based scholarship for all lower middle class white males named David who are right-handed, hold a B-average, aren't handicapped, have parents with some college, are proficient at video games, are or were at some point Mormon, use Linux, were born in Mississippi, have no...
World's Smallest Teapot
Chinese master potter Wu Ruishen has created a mini functional teapot weighing just 1.4 grams.(via Neatora...
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Professional Farters
A flatulist, fartist, or professional farter is a performer who receives payment for farting in an amusing and/or musical manner. A Damn Interesting article on Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane.Note: the picture above is not of a professional...
Super Parking Skill
Can you park your 457 cm long car in a 480 cm tight spot?This Korean guy can. He does it every day.(via UniqueDai...
Early Aviation Image Archive
From the realization of powered flight by an obscure Bavarian emigrant to the weapons of aerial destruction used by Richthofen's flying circus, the Early Aviation Image Archive attempts to archive vintage photographs of flying machines flown before and...
Angry-Gram
An Angry-Gram is the perfect way to let someone know they totally do your head in. Tell the Angry-Gram who they are and why they wind you up. A screaming 3-Pepper Angus, the Angry Whopper, will be send to them and really let them have it.Here's an example...
Linkdump
Interesting Web BrowsersSunrise and Sunset Scenes of the WorldDollars In ContextTurning Apples into ...
The Castle Builders
Scattered throughout the world, there are a small handful of castles made by non-architects, constructed without a team of workers, and with very little money. These castles were built by a single person, with occasional help from family members or friends.Raised...
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The Worst Studio Session Ever
Spence Peppard's dream has always been to become a 'Hardcore Country' sing...
Jester, The Online Joke Recommender
Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes. You'll be given a set of 8 jokes to rate. After that, Jester will begin recommending jokes that have been personalized to your tastes.Note: Some of the jokes in the database...
Foodpairing
Food combines with each other when they have major flavour components in common. A list was made of 250 food products each with their major flavour components. By comparing the flavour of each food product eg strawberry with the rest of the food and...
Wowio
Wowio is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Sponsors get a powerful new channel to communicate their message to precisely the people they want to reach.Readers have...
Highest Fountain In The World
With 312 meters, the King Fahd's fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the highest fountain in the world. As an extra in the video, you also get to see the world's smallest Qur'...
Visual Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
When you know what something looks like but not what it's called, or when you know the word but can't picture the object, The Visual Dictionary has the answer. In a quick look, you can match the word to the image.The Visual Dictionary is designed to...
Color Changing Paint?
Scientists have developed a new form of auto paint that changes color with the touch of a button. This revolutionary new paramagnetic paint is a technical wonder and is viewed by Nissan and other auto companies as an amazing innovation that would draw huge traffic to dealerships and will make it easier...
Sanctuary Of Rome's 'Founder' Revealed
Archaeologists unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary...
The End
A Flickr photoset of 'The End' scenes in different languages taken from television.(via Doobybra...
List Of Oxymora
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word 'bittersweet' or the phrase 'living death.'Other examples are: clearly misunderstood, random pattern, true fiction, deliberate mistake, and harmless crime.A List of Oxymo...
Peculiar Streets Around The World
The world's steepest, shortest, narrowest streets and strange road names.Peculiar Streets Around the Wor...
Most Amazing Car Concepts For The Year 2057
The Los Angeles Auto Show usually brings some of the most amazing designs in the auto industry.This year the Design Challenge competition was centered around the theme 'Robocar 2057.' Of course, with a theme like that, a lot of imagination was used.(via...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Christmas Holidays
Did you have to look twice at the picture above before you knew what you were looking at? I did.They are geese, crowded together in their open-air enclosure on a farm in Kuhhorst, Germany. The animals will be the centerpieces at the dinner table for...
The Miracle Tree
Imagine a tree that will meet all your nutritional needs, take care of you medicinally, and purify your water for you. This tree actually exists.For centuries indigenous people in northern India and many parts of Africa have known the many benefits of...
I/O Brush
I/O Brush is a drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by 'picking up' and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside.Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush...
John Lytle Wilson
John Lytle Wilson's paintings stem from his interest in the power of images. He chooses animal and robot imagery as stand-ins for traditional human subject matter.The art of John Lytle Wilson.(thanks Dav...
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
Butter it's Not!, Could it be Butter?,What, not butter!, Unbelievable, this is not butter,Move Over Butter, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!(via Grow-A-Bra...
Europe United
Europe United is a new music video for Samsung Mobile. SX Media went to 10 different European cities; London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague, Ibiza, Barcelona, Moscow, Edinburgh and Galway and got regular people to dancing in the stre...
Dreams Of Flying
Crossing the desert on the back of a dog, or searching for lost treasures on the bottom of the ocean. Jan von Holleben's photographs allow children to make their dreams come true.Inspired by classic childhood books as well as modern superheroes, he produces...
Monday, November 19, 2007
Condition 1 Weather
McMurdo Station in Antartica is a science research center operated by the United States. The weather at McMurdo Station is classified as being Condition 3 (nice weather), Condition 2 (not so nice), or Condition 1.Take a look at the video to see what Condition 1 is.(via Dark Roasted Ble...
Chewbacca Backpack
Strap the Chewbacca Plush Backpack to your back and he'll be carrying your books in style. His arms wrap around you to let you know he's secure - even his legs will secure around your abdomen, for some extra cuddly f...
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