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Fingerjig is a fun little typing game that tests your accuracy and speed for randomly selected words (each level tests a different typing skill). I could hit a little above 80 wpm on the long words, but slowed down to a painful 10 wpm on the single letters. I suggest you turn off your speakers though, the sound is really annoying.
Yahoo has a great slideshow of various turtles and tortoises. The cute picture above shows a worker from Rome’s Biopark zoo holding a set of endangered Egyptian Tortoises (Testudo Kleinmanni) that were the offspring of tortoises rescued from smugglers.
You might have seen the Dragon Paper Sculpture Illusion. Here’s a house based on the same idea, located at the “National Gallery Scupture Garden” in Washington DC.
Link [YouTube] – via Videofeber
Weird Converter makes comparisons between things you normally wouldn’t consider. For example: in the weight scale, one African Elephant equals 71.32 kegs of beer, and one male Polar Bear equals nine Jennifer Annistons. There’s also a height/length scale. Why do this?
Well, while watching the Discovery Channel one day, listening to the narrators compare the size of a truck to blue whales, I thought that someone should make a converter to change other completely unrelated items. So I built one. And come on, who hasn’t pondered how many poops a blue whale equals?
Link -via Militant Platypus
Here’s The Wrong Trousers, a band of three very talented high school students Mack Leighton (bass), Kelsea Little (harp) and Joseph Lorge (mandolin), busking in Balboa Park, California, singing Video Killed the Radio Star.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], also check out their MySpace page (cool music there!) – via reddit
This internet-connected umbrella really lets you have fun during those rainy days. The umbrella named Pileus, created by Sho Hashimoto and Takashi Matsumoto, allows you to view photos downloaded from Flickr via wireless Internet connection and 3D navigation by Google Earth.
Hooray! The new record for the world’s tallest LEGO tower returns to USA:
The 94.3ft-high pirate ship mast was made with 465,000 bricks, breaking a previous record of 93.43ft set in Denmark last year.
All is right with the world again: Link – Thanks Freshome!
