Sizable crowds turned out last Sunday to see the new Cunard liner Queen Victoria on her first visit to Sydney. Take a look at this beautiful panoramic picture from photographer Peter Murphy.(via Ursi's Bl...
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Ready Kids
Ready Kids is a tool to help parents and teachers educate children in grades 4-5 about emergencies and how they can help get their family prepared. Ready Kids is part of the U.S. Deparment of Homeland Security's Ready campaign.It's a national public...
100 Weird Facts About The Human Body
* The higher your I.Q. the more you dream.* The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.* During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.* Babies are always born with blue eyes.* After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.* The strongest muscle in the human...
The Two-Fork Toothpick Trick
This streaming video shows a fun trick that you can use to impress your friends. But can you explain how it works?(via Miss Cellan...
Roman Candles
Friends, Romans, celebrants - lend me your ears. Are you sick of counting all those passing years the conventional way? Slow the chariot down and start counting the Roman way.Roman Candles are easy and fun, and doesn't 'L' look a lot better than '50'?...
unFortunate
unFortunate is the only place where you can view, create, share, and print your own fortunes.(via Michelle's Mental Clutt...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Coca-Cola Recipe
According to the Soda Museum in Missouri, this formula appears to be the original formula to Coca-Cola.(via Reality Carnival Unleash...
25 Of The Most Ridiculous Popular Diets
Some people will do anything to lose weight, even if it means defying common sense and nutrition. But just because your best friend's cousin lost 20 pounds by drinking hot-peppered lemonade doesn't mean you should do the same.These 25 diets are not only ridiculous, they're ineffective and even dang...
Morph Concept
Morph is a concept developed by Nokia demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes.More about the Morph conce...
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Barbie Tarot101 New Uses for Everyday ThingsHow to Increase Your MetabolismDo You Know Caffeine?How to Draw an Impossible Trian...
The Condiment Packet Gallery
Chris Harne began collecting condiment packets in November of 2003. He discovered how many different condiment packets existed. A collector by nature, the only logical thing for him to do was attempt to get every different packet design he possibly could.The...
Garfield Minus Garfield
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?Meet Jon Arbuckle. Let's laugh and learn with him...
The Woman Who Keeps 75 Hibernating Tortoises In Her Fridges
In most refrigerators, you don't come across living things. Except maybe some yoghurt or a spot of mould. But open up Shirley Neely's two fridges and you'll find them teeming with life.On every shelf, wrapped in tea towels, are slumbering tortoises....
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Singing Kittens
Can a bank make people happy? Bankwest of Australia will be undertaking a number of experiments in happy banking to find out. As part of their research so far, they discovered that kittens can make people happy by reducing stress levels.To test this...
Hair Particle Drawing Generator
With the Hair Particle Drawing Generator you can create your own Hairy Drawings. Images with good contrast work best, and there are some rudimentary controls that allow you to lighten lights, darken darks and bump contrast.You can press the load image...
Baby Loves Disco
Parents who can't let go of their dancing days a new breed of disco is emerging - where mums, dads and toddlers come together to boogie.Baby Loves Disco is a family event. There is no structure, just plenty of environment, atmosphere and healthy snacks....
Yahoo! Proposing To Buy Microsoft
Yahoo! announced it has given serious consideration to the $44.6 billion purchase offer from Microsoft Corporation. However, the Yahoo! Board of Directors has determined it would be more beneficial to both parties if Yahoo! instead purchased Microsoft...
Wind Names
Yes, winds have names. Like the Haboob, a strong wind in the northern and central part of Sudan. Or the Warm Braw, a wind in the Schouten Islands north of New Guinea.The Brickfielder is a wind from the desert in Southern Australia. And the Coromell...
The World's Wackiest Homes
They say a man's home is his castle but sometimes it seems that anything goes. Check out some of the fruitcake houses people call ho...
The Splinter Wooden Supercar
The Splinter is a graduate project for some students at North Carolina State University and is the vision of industrial design student Joe Harmon.The Splinter will be 600-hp with wood used for the chassis, body, and parts of the suspension and wheels....
Tin Man
The Infinite Oz. An artistic collaboration that brings to life the world of the sci-fi miniseries event, Tin Man.(via Everlasting Blo...
Vintage New York
The skyscrapers looked more imposing, somehow, in the black-and-white photographs from the bygone era.Perhaps it's the absence of reflective glass facades with their false sky intervals, and over-abundance of bland stone walls. Either way, New York of...
SpongeBob Rectal Thermometer
The Spongebob Digital Thermometer plays the 'SpongeBob SquarePants Theme' at the end of temperature taking. Nice!(thanks Be...
Dr. Seuss Collection Organized By Color Spectrum
Dr. Seuss' books have a wide range of colors on the bindings. Here's a picture of a Dr. Seuss collection in their proper color spectrum order.(thanks Ch...
TimesMachine
TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922.Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with...
Morning Glories
This movie shows the extreme nutational movements of Morning Glory vines. Climbing vines need to find a suitable support on which to grow. This movie shows three morning glory plants at the stage where they have just begun 'looking' for a support to climb. The images were captured at 10 min intervals.(via...
Going Bananas
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.Want a quick shine on your shoes? Take the inside of the banana skin,...
Food Blog Search
Food Blog Search is a custom built search engine specifically for searching food blogs. It uses Google technology, through the Google Custom Search Engine program.Food Blog Search searches over a thousand hand-selected, high quality food blogs. More...
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Who's Your Daddy?
Who's Your Daddy? is one of 41 hilarious Science Fair experiments.(via Everlasting Blo...
Windmill Accident
A windmill in Hornslet near Aarhus, Denmark, got out of control during a storm.(via Hoemp...
Darwin Dating
In order to join Darwin Dating, you cannot have nerdy glasses, mullets, disproportionately large ears, teeth that aren't white, wobbly upper arms, or hairy feet. Yes, Darwin Dating is for beautiful people only.Are you sick of dating websites filled with ugly, unattractive, desperate fatsos? Darwin Dating...
The Air Car
Imagine a vehicle that runs on air, achieves over 100 gas-equivalent mpg and over 90 mph, has zero to low C02 emissions, seats six, has plenty of space for luggage, cuts no safety corners, and costs no more than an average economy to mid-size vehicle.This...
Nubrella
How does your umbrella hold up in windy conditions? Are you tired of you umbrella inverting and breaking all the time? Introducing Nubrella, the ultimate weather protector. Nubrella is no ordinary umbrella, it stops rain, wind, snow and extreme cold,...
Fake Doctors Notes
We live in a working age. Our bodies and minds suffer from the toils of our occupations and 'careers'. Sadly, our day jobs consume 60%-80% of our lives. The remaining 20%-40% seems the flash by before our eyes. We do not vacation enough, we do not play...
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...
Things For Sale David Horvitz Will Mail You
David Horvitz sells things. For example, if you give him $400 he will take a train to a desolate area with a packed lunch and sit down and read Anna Karenina. He will do this for 6-10 hours. He will repeat the same thing the following days until he has read the entire book.He will send you documentation...
Zero To Superhero
When crisis hits, are you going to be ready? Can loved ones rely on you when the chips are down? Will you be relying on them? Decide now whether your going to be a hero or helpless victim. Prepare yourself, physically and mentally. You have a choice.Divorced,...
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The Atoms FamilyBeautiful CavesWhy Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a SaladFail D...
Optimus Maximus Keyboard
The Optimus Maximus is a computer keyboard with screens embedded in each button. Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.Engadget made a video of the Optimus Maximus keyboard in real world use with their machine running the Configurator softwa...
20 Ridiculous Real Weathermen Names
I know it's not nice to make fun of other people's names. But I couldn't resist it this time. The guy in the picture above is Storm Field. And he's a weatherman. Really, he is. Just like Dallas Raines is a weatherman. And just like Aloha Taylor is a...
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Largest Music Collection In The World
What to do if your life circumstances have changed and for some reason you are forced to sell your music collection? Put it on eBay of course and wait until someone bids US $3,002,150. Yes, that's right. Over $3,000,000.But what you get for that amount...
Merry-Go-Round
What's wrong with this merry-go-round? Try to figure it out first before going to this site to find the answ...
