unique and interesting: December 2007

Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year

Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy.Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength.Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.When you're down, I wish you joy.When things seem empty,...

Presurfer's Top 10 Most Viewed Posts 2007

These are the 10 most viewed posts on The Presurfer of 2007.On September 19:Train Runs Through Bangkok MarketYou got to see it to believe it.On August 21:Bullet Proof BabyA controversial post because I didn't know whether this was true or not. In the end, it turned out to be a marketing act. Some readers...

Deep down, you know it's true. The war. The economy. Your job. Your relationships. This button sums it all up.You really can't get more negative than this button. In one short phrase, it condemns an entire new year to the trash heap.Be the first in...

According to the site, the BUPA World Personality Test is based on the symbolism of shapes and colors and has been developed under the guidance of a leading psychologist of the British Psychological Society.Having studied psychology myself, I know the...

Humanoid Robot Drawing Portraits

When the robot recognizes a face in its field of view, it first grabs a snapshot of this face and extracts the relevant features and contours characterizing ...

The Google Privacy Channel

The Google Privacy Channel on YouTube keeps you informed about their privacy policies. How they treat your personal information, and about how you can protect your privacy while using Goog...

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...

Nils Olav Gets Promotion

Last Wednesday, Nils Olav received a promotion to Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard. Major Egelien from the Norwegian Royal Guard Association said:Colonel in Chief because all the reports speak about his very, very good behaviour.Here's a...

Ah, the good old da...

Ass Is Not A Nice Word

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Highway Speed-To-BPM Calculator

The Highway Speed-to-BPM Calculator will determine what speed you should drive to match a song's rhythm with the approaching stripes on a highway. The federal standard for interstate highways is 40 feet between the front of two stripes. This varies by area, but is generally around that distance.For...

The most common excuse for not doing something is usually a lack of time. Adding one hour in the morning can make a huge difference in your life.How to Wake Up Early is about self-improvement for early risers. How to sleep well, wake up early and what...

Glubble is a free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser. It permits each member of the family to have their own custom environment, so that when kids use it they only see the very best parts of the Internet based on selections made by their parents...

The Origami Now Folding Station with Michael LaFosse and Richard Alexander. Learn Origami, the art of paper folding. Select a model to begin folding and watch how it's do...

Santa's Gone

Yes, Santa is on his way back to the North Pole but before he went, he wanted to show me something. Sort of... um, an extra present.You can see it here.Make your own Santa tatt...

Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far north-west, it is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring 13 floors to reach 144ft. The house that Nikolai Sutyagin built is also crumbling, incomplete and under threat of...

Peel microcars were built in Peel, Isle of Man, in the 1960's by Peel Engineering. Owner designer Cyril Cannell and his workforce led by George Gelling created these cars in premises close to Peel harbour.Peel Engineering was at the forefront of glass...

Spellify

Spellify is an automatic text field spell checker and also available for download. Type or paste some text into the text field on the site. No need to press the enter key. The spell checker automatically checks the text when you're finished.Spellify comes in 10 languages: Danish, German, Finnish, French,...

The Death And Life of Ice Cream

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Whatsitscolor is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in...

Sleevefaces

Sleeveface is the art of one or more persons obscurings or augmenting any part of the body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusi...

Cluster ballooning is an uncommon form of ballooning in which a single balloonist is attached by a harness to a cluster of relatively small helium-inflated rubber balloons. Unlike traditional hot-air balloons, which possess vents for easy altitude control,...

Funny And Outrageous News Moments

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The Future: A Retrospective

Description of 250 consumer products found in a book called 'Future Stuff.' It was published in 1989, and it was about products that 'should be in your supermarket, hardware store, pharmacy, department store, or otherwise available by the year 2000.'It was based on interviews with the people who were...

Darth Vader on Ac...

A team of historians has been trying to solve some historical 'cold cases' - old crimes in which the guilty ones walked, and even more insidious crimes where a whole village may have been complicit.There are other mysteries too, about unusual cases...

Delineations of noted personages rendered in splendid chiaroscuro, brought forth for your edification and amusement from the hand of James G. Mundie.A curious collection of anomalous humans. This congress of oddities awaits your intimate and learned...

Top 100 Horror Movies of 20...

Mouth Eyes Photoshop Pictures

A kind of creepy Photoshop contest. Famous people who've had their eyes replaced with smaller versions of their mouths.(via Boing Boi...

Day Of Birth

Day of Birth basically tells you the day of the week that you were born on. It also tells you other pointless but fun things such as: your star sign, how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive.The site also provides...

