Alex Santoso's Blog Posts
| The Taj Mahal is a monument to love constructed in the 1600s in Agra, India. It's actually a mausoleum for Mumtaz Mahal, the favorite wife of Shah Jahan. The real Taj was built with white marble and inlaid with semi-precious stone and mosaic work. You can, however, make your own paper Taj Mahal (and other cool things) at Harold Gregg Jr's PaperToys site. |
| In the men's room in Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport, every urinals have a fly in it - It turns out that the "fly" is not real, it's etched into the porcelain. Why? Because men automatically use it as a target and this reduces spillage by 80%! They even positioned the fly perfectly to minimize splashback. |
Scott Haefner does kite aerial photography. He suspended a camera from a kite and took images shot with a circular fisheye lens. The result? Amazing 360 panoramas you have to see. Scott's Panoramas If you like that, also checkout: Panoramas by Denis Gliksman | Steve Morton | Panoramas.dk (especially the Eiffel tower) | Panoguide Gallery |
| It's a mating orgy of Japanese Beetle. Notice the voyeur on the left :) |
For more funny re-imagined romance novel covers, see: Mark Longmire Does Romance Novels. |
| It's formally called the "Emesis Bag", but we call it the Space Shuttle Barf Bag. For other great vomit bag designs, see Virgin Atlantic's Designed for Chunks competition: |
| Matt Alland and Randy Rydeen asked their palsfor drawings of Conan O'Brian fighting a Bear. This is their collection: http://www.conanvsbear.com/index.php |
| Dai Andrews holds two world records for sword swallowing. He's one of 50 sword swallowers left in the entire world. http://www.swordswallower.org/swordswallowing.html |
| Sulabh International Museum of Toilets is dedicated to, you guessed it, toilets. The website has an interesting article on the evolution of toilets and the ancient Indian rules for going to the bathroom properly. http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/ (via In4mador) |
| If you like MC Escher, you'll love Makoto Nakamura's wonderful Link |
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