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Goodsell's Dark Days Arts.

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Check out Matthew Goodsell's Dark Days art. Link


How to Foil a Digital Camera.

Alex

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a technology that detects a digital camera and shoots a targeted beam of light to it.

"That means that someone trying for a surreptitious snapshot of, say, a product prototype or an amorous couple gets something altogether less useful--a blurry picture (or a video) of what looks like a flashlight beam, seen head on." Link


Top 100 Nostalgic Toys.

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TV Cream has worked out the top 100 nostalgic toys - you'll remember them if you're born before the 1980s. Link

World's Most Expensive Things.

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Boodles Jewellers made this world's most expensive teabag. It took 3 months and was handcrafted using 280 diamonds. The price? £7,500 or about $13,000.

Other things: most expensive bra and underwear: $15 million, cocktail drink: $26,000, shoes: $1.7 million.

Wanna buy me something for Christmas? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1234791.cms (via grow a brain)

Gas Pump Accident.

Alex

Distracted by the high cost of gas, no doubt.


Get Perpendicular.

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Hitachi explains how new MP3 player hard drive technology gets around the paramagnetic effect (huh?) in a cute animation called "Get Perpendicular". Link

Boeing Attacks a Mosque.

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This ad showed soldiers descending from an airborn Boeing's Osprey helicopter onto a roof of a bombed out mosque. The caption said "It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell."

The ad ran twice in National Journal and Armed Forces Journal, before complaints caused it to be yanked.

Link (via grow a brain)

By Car or By Camel...

Alex


Museum of Old TVs.

Alex
The Internet has everything, including a website dedicated to old TVs. MZTV is the web's museum of television, and it has some pretty amazing collections of old, old TVs. Link (via Look At This ...)

This is Just Wrong.

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Now This is a Car Pool.

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Apparently, car pool means something completely different in Japan. See this real life car pool. Link

Japan Makes Microchips, America Makes Whistles.

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The American Whistle Factory in Columbus, Ohio makes handcrafted, solid brass whistles with engravable finish.

The website touts them as the perfect gift for coaches, officials, teachers, and "everyone else who has been known to blow a whistle." Link (via Gizmodo)

Mur (Artificial) Island.

Alex

Vito Acconci is a renegade artist that designed an artificial island designed like a giant bowl named the Mur Island in Graz, Austria. Link (via Aberrant News)


Man Plays Dead for a Living.

Alex
Malnourished all his life, Gopal Haldar couldn't work in the fields in India's Sunderbans mangrove region.

Because of his poor health and stick-like body, his neighbors said that he was "born to play a ghost" - so in a when-life-gives-you-lemon-you-make-lemonade fashion, Gopal now makes a living playing a ghost.

From the website: "He says it takes him only 10 to 15 minutes to do his makeup and transform his emaciated self into a ghost-like creature -- mainly by painting his sunken face, protruding ribs and skeletal limbs with soot."

Link

Teletubbies Cocaine Bust.

Alex
Federal officials in New York announced the arrest of 22 members of an international drug cartel that shipped cocaine in packages labeled with Teletubbies. Link (via BoingBoing)

This was not the first time drug dealers used brands for their illegal drugs - Agents have found Harry Potter pills and Bin Laden heroin.

I guess branding is everywhere, even in narcotics marketing!

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