Some Things To Consider
Some things I read in a newsletter:The most destructive habits are worry and assumption.The greatest joy is giving.The greatest loss is loss of self-respect.The most satisfying work is helping others.The ugliest personality trait is selfishness.Our greatest natural resource is our youth.The greatest...
The Beer Collection
Beer is a complex mixture that contains a wide variety of both low and high molecular weight carbohydrates, minerals, alcohol, trace amounts of proteins, yeast by-products, and other diverse organic compounds along with carbon dioxide.The Molecular Expressions...
Wikileaks
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Wikileaks' primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.Wikileaks looks like Wikipedia. Anybody can post comments to it....
79 Years Of Best Picture Winners In Posters
This weekend the winners of the 80th Academy Awards will be announced. Here is a compilation of the posters for all of the best picture winners so far.(via Weird Blo...
Friday, February 22, 2008
Unflattering Photos From The Campaign Trail
Their pictures have been taken thousands of times in recent months. Granted, in most of those photos the Presidential candidates put their best face forward, but here are some photos they probably wish hadn't been snapp...
Rogue Spy Satellite Blast
This week, a standard missile carrying a kinetic warhead was launched northwest of Hawaii from the USS Lake Eire, a Ticonderoga Class missile defense cruiser.24 Minutes later, at 10:50, the Joint Space Operations Center at the Vandenberg Air Force base confirmed the breakup of the satellite at 153 nautical...
Diagnosis: Email Apnea
Email apnea - a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email.I've just opened my email and there's nothing out of the ordinary there. It's the usual daily flood of schedule, project, travel, information, and...
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Top 9 Unique Structures Soon To Be Built50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your WebsiteMovie Cars Spotted In The WildWhy We K...
The Collier Classsification System For Very Small Objects
Historically we have sought to know the world by categorizing and classifying what we see around us. There is, however, a whole universe of easily overlooked and forgotten things that remain unclassified. Once noticed, these Very Small Objects seem to...
How The March Of A Cockroach Put 30 People Out Of Work
For the viewers of Turkmenistan's popular nightly news programme, it was another routine bulletin. But as the newsreader began the 9pm broadcast, viewers across the central Asian country spotted something unusual crawling across the studio table: a...
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Hillary Clinton Is Your New Bicycle
Last Monday I showed you what Barack Obama has done for you. Since I am impartional, see what Hillary Clinton has done for you.And here's what Michelle Obama has done for you.And John McCain.By the way, Hillary Clinton is also your new HD DVD play...
Red Beans Beard Series
The Red Beans Beard series of portraits by contemporary artist Takao Sakai who calls himself Azura.(via Grow-A-Bra...
Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
The title says it all.Sometimes the page is red, sometimes it's blue.That's ...
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What Europeans Think of Each OtherWorthwhile Websites for Learning12-Step Program to Eating Healthier Than Ever BeforeEngineers Explai...
The Deadly Huashan Hiking Trail
The Huashan Hiking Trail is the most dangerous tourist hiking trail in the world. Mount Hua is located in the Shaanxi Province of China, close to the Himalayas of Tibet.This is not mountain climbing. Mountain climbing involves using advanced equipment...
Obsolete Skills
Obsolete skills are things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us like dialing a rotary phone, putting a needle on a vinyl record, using a slide rule, or parking a harddisk.Here's a list of obsolete skil...
What Happens To Your Body Within An Hour Of Drinking A Coke?
In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system.After 20 minutes your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst.After 40 minutes your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream.After...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Beatbox
Play your own Beatbox. The site is in Swedish but it's very easy to understand what to do. Press the spacebar to start recording and use to A - K keys to add your own sniffs.(via Ursi's Bl...
Road Trains
A road train is a trucking concept used in remote areas of the world to move bulky loads efficiently. The term 'road train' is most often used in Australia. In the U.S. and Canada the terms 'triples', 'Turnpike doubles' and 'Rocky Mountain doubles' are...
Foodsel
Figuring out food labels is not for everyone, but simply seeing what you are eating can be surprising to all of us. Foodsel provides a wealth of information at your finger tips, neatly organized by group, manufacturer or nutrient. Visualize what you...
I'm A Comma
What punctuation mark are you?I'm a comma.You are open minded and extremely optimistic. You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything. You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests.You find it...
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