Courtship and mating behaviour of the Australian peacock spider Maratus volans.YouTube linkrelated post:Peacock Spider - Australia's Show Off Super Hero Spider(thanks Co...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Cat Converters
Are you strapped for cash but loaded with cats? Then swap something furry for dosh in a hurry. Cat Converters will turn your spare bit of fluff into valuable stuff. Tell Cat Converters about your surplus pussy, and they'll tell you what you can claw...
Pic Nic Pants
Pic Nic Pants by Italian design company Acquacalda.Fashion imposes forms to whom finding a function seems a must. Pic Nic pants take advantage of the usual cross-legged position to become a comfortable surface useful for the consumption of a meal outdoors....
10 Infamous Hoaxes
They made fools out of thousands of people. Here are 10 infamous hoaxes.YouTube link(thanks Miss Ra...
Show My Street
Show My Street is a very fast front end for Google Street View.Type your address and there it is, faster than you can ty...
The Most Dangerous Race On Earth
image creditTwo competitors stand side-by-side, waiting for the signal to begin their race. If they're a little more nervous than your average race competitors, there's a good reason: this is not your average speed trial. The track for this event is...
Friday, March 30, 2012
When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin
image creditThere was a time when mothers gave their babies opium, people bought hallucinogens at the local bar, and anxious patriots sent hypodermic needles and cocaine to soldiers as a present.Today we have Bayer Aspirin. It relieves headaches. In...
The World's Biggest Color Party
The Festival of Colors - The world's biggest color party.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Largest-Ever Paper Airplane Takes Flight
Arturo Valdenegro, a 12-year-old Tucson resident, made paper aviators everywhere look minuscule by comparison last week. In the skies over the Sonora desert in Arizona, the Pima Air & Space Museum launched the biggest paper airplane ever constructed...
Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson
Technology Cartoon by AndertoonsMark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Woman's World and the Saturday Evening Post, to mention just a few....
Cholafied
Cholafied comes from the mind of an LA kid who grew up in the 90's. It's Sharpied eyebrows, black lipliner, and the fumes from a can of Aqua Net. It's a product of LA where Cholas, celebrity pop culture, street art, and stupidity are rolled up together...
Brady Cash Custom Cadillac Baby Stroller
This little stroller has air-ride, lights under the car, and even fire out of the tailpipes.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Guitarist Lowell Levinger Talks Vintage Banjos And The Late Earl Scruggs
Vintage banjo collector Lowell Levinger is perhaps best known to 1960s music fans as 'Banana,' the bushy-haired guitarist and keyboards player for The Youngbloods. Today, Levinger is the proprietor of Players Vintage Instruments, where he buys and sells vintage guitars, mandolins, banjos, and other...
The 5 Most Secluded Cultures In The World
image creditDespite the proliferation of humans and technology, there are a surprising number of communities around the globe that remain almost entirely untouched by modern civilization. Their traditions may appear indecipherable to us, but it's likely...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Urbex - The Art Of Urban Exploration
image creditMost of us now live in towns and cities and you might assume that these areas are fully mapped out and known to all. However, some places become unseen or out of bounds and, left to their own devices, become almost geographical blind spots....
In Search Of Moon Trees
image creditDid you know that scattered around our planet are hundreds of creatures that have been to the Moon and back again. None of them are human. And most are missing. They're trees. Moon trees. Moon trees are trees grown from 500 seeds taken into...
Messing With Mother Nature: The Macquarie Island Ecosystem
image creditMacquarie Island lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica. The island was exploited mercilessly, but various plans to repair the damage had their own unintended consequences. Introducing...
You Never Have To Drink A Warm Beer Again
Few things can ruin a party like warm beer. You can pack ice around it all you want; you're still going to be waiting half an hour for it to get cold and you'll probably still crack it open too soon. LG unveiled a new refrigerator that comes with the...
Intelligent Parking
The Cardok is the underground parking solution that doubles your parking space and provides greater security than a locked garage. The Cardok is a sealed steel container so no water can get in below ground.There is a perimeter gutter at the surface to collect rain water and as a final back up a sump...
What Can You Find In An Email Header?
Whenever you receive an email, there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. While you typically only pay attention to the from address, subject line and body of the message, there is lots more information available 'under the hood' of each email which...
EnemyGraph
On Facebook you can list your friends. EnemyGraph is a Facebook application that allows you to list your enemies. Most social networks attempt to connect people based on affinities, but people are also connected and motivated by things they dislike.EnemyGraph...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The 10 Biggest Catches In The World
Some animals are just bigger than others.Check out some of the most epic fish and crustaceans ever caug...
Amazing South-Korean Illusionist Jaehoon Lim
South-Korean illusionist Jaehoon Lim, a.k.a. The Birdman.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Popcorn Healthier Than Fruits And Vegetables?
image creditPopcorn's reputation as a snack food that's actually good for health popped up a few notches as scientists recently reported that it contains more of the healthful antioxidant substances called 'polyphenols' than fruits and vegetables. Scientists...
Nelson Mandela Centre Of Memory
In partnership with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, the Google Cultural Institute has helped to bring Nelson Mandela's archive online. The multimedia archive includes Mr Mandela's correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written...
Tearjerkers Make People Happier
People enjoy watching tragedy movies like 'Titanic' because they deliver what may seem to be an unlikely benefit: tragedies actually make people happier in the short-term. Researchers found that watching a tragedy movie caused people to think about their own close relationships, which in turn boosted...
Wiki Paintings - Encyclopedia Of Paintings
image creditWiki Paintings is a project that aims to create a high-quality and well-structured online repository of fine art. Wiki Paintings filling system is based on the principle of wiki, i.e. free filling and editing the contents of the site by anyone...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Newly Discovered Mozart Piece Performed
A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy (it is believed to have been written when he was as young as 10) was performed for the first time since it was found last year after apparently being left in an attic for centuries. The lively 84-bar passage was played on the composer's piano...
12 Of The Most Winding Roads Around The World
image creditThere are different types of roads and they are spread everywhere: over the mountains and valleys, through villages and cities. Usually in the mountains the roads are winding due to the unfavorable terrain for building. Also, these roads...
Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Google's doodle today pays tribute to legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on his 126th birth anniversary. The building in the doodle is the SR Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, regarded as one of the masterpieces...
Expressive Scenes From The Life Of Sparrows
image creditPhotographer Urs Shmidli from Switzerland was able to capture many expressive scenes from the life of sparrows. Urs was watching the sparrows since two years in his garden. Enjoy these amazing shots.(thanks Co...
The Man Who Made Things Fly
Avios is a new travel rewards currency that turns things you buy into flights. Sort of a new Airmiles. This video shows the making of some of the Avios adverts where they make a washing machine, lawnmower, BBQ, and a petrol pump fly.YouTube link(thanks Wi...
How Do Cats Survive Falls From Great Heights?
Cats' remarkable ability to survive falls from great heights is a simple and predictable matter of physics, evolutionary biology, and physiology, veterinarians and biologists say. With scientists unwilling to toss cats off buildings for experimental...
The Concrete Bunkers Of Albania
image creditThere are approximately 750,000 concrete bunkers in Albania, also called 'concrete mushrooms' for the way they look. The bunkers were commissioned by the former dictator of Albania, Enver Hoxha.An ally of the Soviet Union and a strong believer...
Handpresso Auto - The Espresso Machine For The Car
If you can't make it through a single day without downing several cups of coffee, then you probably have ten bucks set aside for your coffee allowance every day. That adds up to a lot over time, so you'd probably better off making a one-time investment...
Monday, March 26, 2012
Happy Kitchen Candy Hamburgers
This is weird. Happy Kitchen Candy Hamburgers is a powdered candy set sold in Japan. When water is added, the powder can be coaxed into looking like a doll-sized fast food meal.YouTube l...
Honda's Wonderful Open-Hearted Wagon Concept
Honda believes you and your four-legged friend should be able to travel together in comfort, and supports dogs and their drivers with a range of fun events. The W.O.W. Concept is all about helping you keep your pup at your side and have more fun together.The...
Dutch Museum Discovers 'New' Van Gogh Painting
image creditA painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life. 'Still Life with Meadow Flowers...
Cramming People Into A Thing: A Photo History
Phone Booth Cramming was a late-1950s fad with a simple premise: cram a phone booth full of people and take a picture before the people on the bottom suffocate. As you can imagine, this pastime was most popular among college students, and led to international...
Dodds Serta Trek
Funny commercial from Dodd's Furniture & Mattress in Victoria, Canada.Don't 'klingon' to your old spring mattress.'YouTube link(via Everlasting Blo...
10 Famous Clock Towers From Around The World
image creditA clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. This is a list of 10 famous clock towers from around...
The Epic Failed Predictions For The End Of The World
The looming doomsday of the Mayan calendar ending has been subject to both speculation and a movie script. History is littered with doomsday predictions that were ultimately debunked. They go back hundreds and hundreds of years, and we are still here....
James Cameron Reaches Ocean's Deepest Point
This morning, James Cameron arrived at the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. His depth on arrival: 35,756 feet (10,898 meters). The National Geographic explorer and filmmaker (Titanic, Avatar) reached the bottom after...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Rivers Of Lava On Pulama Pali On Hawaii Island
A surge of lava spews out of a rupture in the lava tube system and is heading down steep cliffs. This strong flow is being supplied lava from Kilauea Volcano's Pu'u O'o Crater four miles to the northwest. The rupture was at the 1600-foot elevation about four miles northwest of Kalapana Gardens, and...
Animal Footprint Shoes
A series of shoes by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre that have been modified to leave realistic animal footprints. Lasserre has been using the shoes to leave animal tracks in cities in Canada and America since 2011.(via Nag on the La...
Email In The 18th Century: The Optical Telegraph
image creditMore than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane - wireless and without need for electricity. Email leaves all other communication systems far behind in terms of speed....
How 5 Super-Rich Places Got Such Fancy Names
image creditDid you know that Martha's Vineyard was named after a daughter of explorer Bartholomew Gosnold? Originally the name was applied to a much smaller island. The larger island was actually called Martin's Vineyard, after the captain of the ship...
Let's Have A Shatnerpalooza!
image creditWhether you love Star Trek, T.J. Hooker, Comedy Central's Roasts or have just happened to watch any program over the last decade that was interrupted with a Priceline commercial, chances are, you just can't get away from William Alan Shatner.Last...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Marmite Toast
Marmite is a food spread made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing.You either love it or hate it.YouTube link(via Everlasting Blo...
Isla
It looks like a black and white photo, but it is actually made out of half a million fish hooks. Cuban artist Yoan Capote and thirty assistants spent six months nailing them into place on plywood.(via Neatora...
Image Of The Entire Sky
Nasa released an image of the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The sky can be thought of as a sphere that surrounds us in three dimensions. To make a map of the sky, astronomers project it into two dimensions. The projection...
The Staggering Beauty Of Iceland's Glacier Lagoon
image creditEven in a country well known for its astounding natural beauty, Jökulsárlón stands out. The combination of majestic floating icebergs, the giant icy blue lagoon, the contrasting black of the sandy shore and the soaring dome of the nearby...
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Buranovo Grannies
This year, Russia is sending the Buranovo Grannies (known in Russia as Buranovskiye Babushki) to the Eurovision Song Contest with an anthem appropriately dubbed 'Party For Everybody.' If they win, they will build a church in their town of Buranovo Malopurginsky in the Udmurtia region.YouTube l...
You're Driving All Wrong
If you're a conscientious motorist who still does everything the way your driver's-ed instructor told you to, you're doing it all wrong. For decades, the standard instruction was that drivers should hold the steering wheel at the 10 and 2 positions,...
Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson
Food Cartoon by AndertoonsMark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Woman's World and the Saturday Evening Post, to mention just a few. Among...
Largest Loop The Loop In A Car
The largest loop the loop in a car measured 12.87 m (42 ft 2.69 in) in diameter and was achieved by Chinese Li Yatao from the Car Team of Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co., Ltd. The loop was made from steel. It was 3.68 m (12 ft 0.88 in) wide and weighed 33,000 kg (72,752 lb). The car used was...
The 6 Most Extravagant Royal Gestures Of All Time
image creditBeing a member of royalty entitles you to a life of luxury and leisure; one where extravagance is as every day as eating. Raised in regal surroundings, royalty are used to an environment of ostentation and grandeur. It is easy to understand...
No Man's Land
image creditRoughly 30% of the Earth's surface is land. And where there is land, there is a nation (or multiple nations) ready to claim it as its own. In fact, some of the world's strangest disputes have been over pieces of land so small as to inspire...
The Joy Of Washing Your Brush
Bob Ross (1942 - 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for 12 years on PBS stations in the United States.During each half-hour segment, Ross would instruct viewers in the art...
Make Me Mod! Top 10 'Mad Men' Essentials
With the return of 'Mad Men' to AMC this Sunday, Sterling Cooper's attractive staff will raise the bar for contemporary cubicle-dwellers for the fifth season in a row. Along with the show's cast, we'll be thrown into the turbulence of 1966, when neon-colored...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Man Flies Like A Bird
This video shows Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets flying like a bird using custom-built wings. In the video, shot at a park in the Hague in the Netherlands on March 18, Jarno Smeets is seen using his arms to flap the wings as he appears to successfully achieve take-off, flight and landing.Mr Smeets claims...
Look-Alikes
Otters who look like Benedict Cumberbatch.Koalas who look like David Mitchell.Hedgehogs who look like Martin Freeman.Celebrities who look like mattresses abandoned on the streets of London.(via MetaFilt...
Muppets Finally Recognized With A Star On The Walk Of Fame
The Muppets finally got a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame. Shouldn't this have been done a long time ago? Check out Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Animal, Pepe, Sweetums and Walter posing for their big Hollywood mome...
The Coolest And Most (Un?)Necessary Mustache Products You've Ever Seen
Mustaches of all sorts are the 'in' thing to not only grow, but have in your home and other random places. Some people love this facial hair trend so much that they got inspired to create some of the funniest mustache inspired products.(thanks Co...
Guy Plays A Cat Organ
Henry Dagg performs 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' on his organ made out of fluffy toy cats.YouTube l...
Sarah Palin's Dirty Little Secret
Aaron Fleszar asks to share his story for the sake of freedom and democracy.My name is Aaron Fleszar and what I would like to share with you the most devious plot to overthrow America. After years of mocking internet income opportunities I discovered...
Top 10 Weirdest Instruments Featured In Popular Rock Songs
image creditBeing in a rock band is every teenage boy's dream. What they don't seem to realize is that you don't necessarily need to play a 'standard' instrument to get there. In fact, many of the popular rock songs that we all know and love feature...
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