Here are Caroline Wozniacki (the world's number 1) and Dominika Cibulkova (the world's number 18) at the Tennis Classic 2011 exhibition in Bratislava, Slovakia. They seem to have fun.YouTube l...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Goodbye Steuben Glass
image creditYesterday the Steuben glass factory in Corning, New York, closed its doors. Although the name was sold for an undisclosed sum to Corning Incorporated, which once owned Steuben, it's unclear if crystal objects such as the Gazelle Bowl will...
Google Celebrates Mark Twain's Birthday With A Doodle
Google celebrates Mark Twain's 176th birthday today with a doodle. The full-width illustration portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence.Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was an American author and...
Landing Gear Failure: Plane Saved By Truck
The nose gear of a Boeing 727 malfunctions, yet the pilot lands the plane on the back of a Nissan Frontier with such precision nobidy on board noticed the difference. This is obviously an advertisement for the Nissan. Nevertheless it looks spectacular.YouTube link(thanks Co...
A Decade Of Dog Trends
An infographic on the change in popularity of the USA's top 25 dogs over the past decade.(thanks Dan...
12 Most Extreme Body Piercings
image creditBody piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn. The history of body piercing is obscured by a lack of scholarly reference and...
Hutchinson Serenity
Tire company Hutchinson has introduced the Serenity system of absolutely flat proof tires. Here's a great animated film to promote the new Serenity tire.Vimeo link(thanks Co...
The Hipster's Dictionary
image creditHipsters are a subculture of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with musical interests mainly in alternative rock that appeared in the 1990s. Hipster culture has been described as a 'mutating, trans-Atlantic...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Gumibyun
I don't know exactly what this is but I think it's called Gumibyun, a way to make your own Japanese candy.YouTube l...
The Anglerfish Can Teach Us A Thing Or Two About Finding Our Other Half
image creditSome people enter into purposeful relationships and other people enter relationships purposefully. An idea is floating around that there is a missing piece in each of us, and we must find it immediately to survive. The concept is not uniquely...
The iProp Beanie
You've outfitted your iPod, now outfit yourself! Take a gorgeous new iProp beanie for a spin! The iProp beanie is the perfect propeller beanie. A high quality, soft rib knit cap, built with care and attention and made of 100% acrylic and a heavy-duty...
10 World Leaders Who Dropped Out Of School
image creditOften, and usually with good reason, educational achievements and a successful career go hand in hand. Common sense tells us that solid, untroubled schooling is the best means of carving out a place for oneself in life. This may well be the...
Ormie The Pig
Ormie the pig wants cookies. But they're on top of the fridge. How to get them down?YouTube link(thanks Co...
Field Of Light Blooms In The Night
The Holburne Museum in Bath in the United Kingdom is giving its visitors a new winter experience - and it makes a very cool change from the usual decorative lights we see at this time of year. Field of Light, the artwork of acclaimed lighting artist Bruce Munro, was switched on in the grounds of the...
Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry. Psychologists have become vocally critical of such images: By employing an arsenal of retouching techniques retouchers create unattainable...
Classic Novels' First Covers
image creditEver wonder what your favorite book looked like when it was first published? While many classics - The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 - have retained their iconic, original covers over the years, others have changed with the times. Here are 20 beautiful,...
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Cats Reading Books
image creditDo cats read books? Yes, of course they do? Because a literate cat is a happy cat.Cats Reading Boo...
Mushroom House
image creditThe Mushroom House is a contemporary residence in the town of Perinton, New York, sited in a moderately-wooded ravine adjacent to Powder Mills Park. The house was constructed for attorney-artist couple Robert and Marguerite Antell between...
Website Made Of Chocolate
Sagres is Portugal's leading beer brand. This year, Sagres brewed a new product: Sagres Preta Chocolate, a chocolate flavoured stout beer. Without a TV campaign and very few print materials, Sagres challenged their digital agency to create an online activation for their new product.Given this challenge,...
Geodesic Magic - There's No Place Like Dome
image creditGeodesic domes have been with us for over fifty years but are still hardly common. Partly or fully spherical, they consist of a shell of great circles which rest upon the top of a sphere.The first dome that could be called 'geodesic' was...
Boarding A Moving Train
A designer has come up with a unique and futuristic solution for speeding up rail travel: he wants to get rid of the stations. Paul Priestman, director of British design group Priestmangoode, is the man behind the 'Moving Platforms' concept, which he believes could potentially revolutionize the rail...
Spoon Guitar
Hannes Coetzee from South-Africa plays the guitar with a spoon.YouTube link(via Wasli...
How To Make A Decent Cup Of Coffee With Cheap Coffee Grounds
image creditYou stayed the night at a friends house, and they only have that awful Maxwell House or Folgers stuff from Costco or Walmart, and you're used to those freshly roasted, burr ground beans from your favorite coffee roasting country.You like...
Fantasmagorie
Fantasmagorie is an 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl (born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet). It is one of the earliest examples of traditional animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate...
Early Humans Fished Deep Sea
The world's earliest known fish hooks reveal that humans fished the open sea for much longer than previously thought. Researcher Sue O'Connor, an archaeologist at Australian National University in Canberra, and her colleagues have found evidence of prehistoric...
Waterfox
Are you using the Windows 64-bit version and the latest Firefox browser? The Firefox browser only supports the 32-bit version for Windows. Now there is Waterfox, basically a 64-bit version of Firefox. The user experience is the same so Firefox users...
Video Coat
The Video Coat, designed by David Forbes, is a color TV set built into a lab coat. It's a 160 x 120 pixel color LED display, built on flex boards.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Talking Trash Through The Ages
A lerrycometwang is a fool, a simpleton. An abstractionist is a pickpocket. A gollumpus is a large, loutish, uncoordinated person. A cakey-pannum fencer is a street-seller of pastries.History is full of silver-tongued scoundrels. So if you find yourself in a 19th-century battle of wits, best not to...
AccuRadio
AccuRadio is comprised of hundreds of channels of music, spanning over 60 genres. There are hundreds of channels that you can personalize. You can skip songs you don't like, delete artists from the upcoming playlists, and mix various genres together...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Boy With Tape On His Face Puzzle
The 'Boy With Tape On His Face Puzzle' is a point-and-click game starring Sam Wills, a 32 year old professional New Zealand prop-comic currently residing in London. The Boy needs your help to open a present he's been given, use your mouse to click on...
Examples Of Early Spirit Photography
image creditSpirit photography is a type of photography whose primary attempt is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting. It was first used by American photographer William Mumler in the 1860s. Mumler discovered...
8 Unusual And Strange Walls Around The World
image creditWalls have been built since ancient times to mark borders, protect kingdoms and settlements, or keep out unwanted people. In more recent times, walls have also been built to serve as memorials and structures of a...
The Top 10 Uses For Olives
image creditMy mother always told me not to play with my food. But sometimes it's just too funny.Here are the top 10 uses for oliv...
Alligator Infographic
An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis). All about alligato...
Friday, November 25, 2011
Address Is Approximate
A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can - using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.Vimeo l...
The Monsters Of Villa Palagonia
Bagheria is a town in the province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. Without a doubt, the top touristic sight in the town of Bagheria is Villa Palagonia, a patrician villa built in 1715 by the architect Tommaso Napoli with the help of Agatino Daidone.It's...
Virtual Spider
Afraid of spiders? Then this Virtual Spider is not for you. You can drag this pet spider around and feed it with a double-click of your computer mouse. You can even change the way it loo...
Doctor Who: A Beginner's Guide
image creditEveryone's seen it - that blue police box. If you've ever been to Britain or watch the BBC at all, it's popped up in advertisements, store-front ads and a ton of other places. Some know that it has something to do with a 'Doctor Who,' but...
Saks Fifth Avenue 2011 Holiday 3D Projection
Last Sunday, Saks Fifth Avenue debuted their new light show projection in New York called The Snowflake and Bubble Spectacular.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Cinemascapes
Award winning artist Aaron Hobson of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, found these beautiful photos while looking through Google Street View pictures. He says: Enchanted and remote landscapes typically only reserved for the eyes of it's inhabitants are now captured...
LEGO Volkswagen Camper
image creditThis 1962 Volkswagen Camper Van is made entirely out of LEGOs. It includes features such as the 'V' shape three-way color split at the front, rounded roof and window frames, opening 'splittie' safari front window, opening doors, and of course,...
Coming Soon: Computerised Contact Lenses
Imagine catching up with your texts, social networking and perhaps the news without having to log on to a computer or even glance at a smartphone. Messages and images would simply appear in front of your eyes, generated by a computerised contact lens....
Thursday, November 24, 2011
'Brinicle' Ice Finger Of Death Filmed In Antarctic
A bizarre underwater 'icicle of death' has been filmed for the first time by cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson for the BBC One series Frozen Planet. With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.The temperature of this sinking brine caused...
Black Friday Consumer Fact Sheet
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number...
Pow Wow
image creditA pow wow is a gathering of North America's Native people. The word derives from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning 'spiritual leader.' A modern pow wow is a specific type of event where both Native American and non-Native American people...
12 Famous Magic Tricks And Illusions Exposed
When a performer like Criss Angel, David Copperfield or David Blaine wows us with magic, most of us know that there's a logical explanation. When the magician pulls an endless scarf out of his closed fist or a bird flies out of an apparently empty hat,...
It Sucks To Be A Turkey On Thanksgiving!
The New York-based Koren Ensemble is a team of artists, producing original theatrical content, featuring contemporary music, video, and comedy. 'It Sucks To Be a Turkey On Thanksgiving!' is composed and edited by Daniel Koren, lyrics are by Barak Feldman, and it is sung by some duplicated heads.YouTube...
15 Insects That Could Save Your Life
image creditBee venom can control the harmful inflammation in joints that leads to rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists have shown the venom contains molecules that cause an increase in natural hormones in the body that regulate inflammation. It has raised...