Shooting At The Monitor

Some Ukrainian technology show tested the Asus LS201 LCD monitor with a crossbow to see if the Crystal Sapphire Panel LCD Protection was resistant. Apparently, it ...

The world is full of day-to-day challenges, seemingly common problems, which in some cases defy obvious solutions.Overpopulation, difficult traffic situation, shortage of finances and most basic tools - all contribute to the over-the-top, wild spurts...

Visual artist Jennifer Gooch from Pittsburgh, USA, started a website called 'onecoldhand.com' in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates.It's a project that connects the Pittsburgh community through one unfortunate event - the loss of a...

50 Most Loathsome People In America, 2007

From 'The Beast' comes the annual 50 Most Loathsome People in America. From Nicole Richie to Dana Perino and from Bill O'Reilly to George W. Bu...

Sharon Mount makes simple, yet beautiful, tiny buildings from business cards, cardboard packaging, and other nice papers.(via Dump Trump...

2008 Is the International Year of the Potato. The potato has been consumed in the Andes for about 8,000 years. Taken by the Spanish to Europe in the 16th century, it quickly spread across the globe.Today potatoes are grown on an estimated 75,000 square...

The Evil Eye

A cute little baby enjoying an ice cream cone can give the evil eye on comma...

Santa is one of those stars that won't go away, he comes back every year and just seems to get hotter and hotter.The kind of guy that makes even the North Pole sound cool. So enjoy this Santa Claus extraordinai...

Eyewitness To History

Eyewitness to History is your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, a digital publisher of educational programmi...

Kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add a bookmarklet to your browser. Click the bookmarklet on a web page you wish to quote, and the screenshot of the entire web page will...

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Money Faces2008 Web PredictionsPictures of WritersThe Meaning of Japanese Sound Effe...

Four Hands Guitar

Jerry's Breakdown composed by Jerry Reed, played by Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier on a single guitar.(via J-Walk Bl...

Dopplr

Dopplr is an online service for frequent business travellers. Dopplr lets you share your travel plans privately with a group of friends and colleagues whom you have chosen. It then tells you when people you know will be in the same cities. It also reminds you of people who live in the places you're...

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007 is 'w00t!' The word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ('leet,' or 'elite') speak - an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols...

Airstream Trailer Light Show

Airstream trailer light show choreographed to Trans Siberian Orchestra's 'Wizards in Winter'.(via Neatora...

Researcher Melissa Bateson of the School of Biology and Psychology at Newcastle University found that people were more prepared to dig cash out of their pockets when they were under the gaze of a picture of a pair of eyes, instead of a picture of flowers....

It's Just A Myth

They are the universal pearls of wisdom that explain some of the more puzzling things about the human body and help people live healthy lives: don't read in dim light, drink eight glasses of water a day and don't use mobile phones in hospitals.The problem is: there is no evidence to suggest that these...

Did You Know: The Human Body

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You would think he was made out of stone, the man who sits, hours on end, on the red fire hydrant on Western Avenue, just north of Lawrence, pigeons by the dozens perched on him.Pigeons on his head. Pigeons on his shoulders and right down his arms....

Merry Christmas

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Space Shuttle Attacked By Giant Spider

Space shuttle Atlantis has had some setbacks lately. NASA delayed the launch until January due to a fuel gauge failure on the external tank. But that's not all. Now, a giant spider invaded the space shuttle while on the launch pad....

A lot of people struggle to draw convincing facial expressions. Here's a Facial Expressions Chart to give you an idea of the characteristics of most of the facial emotio...

At Christmas, children open presents.It's a good thing it's not the other way around.(via Sketchbl...

Biodiversity loss is one of the world's most pressing crises and there is growing global concern about the status of the biological resources on which so much of human life depends. It has been estimated that the current species extinction rate is between...

Gotta Digg

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How To Spot A Cylon

Do they ask questions about classified subjects? Have you seen them before, but you know it's not the same person? Do they seem to hear music that no one else can hear? Does their spine glow red when they get, um, excited?It's a Cylon! Be aware! Be vigilant!And...

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,Only a hippopotamus will do.Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy,I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy.I Want a Hippopotamus for Christm...

The Stray Shopping Cart Project is a system of identification for stray shopping carts. Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world.Until...

Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents

People stabbing each other (in real life) for magic swords (inside an online game); men kidnapping a top player to steal his game password; a girl that dies after playing her favorite multiplayer game for several days in a row.It is a crazy (virtual) world.Here are the 6 most bizarre online gaming incidents...

