SciFi ideas that actually become reality is the idea behind Technovelgy - above is Sony Reader, an electronic book reminiscent of the newspage (Arthur C. Clarke, 1968 2001: A Space Oddsey). Look, it even does comics! Link
Dave Bunnell has an awesome site dedicated to caves and lava - this one above is a picture of tubular lava helictites:
Helictites are an eccentric or "vermiform" form of stalactite that twists and turns rather than growing straight up and down. They typically begin as tubular lava stalactites, but crystallization of the emerging lava as it cools pushes the lava in different directions. Often groups of these helictites will bend in the same direction down the passage, suggesting an influence of wind moving through the tube.
The upside-down balloon appears at first glance to be standing on its head. In actual fact, there is a concealed cabin on the underside and a further dummy cabin on the top.
Ye Xiangting told the reporter about his recent visit to the Yangzhuang police station to get a photo taken for a new ID card. He sat in front of the camera, but no image of him would show up in the photo. The staff checked the camera very carefully, but found no problems. He retook photos of Ye Xiangting, but no photos of Ye Xiangting was found on the computer images.
The staff could not find a reason. They took images of Ye Xiangting with other people. They were stunned when the other people showed up in the computer images, but not Ye. Ye Xiangting seemed to have "disappeared" from the photos. In the end, the staff had to give up ...
Its front windows wish you “Feliz Navidad” in paint that won’t wash off. The landscaping consists of four shriveling cacti and a patio piled with empty cat food boxes. Inside, it’s 700 square feet of confirmed bachelor’s clutter.
A stunning collection of nuclear bomb tests. From the website:
After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992. 100 SUNS documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with 100 photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland.
Trenary, Michigan has a unique annual race called the Outhouse Classic. The premise is simple: build an outhouse with wood and/or cardboard, put it a toilet seat and a roll of toilet paper, mount it on skis and push it to the finish line!
