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• Family / Origin Of The Beginning

  Levi van Veluw is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands. Portrayed in this piece, Family / Origin of the Beginning, is a room with 5 persons sitting a... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Frat Dude Goes To Red Bull Flugtag

  The Red Bull Flugtag is an event owned and operated by Red Bull in which competitors attempt to fly homemade size and weight limited human-powered flying... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Mark Powell's Vivid Biro Pen Portraits On Antique Envelopes

  London based artist Mark Powell has a rather unusual way of practicing the art of drawing. Using antique envelopes as canvases, he draws incredibly vivid... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Biggest Dogs In The World

  

  image credit Let's face it, some people like their pets big! If you are looking for a large dog there are a number of breeds which are generally referred to as... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Searing-Hot Lava Crashing Into The Seas Off Hawaii

  

  image credit Two photographers risked their lives to become the first people to capture the explosive moment fiery lava crashes into the sea. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Reviving Redwood

  Redwood is a ghost town. Almost. There's one old guy struggling to bring life back to the abandoned logging town. Directed and created by Matt Sullivan at... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About E.T.

  

  image credit E.T. was the heartwarming family film about the friendship between a child and a stranded alien that captured imaginations and broke the box office. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Remember Millions Of Mobile Phones In The 1960s? You Should

  

  image credit When was the mobile phone invented? If you thought it was the 1980s, when businessmen lugged them around in giant briefcases, think again. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Celebrities Who Spied On The Side

  

  image credit Did you know that Ian Flemming, the man who created James Bond, was responsible for helping to create an American organization focused on... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Animated Tower

  An architectural performance realized by artist Guillaume Reymond and Trivial Mass Production. The performance was done to celebrate the ten-year anniversary... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 11 Of The Weirdest Burgers Ever

  

  image credit It seems that yesterday was Happy National Cheeseburger Day. I totally missed that. Maybe it's because I don't like cheeseburgers. I do like the... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 FOOD & DRINK, RANDOM

• The Monastery Under The Lake

  

  image credit Take a trip up the Volga river in Russia and when you get to the small town of Kalyazin keep your eyes peeled for something unusual. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Wonderful Life With The Elements

  

  picture used with permission Wonderful Life With The Elements is a new book by Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji. It's an illustrated guide to the periodic... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

• Dark Energy Camera Snaps First Images Ahead Of Survey

  

  image credit The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS, SCIENCE

• World's Largest Parade of Ferrari Cars

  

  964 Ferrari cars (worth over $162 million) attended the Ferrari Driving Days event at Silverstone and paraded round the Silverstone circuit and set the world... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 MOTO

• 14 Of The World’s Most Awesome and Bizarre Bathtubs

  

  image credit Documented early plumbing systems for bathing go back as far as around 3300 BC with the discovery of copper water pipes beneath a palace in the... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• How To Draw A Cartoon Pirate

  

  Tomorrow is the annual Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrrr! Mark Anderson from Andertoons teaches you how to draw a cartoon pirate. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 HUMOR

• Banned Books

  Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, created this video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 8 Unusual Rock Islets Around the World

  

  image credit Usually, a rock islet is a landform composed of rock, lying offshore, uninhabited, and having a minimal vegetation. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Great Seattle Windshield Epidemic

  

  image credit The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic is a phenomenon which affected Bellingham, Seattle, and other communities of Washington state in 1954. It i... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 HISTORY