To celebrate Halloween, NASA Cassini's website has posted spooky sounds from Saturn and Titan.(via naac...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Attention Halloween Partygoers
Thinking of going to your Halloween party dressed as Sarah Palin?Think again!(via Some Guy With a Websi...
Immersion Scarf
Can't read your mobile phone because of the disturbing bright sunlight?Use the Immersion Scarf and you'll be sure to look like a fo...
Could You Handle A Slippery Dick?
Some people could not bear to do it. Others might be able, but only with their eyes closed.Others might swallow hard and grasp it with both hands. Given a Slippery Dick, ask yourself one question... could you handle it?(via Robert-Jo...
Dystopic Horizons Realty
Dystopic Horizons Realty has found the solution to our depressed economy and the local housing crunch. 'Artist Housing' is not a cardboard house... it's a cardboard home! The exceptional lifestyle that cultivates creative thinking.Each inspired live/work...
Kids Halloween Candy Code
Sacramento kids developed a hobo-esque code for Halloween, leaving chalk symbols on the sidewalks outside houses to indicate positive or negative candy informati...
USB Cooler Keyboard
You really do not want to have wet hands when handling delicate visual materials for your work. No more sweaty hands to disturb your creativity.This keyboard has three internal cooling fans to keep your hands cool and cle...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
18 Extraordinary Modern Beds And Bed Designs
Considering we spend a third of our lives occupying them, it is surprising bed designs have remained so stable throughout history - until now.Here are 18 groundbreaking beds that are straining to free themselves from convention, predictability and even...
Top 10 Countries Censoring The Web
When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents. Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world,...
Robocop On A Unicorn: An Unlikely Combination?
Yes, you read correctly. Robocop and Unicorn are united in a meme that is sweeping the internet (and possibly ridding it of wrong doers at the same time?).Yet what is the point, if indeed there is one? Take a look at this web-based phenomenon and make...
5 Signs You've Had One Too Many To Drink
Check out this funny 'Hollywood-style' Heineken trailer of introducing some of the embarrassing characters that emerge when one of your friends had one too many to drink.Then go to the bar to keep an eye on things. See if you can detect when somebody has had too many drinks.(thanks Pa...
Top 10 Web Political Moments
On the eve of an historic US election that has seen the Internet dominate the political landscape, The Webby Awards named the Web's ten most influential political moments.From Senator Dianne Feinstein breaking new ground with the first campaign Web site in 1994 to the celebrated CNN YouTube debates...
Caves: The World Beneath The World
If you are stretched and squeezed by everyday life, then you might be in perfect shape to explore caves. Enter a narrow natural passageway that may lead to a simply mind-boggling underground world.Caves may lurk right under your feet: a fascinating and...
Ghosts in the Library
A list of libraries that are said to be haunted. The list is compiled by George Eberhart of the American Library Association.The paranormal has a strong hold on the imagination of many people, and for them this series should be especially attractive....
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Meat Art Gallery
Meat After Meat Joy is a group exhibition of contemporary artists who use meat in their work. Curated by Heide Hatry, the show's title refers Carolee Schneemann's performance/happening Meat Joy itself projected in the gallery.The show features sculpture,...
Your Debut Album
Here's something funny to do when you're bored.1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.The last four...
Bloodhound 1000 Mph Rocket Car
Roughly three years from now, former RAF pilot Andy Green will be strapped into a purple-and-yellow contraption. And a few seconds later, he hopes to become the first man to drive through the 1,000mph barrier.Green, 45, hopes that in his Bloodhound supersonic...
Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines In Literature
I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man, I think my liver hurts. From Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines In Literatu...
The Fire Rainbow: An Astonishing And Rare Marvel Of Nature
No, it's not the first of April. The phenomenon known as a 'fire rainbow' does exist. A fire rainbow is a halo or an optical phenomenon similar in appearance to a horizontal rainbow, but in contrast caused by the refraction of light through the ice crystals...
Beautiful Halloween Wallpapers And Halloween DIY-Tutorials
Halloween is around the corner and the atmosphere is filled with pumpkins, skeletons, bonfires, horror movies and other scary things spread across the houses, stores and, of course, web sites.Just the right time to spice up your desktop and your designs...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Short Term Memory Checker
Short term memory is information that undergoes little processing or interpretation and can be recalled for only a few seconds. Estimates of short term memory capacity vary - from about 3 or 4 elements (i.e., words, digits, or letters) to about 9 elements.Check...
10 Fun Facts About Pablo Picasso
Did you know Pablo Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso?Or that Picasso had such a difficult birth and was such a weak...
Skip Conversions
Skip Conversions by artist Oliver Bishop-Young. It's a project which suggests new uses for dumpste...
German Police Seek Speeding British Muppet
German traffic police have been left looking like proper muppets by a British prankster. An Audi TT Audi A4 Avant with British registration plates has been repeatedly caught speeding on roads in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth.The speed cameras in Germany...
