These twin baby boys are having a conversation. They're obviously talking about Dada.YouTube l...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The World's Largest Indoor Photograph
Photographer Jeffrey Martin took a 40 Gigapixel photo of the Philosophical Hall, a Baroque reading room in the 868-year-old Strahov monastery library in Prague, Czech Republic. The photo consists of 2,947 individual shots turned into a single picture.Martin's...
My Internet Speed
I saw an infographic about broadband Internet speeds around the world. It seems there's a huge difference in the speed with which various countries can connect to the Internet. Around the globe the average speed is 8.61 Mbps. Fastest on average is Japan...
Bang Ye - The Chinese Shirt Roll
Beijing has been on a manners kick for the last few years, but on the hottest summer days, there is no stopping men of all ages and shapes from rolling up their shirts and exposing their tummies. They're known as 'bang ye,' or 'exposing grandfathers.'...
Robert Bunsen's 200th Birthday
Today Google is celebrating Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday with doodle.Robert Bunsen - born in Göttingen, Germany - is best known for his improvement of the gas flame device which bears his name: the Bunsen burner. But Bunsen's contributions to science...
Gorilla Reunion
In the African jungle, conservationist Damian Aspinall searches for Kwibi, a lowland gorilla he hasn't seen for 5 years. Kwibi grew up with Damian at his Howletts Wild Animal Park in England.When he was five, he was released into the forests of Gabon, West Africa as part of conservation programme to...
12 American Ghost Towns
image creditIf you're asked to name America's most thriving towns, chances are you won't come up with Bodie, Cahawba or Centralia. But once upon a time, these areas were booming. Then their demise - brought on by economic downturns, pollution or other...
Scientists Are A Step Closer To Conquering The 'Magic' Of Invisibility
Many earlier cloaking systems turned objects invisible only under wavelengths of light that the human eye can't see. Others could conceal only microscopic objects. But a new system, developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Singapore-MIT...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tsunami Ravaging Kesennuma Port
A new video emerged in the aftermath of the 2011 Japan earthquake. It's terrifying to see the devastating tsunami wiping out the port of Kesennuma in a matter of minutes.YouTube link(via Laughing Squ...
Clay Yourself
See how great you look in clay. Create your own clay avatar.Here's how I look in clay. Sort ...
Memidex Free Online Dictionary And Thesaurus
The Memidex online dictionary and thesaurus is the Internet's first combined index of external definitions, audio, and etymology. Memidex now has over 12.5 million detailed references making it a useful and unique English language reference tool for...
A Star Trek Wedding Cake
image creditA creepy cake bust of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, baked by Aaron Jue for the wedding of Zeph and Sara LaFasse...
Prevent A Crime By Putting Your Finger On The Screen
Put your finger on the screen and help prevent a crime.An advertisement for Skittles.YouTube link(thanks Jes...
Pointing People
A collection of pictures of people pointing from various newspapers in Austria. The owner of the blog says:I find it strange how newspapers attempt to write a compelling article and fail. It seems as though they never find interesting things to write...
2,500-Year-Old Preserved Human Brain Discovered
A 2,500-year-old human skull uncovered in England was less of a surprise than what was in it: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, crinkly, shrunken brain prompted questions about how such a fragile organ could have survived so long and how frequently...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Cloud Girlfriend Promises To Give You A Pretend Facebook Girlfriend
Cloud Girlfriend is a new Internet company that promises to help guys to a virtual girlfriend. But nobody will know that she doesn't exist. The new service allows users to create the perfect girlfriend who will write on your Facebook wall and otherwise...
Text-Align: Centaur
No, not 'text-align: center,' but 'text-align: centaur'.For if you need some silliness in your text alignmen...
Regrets Of The Typical American
A new study by Neal Roese, Kellogg professor of marketing, finds that romance is the most common source of regret among Americans. Other common sources of regret include family interactions, education, career, finances and parenting. For the study, Roese...
Baby Hummingbird Nest
The most beautiful pictures of a baby hummingbird nest you've ever seen.Taken by Alek Komarnits...
Mumbai Skateboards
German curator Tobias Megerle came up with the idea to let a dozen Mahim woodcarvers from Mumbai, India, produce their own traditional skateboards.As an artist I was driven to do something with these woodcarvers and their work. I visited the workshops...
