The crazy things people put on YouTube. First there was Keyboard Cat.Now there's Keyboard Man, a guy impersonating Keyboard Cat.(via b3...
Saturday, July 31, 2010
10 Spectacular Sand Sculpting Festivals
image creditWhile most people see summer as a chance for some fun in the sun, swimming and tanning aren't the only things going on at the beach. In fact, each year, artists from all over the globe meet in the sand to show off their sculpting skills.(thanks...
The Chocolate Hills Of Bohol
image creditBohol in the Philippines is home to a dramatically unusual geographic feature - the Chocolate Hills. A shame, but a certain Mr Wonka has not been visiting (and neither is this the entrance to the fabled land of the Oompa Loompas).In the...
Tim Halperin: She Runs
Music video of Tim Halperin performing 'She Runs'. The video is one continuous dolly shot (it was done in one single take) and cost $500. It's meant to look like a stripped down elementary school play. The video was directed by Jonathan Combs and Joe Childress.(thanks J...
Edible Drinking Glasses
Edible, flavored and naturally biodegradable gelatinous drinking cups. The cups are made entirely out of agar agar (a gelatinous substance made from red algae) and cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet, each specifically...
Pencil Sculptures
Pencil sculptures by Dalton Ghetti. Dalton uses three basic tools to make his incredible creations - a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife. He even refuses to use a magnifying glass and has never sold any of his work, only given it away to...
Top 10 Longest Living Animals
Small animals such as birds and squirrels rarely live to their maximum life span, usually dying of accidents, disease or predation. Grazing animals accumulate wear and tear to their teeth to the point where they can no longer eat, and they die of starvation.Maximum...
Friday, July 30, 2010
Basil Marceaux: The Next Governor Of Tennessee?
Who should be Tennessee's next governor? Why not this fellow? His name is Basil Marceaux and if you vote for him he will 'immune you from all state crimes for the rest of your life.' He opens with, 'I'm Basil Marceaux.com.'(thanks Co...
Car Thieves Don't Steal Pink Cars
Car thieves have their favorite colors of cars to steal. These are white, black and silver. What they don't like is pink.So, if you don't want thieves to steal your car, get a pink o...
Tokyo's 'Oldest Man' Had Been Dead For 30 Years
Officials had planned a birthday celebration to honour Mr Kato but they found him dead. He was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo - but when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed.Mr Kato may have been dead for 30...
Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved?
The recent decoding of a cryptic cup, the excavation of ancient Jerusalem tunnels, and other archaeological detective work may help solve one of the great biblical mysteries: Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?The new clues hint that the scrolls, which include...
World's First Ice Cream Truck For Dogs
The world's first ice cream van for dogs will open for business at a 'pet party' in London's Regent's Park tomorrow.The van will serve canine-friendly flavors such as 'Dog Eat Hog World' - a chicken and gammon sorbet - and 'Canine Cookie Crunch,' a more...
Possibilities For Mutation In Necktie Design
If one examines two variables in a man's apparel - the shirt and necktie - their permutations and variations have been few. They have evolved very slowly during the nation's 234- year history.Has the time arrived for men's necktie styles to break out...
15 Fabulous And Free Hotel Perks
image creditAs hotel freebies go, those miniature bottles of shampoo and conditioner really aren't very exciting. Certainly not compared to the products and services that certain hotels are doling out to guests.From loaner e-readers loaded with books...
Meteor Crater Discovered With Google Earth
Researchers poring over Google Earth images have discovered one of Earth's freshest impact craters - a 45-meter-wide pock in southwestern Egypt that probably was excavated by a fast-moving iron meteorite no more than a few thousand years ago.Although...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Slow Motion Video Of A Lightning Bolt
Multiple tower upward lightning flash captured at 9,000 images per second in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. A preceding downward positive ground flash triggers upward leaders from seven towers, three of which are visible in the video. The minute-and-a-half video covers less than two seconds of real...
I Beweave Hair Salon
Shocantelle Brown says:Lord knows you need an affordable new weave! Come down to I Beweave! We specialize in many different servixes that'd be good for you! What we do is: Cut, Colorin, Curlz Styles, Wraps and Xtensions Braids and Beads Head Massage,...
Weirdo Toys
Weirdo Toys is the home for all those random toys that most people have left behind. The site is dedicated to showcasing the quirky, neat, bizarre, sometimes forgotten and downright ugly toys.Whether it's a fleamarket, dollar store, garage sale or a...
How To Restart The World Wide Web
You may have heard the rumor that swirled briefly last month about an Internet 'kill switch' that could power down the Web in the case of a critical cyber attack.Those rumors were largely overblown, but it turns out there are now seven individuals out...
Jay's Tiny House Tour
Jay Shafer has been living in a house smaller than some people's closets since 1997. His decision to inhabit just 89 square feet arose from some concerns he had about the impact a larger house would have on the environment, and because he does not want to maintain a lot of unused or unusable space.(thanks...
Old Photographs Of Movie Stars
A huge collection of photographs of movie stars.Pictured above are Marlene Dietrich and Frank Sinat...
Joel Scilley's 'Audiowood' Turntables
Joel Scilley designs and constructs custom wood turntables. Most of his turntables are one-of-a-kind wooden creations that are meant to be touched, and are fun to look at and use.(via Everlasting Blo...
Harrier And Jaguar At Tate Britain
image creditHarrier and Jaguar is the new installation by artist Fiona Banner and is on display at Tate Britain. Banner has grasped the discomfiting significance of these weapons of war.The incongruity of the setting in which these decommissioned fighter...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Lawnmower On A Stick
Meet Steve McGranahan. He is the world's strongest Redneck. And today you'll get to see him work in his garden with his lawnmower on a stick.(thanks Co...
20 Things You Didn't Know About Viruses
image creditThe one with its own satellite, the ones that made you, and the Mama of them all.20 Things You Didn't Know About Virus...
Ancient Ninja: Separating The Men From The Myth
Ninjas were the assassins, spies, and secret agents of Japan at the time of the samurai.Legend has greatly embellished accounts of their activities, which, together with popular movies and comic books, has created a myth of the ninja as an invincible...
25 Enlightening Studies And Infographics On Genetically Modified Food
One of the issues that affect public health and health administration officials is the concern about the food supply. Food-borne illnesses are very real, and there are worries about what happens when we start tampering with the food supply ourselves.In...
12 Rags-To-Riches Celebrities
With luxe red carpet fashions, million-dollar estate sales and shows like MTV Cribs and E! News focusing on celebrity wealth, it's easy to forget that most stars didn't grow up rich. In fact, quite a few standout celebs started out poor or underprivileged, only to find financial security when they struck...
Mila's Daydreams
Adele Enersen from Helsinki, Finland, tries to imagine what her baby dreams about and takes photographs of ...
The Energy In Sports
Did you ever wonder how much energy or how much power athletes expend when performing? Certain sports require a small amount of energy to be very precisely directed, while other sports require a large amount of energy to be exerted in a very short amount...
The Sand Dollar - The Animal That Can Clone Itself
image creditBizarre, but true. A few years ago scientists discovered that the larvae of the Sand dollar are able to clone themselves. When they were exposed to the mucus of their natural enemies - fish - they demonstrated a unique defense mechanism.Sand...
Anyone For A Sunday Drive?
Volkswagen Canada has created a site that features a 'virtual drive' asking users to help mix the soundtrack with controls that add a variety of visual tidbits to the scenery with every push of a button.(thanks Co...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
10 Most Colorful Towns On Earth
image creditThe eye often wearies of red brick, gray steel and beige stone. For this, the solution is house paint. When an entire neighborhood assumes the colors of the rainbow, even the front gardens pale in comparison.Throughout the world, there are...
Proper Opossum Pedicure
I've always wondered how to give my opossum a proper pedicure.Now I know.(via Everlasting Blo...
12 Video Game Inspired Shoes
It was Forrest Gump's momma that said 'there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes.' Here are 12 of the best 'I'm a gamer' sho...
World's Oldest Doodle Found On Rock
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be one of the world's oldest doodles - an ancient scrawl carved onto a rock by a caveman 4,500 years ago. Cambridge University experts believe the crudely etched circles are the Neolithic version of a modern...
Das Tub
Lost in the frozen depths of the Atlantic a German U-Boat crew find themselves on a collision course with objects stranger than they can fathom. The truth leaves them bathed in confusion in this submarine drama of domestic proportions.(thanks Co...
Caravanserai - Staging Post Of The Desert
image creditThere were once thousands of caravanserai, staging posts for the weary traveller, dotted throughout Asia, North Africa and the South-Eastern parts of Europe.The Silk Road, an important and extensive trans-continental network of routes, was...
Comic Con 2010 Cosplay Pictures
image creditGeeks are Sexy scoured Flickr for some of the best Comic Con Creative Commons-licensed cosplay photography of the event.(thanks Y...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Mix Stix Drumstick Kitchen Spoons
Every kitchen has it's own rhythm and hum, and now you can play along.Mix Stix Drumstick Kitchen Spoons are classic indispensable beechwood spoons, morphed into drumsticks.So now you can rock out when you're not stirring, paradiddle on the stockpot and...
