unique and interesting: September 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Flintstones Are 50 Years Old

Everyone's favorite modern Stone Age family and friends are celebrating their golden anniversary. The Flintstones, America's first prime-time animated sitcom, first aired on ABC-TV on September 30, 1960.The show was set in the fictional town of Bedrock,...

Mr. Trolololo Is Back

Eduard Khil, the Russian singer who became an Internet sensation a couple of months ago, finally made a public performance. Here he is singing (lip synching) his trademark song. It gets weird pretty quickly.(via Neatora...

Mark Racop from Indiana, USA, has been a huge fan of Batman since he was two years old, when he saw his first episode of Batman in 1967. He fell in love with the action, the music, the color, but most of all, with the car. Even at that tender age, he...

Have you seen the marvelous breadfish swimming in the ocean waters? Have you seen that the marvelous breadfish is like an inverse sandwich for fishermen and sharks?(thanks Co...

The World's Fastest Lawnmower

American Bobby Cleveland, a former technician and designer of lawn-mowers, takes his grass cutter up to 96 mph to set a new world reco...

The Turd Twister is a complete kit for shaping your turd into amazing designs, and it comes with a hilarious instruction manual. It's just a joke of course, and it's good for hours of laughter. It's the Ultimate Gift for the person who has everything,...

Hongtao Zhou is a Wisconsin-based sculptor who has created a set of burning chairs out of wax. He calls his project 'Burniture.'According to the artist, over time the chair will burn, melt, and collapse. The chairs have an icy appearance, but generate...

Some animal hybrids are born in the wild due to environmental factors, while others are bred by humans for profit or scientific curiosity. Whatever the reason for their creation, new and interesting species are out there due to mixed breeding.From the...

image creditThe Maori people are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. The word means 'natural' or 'ordinary' in their language, to distinguish between themselves and deities, but there is absolutely nothing ordinary about their incredible...

New Look

Yes, it's still The Presurfer. But with a new look. And I decided to adjust the width of the whole blog to be able to post bigger pictures and bigger movies. Hope you like ...

Do you have a dog that won't listen? He just doesn't do what you tell him to do? If you are having problems with a defiant dog then what you need is some dog obedience training. Here's a website where you can practice giving orders to a dog.(via Everlasting...

Australia's Next Top Model - Mistake!

Presenter Sarah Murdoch announced the winner of Australia's Next Top Model. Unfortunately, she read out the wrong name. One of the most dramatic stuff-ups in the history of Australian live televisi...

German designer Sascha Nordmeyer created these weird communication prosthesis.Do you have a problem with self-expression? Inspire people for your enterprises is a pain for you? Do you feel like being smart in every circumstance? Then put on your communication...

Infographic about death and buria...

British wildlife photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas captured this image of the brightly coloured hippo in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Visiting the African country on the hunt to photograph the legendary wildebeest migration the brothers were in for...

Bananas are one of the most important food crops of the world. Hundreds of varieties are cultivated. Perhaps the most important species is the common banana, Musaceae sapientum.The ripe fruit is high in carbohydrates, potassium, and vitamins C and A,...

When Michael Douglas' character Gordon Gekko hit the big screen in the 1987 film Wall Street, it caused a sensation. Gekko's slick bravado and 'greed is good' mantra were appallingly entrancing. But something else captivated audiences: the convincing...

Ask A Stupid Question Day

Today is 'Ask a Stupid Question Day.' It's your opportunity to speak up, and to ask all those questions you were afraid to ask. Today is the day to unload them.The roots of this special day goes back to the 1980's. At the time, there was a movement by...

Bathroom lights can be painfully bright in the middle of the night and can disturb you or your partner's sleep. They also waste electricity.The LavNav is a better solution. It turns on when you approach in the dark, and turns off after you leave. Better...

If you drink your coffee black, move on. Everyone else, what do you use to stir your coffee? A spoon? Swizzles? Popsicle sticks? Bah. All of those so-called stirring solutions are fraught with failure.Who needs spoons anymore, when your mug can do all...

