unique and interesting: July 2008

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Shouting Vase

Turn your loudest, most urgent frustrations into mere whispers with the Shouting Vase ($79.00).The plastic jug is designed to fit over the contours of your mouth and absorb your screams and shouts, 'storing' them in the vase and emitting a softer version...

With the click of a button this site estimates your gender using your browser history. They look at your history to find out which of the Quantcast top 10,000 sites were visited. They then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with...

A mysterious creature washed up on a Long Island beach near New York has led to a frenzy of online speculation. Dubbed the Montauk Monster after the Long Island town where it was found, the creature has prompted speculation it was part of a secret mutant...

Bodybuilder Robot

Either you like bodybuilders or you don't. I fall in the latter category but that's probably because I don't look like a bodybuilder at all. And because I don't know much about bodybuilding, I won't make any ignorant comments. I just thought this 'robot' routine looked funny.(via afrojac...

SKIP'S HOUSE OF CHAOSSkip is a negotiation trainer from Los Angeles who started his blog off a few years ago as a lark. It's part humor, part political, part personal stuff.Skip's House of Cha...

ePIFFUNNIESThe motto of ePIFfunnies is: 'We will all become wiser if we share our wisdom with each other.' Besides the daily 'ePIFfunnews' and ePIFfunnies from Mr. ePIFfunny, we post Guest ePIFfunnies and the ePIFfunny of the Week.We also have a page...

Creative Coffins provide a green solution for those who want a distinctive and practical funeral. Environmentally sympathetic and certified non-toxic, their cartonboard coffins are suitable for both burial and cremation.Creative Coffins was formed in...

This image shows the first Google storage system. In 1996 Google had its headquarters in one of the founders' dorm. At that time 4 GigaByte hard disks were the largest available, so they assembled 10 of these drives into a low-cost LEGO cabinet.The equipment...

The internet meme is no longer a new phenomena. A meme is when a hyperlink or file is spread from person to persons. A meme has as many faces as your average politician - it can be a website in its own right, a joke, an image, a video, a weird and wonderful...

Grass Flip Flops

Doughnut maker Krispy Kreme designed the world's first grass flip flops to relax city workers by giving them their own mini-park to walk around in.The al fresco flip-flops take up to three weeks to grow and each shoe is covered with over 5,000 blades...

Rafael Rozendaal is a visual artist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Rozendaal creates digital playgrounds, bringing a kind of non sense aesthetism.One of his projects is 'Burning Cigarette,' a page with three YouTube videos. Click the videos from right...

Ever wanted to rule the Universe? Well, now you can! Authority for Universe Ownership allows you to purchase deeds to an entire parallel universe - a universe customized exactly as you want it.For a limited period you can get a free instant gift certificate....

Bubbloo

The Denver Art Museum in Colorado, USA, has a project called Bubbloo. Bubbloo is an interactive space where people step or jump on projected bubbles. Popping the bubbles flip over parts of a mosaic that are part of a wall projection to reveal objects from the collection.When the object is totally revealed,...

SAGAVIDEOSSagaVideos is about music, lyrics and information, and about many different music artists. Lots of music videos, and all safe for work.SagaVide...

@HOME@home is a blog from Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain. It's a blog with practical and interesting things, and frequently updated.@ho...

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11 Things You Shouldn't Leave For School WithoutThe Bureau of Atomic Tourism8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your LifeThe Art of Working Out Al...

Traffic frustrates. Sunken traffic frustrates absolutely. Most of these photos were taken during flooding in Sofia, Bulgaria, in Minsk, Belorus, and in Moscow and Kazan, Russia.These recent events show a few stubborn drivers going against the flow......

The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad. The Secret Service was established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting...

Senior Citizen Bumper Stickers

There may be nothing you can do about growing old, but that doesn't mean you can't laugh about it. PM Caregiver has a neat collection of humorous bumper stickers about growing old.(via Neatora...

In her two years at Google, Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company's search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results. Now, along with her husband, Tom...

Strange Architecture

A slideshow of some of the world's wierdest architecture.(via Everlasting Blo...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is the quality of femininity. Exploring this for many artists takes on a diversity of themes.This article showcases different styles, different ideas, different approaches to the illustration of a girl and...

TYWKIWDBITywkiwdbi is an acronym for 'Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog It,' a blog created to house 'an eclectic mix of trivialities, ephemera, curiosities, and exotica...' in part to entertain my family and friends, but also to create a repository...

SUZELYNQSMy blog is a compilation of interesting tidbits I find on the intertubes, mixed with random recaps of my life. I enjoy reading other people's blogs, and hope that mine gets a view or two.SuzeLyn...

Round-the-world flying adventurer Steve Fossett may have faked his own death, investigators have claimed. Fossett went missing last September in a light plane over the Nevada desert.Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia Ryan of the US Civil Air Patrol has said...

Built in the beginning of July in Toronto with 465,000 bricks, it's 96.12f high. It took three attempts to put the last section in place, due to strong winds. This is a new world record registered by the Guinness Book.The LEGO tower was completed under...

What is it with Japan and weird drinks? Part of the answer lies in the love Japanese have for soft drinks – surveys show that about 40% of the nation's citizens drink at least one soft drink every day. That's about 50 million people!In addition, trends...

Is Obama President?

Is Obama President?See for yourself.(via Everlasting Blo...

Italian Motorcycle Police 1953

A display by the Italian Motorcycle Police in 1953.(via Grow-A-Bra...

After seeing my post about Zombie Harmony last Saturday, Presurfer reader Ryan told me about his site called Lost Zombies.Lost Zombies is the first ever community generated zombie documentary. Their goal is to gather definitive proof that zombies are...

BOLIBIC BLOGMy name is Bolibic and I am a biro from an office. My site is in Spanish language but everyone understand the power of drawings.BoliBic Bl...

WORDS & PICTURESWords & Pictures is about the adventures of a creative team in a large advertising agency. We've been around for almost 3 years and are read in 43 countries. New strips are posted every Monday.Words & Pictur...

A Worth1000 Photoshop contest.Detouching: removing the retouching from airbrushed cele...

People are as numerous and diverse as pebbles on a beach. Most, though, will have some sort of morning ritual, designed to start the day.For many of them, that will involve the wondrous potion known to the world as coffee.Here are ten things that people...

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...

Fetch

Ever wondered what the dog is thinking when you throw that sti...

OpenPhotoVR

OpenPhotoVR is a pseudo-3D photo browser in Flash. Users create photo albums by uploading pictures, taken at different angles, and linking them together by hand. You can use the mousewheel to zoom, click-and-drag to pan, click 'hotspots' with hand cursor to navigate between images.Try the photo below...

RSS, or Rich Site Summary, is an easy way to stay informed of the latest updates to your favorite sites without having to actually visit them each individually. For those who have sites, it can be a great way to increase readership and get information...

QUINTOHMy blog is basically on design, but as not only of Pantones he lives the designer also there is very much of one zapping on the visual world, tendencies, tutorials, videos, photography. The cool along with the uncool.Quint...

THE WORLD OF STUFFI'm a 19-year-old college student in Florida, USA. In my blog, The World of Stuff, I write about technology, current events, and my day-to-day happenings with a touch (or more) of humor.The World of Stu...

Do not press the button.(via The Thinks I Thi...

Rock In A Hard Place

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Zombie Harmony

Zombie Harmony is a dating service for zombies, and for zombies only. You can sign up for Zombie Harmony only if you lack a pulse, have limited motor skills, or feel an intense desire to feast on human beings.Zombie Harmony is not responsible for lost...

List Of Unusual Personal Names

A Wikipedia list of people who have received media attention because of their name, or are otherwise widely recognized as having names that are unusual. This list includes both names given at birth, and people who have legally changed their name.Some examples:Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel....

MICAMAN'S THOUGHTSMy name is Pedro Marrucho and I'm from Portugal. I own a blog called 'Micaman's Thoughts' where I post about all the interesting, strange and funny stuff I find on the web.My blog is written in Portuguese, although I've managed to link...

AMYOOPSWhere funny is a 4-letter word... Oops. Funny is as funny does and being the only person who was 'swept' out of a Rocky Horror Picture show presentation, Amy brings her humor to the world of blogging.Amy searches the world over to bring you her...

Worlds Most Amazing Instrument

I have posted this before but Presurfer reader Mark reminded me about this amazing instrument, so here it is again. The instrument is not real but the work of computer animation. The video is a piece called Pipe Dream that was created by Wayne Lytle, and Dave Crognale and their team at Animusic, a content...

AfraidToAsk

Have you ever had a medical question that you were too embarrassed to ask a friend, family member, or even your doctor? Are you tired of the establishment medical sites that sugar coat their information and won't show you the pictures you need to see?Unlike most healthcare web sites, afraidtoask.com...

Entertainer Charlie Chaplin was probably the most well-known actor of the early 20th century. After adopting his trademark Little Tramp costume, consisting of baggy pants, bamboo cane, bowler hat, and over-sized shoes, Chaplin became a Hollywood icon.Most...

e-MANcipate!

Yes, this is about pantyhose for men. e-MANcipate! is a project to accelerate the acceptance of male pantyhose as a regular clothing item.Surprise or not - many men do wear pantyhose as a regular clothing item. Why? Why not? If you think a bit you see...

Crystal Girl

Hasnah Mohamed Meselmani, a 12 year-old Lebanese girl has baffled medical experts by producing crystals from her eyes. Coming at a rate of seven a day, the crystals are razor sharp, but do not harm her eyes.Read Hasnah Mohamed Meselmani's sto...

Yesterday I asked if you were interested in promoting your blog on The Presurfer. Until now I have had 20 32 requests. I will post two blogs each day. First come, first served. So, it could take a couple of days until your site appears here. Thanks for...

COWGIRL IN THE CITYMy name is Mallory and I'm an Oklahoma-born country gal trying to survive the big city life as an NYU student.My blog is called Cowgirl in the City. It's mainly about the things going on in my life, methods of survival for New York...

Former Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell claimed, in a recent radio interview, that not only have aliens been visiting the Earth for the past sixty years since the Roswell incident, but that Earth governments are aware of this fact and are covering...

International Music Score Library Project

The International Music Score Library Project attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.IMSLP also encourages the exchange of musical ideas, both in the form of...

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20+ Tools for Finding Coupons Online35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in ActionThe Aliens Have Landed20 Great Ways to Find More Free T...

Gale Franey has been creating digital art, graphics and web design since 2001. Her digital illustrations are featured in an award winning childrens' book. She has worked extensively with refugees and the homeless.It is those immensely rich experiences...

Russian Car A...

Oh My God! It's A Giant Cow!

His name is Chilli and he's described as a gentle giant. His owners have contacted the Guinness Book of Records who are currently assessing his credentials and comparing them to other big bovines. The black and white Friesian bullock weighs well over...

Here's something I want to give a try. I get lots of emails of starting - and even experienced bloggers - who ask me to take a look at their site, tell them what I think about it, and/or add them to my blogroll. I want to give you a chance to promote...

Yawning Lions

Amazing yawning lions. Warning: there's a half-eaten animal appearing in this video.(thanks Bri...

With his dashing chiselled features, swept back hair and perky bouffant the resemblance is unmistakable. But incredibly this carving of Elvis Presley was created around 1800 years before the King of Rock and Roll first warbled his first note. The amazing...

The northern hemisphere is feeling the summer heat. A number of heat waves have already rolled across parts of southern Europe, the United States and Asia.From swimming pools to rivers, wave pools, ocean beaches and more, here are some recent photos...

PeopleFinders.com, the premier online service that helps consumers quickly find and connect with anyone, announced the launch of Criminal Searches. It's a free website that provides consumers with detailed information on people with criminal histories,...

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