Celestial Soul Portraits
Erial Ali creates Celestial Soul Portraits. After Erial Ali has had a phone consultation with you, you send him a high-quality photo of yourself. An image that represent how you like to be seen. Erial meditates and 'tunes into you,' to 'get your unique...
Alcatraz Swim-O-Meter
Say you're escaping - by water - from Alcatraz. Could you make it? You have to swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park, San Francisco. Enter your swim speed and press the 'Swim' button.(thanks Co...
Night Light Table
The Night Light Table is a collaboration between designers Charlie Crowther-Smith and Richard Bannister. They wanted to design something that emitted an ambient glow that also functioned as a piece of furnitu...
Newport (Ymerodraeth State Of Mind)
A parody of Jay Z and Alicia Keys' Empire State of Mind. This spoof version features actors singing about their love of Newport in South Wales.(thanks Micha...
Road Trains
A road train is a trucking concept used in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Canada 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...
A Field Guide To Typestaches
A Field Guide to Typestaches helps figuring out the personalities of fonts.(via Boing Boi...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Toyota's 'A Glass Of Water' Challenge
Toyota believes that driving with a glass of water on your dashboard would lower your fuel consumption by 10%. Of course, they don't want you to actually drive with a glass of water on your dashboard and you also don't have to drive a Toyota.All they...
Chopsticks Played On Phone
Someone spent 3 weeks learning to play Chopsticks on four phones. He could have just downloaded the ringtone for free but we'll let him have his moment before we tell him.(thanks Co...
Bike Helmets Have Never Been More Fun
Funny helmet designs created by Russian advertising company 'Good.'(via 2le...
Guédelon Castle - New Medieval Chateau Rises In France
image creditSomething amazing is happening near the quiet French town of Treigny in the historic region of Burgundy. Something that has not been attempted for hundreds of years is slowly appearing - a full scale medieval chateau is being painstakingly...
London Lives 1690 To 1800 - Crime, Poverty And Social Policy In The Metropolis
London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London. This resource includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives and is supplemented by...
Voca People: The History Of Music
The history of music performed by Israeli a cappella group the Voca Peop...
Home Remedies Around the World
Chicken soup may be good for the soul, but some people swear that it's also good for the body. Many people reach for a steaming bowl of chicken soup whenever they've got a cold, while the equivalent remedy in Japan is ginger tea.But are these home cures,...
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Tape That Looks Like Hinges
Design company Mmiinn, a collective (Jeong-Min Lee and Hyoung-Min Park) based in Seoul, South Korea, have created an optical illusion sealing tape that looks like hinges.(via Boing Boi...
Creepy 'Human Fish' Can Live 100 Years
The olm (Proteus anguinus), a foot-long salamander nicknamed 'the human fish' because of its fleshy skin and tubular shape, is certainly a strange-looking animal. This animal is most notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground...
Are You A Comic-Con Dork?
Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television, the Comic-Con convention has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, anime, manga, animation, toys, collectible card games,...
A Camera That Decides The Best Pic To Take
German designer Andrew Kupresanin has designed Nadia, a little black camera that contains an 'aesthetics inference engine,' which assesses the artistic quality of a potential shot.Rather than display the image, the screen on the back of the camera shows...
9 Seriously Silly Inventions
Now that you can buy a sandwich in a can, have you ever wondered what other off-the-wall products are out there?From an odor-absorbing Better Marriage Blanket to the Solar-Powered Lighter, check out this list of 9 silly inventions that leave us wondering...
Tesseract 101
image creditSo, what is a tesseract? You could say they are mysterious objects from the fourth dimension and you would be pretty much right. So, here is everything you ever wanted to know about tesseracts but were too afraid to ask.(thanks Robert-J...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Important Inventors And Inventions Of All Time
A site full of interesting facts about inventions and their inventors.Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857. His new toilet paper was composed of flat sheets. Before Gayetty's invention, people tore pages out of mail order catalogs and before catalogs were common, leaves were used.Unfortunately,...
9 Undesirable Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well
image creditWhile most people gripe about their jobs once in a while, they'd probably agree they could be doing a lot worse. But what if those 'worse' jobs actually paid better? Fortunately, that is exactly the case with some less-than-ideal vocations,...
28 Of The Best Fictional Characters On Twitter
Follow fictional characters from movies, TV, and literature. Here are the most entertaining of those feeds.(via Neatora...
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