Knitted Elvis Wig.(via Everlasting Blo...

True Stories Behind Tech's Top Names

Did you know that the name Twitter was picked out of a hat. A small group of employees from the startup where Twitter initially began, had a brainstorming session. They were trying to come up with names that fit with the theme of a mobile phone buzzing in your pocket with an update.After narrowing down...

James Corbett from Queensland, Australia, creates art from old car par...

A glimpse into what may be the future of head-mounted displays. Recently shown off in Japan, Brother's AirScouter projects the equivalent of a 16-inch display directly onto your retina.The display creates a mysterious effect, making it look as if there's...

Delta Technology presents the iArm, the forearm mount that gives you, well, an extra arm. Just 4.5 lbs and fully adjustable, the iArm lets you take your favorite gadget with you.And with the optional 'multi-mount,' you can secure up to three items at...

Dog Prayer

(via Miss Cellan...

Surely one of the finest examples of inflatable comfort food on the market today. This realistic Inflatable Meatloaf looks just like one of those glistening meat masterpieces that were found on countless American dinner tables in the 50's.Perfect for...

If an alien ever lands in your back yard and says, 'Take me to your leader,' the United Nations is giving you someone to call. Mazlan Othman, an obscure Malaysian scientist and head of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, will be named as the Earth's...

With the Cookthink recipe search tool, you can search for recipes based on what you're craving. You can search for recipes using any combination of ingredients, dish types, courses or techniques, cuisines types or culinary traditions.I type bacon, walnut,...

A series of pictures by French photographer Alain Delorme made in Shanghai of people carrying loads of goods on various means of transportation.(via Everlasting Blo...

P-3C Orion Demonstration

The P-3C Orion is a long range anti-submarine warfare patrol aircraft. It has advanced submarine detection sensors such as directional frequency and ranging sonobuoys and magnetic anomaly detection equipment.Here's a video showing how the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces use their P-3C Orions at...

How To Write An Article About A Scientific Paper

How do newspapers write an article about a new scientific discove...

Indoor fishing at a restaurant in Phuket, Thailand. Symen, a Dutchmen who calls himself an i-nomad, saw this at a beach on Phuket's west coast. Read more about Symen's travels.(thanks Sym...

Many literary forecasts of our technological future have already come to pass: the atomic bomb, the submarine, and even the iPad. Discovering passages of science fiction that turned out to be eerily accurate predictions is certainly quite entertaining.(via...

Bicycle Monorail

Shweeb Monorail Technology, a compant from New Zealand, has an idea for a bicycle monorail. Riding above the traffic jams on multi-level rails people could move around the city quickly and safely.By integrating the unique properties of monorail and recumbent...

image creditMural Locator is a simple to use web tool for helping people locate murals around the world. Mural Locator finds locations of amazing public art wall murals to share them with you and to help archive the history and importance of murals.Shown...

The Great Kitty and Parakeet Relationsh...

What Are Today's Best And Worst Brands?

An effective brand isn't just one you can recognize. It should stand for something greater. A brand is the symbol of a company that requires no explanation. Today's brands evoke emotion and symbolize not just a product, but a lifestyle.From Apple and Red Bull (the good) to Taco Bell and Facebook (the...

image creditAtchafalaya - the name itself is something of a mystery. When exactly the swamp got its name is unknown, though it means long river in one of the local languages.What is known about this place of splendor and inscrutability is that it is...

The game of chess takes cunning and intelligence and can sometimes be incredibly intense. But your standard chess set just doesn't reflect the same intensity.If you prefer to play on a board that's as mighty as your chess maneuvers then check out these...

A Beard Film

A stop-motion movie about abnormal ablutions by Ian Robertson starring Duncan Robertson.(thanks Co...

The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest and highest-energy particle accelerator anywhere on the planet. It's purpose is to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions to recreate the conditions just after the theorized Big Bang.By doing...

