Ladybird easy-reading books are small hardback educational books for children. This book 'The Policeman' from the series 'People at Work' however is a parody. The pictures stay the same but the text is alter...
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Subject #164
Filmed in the early 60's, this laboratory documentary follows a newly discovered and apparently unintelligent Neanderthal Humanlike specimen which is found, through testing, to have amazing logic-solving intelligence.We observe the progress of 'Subject #164' over a period of approximately three years...
Sensible Units
The purpose of Sensible Units is to make units of measurement understandable. It takes a quantity with a scientific unit and turns it into several quantities with sensible units, like elephants, buses and Great Walls of China.For example, 1 lb equals 3 human kidneys, 8 tennis balls, and 3.2 wireless...
Mouse Print
Mouse Print is the fine print in advertising, in a contract, or on a product label, often buried out of easy sight. In the worst cases, the mouse print changes the meaning of, or contradicts the primary claims or promises being made. Sometimes, the catch is not even disclosed.The website, MousePrint.org,...
Friday, May 30, 2008
Incredible Pictures Of One Of Earth's Last Uncontacted Tribes
One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border. The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state.The...
Turbanizer
Ash Singh is a Canadian born, Hong Kong educated entrepreneur based in Singapore. He says:Racism is driven by being afraid of the unknown. People that do not wear a turban need to connect with the turban to understand it. Turbanizer.com helps by allowing...
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13 Online Tools for Beer LoversHow to Make Your Own Tonic Water15 Places to Find Great ScreencastsHow to Clean StuffThe 9 Weirdest Musical Instrume...
Artybasheff's Machinalia
Boris Artzybasheff was born in Kharkiv, Russia in 1899. Perhaps one of the most flexible artists, Artzybasheff's style ranged from flat, graphic designs to meticulously rendered compositions.He did technical drawings of machinery, portraits, whimsical...
Russian Truckers
People in the Northern parts of Russia need food and other things for comfort living as anyone else does, so shippers should get this to them everyday no matter what's going on with the weather. In winter temperatures can go below -67 F.How do Russian...
12 Things You May Not Know About The Nobel Prizes
You may be under the impression that only the best of the best get awarded Nobel Prizes. You may think that the carefully thought out opinions by the selection committees would highlight lasting improvements in the sciences and the peace process.You...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Non-Abductees Anonymous
What a terrible feeling it must be to know that you have never been abducted by aliens. What have you done to deserve this extraterrestial rejecti...
Streetviewr
Google Maps Street View can lead you on a voyeuristic journey of discovery. Streetviewr is currently listing 2,362 funny, weird or dramatic Street View images.Google Street View sometimes shows some glitches like in this picture where a Mercedes convertible...
Download Day
Download Day is an attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day. Download Day will coincide with the general availability of Firefox 3. The clock will start ticking when Firefox 3 goes...
150 Things You Didn't Know About The Human World
* The women of the Tiwi tribe in the Pacific are married at birth.* The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.* Winston Churchill’s mother was descended from a Red Indian.* It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.* In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems...
The Great American Roadtrip
From Sunday May 4 to Thursday May 8, Joey Stocking, Josh Keeler and Adam Gatherum made a roadtrip through all 48 US states, nonstop, in a 2005 Scion xB. They drove 7,008 miles and it took them 106 hours and 43 minut...
Read At Work
How to read at work without being busted. If you like to read at work but have to be careful about your boss looking at your screen, Read At Work disguises itself as a Windows desktop with the links in windows folders.You can read short stories, poetry,...
The Ampersand
An ampersand (&), also commonly called an 'and sign' is a logogram representing the conjunction 'and.' The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, Latin for 'and.'The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase 'and per se and.' The ampersand...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
You Suffer
'You Suffer' is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long and consists entirely of the lyrics 'You suffer - but why?'The song was written by band members Nicholas...