The GreenDot Project
Everyone has a unique body signature. GreenDot is a research project that investigates motion capture, pattern recognition, and Intrinsic Biometrics'' techniques to detect human body language in video.The goal of the project is to train a computer to...
Egg Cup Design Hits The Twenty First Century
Life's enchanted cup! Byron may not have been referring to the humble egg cup when he wrote that line, but design and technology have brought the egg cup bang up to date with some new takes on an old idea.Take a look at these 21st century egg cups -...
The Most Overhyped Gadgets
PR campaigns blow millions on them. News anchors announce their arrival like they're members of state. And the rest of us suffer when they utterly fail to deliver.They're overhyped tech products, and unfortunately, we've run across quite a few of them...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Virtual Husband
Yesterday I posted about a Japanese woman who had been arrested after she killed her virtual husband.The question is not how she killed him, but why?Here's the answ...
Timeline Of U.S. Presidential Elections
This timeline is a presentation of popular and electoral voting data from U.S. Presidential elections since 18...
What The Real Crisis Is Like
If you think that the current economic crisis is something that has never happened in history before, you may be wrong!After the collapse of the agriculture sector in Zimbabwe in 2000, the inflation in that country skyrocketed to 231 million percent...
Where These Internet Pioneers Got Their Names
Yahoo!, Sony, Motorola, RedHat, Oracle, Google, etc. These names are mentioned everyday in the Tech world. We know who they are and what they do, but we might not know how they settled with their brand name and the story behind it.Here are 18 Internet giants and stories on how they end up with their...
Some Things May Not Be Transparently Obvious
Trick photography is hardly a new phenomenon – in fact it has been around since the invention of the camera.Here though is a strange new obsession – creating 'transparent' computer screens and capturing a digital image of a digital image of, well – a...
Fun Facts About The United Nations
On October 24, 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence when its Charter was ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council (France, Republic of China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States) and a majority of...
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...
Weird Sound Generator
The Weird Sound Generator makes wacky, zany, weird, and unusual sounds. They stimulate brain cell growth in humans and pets.Exposure of fetus to Weird Sounds promotes genius and prodigy...ism. Exposure of adolescents to Weird Sounds promotes respect...
50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks
Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and...
Turn Your Name Into A Face
Want to waste some time with something useless?Turn your name into a face.I turned my name into a face and this is what it looks li...
Woman In Jail Over Virtual Murder
A Japanese woman has been arrested after she allegedly killed her virtual husband in a popular video game. The 43-year-old was reportedly furious at finding herself suddenly divorced in the online game Maplestory.Police say she illegally accessed log-in...
25 Lunches Too Awesome To Eat
Bentos, or boxed lunches, have a long history rooted in ancient Japan. They originally began as simple meals that required little or no effort to assemble. Today they are a vibrant art form that is popular worldwide.(thanks An...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Find The Exact Address Of Any Point On Earth
If you know the exact road directions for reaching a particular point in the city but you have no clue about the postal address of that place, this Google Maps mashup can help.Use a search box to find an approximate location on Google Maps. Then click any point to see its address. You can use a zip...
Playing The Building
Playing the Building is a sound installation by artist David Byrne in which the infrastructure, the Battery Maritime Building in New York - is converted into a giant musical instrument.Devices are attached to the building structure - to the metal beams...
Enceladus Up Close
Saturn's tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA's Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches.Scientists are learning a great deal about this curious little moon. Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for over 4 years now, and has...
Search!o
Search!o is a tabbed search engine which aims to simplify your searching needs by bringing a lot of sites in a single page.Search!o allows you to search in particular categories, including music, images, books, blogs, news, fonts, recipes, jobs, torrents,...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
RealSnailMail
RealSnailMail is the first webmail service using live snails.The moment you click 'send' your message travels at the speed of light to our server where it awaits collection by a real live snail. Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic...
Inflatable Fruitcake
It's festive, it's traditional and it's inedible - just like the real thing. When inflated, this inflatable fruitcake makes a great centerpiece for the holiday dinner tab...
10 People With Unbelievable Talents
Miroslaw Magola moves objects with his mind, Manjit Singh pulls an airplane with his ears, and Zhang Quan can clap as loud as a helicopter.Just some of the people with unbelievable talents.(thanks Lu...
Pro Thumb Wrestling
Pro Thumb Wrestling is a full-size, officially sanctioned professional thumb wrestling ring. All contenders must insert their thumbs through the opposite corner holes and come out wrestli...
The Stink In Farts Controls Blood Pressure
A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds. The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide, can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes...
List Of Multiple Births
A Wkipedia list of multiple births and pregnancies greater than twins, such as triplets (3), quadruplets (5), quintuplets (5), and up to quindecaplets (1...
If The MPAA Did Handbags
In day to day life it is hard to sometimes appreciate the restrictions put on us because they become camouflaged into our every day life and are just accepted as the norm. The media industry is trying to camouflage a lot of unethical restrictions to...
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