In 2010, cell phone subscriptions are expected to reach 5 billion worldwide. With roughly 6.8 billion people, more than 70% will have a cell phone.The Line On Cell Phon...

OK Go - White Knuckles

Music video for OK Go's 'White Knuckles'. Directed by Trish Sie and produced by Shirley Moyers. Special thanks to: Lauren Henry and Roland Sonnenburg and their team of trainers from Talented Anima...

Ahhh, urban living. Everything nearby, convenient public services, lots of great places to eat... and legions of people, throwing out tons of garbage, every day.Most cities can stay on top of their garbage piles... but some, not so much. Here are ten...

An amazing interactive animation where you can zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way.(thanks Ken...

Google is at the center of the web, but did you know they make more per employee than Microsoft does? Or that they have over 1 billion video views per day? We know that Google is supersized, but do you really know how big it is?(thanks Co...

The Presurfer 2000 - 2010

The Presurfer International Headquarters is closed for today. I'm having a party right now! It's not a big party because there's just me. But I'm wearing a funny little hat and there are meatballs. Because today marks the 10th anniversary of The Presurfer.The...

Avenue Valois. A quiet street in Montreal, Canada. There's a Pepsi truck in the distance. But there's magic around. Go to this scene in Google Street View.Then click the forward arrow and hey presto... now it's a Coca Cola truck.(via J-Walk Bl...

The world's most successful interweb search engines are using the famous PageRank Algorithm. It works by pushing up the search engines pages which are already popular. In other words, 'the rich get richer.' To address this issue, Really Magazine has...

Canadian Student Becomes First Human To Fly Under Own Power

Canadian engineering student Todd Reichert achieved sustained flight in a human-powered ornithopter for the first time in August, and has just filed a claim for a world record, according to the University of Toronto.The Snowbird is the first contraption of its kind to allow humans to fly like birds,...

Pirates crave adventure, freedom, travel, and the lure of the open sea. Long before any sophomores quit college to hitchhike across Europe or stuffed their packs for studying abroad, pirates were on the cutting edge of around-the-world travel.Ninjas...

Some of these concepts have timeless, exciting forms, some are more of the 'pulp-ish' and 'sci-fi' variety, but they all invariably turned heads and excited onlookers in their time, and some still inspire designers today.Some of these buses were produced...

The 50 strangest and most extraordinary churches in the wor...

Superbus Vehicle First Ride

The Superbus is an innovative new public transport and a project of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The Superbus is capable of carrying 23 passengers and can reach 155 mph.The Dutch Government is investing 10 million euros (13 million US dollars) into the project and it is anticipated...

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new pizzas, to seek out new toppings and new cheeses, to boldy cut pizza where no man has cut before!Yes, this officially licensed Star Trek Pizza Cutter is everything...

While the majority of phobias are relatively commonplace - a fear of heights, spiders, public speaking - there are those rare folks with more unusual, specific frights.From the fear of opinions to the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's...

This Is Why I Don't Clap Alo...

Il Etait Une Fois

Il Etait Une Fois (Once Upon A Time)is a promotional video for the forthcoming pop-up book of illustrator Benjamin Lacombe that features eight classic fairy tales, Alice, Pinocchio, The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, Madame Butterfly, and Thumbelina.The book has been...

Bloxorz is a little game that's harder than you may think. The aim of the game is to get the block to fall into the square hole at the end of each stage. To move the block around, use the left, right, up and down arrow keys.(via Miss Cellan...

While menus aren't usually considered works of comedy, a particular dish's name - like 'bubble and squeak' or 'burgoo' - occasionally will elicit belly laughs.Thanks to their unusual origins or mangled etymology, here are some food names that are a humorous...

While it looks like this aluminium foil ship is floating on nothing but thin air, it is in fact kept above ground by sulphur hexafluoride, an inorganic, colorless, odorless, non-toxic and non-flammable gas that is significantly denser than a...

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