Rorschmap is a Google Maps mashup created by James Bridle that turns the view into a kaleidoscopic image. Just type your location and click 'Go.' Here's my home town as a kaleidoscopic image.(via J-Walk Bl...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Strange Elegance Of The Giraffe-Necked Antelope
image creditFound in Eastern Africa ranging from Somalia to Kenya there is a slightly odd looking long-necked creature that is reminiscent of a giraffe but that is one thing it most certainly is not.With large eyes and ears and an incredibly slender...
Adorable Baby Sloth Yawning
Is there anything more adorable than sleepy baby animals? Yesterday I showed a video of a sleepy Asian Sunbear cub. Here's another one. A yawning baby sloth.YouTube l...
Create Huge Messages
Gzaas is a web service to create huge messages. And to associate them to links that you can paste anywhere. If you want to say anything to a friend via Internet you'll find the possibilities of making your message more powerful are limited. The fonts...
A Mushroom Death Suit
Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist, designer, and researcher whose work proposes unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment. The Infinity Mushroom will be a unique strain of fungi that will be trained to decompose bodies and remediate the industrial toxins...
Ten Delightfully Weird Museums
image creditMost of us spent some chunk of our formative years in one museum or another. Scifi addicts are no strangers to the pleasures of accumulation, organization, and presentation of knowledge (not to mention obsessive collections of stuff).Sometimes...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Most Awkward '404 Not Found Page' On The Internet
Artist Steve Lambert has probably the most awkward (his words) '404 not found page' on the Intern...
Creepy Horse Mask
A very creepy horse mask.No one is quite sure where it came from or what it means, but the creepy horse head mask has popped up all over the internet in recent years. Some like it simply because it's weird, others use it to make the world a more surreal...
9 Hours Capsule Hotel
The '9 hours' is a Japanese capsule hotel with a difference. They expect you to stay just 9 hours in the hotel, 1 hour to shower, 7 hours to sleep, and 1 hour to rest.YouTube link(thanks Co...
How Big Companies Got Their Names
Naming your startup or business is no easy task and one of the most important aspects for successful branding and marketing. You need to have a powerful, informative and unique name that people will only associate to your specific company. Of course, that is a lot easier said than done. How did some...
The Biggest Locks On Earth
image creditToday we have to deploy increasingly sophisticated measures to secure our possessions and deter would-be thieves. Past decades have introduced key cards, number pads and Total Recall style biometric scanning.As these more advanced security...
Friday, July 29, 2011
One-Man-Band Street Performer In Croatia
A one-man-band street performer in Rijeka, Croatia, called Cigo Man Band. His real name is Mileta Cvijanovic-Cile.YouTube l...
Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do
image creditWould you be able to defend yourself and your loved ones if someone were to physically attack you? It's a question most of us don't want to consider, but violence is, unfortunately, a fact of life. Thankfully, regardless of strength, size,...
Digging Up Shakespeare
image creditSouth African anthropologist Francis Thackeray, the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, has asked permission to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine,...
Bacon Wrapped Eggs
What you need: 1 package of bacon, 1 box of eggs, shredded cheddar, crumbled goat cheese, or any cheese you like, chopped herbs such as chives, dill, and thyme.What you get: bacon wrapped eggs.YouTube link(thanks Co...
MS-DOS Turned 30 Years Old
MS-DOS has turned 30 years old this week. Microsoft's first desktop operating system was launched on July 27, 1981, after Microsoft bought the full rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), the PC operating system the company acquired from Seattle...
For Sale: Replica Of Fred Flintstone's Car
It's a replica of an iconic car that is guaranteed to turn heads. The two-seater soft-top car is for sale at the rock-bottom price of 2,200 Euros ($3,145). And, unlike the original, this working version of Fred Flintstone's car has its own motor, meaning...
15 Essential Food Photography Tips
image creditFor a long time, food photographs tended to be shot and composed the way people were used to encountering their food: laid out on a table setting and shot from an overhead perspective. Stylists accordingly arranged the food to appear good...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Magic World
Created by French artist François Abélanet, 'Anamorphose' was an ephemeral garden on display in front of Paris' main city hall the Hôtel de Ville.YouTube link(thanks Co...
10 Strangely Shaped Lakes
image creditNature tells you a story, of solace and existence. Similarities can be found in the things surrounding us but what is most astonishing is when water bodies cry for attention; through their various intriguing shapes and outlines, we look but...
Funny Faces Of Divers
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. A diver usually goes so fast that you can't see their facial expressions.But when a photographer freezes them in the middle of...
The Great Teddy Bear Shipwreck Mystery
image creditIn 1903, 3,000 teddy bears were sent by ship from Germany to America only for them to disappear. Some claim the bears were the first ever made and would now be the most valuable in the world.So what happened to them? In the Steiff museum,...
The Perfectly Preserved Pooches Of Castle Bitov
They can sit and stay - and are excellent at playing dead - but this room full of obedient dogs will never go walkies again. The odd-ball collection of 51 stuffed dogs is the star attraction at the picturesque Castle Bitov in the Czech Republic. The...
The BookBook Case
Tired of feeling like people are judging you for gawking at your iPhone all day? Feel like you're always 10 seconds from some big dude punching you in the face and making your iPhone his iPhone?Enter the BookBook. It's a case that makes your iPhone look...
The History Of Captain America
Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Backseat Driver
Backseat Driver is the world's first mobile application that you can enjoy driving from the backseat of your car. You can take a virtual drive linked by GPS to your actual driving route.Or... you could just look outside of the window and enjoy the real world.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Mark Malkoff: Apple Store Challenge
Mark Malkoff is a comedian/filmmaker in New York City. He sets out to see what crazy stunts he can get away with at the Apple Store. See the video on his site which answers the questions, Would the Apple Store allow someone to bring in a goat? Would...
15 Stunning Modern Ceiling Designs
image creditFrom the Vatican in Italy to ancient mosques in Iran, the world's most beautiful ceilings tend to be intricate masterpieces created centuries ago with the brushstrokes of a famous painter, dazzling ceramic tiles or panes of colored glass....
Technology Is The New Smoking
You're at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or whatever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever 'gone to the bathroom' in order to check email or come up...
Waterfall Flows Upwards In Extreme Winds
Winds battering southern Australia have been so strong that spray from waterfalls south of Sydney has billowed up into the air.YouTube l...
Smurf Yourself
Select a Smurf. Smurf it up, make it smurf and smurf it on Facebook or Twitter. You can also get an embed code to show your Smurf on your site. Smurf Yourself.(thanks Co...
Microsoft Apologizes For 'Crass' Amy Winehouse Tweet
image creditMicrosoft received much Twitter flak after a small PR account for its Xbox system encouraged followers to remember recently deceased musician Amy Winehouse by purchasing her last album on the company's entertainment marketplace, Zune. After...
Top 10 Worst Movies Of 2011
One thing's for sure, feature films aren't getting any better. Every year has its sprinkling of truly bad movies, and 2011 is no different. So let's grab our surf board and tackle this year's turd tidal wave. Here's Movie Moron's round-up/preview of...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Village
The Vilage is a tilt-shift time-lapse video by Pedro Sousa from Portugal.Vimeo link(thanks Co...
The History Of The @-Symbol
The at sign (@), also called the atmark, at symbol, or commercial at, is formally an abbreviation of the accounting and commercial invoice term 'at the rate of.' In recent years its meaning has changed to also mean 'at' in the sense of 'located at,'...
Tropical Island Paradise Yacht
Yacht Island Design created a concept for a 'Tropical Island Paradise' yacht that looks like an idyllic, floating island. There's an open swimming pool, a waterfall, a helicopter landing pad, a deployable beach deck and a volcano. Yes, that's right,...
Robot Mimics Human Emotions
EMYS (EMotive headY System) is a robot developed by researchers from the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. The robot is supposed to mimic human emotions using facial expressions.YouTube l...
The £10,000 ($16,284) Car Wash
image creditFor most people washing your car involves a bucket of soapy water, a sponge and chamois leather. But for some drivers with top of the range sports cars that simple method just doesn't cut it. Now though, those owners can treat their Ferrari,...
Dutch Railway Station Installs Slide For Busy Passengers
Dutch train passengers running late to their appointments have a quicker option for getting across Overvecht Station in the city of Utrecht - and that option isn't a new flight of stairs or an elevator.Design firm HIK Ontwerpers recently installed a...
The Milky Way As Seen With The Naked Eye
image creditA star-gazer has come a little bit closer to the final frontier - after spending 18 months photographing the night sky. With just an ordinary digital camera, Alex Cherney from Melbourne, Australia, turned thousands of snaps into an incredible...
Monday, July 25, 2011
Overtime
The story of a group of Kermit-like puppets who find their creator lying on his bench and have to eventually come to understand his death. Written, directed and animated by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie. Music by Sielberman Ochestra, Ornadel and the Starlight Symphony Mills and Mark...
Test Your Vocab
Test Your Vocab is a research project to measure vocabulary sizes according to age and education, and particularly to compare native learning rates with foreign language classroom learning rates. It functions by means of a test: the first part with a...
The World's Biggest Dog
George, a Great Dane, is the biggest dog in the world. He stands nearly 4ft high at the shoulder, 7ft long and weighing nearly 18 stone (114 kil...
Listen To Your Heart
Mike Rowland has a master's degree in electro acoustic composition. Listen To Your Heart is a song composed by Mike, used as the soundtrack for a beautiful Emperor Penguins documentary.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Today's Polar Bears Trace Ancestry To Ireland
image credit According to a study in the journal Current Biology, every polar bear alive today can trace its ancestry to one mama bear that lived in Ireland during the last Ice Age. And what's more, she wasn't even a polar bear: She was a brown bear....
