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• The Ideal 'Personality' For A Robotic Vacuum Cleaner

  

  What would be the ideal 'personality' for a robotic vacuum cleaner? This is a perplexing question, since at the moment robotic vacuum cleaners tend to have... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Cake-Pop - Love Child Of The Cupcake And The Lollipop

  

  image credit Just when you thought the cupcake boom was over and you had finally resolved not to buy any more muffins the size of your head, along comes a new... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2011 FOOD & DRINK, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Kindsköpfe (Grown Ups)

  

  Photographer Paul Ripke and art director Florian Schmucker made a series of photos featuring parents who have swapped heads with their children. (via Laughing... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Tennis Grunt

  It has long been a source of irritation for opponents and tennis fans alike. But the infamous 'tennis grunt' could actually improve a player's game by... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 78 Photography Rules For Complete Idiots

  

  Funny photography rules and useful advice created by Latvian photographer Ivars Gravlejs.The Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How Hair Turns Gray

  

  image credit We've all heard it before: Too much stress will give you gray hair. While there seems to be some truth to that theory, the science behind our... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Ad Campaigns That Backfired Badly

  

  Occasionally advertising executives fail to hit the mark; a joke that passed at the focus group stage ends up flatlining when it hits the TV screen or... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 HUMOR, MARKETING & ADVERTISING, RANDOM

• J.K. Rowling's Mysterious New Website

  

  The owls are gathering... Find out why soon. That's the tease from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, on a webpage that features a clock ticking down the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR, MOVIES, RANDOM

• What Is A Bohemian Rhapsody?

  

  You all know the lyrics from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The story is about a man confessing a murder to his mother, vainly pleading poverty in a trial and endin... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Specialized Beats

  North-Carolina-based sound designer and composer Roger Lima of WhiteNoise Lab took a microphone and a bike to make music. The beat was made only with bicycle... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Cross-stitch for Nerds

  

  image credit Cross-stitch: one of the oldest forms of embroidery known to humanity has something of an image problem. Many people associate it with little old... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 COMPUTING, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• Bizarre World Records

  

  World records are usually spoken of in terms of the professional athlete, with time, distance, speed and strength being the facto units of measurement. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The 10,000 Year Clock

  

  Danny Hillis, an inventor, computer engineer, and designer, Stewart Brand, a biologist, rock musician Brian Eno, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Sand Cat - Desert Cat Extraordinaire

  

  image credit Don't be fooled by the off the scale cuteness quotient. This is the Sand Cat - or Felis margarita, a little known species of desert cat. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 RANDOM

• What Happens On The Internet Every 60 Seconds?

  

  Every 60 seconds over 6,600 photos will be uploaded to Flickr, about 70 new domains will be registered, over 1,200 new ads will be created on Craigslist, more... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 COMPUTING, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• One Year Of The Moon In 2.5 Minutes

  The animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2011, at hourly intervals. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 ASTRONOMY, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Welsh Fisherman Captures Giant Catfish

  

  Retired naval officer David Kent landed an 18-stone fish using a tiny piece of sweetcorn as bait on a fishing trip in Thailand. The fish was caught in November... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, HUMOR, RANDOM

• A House Made Of Bookcases

  

  Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio designed this bookshelf-lined house - called Shelf-Pod - located in the Osaka prefecture in Japan. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 ARCHITECTURE, RANDOM

• The Swimming Pool That Turned Into A Museum

  

  image credit In the last few years of the twentieth century the Mayor of Lille in northern France had a quandary. The old swimming pool in the small town of... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's First QR Code Coin

  

  A QR code (Quick Response code) is a two-dimensional matrix bar code that is used to identify products. It can store up to 4,296 alphanumeric or 7,089 numeric... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM