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• 10 Questionable Household Tips From The 19th-Century White House Staff

  

  image credit The upkeep at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a little more complicated than that of any typical suburban home. That's why Fanny Lemira Gillette, fame... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Presurfer Is 12 Years Old Today

  

  . User experience site FatDUX once calculated the length of an Internet year. The result was that 1 Internet year is like 4.7 years in real life. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 15 Fascinating Observation Towers

  

  image credit An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision. They are usually at... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 DESTINATIONS

• The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

  

  Last Wednesday, Apple unveiled iOS 6, the new operating system for iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads. The new operating system ditches Google maps and replaces... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 GADGETS, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• The Awesome Graffiti Of Belgium's Doomed Ghost Town

  

  image credit It's eerie feeling: walking down the streets of a modern town where no one - or almost no one - lives. The roads are still usable, many of the... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Photos Of Powered Space Shuttle Endeavour Flight Deck

  

  image credit These photos capture the Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, fully powered for one of the final times. Just a few weeks later, at 9:58am... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 SCIENCE, TECH

• The FanWing

  

  FanWing is a new concept for a type of cyclogyro. It uses a fixed wing with a forced airflow produced by cylindrical fans mounted at the leading edge of the... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 GADGETS, TECH

• Powerbreather

  

  The Powerbreather is a snorkel-based breathing system developed in Germany. It has the advantage that swimming can be learned on a methodically simplified basis. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 GADGETS

• Horsetail Fall - Fantastic Firefall Of Yosemite

  

  image credit Is there a fire on this mountain? Or is it some kind of volcanic eruption? The answer is neither. For a few days every February, Horsetail Fall in... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 OUTDOORS

• Bug-A-Salt - The Original Salt Gun

  

  Lorenzo Maggiore invented the 'Bug-a-Salt', a fly shotgun which uses nothing more than common table-salt to blast those pesky creatures into the next life. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 HOME

• 10 Most Fascinating Tombs In The World

  

  image credit Throughout the history of human civilization, different cultures mourn and treat the dead differently. Some, like Tibetan Buddhists, have no use fo... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

  

  image credit You don't need to look any further than last week's news cycle to see proof that a girl can throw a ball: Erin DiMeglio, the first female... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Oldest Dental Filling Is Found In A Stone Age Tooth

  You may not want to try this at home. A simple wax cap that was applied to a broken tooth 6500 years ago is the oldest dental filling on record. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Bill Moggridge, Developer Of First Laptop Dies

  

  Two weeks ago Bill Moggridge died. He was a British designer and director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. In 1979 he designed what is... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 COMPUTING, GADGETS, TECH

• 31 Amazing Photographs Of Beach Rock Formations

  

  image credit While good photographers can find the beauty in almost any object, part of the game can still involve finding more interesting and beautiful... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

• Le Ballet

  is a four-minute animated video made by Louis Thomas, Roland Petit, Jean Cocteau, Jerome Robbins and Marius Petipa. The video shows a night at the ballet with a... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Chart Cartoon by Andertoons Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Style Gone Wild: Why We Can't Shake The 1970s

  

  image credit It's hard to take the '70s seriously: the decade usually reduced to a shag-carpeted, bell-bottomed punch line. And while the '70s did include its... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Popinator Tosses Popcorn At Your Mouth on Command

  

  The Popinator is a voice-controlled popcorn shooter that works on demand. Every time you say 'pop' the Popinator tosses popcorn at your mouth. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Crack The Case

  

  To celebrate the release of the upcoming James Bond film, Skyfall, Heineken has launched an interactive campaign featuring Daniel Craig and new Bond girl... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM