The Secret Behind IKEA Tables: Honeycomb!

Posted by Alex in Home & Garden, Video Clips on November 3, 2009 at 2:17 pm


[National Geographic Video]

Ever wonder how IKEA makes their furniture sturdy yet light? The secret is the honeycomb skeleton inside their tabletops. National Geographic went inside an IKEA factory in Poland: Link

 
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College Dorm Light Show

Posted by Queuebot in Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on June 16, 2009 at 3:39 am


[YouTube - Link]


Students at Politechnika Wroc?awska or the Wroclawska University of Technology in Poland had themselves a grand ol’ time rigging their dorm with a light show that played the theme from Knight Rider.

After this clip, check out their website P.I.W.O.3 (Google Translate) for many more video clips.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by oezicomix.

 
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DIY Tractors of Poland

Posted by Queuebot in Car & Vehicle on February 17, 2009 at 5:35 pm

For independent farmers in Poland in the 1960s, it was nearly impossible to acquire a tractor. Any agricultural machines made in Poland during this period went to state-owned farms, and were too expensive for a private farmer to purchase.  Plus, they weren’t tough enough for mountain farms. 

So enterprising farmers built their own tractors, using decommissioned army vehicles, pre-WWII German machines, and anything else they could find.

Photographer Lukasz Skapski traveled throughout the Polish countryside to document these homemade tractors, and found vehicles that could climb very steep roads, go faster than allowed, and were still trucking after 40 years.

Photo by Lukasz Skapski, courtesy Zak Gallery

Link – via darkroastedblend

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Illegal Logging?

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law on January 4, 2009 at 1:43 am

Environuts, … er, green enthusiasts were up in arms when they discovered an illegal logging site in Poland’s nature reserve. The police busted the culprit:

Environmentalists found 20 neatly stacked tree trunks and others marked for felling with notches at the beauty-spot at Subkowy in northern Poland.

But police followed a trail left where one tree had been dragged away – and found a beaver dam right in the middle of the river. A police spokesman said: "The campaigners are feeling pretty stupid. There’s nothing more natural than a beaver."

Link – via The Evangelical Outpost

 
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