Ghost In A Bottle
For $20 you can now purchase a ghost in a bottle. Each Ghost is captured from a reported haunted establishment and sealed in it's own bottle. The bottle is sealed for your protection. No maintenance required; except occasional dusting. You may release...
The Google Robot FAQ
Google Robots are human-like machines that walk the earth to record information. They do no harm, and they do not invade your privacy. Google Robots do not surf the web, that part is still left to the so-called Googlebots.A Google Robot, by definition of its internal software program, can never harm...
Smartest Browser And Operating System
IQLeague have some kind of online IQ test on their site and they group IQ scores of all visitors by different geographical locations. Here is an interesting part - they also group IQ Scores by referrer website and by client browser and operating system.If...
How Your Dentist Can Save Your Life
Mouth infections can usually be cured very easily. But runaway dental infections can be treacherous. They have eaten through the skin in people's necks, choked off airways, migrated to the heart, burrowed into brains and, yes, even killed people.Are...
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105 Free College LecturesBeautiful And Original Product Design106 Organizations that Are Changing the World60 Fun Things to Do for Little or No Mo...
Text2Mindmap
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem...
Do More With Your Webcam
Turn your webcam into a Motion-Sensing Security Camera, login to Windows with your face, create time-lapse videos, chronicle your face, turn your PC into a photo booth.Do More With Your Webc...
Monday, May 26, 2008
The Quest For Every Beard Type
Jon Dyer has been growing a beard every winter for some years now, and every spring, he tries to see how many facial hair variations he can check off from a chart of facial hair types.There are 34 facial hair types on the chart and so far he has been...
Deus Ex Machina
Jake Loniak is a Transportation Design student in his 6th term. His project called 'Deus Ex Machina' is an electric, single passenger, vertically parking, and wearable motorcycle.With seven artificial vertebrae behind the helmet that support the rider's...
BFF Project
You can send Shawn Feeney a photo of yourself and a photo of one of your close friends. He will draw a composite of your two faces. He's drawing 64 facial images of composite friends.Then he'll draw a series of composites from the composites; 32 drawings...
Google Malware Diagnosis Service
Philipp of Google Blogoscoped reports of a probably new Google service. Just append any domain – your domain or another site you want to check on – to the end of the URL 'google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=', and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits...
The Fourfortyfour Theory
Sometimes you look at the time on your phone or on your computer and you have a 'FourFortyFour Moment' like 2:22, or 17:17, or 4:44. These numbers are islands made by time.People accidentally get into them from different places all over the planet and...
Day&Night
An exceptional timepiece that does not indicate the time! With no display for the hours, minutes or seconds the Day&Night offers a new way of measuring time, splitting the universe of time into two fundamentally opposing sections: day versus night.A...
Labels Project
According to Italian visual artist Luca Pizzaroni, label-gazing becomes a valid geographical-psychological challenge. The viewer's interpretation belies his personal notions about geographical provenance, time and memory.A series of labels found in clothing.(via...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
GraphJam - Pop Culture For People In Cubicles
Pick a subject.Music, movies, bosses, life, sports, coffee...Then Graphicize ...
Physical Therapy Exercises For Injurious Situations
How to act after a breakup, after losing a bid for the presidency, and after being maligned on a bl...
Odd And Unusual Chocolate Flavored Items
Unusual chocolate flavored items like chocolate toothpaste, chocolate beer, or chocolate perfume.(via Dark Roasted Ble...
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...
The Biggest Drawing In The World
On March 17, 2008, Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar sent away a briefcase containing a GPS device with express transportation company DHL. He gave them exact travel instructions. Where to go and in what order. 55 Days later the briefcase returned to his...
Tag Galaxy
Tag Galaxy is an application to explore Flickr photos via virtual planetary systems. You enter a tag, and the related galaxy appears on screen.Each planet contains the pictures of a certain tag, and when you click on them, the images are placed on a...
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8 Different Types Of Headlines Which SellTop 5 Web Browsers That Aren't IE, Safari, or Firefox25 Ways to Help a Fellow Human Being TodayTop 50 Atheism Quo...
Starlink
This web site is created for all the Star People out there. The Day is near when we will all stand up and take our part in The Great Awakening. We are here to assist the Earth to evolve to Her next level. That is why we now have to wake up and get our...
10 Optical Illusions In 2 Minutes
Samsung presents 10 optical illusions in 2 minutes to promote the new SOUL mobile pho...
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Direct Manipulation Video Player
DimP is a video player that allows to browse video clips by directly manipulating their content. This method brings the benefits of direct manipulation to an activity typically mediated by widgets. A technique called relative flow dragging that lets users control video playback by moving objects of...
Nine Company Blogs That Are Fun For Anyone To Read
An interesting company blog can be a great way to draw in new people through relevant content of general interest - and some of them will stay to check out the service you provide.Some companies just blog about updates to their own technology and that's good for existing users to see. Others are fun...
13 Of The Best Observation Points For The Northern Lights
The Nortern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are coloured and white flashing lights in the atmosphere north of the Arctic Circle. The lights are the result of the ionization of atmospheric molecules, at low temperatures, by solar and cosmic radiation.If you've...
Postage Stamp Shows 3-Second Sports Clip
The postal administration of Austria has immortalized a television broadcast clip on a postage stamp issued May, 2008, in honor of the upcoming Union of European Football Associations' 2008 series. The clip shows three different perspectives of the...
The Chief Cook Robot
The HOAP-3 is a humanoid robot created by Fujitsu. This video shows the robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model, the robot progressively learns to generalize the skill to various situatio...
Freeganism
Freeganism is an anti-consumerism lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies. The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters but are still edible and nutritious. They salvage the food not because...
Thursday, May 22, 2008
FakeTV
FakeTV makes it look like you are home watching TV, even when you are not. FakeTV accurately simulates the light output of a real television. The effect of scene changes, fades, swells, flicks, on-screen motion, and color changes look just they came...
The Corkxedo
The Corkxedo is a tuxedo made of corks. There are 891 corks used and the garment weighs 15 pounds. The oldest cork is from a 1935 bottle of Chateau Lynch-Bages.It took approximately 10 months and more than 800 hours to make. The Corkxedo was created...
When Bodybuilding And Steroids Go Too Far
Right or more often the case wrong, athletes have been taking anabolic steroids since the early 1960's. Many competitive bodybuilders go to excess in taking steroids in order to compete citing that extreme sports require extreme measures, using a plethora...
Supercook
Most recipe search engines are very simple: a user types a query and the engine returns a list of recipes which contain those words. Typically, the recipes returned will require many additional ingredients the user might not have at home.Supercook returns recipes you can actually make right now with...
Babe Ruth: Constructing A Legend
Who is this Baby Ruth, and what does she do? With this simple question, George Bernard Shaw drew the ire of Americans everywhere in the 1920s. A baseball legend and an American icon, Babe Ruth single-handedly changed the way baseball was played and...
YouTomb
YouTomb is a research project by Free Culture, a student organization at MIT. YouTombe tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns.Any information available in...
Retro-futuristic Watch
Japanese company Tokyo Flash sells unique watches. One of them is theB Version by Twelve 5-9.The hours are shown on a radar screen. When a button is pressed, the LEDs flash in a random cycle and then stop, displaying the ti...
Become Invisible
For sale on eBay: Become Invisible. For only $24.95 you can purchase the Secret of Invisibility.This is not a toy or a magic trick. This is not an illusion or a Ninja technique. The Secret of Invisibility is an amazing book that renders you completely invisible. This method is currently used by the...
Who'll Be The Next Vice-President?
Now that Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate for president in all but name, America turns to consider his nominee for Vice-President. Who should fill the role? There are, of course, many possibilities.Here are some of th...
Photographing A Wedding And An Earthquake
Can you imagine what it was like to have been photographing a wedding in Sichuan, China when an 7.9 earthquake hit and shakes for three minut...
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