Archive for September, 2005
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A step by step guide to make grilled cheese sandwich a lá Johnny Depp in the 1993 Benny and Joon movie. Link (via Attu
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No need to turn around anymore with Nissan’s Pivo concept car. Instead, just turn the cab 180° and off you go in the other direction! Link |
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Rafael Reyes, born without arms or legs, applied for Wheel-Trans pass, a transportation service for the disabled in Toronto.
Guess what? The bureaucrats at TTC denied his request, because he didn’t qualify! Link |
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Woodrow Jackson plays balloon bass, a musical instrument made of actual balloons. You can listen to balloon music here: Link
Afterwards, if you still want more, you can move on to balloon drums. Link |
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Steve Erenberg collects weird medical devices, helmets and contraptions too weird to name. See his amazing collection. Link
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The Internet has everything, including a website about people who look like Kenny Rogers. Link (via Look At This …) |
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This cat has mastered the intricacies of deep tissue massage. Link (ads on page maybe NSFW). |
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Turns out you can shimmy open a combination padlock using a piece of metal cut from a regular beer can! Link (via Make) |
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For more funny Halloween customes you can buy, see: Link
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If you like firefly lights, but are squeamish about bugs, then Firefly Magic’s Firefly Lights are just for you! Link (via popgadget) |
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This moment in sports brought to you by SportDignity (caution: some NSFW).
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The Internet has everything, including a website dedicated to those fiberglass roadside giants, endearingly called Muffler Men. Link |
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This blind-folded pianist plays Nintendo’s Mario theme song. Link |
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Trevor Blackwell built his own segway from common parts. Link |
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This is "Lucha Libre", Bolivia’s answer to pro-wrestling. Link
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It’s not just a shoe - watch it turn into something else. Link |
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If rock-paper-scissor is too simple for you, then you can try David Lovelace’s RPS-15, with 1.3 trillion permutation and 105 possible outcomes. Still too simple, try RPS-25 with 15.5 octillion permutations and 300 outcomes. Link
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Apparently, a bent dry spaghetti does not break in half but instead in three or more pieces.
After careful experiments, scientists discovered that ".. the mere release of the rod induces a stress increase. The multiple breaking of bent rods, like dry spaghetti pasta, can then be understood as a cascade of releases (loss of cohesion upon breakings) followed by stress increases leading to new cracks"
Still no cure for cancer. Link |
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Why give flowers when you can give the "shiitake mushroom log"? With proper care, the log can yield a crop of mushroom every 8 to 12 weeks for years!
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World’s best authors have their shares of rejection letters. Stephen King got so many that he used to nail them on a spike in his bedroom. Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan had rejection letters piled 30-inch high.
Now, you can do something more constructive with your rejection letters: turn them into toilet paper.
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Hieroglyphic images of modern-day helicopter, submarines, and UFOs found on the ceiling of a 3000-year old New Kingdom Temple in Egypt. Link
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The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum in Japan is the first museum dedicated to, you guessed it, ramen noodles. Link | Link |
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Vending machines are everywhere in Japan - there are roughly 5.6 million vending machines, which work out to be 1 for every 20 people there. This one is an egg vending machine. For others, see Douglas Mann’s great collection here: Link
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