Sunday Brunch Cherpumple
Do you know what a cherpumple is? It's a cherry pie, an apple pie and a pumpkin pie, each cooked inside a separate cake, and then all cooked together inside another cake. Pastry chef David Lowery made a cherpumple for his guests at the Grand Geneva Resort...
Amazing Images Of Baby Birds At Dinner Time
image creditIf we go by the saying 'the early bird catches the worm,' these chicks must have gotten up at the crack of dawn, as they're catching big juicy worms - as well as insects - in their hungry little beaks. However, they're not getting these...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Benton The Dog
A dog walker's desperate attempt to control his unruly mutt as it chases a herd of deer in London's Richmond Park has become an internet sensation. A smartphone user was quietly filming a group of deer when the peace is suddenly shattered by cries of 'Benton! Benton!' As the shouting gets louder, the...
Volkswagen Bus Makes A Comeback In The Netherlands
image creditThe Volkswagen Type 2, officially known as the Transporter or Kombi, informally as Bus or Camper, was a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen. To Europeans and Americans the Volkswagen Bus is a distant memory of days...
Edison Vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry
image credit 1 and 2More than a century ago Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engaged in a nasty battle over alternating and direct current, known as the 'War of Currents.'Both men knew there was room for but one American electricity system, and...
Groupon Deal Makes Bakery Mearly Go Bust
image creditCake shop owner Rachel Brown from Woodley, UK, was forced to bake 8,500 orders for her specialty cupcakes after they were featured on discount website Groupon. Mrs Brown just wanted to drum up a bit of extra trade for her tiny company but...
33 Haunting Black And White Photos Of Japan's Ghost Island
image creditUrban decay has never looked so beautifully eerie. Hashima, or Gunkanshima was a former coal mining community established in 1887. The mine was shut down in 1974 and the city abandoned. Now it has a new nickname: Ghost Isla...
A Quick Guide To Starting A Beehive
image creditWith Colony Collapse Disorder consistently chipping away at our global honeybee population, the art of beekeeping has become more important than ever. Since 2009, colony loss levels reached 29% and they increased to 34% come 2010. Compounded...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Riding An Alpine Coaster With No Brakes
This is a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria. You reach the summit via a cablecar and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off you go. But what happens when you take the ride without using the brakes.YouTube link(thanks Co...
The Astounding Design Of Eixample, Barcelona
image creditConstructed in the early 20th century, Eixample (meaning 'extension') is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona known for the urban planning that divided the district into octagonal blocks. Designed by Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer, a Catalan...
Humans Of New York
Brandon Stanton lives in New York City. He wants to photograph everyone in the city.His project 'Humans of New York' began as one man's effort to construct a photographic census of the city of New York. Over three thousand street portraits have been...
How To Make 'Rainbow Shots'
A tutorial on how to make 'Rainbow Shots'. You need vodka, blue liquor, pineapple juice, grenadine, and ice.YouTube l...
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloons Since 1927
image creditMacy's is a U.S. chain of department stores. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade has been a tradition of Thankgiving since 1924. It started out as a way for the employees of Macy's to say thank you to New York. Macy's started using balloons in...
Pepper-Spraying Cop Becomes Internet Meme
The disturbing footage of Lt. John Pike, the police officer pepper spraying UC Davis students holding a peaceful protest has gone viral and launched a probe into police tactics by the university. It has also launched a wave of internet memes in which...
How To Find Old Newspaper Articles Online
image creditOld newspapers and magazines offer a wealth of insight into history and critical events as they were unfolding at that time. In the past, the only way to get hold of this treasure trove of information was your local library where the back...
Monday, November 21, 2011
Why Do Flies Like Beer?
image creditEver wondered why flies are attracted to beer? Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have, and offer an explanation. They report that flies sense glycerol, a sweet-tasting compound that yeasts make during fermentation.Insects...
What Happens Online When You Die?
What is the future of your digital self? You might not know what happens when you die but you can control what happens online. You are filling the internet with status updates, image and video creating new digital dilemmas such as: whether you want to...
Haenyu - The Indomitable Diving Grandmas Of Jeju Island
image creditThe calm of the shoreline is interrupted by a whistling noise. Then, a strange, sleek shape breaks the surface of the Korean Strait, clasping its quarry. Yet there is no need to call David Attenborough just yet - this is no strange new species...
Weird Clouds
Ever seen this before? This video was taken in Singapore. Look in the middle of the video at the gap where the light and the darker cloud connect. Then read this article for an explanation.YouTube l...
Pictures Of Barack Obama Eating Ice Cream
image creditI love ice cream. So do a lot of other people. Even Barack Obama loves ice cre...
A Guide To Communist Mummies
image creditWhile these dictators and despots held unquestioned power in their lifetimes, they wielded no such control in death. Despite requesting to be buried or cremated, their comrades had other plans and they were turned into mummified waxy icons...
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