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• Selective Color Photos

  

  Selective color is a post-processing technique where most of a photo is change over to black and white, but some parts are left in color. This is usually... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2011 CULTURE, HUMOR, PHOTOGRAPHY, RANDOM

• 25 Years Ago: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

  

  Today it is 25 years ago that at 1:23am on April 26th, 1986, a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear station went wrong, resulting in an explosion in... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Migration

  

  The annual wildebeest migration takes place in the Masai Mara, Kenya and the Serengeti, Tanzania. It is known as the 'Great Migration' and is one of the most... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Power, Confidence, And High-Heels

  

  Many Western women make high-heels a part of their daily wardrobe. The relationship women have with their shoes often becomes the butt of jokes and a point of... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 HUMOR, LIFESTYLE, RANDOM

• Famous Movies Compressed Into Barcodes

  

  Moviebarcode is a blog that publishes images from movies compressed into barcodes. The picture above shows every still frame of the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• From Me To You

  

  What's so special about the picture below? Do you see it? It's one of many great GIFs made by Jamie Beck, a photographer who lives in New York City. There are... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Easter Bunnies - Jumpin', Leapin', Bouncin'

  

  image credit Did the Easter Bunny leave you anything this year? The tradition of the Easter Bunny is hundreds of years old and has its roots in the Rhineland. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Over Or Under?

  

  There are two choices of toilet paper orientation when using a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall: the toilet paper may hang over... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• For Sale: Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

  

  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, loosely based on Ian Fleming's... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Easter Egg History

  

  Easter eggs are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime. The egg is a pagan symbol of the rebirth of the Earth in celebrations of... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Rumors About Detection Of 'God Particle'

  The world's largest atom smasher - the Large Hadron Collider, a 17 mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland - is rumoured to have found the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• The Physics Of The Riderless Bicycle

  

  If you push an unmanned bike forward, it will roll straight without falling over (for a little while, at least). Andy Ruina, a Cornell University professor of... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Master Theorem

  

  The Master Theorem is a group of puzzle-solvers founded by a mysterious figure known only as M. The puzzles are not of the Sunday paper kind of stuff, but more... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Astolabe - Magnificent Computer Of The Ancients

  

  image credit It is an ancient tool, created over two thousand years ago when people thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Never Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth

  . Why? They don't like it! Vimeo link (via Everlasting Blort)The Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• End Of The World Notification Service

  

  There are a lot of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur one day and the world will end. We've all heard of December 21,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Safe House

  

  Located on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, 'Safe House' by architectural office KWK Promes is a two-storey residential house that aims to provide a feeling of... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2011 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Bert

  

  Real life version of Bert of Sesame Street made by Nacho Diaz. (via Boing Boing)The Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Zidbits

  

  A group of friends who used to try to one up each other with crazy and often unbelievable facts decided to put some of those on the web to share. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Doghouse With Solar Heating System, LED Lights And Wi-Fi Security Camera

  

  A doghouse with a solar hot-water radiant-heating system and a green roof that retains rainwater, creates oxygen, and improves insulation. Colored LED lights... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM