unique and interesting: June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Just Keep Practicing

Six-year-old Owen tells these words of wisdom after he learned to ride a bike for the first time.YouTube l...

Constant Dullaart is a Dutch visual artist who creates new modes of using the internet as a medium. He released a new Google website called thecensoredinternet.com which as the name implies, does just that, censoring the Google results.(thanks Co...

image creditA study of several 17th-century smoking pipes, including a number found in the garden of Shakespeare's home in England, has revealed traces of cannabis, according to South African scientists. Now a team of paleontologists want to dig him...

iPhone5 With Blackberry

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Mark Verge has been perfecting the art form for more than 16 years and has created a 39ft life-size replica of a Tyrannosaurus Rex out of 1,400 balloons. It was just one of the sculptures made by the model-maker along with a triceratops, spinosaurus,...

Burning Bridges

Burning Bridges is a video by Harry Hanrahan showing bridge explosions in movies.YouTube link(thanks Co...

image creditStrikes are renowned as the bane of governments and anybody who wants their garbage collected on time, and yet often are the only resort left to workers. They remain a divisive topic on both the left and the right, with their consequences...

Fish With Human-Like Lips

A fish with human lips. I think it's a Malawi Cichlid but I'm not sure.YouTube link(thanks Co...

Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer

The Zombie Give-Away from our friends at Neatorama in cooperation with The Presurfer has ended. Through a True Random Number Service I picked 3 winners.The refrigerator magnet is won by Larry.The 2 doorstops go to Greg and Patty.Winners have been informed by me via email.Thank you for participating...

image creditVelocommerce is commerce that is dependent on the bicycle.India is a fantastic place to observe velocommerce in action. The interesting thing about being on a bicycle is that it immediately frees you as an entrepreneur from the shackles of...

This set of three coffee cups shaped like your favorite 3 keyboard keys is the perfect metaphor for taking a mental break from your computer.(via Laughing Squ...

Cap 'n Hat Domino

Cap 'n Hat Domino by 'naturalbornvlogger' from the Netherlands.YouTube link(thanks G...

Tested on Top Gear by Clarkson's co-presenter Richard Hammond, the Marauder is a ten-ton military vehicle that the public can buy - if you have £300,000 ($480,000) to spare. Hammond conducted a series of tests to show just what it can do.The presenter...

image creditSteel is cold, or so they say. But this material can become the most delicate ingredient in the hands of skilled artists, who turn it into special works of art. Take a journey into the world of art that requires steel as the main material.Here...

Sagres, a Portugese brewery is promoting its new beer Sagres Preta Chocolate, a chocolate flavoured stout beer. Sagres decided the perfect way to launch it was also to create a website made of chocolate.(thanks Co...

Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer

Our friends at Neatorama, in cooperation with The Presurfer, are giving away a refrigerator magnet shaped like a mix 'n match zombie, and two doorstops that look like squished zombies.Want to know how you can win one? Last chance, the give-away ends...

Dancing Motorbikes

At the circuit of Magny-Cours in France, during a round of the 2011 Road Racing Cup Promosport Championship, two riders crash and their bikes lock wheel bars and continue to pirouette on the ground.YouTube l...

Numerology is the study of the purported mystical relationship between a count or measurement and life. It has many systems and traditions and beliefs, some documented, some esoteric. Find out your Life Path number via The Virtual Numerologist.I don't...

In 1998, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were headed to the Burning Man art festival, they designed a special logo featuring a simple stick figure to serve as their informal 'out-of-office' message.Ever since, Google has 'doodled' their...

Turkey's First Near Space Balloon Flight

It's a first for Turkey. The nation's first near space balloon flight. StratosphereFairEnough is a project about launching high altitude weather balloons to the space and recording videos with HD cameras attached to the payload.YouTube link(thanks Mur...

image creditI've covered this item before but the pictures keep amazing me. From the outside the Hindu temple of Karni Mata in the small town of Deshnoke in the Indian province of Rajasthan looks much like any other. Ornate and beautiful and with a steady...

Now you can access The Very Best Of Coca Cola and take a virtual walk through 125 years of happiness in the Coca-Cola Archives.(thanks Co...

The Talks is a weekly updated online interview magazine. Over the past decade its founders Johannes Bonke and Sven Schumann have met with cultural figures of all kinds. New talks take place while traveling throughout the year. At the moment there are...

Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer

The Oldest Motor Plant In The World

Video of the oldest motor plant in the world. It was founded in 1864 by Eugen Langen and August Otto. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach worked here from 1876 in a management position. Now the building will be demolished to create space for a new cable factory.Vimeo link(via Nag on the La...

It seems that nowadays there's an Appreciation Society for everyone and everything.Even for the Lowly Tinned Sardine.(via J-Walk Bl...

image creditWith the spring rain comes the time for the Juniper to flower. From a distance it looks as if the blooms are large and orange. Yet wait a minute. Doesn't the juniper produce cones and nuts?On closer inspection, unease turns to horror. Large,...

Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg's machines do best - performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction - Melvin...

How To Avoid Getting Hit By A Train

How to avoid getting hit by a train.YouTube link(thanks Co...

image creditIt looks as if these snakes are dancing with each other, perhaps in courtship but this graceful exhibition is anything but friendly. Most frequently witnessed in the diamondback species this is ruthless combat: both rattlers are male and...

The darkest substance known to man, the most toxic poison, the most radioactive substance, the hardest substance, the most super superfluid. Some of the most extreme substances.(via Look At This....

Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer

Cymbal At 1,000 Frames Per Second

Explore the world of vibration at 1,000 frames per second.YouTube link(thanks Co...

Doggelgänger is Human to Canine Pairing Software. In other words, how would you look like as a dog. Upload a picture of yourself and Doggelgänger will, through face recognition, present you the dog that looks the most like you.Here's a picture of the...

Kailash Singh from India is probably the world's smelliest man. He has refusing to wash for more than 37 years. Mr Singh has not bathed or cut his 6ft-long dreadlocks since 1974, shortly after he married. Explaining his unconventional decision, Mr Singh...

Seagull Steals Camera

A seagull stole a camera from a YouTube user in Cannes, France. He had to climb a castle wall to get it back.YouTube link(thanks Ma...

image creditWe can't all be beautiful. A series of photos of the world's ugliest anima...

image creditTypography is the art of selecting and spacing typefaces appropriate to the content of the material to be printed and to the ink and paper used, in order to produce a legible, aesthetically appealing printed piece. But there is so much more...

Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer

Last month I posted about the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's warning for a Zombie Apocalypse. You may laugh about that, but it could happen.Yes, the Zombie invasion is in full swing and our friends at Neatorama, in cooperation with The...

Tribe On Papua New Guinea Meets White Man For The First Time

Incredible video of the Toulambi tribe on Papua New Guinea meeting a white man for the first time. This was filmed in 1976. It's a 15-minute video but it's worth watching ...

Are you addicted to a website? Do you want to cut down on your visits but don't know how? KeepMeOut can help. KeepMeOut creates custom, timed bookmarks that give it to you straight when you're visiting a site too frequently. To create a bookmark for...

For the first time an attack by a giant squid was captured on camera.(via Di...

PETSCII (PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), also known as CBM ASCII, is the variation of the ASCII character set used in Commodore Business Machines 8-bit home computers, starting with the PET from 1977 and including the VIC-20, C64, CBM-II,...

Simply Noise generates noise that can help as a sleep aid, to enhance your privacy, block distractions, mask tinnitus, pacify children and pets, to increase your focus, and to melt away stress. You can adjust a sliding orb to the intensity of white noise...

FishEyes: Watch Fish While You Catch'em

FishEyes features a waterproof video camera that transmits live footage of your fishing experience below the surface to a rod mounted monitor. The full color LCD screen allows for a vivid display of the underwater scenery so you can see if there are any fish waiting to take the bait!YouTube link(thanks...

Hey, Lenny! What was the name of this fruit again?You know what? I'll just hang up this si...

Today is Take Your Dog to Work Day. First celebrated in 1999, Take Your Dog To Work Day was created to celebrate the great companions dogs make and to encourage their adoption from humane societies, animal shelters and breed rescue clubs.Today, businesses,...

Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever

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A chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light....

image creditWhy would anyone collect Nazi memorabilia? The problem with anything bearing a Nazi swastika, regardless of its historical value, is that most people find the symbol offensive. It was the banner of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, which...

Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Vero Beach in Florida, USA, with an incised image of a mammoth or mastodon. This engraving...

The Oomphalapompatronium

Leonard Solomon has been performing his one-man variety show for over 25 years. He interprets the great musical classics on some of the most bizarre homemade instruments ever seen or heard. This is a short promo piece made by Gio Gaynor for one of Leonard Solomon's musical machines.YouTube link(thanks...

While some people would find it unbearable to go anywhere near the edge of a cliff, these Chinese workers are building a 3ft-wide road made of wooden planks on the face of a mountain that's thousands of feet high. Once finished, it is hoped sightseers...

Do dogs really smile? Well no, not really. At least, not for the same reasons we do. However they sure do make us humans smile!(thanks Soha...

Underpants that come in a box like tissues. One pair of Emergency Underpants is great but what if you have another emergency? These 4" tall boxes look a lot like tissue boxes, but instead of tissues they dispense underpants! If you want to be extra safe...

Voice Search With Google Chrome

You can now talk instead of type to search on Google All you need is Google Chrome 11 or higher and a built-in or attached microphone. It makes searching words you're not sure how to spell quicker and easier. You can search long queries just by talking.YouTube l...

Top 15 Oddities Of McCartney, Dylan And The Stones

In the 21st century, celebrity opinions hold influence on the media. The persona of a successful musician or actor is extremely powerful. Just imagine if you were able to capture that celebrity and use it for your own agenda. It is hard to comprehend the idea that Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan or Brian...

EDWARD (Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping) is a human operated diwheel designed and built by students at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The dicycle can transport a single passenger at up to 24.8 miles per hour (40 km/...

image creditIt's one of the first hangers most visitors at the National Museum of the Air Force start with. You walk in and the feelings of nostalgia take hold, as you gaze upon the gravity defying aircraft that changed history. The delicate contours...

Painting On Water

Ebru Sanati is the traditional Turkish art of paper marbling. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper or fabric.YouTube l...

What would be the ideal 'personality' for a robotic vacuum cleaner? This is a perplexing question, since at the moment robotic vacuum cleaners tend to have little or no personality to speak of. Nevertheless, despite the challenges of future-gazing,...

An epic resource for pictures of historic fashions through the centuries.(thanks Co...

image creditJust when you thought the cupcake boom was over and you had finally resolved not to buy any more muffins the size of your head, along comes a new temptation. Yet you might, just might, find this one a little less calorific than those other...

Sock Babies

Written and directed by Travis Kurtz, produced by Matin Atrushi and Travis Kurtz.YouTube link(thanks Mat...

Photographer Paul Ripke and art director Florian Schmucker made a series of photos featuring parents who have swapped heads with their children.(via Laughing Squ...

American artist and designer created the 'Golden Gate', an electric camper pod. It's a light weight camper home on wheels made with a fiberglass shell. Inside is a toilet, stove, a table, a convertible bed and a water tank.(via Wasli...

Calorie counts on virtually every product you can buy, constant warnings about sodium levels and sugar - it's an age of constant reminders of healthy eating. America's latest food craze, however, sets the clock back a thousand years: deep fried Kool-Aid...

The Tennis Grunt

It has long been a source of irritation for opponents and tennis fans alike. But the infamous 'tennis grunt' could actually improve a player's game by enhancing the power of their strokes. New research claims that controlled grunting has physiological benefits by increasing core stability and strength.Professor...

The Aluminum Facial Spa.The Aluminum Facial Spa aims to provide you with steam in the comfort of your own home. The mask fits around your face, snugging the jaw and fastening around the back of the neck with a velcro strap. It is suggested that you use...

Funny photography rules and useful advice created by Latvian photographer Ivars Gravle...

Yes Sir, your insanely large engine will be delivered shortly.(thanks Cora, via Redd...

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