The Hen Holster/Chicken Diaper is a two-in-one product that allows a chicken to walk around freely without leaving a mess on the ground. The 'D' ring on the spine of the Holster allows for control of the chicken in a unfamiliar environment with a leash of your choosing.YouTube link(via Nothing To Do...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Neatorama - Presurfer Narwhal Ring Holder Give-Away
Where do you put your ring when you take it off? On the bedside table, the jewlery box, or some other place? And can you remember where you put it or do you sometimes have to search for it? Then this ring holder shaped like a cute narwhal is something...
Google's Frog Doodle
Today Google Search shows a doodle that celebrates two events. Since leap years and leap days are usually associated with frogs, the leaping amphibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has four frogs. The other event is the 220th birthday of Italian...
What Is A Leap Year?
Today is February 29. Which means 2012 is a leap year. But what exactly is a leap year?YouTube link(via Neatora...
They're, Like, Way Ahead Of The Linguistic Currrrve
From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk. Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like 'bitchin' and 'ridic,' or the incessant use of 'like' as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated...
Five Things You Buy That Don't Actually Work The Way You Think
image creditWe've learned to be skeptical of product packaging and not always trust the claims it makes, but our hopefulness sometimes gets the best of us. Here are five products you've likely used, or maybe even purchase regularly, that don't yield...
17 Spectacular Pictures Of Siberia's Altai Mountains
image creditThe Altai region of southern Siberia is a place of geological wonders and rare biological diversity. The name Altai comes from the Mongolian word for 'gold' and 'mountains,' an apt moniker considering the ecological value of this UNESCO World...
The Artistifier
The Artist is a silent black and white romantic comedy drama film that won the Oscar for best picture. Now you can make your own historic black and white movie. The Artistifier turns any YouTube video into black and white. Music is added and you can...
Chameleon Frightened By iPhone
Not everyone loves the iPhone. Especially not this chameleon.YouTube l...
Neatorama - Presurfer Narwhal Ring Holder Give-Away
Where do you put your ring when you take it off? On the bedside table, the jewlery box, or some other place? And can you remember where you put it or do you sometimes have to search for it? Then this ring holder shaped like a cute narwhal is something...
The Impact Of Bad Bosses
The psychological climate in which you work has a lot to do with your health and happiness. Recent research has found, perhaps not surprisingly, that bad bosses can affect how your whole family relates to one another. They can also affect your physical...
The Bad Piper Plays We Will Rock You
The bad piper was one of the finalist at Australian Got Talent.YouTube link(via Everlasting Blo...
20 Must-See Places Before The World Ends
image creditIt's 2012. Our last year here on Earth. There are a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle...
9 Ways Geeks Have Inherited the Earth
image creditIt's safe to say that we now live in a geek's world. One only has to look at the way gadgets and the Internet dominate every aspect of modern existence. Geeks are essential to the normal functioning of billions of lives daily. Without them,...
We Love Ramen
Ramen has been a staple in American student cuisine for quite some time now, because of how inexpensive and edible it is. Ramen can also be quite filling if you add some of your own signature cooking hacks to ...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Paint Your Own Nebula
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. Nebulae are often star-forming regions where materials clump together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough...
Neatorama - Presurfer Narwhal Ring Holder Give-Away
Where do you put your ring when you take it off? On the bedside table, the jewlery box, or some other place? And can you remember where you put it or do you sometimes have to search for it? Then this ring holder shaped like a cute narwhal is something...
Skateboarding In The Streets Of New York
image creditSkateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. A report from 2002 found that there were 18.5...
Out Of The Box
Most phones come with flimsy manuals with complicated language and jargon. These books, which can live on a bookshelf actually contain the phone. Each page reveals the elements of the phone in the right order, helping the user to set up the sim card, the battery and even slide the case onto the phone.The...
Firefly Exposures
image creditOn hot, hazy summer nights, fireflies take centre stage as they fly through the night air, punctuating the darkness with flecks of yellow light.But Japanese photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu captured their beauty in a whole new light, using...
Soccer Grandstand Baptized
Danish soccer club FC Copenhagen has a new grandstand. Beer brand Carlsberg has taken over sponsorship of the C-grandstand at the stadium. Of course the grandstand had to be baptized and what better way to do that than with a beer bottle.YouTube l...
8 Oddly Colored Creatures
image creditYou may be familiar with these animals, but maybe not their range of colors. No need get your eyes checked. Nature's just messing with y...
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Mandarin Ducklings Leap From Tree
Encouraged by their mother's calls from below, Mandarin ducklings jump from their nest high up in a forest tree trunk and fall to the ground, cushioned by dry leaf litter.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Helicopter Self-Destructs After Landing
Some observers speculate that a bad episode of ground resonance may be to blame for the violent self-destruction of a rescue helicopter as it landed in a field in Para, Brazil. The helicopter appears to be a Eurocopter A-Star AS350BA. That there were four people aboard - two pilots, a doctor, and a...
Vintage Photos Of Early 1900s Australian Bike Culture
image creditPictures of Australian bike culture from the archive of the State Library of New South Wal...
Disappearing Car Door
Jatech is a company from California, USA, that equips your car with a Retractable Vehicle Door, also know as the Disappearing Car Door. You will definitely grab everyone's attention when you drive a car with disappearing doors. No matter where you are, whether driving to the club, grocery store, gas...
Peter The Wild Boy
image creditPeter the Wild Boy was a mentally handicapped boy from Hannover in northern Germany who was found in 1725 living wild in the woods near Hamelin, the town of Pied Piper legend. The boy, of unknown parentage, had been living an entirely feral...
10 Incredible Water Towns And Villages
image creditWater villages are settlements that are usually built on the water. Houses often float on the water or are located on stilts and rarely on small islands. This is a list of water villages, which are becoming increasingly popular tourist d...
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Little Tombstone
A small dusty town in the wild west plays host to a gun duel between the Bad and the Good. The town is silent as the two meet in the middle of the street while the Undertaker is very interested in the show-down between the opponants.Vimeo link(thanks Co...
The Most Common Cooking Mistakes
image creditEvery cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not 'caramelized' fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake.The creative cook can often...
The Crabs That Build Their Own Galaxy
image creditSmall hermit and soldier crabs in Malaysia and Australia build their home digging a deep hole in the sand on a beach. They got a good idea of how to move sand up during this construction. Down in the hole this crab is making sand balls and...
Bottling Bacardi
Watch the 50-mph roller coaster ride these bottles take as they're filled with Bacardi Rum.YouTube link(thanks Co...
The Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage
The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is an orphanage, nursery and captive breeding ground for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, northwest of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. Established in 1975, the Pinnawela Elephant...
The Oscars: The People's Choise
An infographic showing which films tweeters are most willing on to win this year and which films are most talked about. Midnight in Paris has the most vocal of fans with 19.2% of its total tweets in the past week expressing supporting sentiment for it...
Friday, February 24, 2012
The Catlin Seaview Survey
The Catlin Seaview Survey is first and foremost an important scientific expedition. It aims to carry out the first comprehensive study to document the composition and health of coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea across an unprecedented...
A Satellite Tour Of The World's Biggest Slums
image credit: Google MapsBooming urban populations have seen poverty on the rise in some of the world's biggest cities. Of the 3.49 billion people that now live in cities, 827.6 million are slum dwellers, according to a UN Habitat Report. Global slums...
The Whimsical Street Art Of Nomerz
image creditWith a double dose of wit and color Nikita Nomerz transforms derelict buildings, towers, and crumbling urban spaces into whimsical, quirky faces in locations around Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.(via Everlasting Blo...
10 Of The Most Common Surnames In The World
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. In some cultures, the surname may be a patronymic or matronymic. Some cultures, for example the Burmese, large population of South Indians...
Interactive Advert On Bus Shelter Shown Only To Women
An interactive hoarding at a London bus stop aims to show a 40-second advertisement only to women and girls. The screen showing the short video campaign, by children's charity Plan UK, is located at a bus stop opposite Selfridges on Oxford Street. A...
Dolly Parton's Other Voice
image creditDolly Parton is two amazing singers. If you slow her songs down (as if you were playing an old 45 at 33rpm) she sounds completely different and really terrific. At the blog 'Waking Up Now' you can listen to 2 songs - 9 to 5 and Jolene at...
Hack Your Brain To Use Cravings To Your Advantage
image creditThink about munching on a bag of your favorite potato chips. Let that image sit in your brain for a little while. How does it feel? Are you craving chips right now? Sometimes, a single mention of a word is all it takes to trigger a craving,...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Landscape With Duck
A wayward duck tries to catch up with his companions on their migration south in this hand-drawn animated short.Vimeo link(thanks Co...
The Myth Of The Eight-Hour Sleep
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural. In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech...
Au Revoir, Mademoiselle
France has abolished the term Mademoiselle from all official documents because it suggests a woman is 'available'. Prime minister Francois Fillon said the word - the French equivalent of 'Miss' - discriminates against women by asking them to reveal if...
The Unearthly Beauty Of Antelope Canyon
image creditThe Navajo call it 'the place where water runs through rocks' and that is literally true. The peculiar formation of a slot canyon can make for an eerie experience and certainly the Antelope Canyon, on the lands of the LeChee people of the...
Incredible Ice City
The temperature in Harbin, China reaches forty below zero and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away.So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the...
Crazy Stuff People Do To Get Jobs
image creditWould you auction yourself on eBay to get a job? Or spent $7,000 to rent a billboard to advertise yourself? Or write a song that explains your qualifications? Some people do! Here are some of the crazy stunts people pulled to solidify employment...
Top 10 Worst Food And Drink World Records
image creditPeople have set world records for most 'ghost chillis' eaten in two minutes, eating the world's largest burger, fastest ice cream eating, drinking the largest cup of coffee, etc. But it's really not that healthy.Top 10 Worst Food And Drink...
MyAllSearch
MyAllSearch is an internet search tool that saves you time and makes your Web searches much easier. With MyAllSearch you only enter keywords once, then getting and comparing original results from over sixty search engines across seven categories is as...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FriendSheep
A short film made entirely by students from the Valencia-based school of animation PrimerFrame , pre-production began in March 2010, completing a year later and has since received numerous awards, nominations and national projections and internationally.Vimeo link(thanks Co...
Worf Is Always Wrong
image creditWorf is a Klingon character in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' and in seasons four to seven of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.' Worf is a character who doesn't get much respect - despite frequent suggestions for action, he is routinely denied,...
Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Heinrich Hertz
Today's Google doodle takes the form of electromagnetic waves to pay tribute to German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz on his 155th birth anniversary. Hertz was born at Hamburg on February 22, 1857. Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio...
Portrait Made With Coffe Cup Rings
Malaysian artist Hong Yi (nicknamed Red) graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Master of Architecture degree and a Bachelor of Planning and Design degree. In her final year, she was awarded a Melbourne Abroad Scholarship to study...
Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, And Singular Number
Wau (the ancestor of the Latin letter F) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later remained in use only as a numeral symbol for the number '6'. Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma.YouTube...
Dune De Pyla - A New 'Sahara' Desert Being Born In France
image creditIt looks like Europe has started turning into a new sahara desert. The Great Dune of Pyla is the tallest sand dune in Europe. It is located in the Arcachon Bay area in France.The dune has a volume of about 60,000,000 m³, measuring around...
Listerine Cigarettes
Listerine is a brand of antiseptic mouthwash. It was named after Joseph Lister who promoted the idea of sterile surgery by sterilizing instruments.Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company (which later became Warner-Lambert), it is currently...
Photographer Spends Over 10 Years Building 35-Foot-Long Camera
In a world where all things small are considered beautiful and cool, a photographer is doing something quite drastically different from the norm. Dennis Manarchy is in the process of creating a camera that is so huge, it captures 24-foot tall realistic...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
6 Everyday Things Seen Really Close Up
image creditMicroscopes turn everyday things like table salt and Velcro into otherworldly landscapes full of massive crystal blocks and fields of black twisted trunks thrust into the air. Besides being an invaluable tool in scientific fields too numerous...
10 Things You Didn't Know About The President's Secret Army
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command is best known for the Osama bin Laden raid. But it has long served as the president's secret army, planning and executing the most dangerous, highly classified missions of the United States military. In 2009, its snipers rescued an American ship captain held...
DarwinBot - The Pet Companion Robot
Jordan Correa is a developer on the Microsoft Robotics Team and recently built a remotely operated robot for interacting and playing with his pet over the internet. It has two way audio and video through Skype, a ball launcher, treat dispenser, ball recovery arm and a pan and tilt camera.YouTube link(thanks...
Fanfare
Here's something to brighten up your day. Take a tuba, a trumpet, a bass drum, a snare drum, a sousaphone, and a trombone and what do you get. You get a fanfare. Click on the characters to make them play.(thanks Co...
Buenos Aires - Inception Park
Buenos Aires - Inception Park, directed by Fernando Livschitz.Vimeo link(thanks Miss Ra...
The Hospital Room Of Tomorrow
In this infographic, you'll see the hospital room of the future where advances in medical science and technology promise to provide you with better medicine and a more pleasurable experience.(via Look At This....
Monday, February 20, 2012
What's The Difference Between A Street And A Road?
What's the difference between a street and a road? Although both terms are often applied to the same thing, a road is different from a street, at least in theory. Looking at the definitions and history of the usage of the words, the difference is a matter...
The Indian Rural Olympics
image creditThe Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur, in Punjab, India. Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, including cart-races, and rope pulling, plow-in-the-mouth balancing,...
Keyboard Pants
Nerd alert! Pants with a built-in keyboard. Designed by Dutch duo Erik de Nijs and Tim Smit. The 'Beauty and The Geek' pants also contain a wireless mouse, and speakers. The keyboard pants can be tethered to your computer using either a bluetooth connection,...
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