This 5 story 'haunted' building in the GuangXi province of China has scared most of it's owners away. Anyone who ever lived in the house, heard horribly spooky sounds coming from somewhere in the house. In 10 years, the house has been sold to four different...

Santa Claus is a recent feature of Christmas in Japan and sometimes a few details get lost in translation. Sometimes a lot does. Here's a list of the Top Ten Strange Santas from Jap...

Space Age Pop is a general and loosely based term for a music genre associated with certain American composers and songwriters in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s, from the dawn of hi-fi to the arrival of the Beatles.The music is not limited to a...

Dogs In Costumes

For all you dog owners, these are your dogs.And this is what they are thinking!(thanks Lin...

Arthur Benjamin's Mathemagic

In a lively show, 'mathemagician' Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? He'll be happy to tell you.embed src="//static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf" flashvars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true"...

Here's a nice addicting game.Pick up your hand bells and give Hand Bell Hero a whirl. Keep an eye on the scrolling scale in the middle of the screen. As the notes pass, hit the corresponding key (a,s,d, or f) to play the song. The more notes you get...

The 12 Days Of Christmas Cutbacks

Effective immediately, these economizing measures are being implemented in the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' subsidia...

A collection of all Bart Bonte's point and click games as well as a top 10 of his personal favorit...

Bristlebot

The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager mot...

Paying Back Musicians

Many of us own music that we didn't pay for. We don't feel guilty about shafting the record company, but what about the musicians themselves? Here's how it works:Pick a musician, write them a letter, scan or photograph the letter and send it to 'Dear Rockers,' mail off the letter along with $5, and...

Smoking Point

Michael Windisch, from the German town of Goslar, puffs a cigar with his head and hands stretching out of holes on the wall of his restaurant.He got the idea of a 'smoking point' in one of the walls of the restaurant after the state government issued...

Bendito Machine

Bendito Machine is a short animation by Jossie Malis. It's the story of two rival villages on either side of a hill. At the top of the hill is a god-like machine that gives profitable gifts to both villages.Soon, one greedy village hatches a plan to crush the other and take all the wealth for themselves....

100 Great Christmas Bummers

Tired of traditional holiday cheer? Try Prince's 'Another Lonely Christmas,' Joni Mitchell's 'River,' or William S. Burroughs', 'A Junky's Christmas' on for size.A list of the top break-your-heart Xmas son...

It looks like a circus performance as the man reaches up to cuddle an 8ft-tall grizzly bear. But amazingly, this is not a trained animal but a wild beast that could kill 68-year old Charlie Vandergaw with a single swipe of its huge paw.The retired schoolteacher...

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The Road to SuccessScience TattoosLists: 2007Top 25 Life-Improving Christmas Gifts for Under $107 Craziest Conspiracy Theor...

A coat with a black and white polka dot pattern and a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots.When the coat is first turned on, the lights are synchronized for a while (going through a slow fade of red, green, blue, gold, aqua, pink).Over...

The Alliance To Rescue Civilization

The mission of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization is to protect the human species and its civilization from destruction that could result from a global catastrophic event, including nuclear war, acts of terrorism, plague and asteroid collisions.To fulfill its mission, ARC is dedicated to creating continuously...

What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown long-legged rat, fossils indicate.Hans Thewissen, Professor of the Department of Anatomy,...

Lingerie 4 Men

This is wrong. This is so very wrong.Established in July 2007, Lingerie 4 Men is New Zealand's only lingerie brand designed specifically for the male figure. All our lingerie is made from quality fabrics and is available in a wide range of sizes to fit...

Mister Sandman

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Phreetings is 'Photo and Greetings'. Type keywords to find photos, then drag and drop them into the top rectangle. Type your own greeting in the bottom rectangle. Finally, send your greeting to whomever you want.(via Dump Trump...

The ice worm is a creature most people think is a myth - if they've heard of it at all. But ice worms really exist. The first ice worm species were discovered in 1887 in Alaska, on the Muir Glacier. These glacier ice worms can also be found on glaciers...

NameLab

Find the right name for your baby, read fun facts about your own name and get to know some of the wackiest celebrity baby names. Read about the meaning of your surname and discover your name's origin. Track the rise and fall of naming trends over the years, and see where your favorite names rank on...

Amazing Chain Reaction

In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss built an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long out of common items. Using fire, water, gravity, and chemistry they create a mind-blowing chain reaction of physical and chemical interactions and precisely crafted cha...

Pull the lever on the Holiday-O-Matic to create a delightfully random holiday greeting. Then send your greeting to that special someone. For each holiday greeting you send, a donation will be made to Rotary First Harve...

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