The Smallest Camper In The World
The 'Bufalino' by German industrial designer Cornelius Comanns is a small camper which is equipped to meet the basic needs of one person. The concept behind the project is to offer absolute flexibility during periods of travel. The minimalist construction...
Barack Obama's Top Secret Tent
A rare photo, released by the White House, shows Barack Obama fielding calls from a tent in Brazil, to keep up with events in Libya. The tent is a mobile secure area known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, designed to allow officials...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Adya & Geisha - Cherubino's Aria
Belgian artists Adya & Geisha (Adriaan Van Landschoot & Elle Yana) perform 'Cherubino's Aria - Non So Piu Cosa Son Cosa Faccio' from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.YouTube link(via Everlasting Blo...
The Authentic Boardwalk Photo Booth
You can now buy the Authentic Boardwalk Photo Booth, a replica of the classic units found in amusement parks, arcades, and boardwalks. This is the photo booth that can take and print a four-frame strip of pictures in 16 seconds. The booth works just...
The Oxford English Dictionary Adds OMG And LOL As New Words
The newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary revises more than 1,900 entries and includes a ton of new words. Internet-speak is finally getting recognized in the dictionary.Among the new words made popular by texting and online chatare OMG, an...
Man Puts 2,747 Toothpicks In His Beard
He was attempting to get 3,000 toothpicks in his beard, but he ran out of surface area. But he did make it to 2,747.YouTube l...
The Manifesto Manifesto
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially of a political nature. It seems like everyone has a manifesto these days. Why haven't you? Now you can have your very own manifesto. Don't know how to do that? Here's...
Biometric Wallet
Protect your money with this Biometric Wallet.Virtually indestructible, the Biometric Wallet will open only with the touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked via Bluetooth to the owner's mobile phone - sounding an alarm if the two are separated by...
Top 10 Unusual Island Territories
image creditThe exploration of our seas and oceans have unearthed some fascinating island and archipelago finds. Subsequent claims of national jurisdiction sometimes fly in the face of apparent geographical proximity and make these idyllic destinations...
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Horse Boarding
If a horse cannot be fed by its owner every day, it is usually kept at a boarding stable, where the staff will care for the horse for a fee. This is called horse boarding. But horse boarding is also a sport where participants are towed behind a horse...
Top 10 Most Mysterious Disappearances In History
It's a fact that literally thousands of people go missing every year. Some of these are likely well-covered up homicides, but most are voluntary. However, there are a few vanishings that remain inexplicable or have so captured the public imagination...
Japan Earthquake: Two Weeks Later
Two weeks after northeastern Japan was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the cost of the disaster is becoming clearer. The Japanese government has estimated the direct damage at as much as $310 billion, making it the world's costliest-ever...
Theremin Fork Whines When You Try To Eat The Food Impaled On It
The EaTheremin is a fork with an embedded theremin that begins making unique and oddly unpleasant screeching noises once it touches a person, completing a circuit. But the pitch of the theremin changes based on the feedback from the fork's tines: The...
Skellig Michael - Mysterious Monastery In The Atlantic
image creditNine miles off the coast of County Kerry in the west of Ireland there are two small rocky islands peeking out of the Atlantic Ocean. The larger of the two, Skellig Michael, is home to something quite extraordinary - a 1400 year old monastery...
Brain Bulbs
Brain bulbs designed by Maria and Igor Solovyov from Minsk, Belarus.(via Everlasting Blo...
The Berkeley Pit
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, USA. It is one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic...
10 Modes Of Transportation That Never Got Into Gear
The Daihatsu Trek, the Avrocar, the Kaz (pictured above), the Spruce Goose, and the Amfibidiver are just some of the vehicles that never really made it as a popular way of transportati...
101 Pringles Flavors From Around The World
Pringles is a brand of potato and wheat based snacks produced by Procter & Gamble. Pringles are sold in over 100 countries and have yearly sales of over US$1 billion. Procter & Gamble chose the Pringles name from a Cincinnati telephone book,...
24h London Twitter Traffic
An animation of the Twitter traffic in London during 24 hours. Tweets are shown as red circles, and re-tweets as yellow points moving in the direction of information, i.e. from the original tweets towards the location of the re-tweets. Apparently, the parallel Twitter universe wake up much later than...
