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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
* 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...
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...
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,...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...