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Steel Delicacy: The Best Artists And Their Beautiful Works
image credit Steel is cold, or so they say. But this material can become the most delicate ingredient in the hands of skilled artists, who turn it into special... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Website Made Entirely Of Chocolate
Sagres, a Portugese brewery is promoting its new beer Sagres Preta Chocolate, a chocolate flavoured stout beer. Sagres decided the perfect way to launch it was... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
The Talks
is a weekly updated online interview magazine. Over the past decade its founders Johannes Bonke and Sven Schumann have met with cultural figures of all kinds.... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 RANDOM -
The Holy Rats Of Karni Mata
image credit I've covered this item before but the pictures keep amazing me. From the outside the Hindu temple of Karni Mata in the small town of Deshnoke in th... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 RANDOM -
Turkey's First Near Space Balloon Flight
It's a first for Turkey. The nation's first near space balloon flight. StratosphereFairEnough is a project about launching high altitude weather balloons to... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 RANDOM -
13 Creative Google Logo Transformations
In 1998, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were headed to the Burning Man art festival, they designed a special logo featuring a simple stick... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 COMPUTING, RANDOM, TECH -
The Virtual Numerologist
Numerology is the study of the purported mystical relationship between a count or measurement and life. It has many systems and traditions and beliefs, some... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Dancing Motorbikes
At the circuit of Magny-Cours in France, during a round of the 2011 Road Racing Cup Promosport Championship, two riders crash and their bikes lock wheel bars an... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Top 10 Most Extreme Substances
The darkest substance known to man, the most toxic poison, the most radioactive substance, the hardest substance, the most super superfluid. Some of the most... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Rattlesnake Wrestling
image credit It looks as if these snakes are dancing with each other, perhaps in courtship but this graceful exhibition is anything but friendly. Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Neatorama's Zombie Give-Away In Cooperation With The Presurfer
Our friends at Neatorama, in cooperation with The Presurfer, are giving away a refrigerator magnet shaped like a mix 'n match zombie, and two doorstops that loo... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
The Oldest Motor Plant In The World
Video of the oldest motor plant in the world. It was founded in 1864 by Eugen Langen and August Otto. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach worked here from... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Society For The Appreciation Of The Lowly Tinned Sardine
It seems that nowadays there's an Appreciation Society for everyone and everything. Even for the Lowly Tinned Sardine. (via J-Walk Blog)The Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 RANDOM -
Attack Of The Many Tentacled Carrot Creature
image credit With the spring rain comes the time for the Juniper to flower. From a distance it looks as if the blooms are large and orange. Yet wait a minute.... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Melvin The Machine
Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg's machines do best -... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Doggelgänger
is Human to Canine Pairing Software. In other words, how would you look like as a dog. Upload a picture of yourself and Doggelgänger will, through face... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
The World's Smelliest Man
Kailash Singh from India is probably the world's smelliest man. He has refusing to wash for more than 37 years. Mr Singh has not bathed or cut his 6ft-long... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
Seagull Steals Camera
A seagull stole a camera from a YouTube user in Cannes, France. He had to climb a castle wall to get it back. YouTube link (thanks Mark)The Read more
Posted on 26 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
The World's Ugliest Animals
image credit We can't all be beautiful. A series of photos of the world's ugliest animals.The Read more
Posted on 26 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM -
The Basics Of Typography
image credit Typography is the art of selecting and spacing typefaces appropriate to the content of the material to be printed and to the ink and paper used,... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2011 RANDOM