12 Awesome Items Inspired by Darth Vader
image creditFrom an air balloon to a lamp and from a watch to a toaster, Darth Vader has inspired a lot of designe...
Infectious Disease Stress Balls
With all that's going on in the world today, stress relief is very important so why not have some fun with it. The Infectious Disease Stress Balls come in several colors and offer you a chance to squeeze some stress out of your daily routine as you pretend...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
3rd Annual World's Ugliest Buildings List
image creditVirtual Tourist is a site where people can share travel advice and experiences. They announced their 3rd Annual World's Ugliest Buildings List.Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then again, so is ugliness and the members of travel...
10 Exotic Fruits You've Probably Never Tried
image creditThey say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but what about a cherimoya? Never heard of it? Cherimoya is a fruit native to the highlands of South America that Mark Twain once called 'deliciousness itself.'While you may be a pro when it...
The Fleet - London's Underground River
image creditBelow the sidewalks of London there is a remarkable network of tunnels and chambers, put in to place by Victorian engineers, the final step in a process which took centuries. For over a thousand years there had been a shipping dock at the...
Amy Winehouse Dead
image creditSinger Amy Winehouse was found dead at her apartment in London yesterday. She was 27. Last month, Winehouse canceled the remainder of her 12-city European concert tour. The singer had a history of battling drugs and alcohol. Amy Winehouse...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
How To Lower The Temperature Inside Your Car
You come back to your car only to find it's very hot inside because the vehicle has been standing in the sun for some time. You could turn on the air conditioning. But there's a better way to lower the temperature inside your car. Open the window on the driver's side. Then open and close the door on...
Russia Classifies Beer As Alcoholic
image creditRussian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic. Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff. The move will allow ministers to control the...
I Like Looking Like Other People
I Like Looking Like Other People celebrates that awkward moment at work when you realise you're wearing pretty much the same thing as someone el...
Skull Yourself
Whether you're pig-headed or a puddinghead, now you can create your own skull. Upload a photo, make it fit, place some markers and get yourself a wicked skull without a headache. Here's my skull.(via No Subscription Requir...
New Zealand Bans Weird Baby Names
New Zealand's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is cracking down on parents who want to give their little bundle of joy names that are too creative. In the past two years, the country has banned 102 names deemed to be too out there. The list includes Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice,...
10 Bizarre Underwater Events
image creditWhat things can you do when you're underwater? You could carve a pumpkin. Or play a game of cards or a tennis match. You can even get married underwater.10 Bizarre Underwater Even...
Friday, July 22, 2011
Sewer Geyser Lifts Car
This happened in Montreal, Canada. Wait till the 35-second mark when it really gets going.YouTube link(via Everlasting Blo...
Awesome Car Hood Ornaments
image creditCar mascots (or hood ornaments) used to be installed on the exposed radiator caps of cars and even when radiator caps disappeared, hood ornaments were still used. These objects were often intricate works of art and today are highly prized...
17 Real Life Mysteries
image creditThere is a world of incredible mysteries around us, all of which are amazing. Science and history just add to wonder and weirdness of that world. These 17 mysteries are all very real, very wonderful, and don't need the supernatural to try...
Gambiologia, The Brazilian Art And Science Of Kludging
image creditGambiarra is the Brazilian practice of makeshifts, the art of resorting to quirky and smart improvisation in order to repair what doesn't work or to create what you need with what you have at your disposal. Gambiologia is the 'science' that...
Weird Water Experiment
This is an experiment you can do at home. It's known as the Leidenfrost effect which is a phenomenon in which a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps that liquid from boiling rapidly.YouTube l...
Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes Historic Final Landing
image creditSpace Shuttle Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph yesterday, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears.Hours later, after...
The 3 Big Advances In The Technology Of The Pizza Box
image creditHere's the technology problem: you've got a warm, moisture-emitting object that also contains relatively dry components that you need to get from point A to point B with their form, heat, and chemical composition intact. Oh, and the top of...
20 Things You Need To Know About Albert Einstein
image creditDid Einstein flunk math? What was the thought experiment that led Einstein to general relativity? Why did it take so long for Einstein to get a Nobel Prize? Did Einstein believe in God?20 Things You Need To Know About Albert Einste...
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Dutch TV And Radio Tower Collapses
This happened last Saturday here in the Netherlands in a town called Hoogersmilde. A fire broke out at the top of a TV and radio tower and some time later the mast came down. No injuries have been reported. The language in the video is Dutch.YouTube l...
Automotive Color Popularity Report
Displaying the most popular car colors from different parts of the world.The multi-media resource center for the DuPont 2010 Global Automotive Color Popularity Report contains high-resolution photos and other graphics to support your stories. Included...
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