Footwear Design By Kobi Levi
Take a look at the picture above. At first you might think it's a swan. But it's not! It's a shoe, designed by footwear designer Kobi Levi from Israel. He says:In my artistic footwear design the shoe is my canvas. The trigger to create a new piece comes...
Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Is Now Legal
Breaking in to an encrypted router and using the WiFi connection is not an criminal offence, a Dutch court ruled. WiFi hackers can not be prosecuted for breaching router security. The court also decided that piggybacking on open WiFi networks in bars...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Bigfoot Captured?
Thomas Byers from Shelby, North Carolina, USA, says he has captured a video of Bigfoot. On the evening of Tuesday March 22, he and a friend were driving down Golden Valley Road in northern Rutherford County in North Carolina just off Highway 226 when...
Ten Creative New Uses For Old Tennis Balls
image creditMillions of tennis and pingpong balls get produced every year, only to be thrown away shortly after they are bought. Tennis balls are probably the most difficult of any kind of sports ball to recycle, as the rubber used is not biodegradable.However,...
Ship Graveyards: Abandoned Ships, Boats And Shipyards
image creditShips and boats are ancient inventions whose rise parallels the spirit of human adventure. From antiquity to modernity great powers have relied on shipping to expand empires, while grand liners transported tourists to far flung places previously...
Use Car's Exhaust To Clean Cushions
An advertisement in Popular Science of February 1932.Using the exhaust gas of the automobile to clean the upholstery is the accomplishment of a recently invented device. An aluminum attachment is fastened to the exhaust pipe and the engine is allowed...
Giant Rabbit Fossil Found
Scientists working on the Spanish island of Minorca announced the discovery of Earth's biggest known rabbit species, an oddly unbunny-like giant dubbed Nuralagus rex - the 'Minorcan king of the hares.' The 26-pound (12-kilogram) prehistoric species was...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Petite Lap Giraffes
From Sokoblovsky Farms in Russia:Petite Lap Giraffes are very funny animal that require special care. They need lots of love. Hugs and kisses every day. Otherwise they make tears. Size: adult is 76 centimeters, baby is 15 centimeters tall.Weight is 4.5kg...
Kennedy Space Center Employees Assemble For Historic Photo
Employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center took a few moments to assemble for a historic aerial photo outside Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of workers stood side-by-side to form an outline of a space shuttle. The event was organized in honor of the Space Shuttle Program's 30-year legacy.YouTube...
The Longest Film Of All-Time Screening In Helsinki, Finland
Superflex, a group of Danish artists, have created a 240-hour film titled Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki) and will screen it in Helsinki for the festival IHME Project 2011.The film shows 'ravages of time marking a box-like office...
Pop-ups! They're Not Just For Kids
A new exhibition at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, USA, showcases pop-up books for children and adults from the Harold M. Goralnick Pop-up Book Collection. Bowdoin College has a collection of over 1,800 pop-up books.Vimeo link(via Laughing Squ...
Harry Houdini's 137th Birthday
Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz on March 24, 1874) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts. Houdini is still considered one of the greatest illusionists and...
Brewery Map
The Brewery Map uses the Google API to find local breweries in your area. Enter your zipcode, choose how far away you want to travel (up to 100 miles) and the site will return all the locations of various breweries.(thanks Co...
1896 X-Ray Machine Fired Up Again
In the first days of 1896, just three weeks after the announcement of the discovery of what would soon be known as X-rays, a high school headmaster and math and physics teacher in the Netherlands started his own explorations using school equipment. Three...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor Dead At 79
Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress famed for her beauty, her jet-set lifestyle, her charitable endeavors and her many marriages, has died this morning. She was 79. Taylor died 'peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles,' said a statement...
Japanese Coast Guard Ship Heading Into Tsunami Wave
The Japanese coast guard released a video showing the massive tsunami waves swelling in the sea off the coast of northern Japan, after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck offshore on March 11. The footage showed the first huge wave rising up above the prow of the coastguard ship as it sailed straight...
Ssahn.com
Professor Ahn Sang-soo of the Hongik University in South Korea keeps a blog where he shows pictures of people covering their other eye.(via Everlasting Blo...
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