Pumpkin Spring is a geological oddity is a limestone formation off the Colorado River. Some water spills over the top, but that which remains has a deadly mixture of arsenic, copper, zinc and lead. It's dangerous, but beautiful. View more pictures at the link.
Ozzy Dweller has about 5,000 old 3.5 inch floppy disks. He'd like to back them up, but doing so manually, he found, was just too tedious. So he built a machine that loads them into a computer, copies them, then ejects them onto the floor.
The element of surprise is a tremendous advantage in battle. Similarly, taking an opponent by surprise can lead to a quick victory in chess. And what would be a greater surprise than for your pieces to combine into a giant fighting robot that sweeps the board in a single move? Cymon of Thingiverse has designed a chess set that will let you do just that.
Hey, humans. Yes, you. Get your act together. You've been outdone by penguins of all creatures. NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite spotted the fecal evidence of a penguin colony on Antarctica from space.
And what have you done with your life lately? Show some ambition.
Why wasn't this around when I was a teenager?! You kids these days are so spoiled by your newfangled technology. Researchers at Keio University developed an interactive poster of a popular singer that responds (favorably!) when you try to kiss her.
This video was posted on April 1. It could be an April Fools' Day prank. But if so, it's a completelybelievable one.
Need a break from those Cadbury creme eggs? You can fill up after about a dozen of them in one sitting. For variety's sake, try these cheesecake eggs made by Steph of Rasberri Cupcakes. You can find her recipe at the link.
Friends of the Manatee, a Brazilian conservationist group, rescued this 2-month old Amazonian manatee near the body of its mother. Right now, caretakers are keeping it healthy and preparing to return it to the wild. At the link, you can see a photo of this baby being bottle-fed. Content warning: dangerously high level of cuteness.
The website of the United States Powered Paragliding Association describes what could have happened if the carabiner had slipped just a little more:
This pilot was quite close to a catastrophic situation on two fronts. One, a significant bump that unloaded that riser could have caused the riser to come completely out, leaving the pilot spiraling uncontrollably down on the remaining side. Two, the carabiner has dramatically less strength and a strong updraft could break it.
Here's my question: was this picture taken during or after the flight? If during, then, sir, the people of the Internet thank you for thinking of us first.
Link (scroll down) -via reddit | Photo: Stefan Obenauer
It's a twofer -- make a pretty rainbow and reduce the leprechaun infestation on your land. In this heartwarming video, a young lady named Kirsti pours round after round into a creek to create a lovely rainbow. I should remember this trick for the next Valentine's Day.
If you're going to drive in Mumbai, you'll have to be tough. And you'll have to drive a car that will endure the challenges of that city's roads and traffic. Mumbai drivers, apparently, honk their horns a lot. Enough that standard car horns on European cars aren't up the job.
That's why German carmaker Audi has drastically raised its standards for car horns built for export to India. Audi representative Michael Perschke explained:
“You take a European horn and it will be gone in a week or two. With the amount of honking in Mumbai, we do on a daily basis what an average German does annually.”
Perschke said the horns are specially adapted for driving conditions in India, a booming market where Audi is one of many foreign car brands competing for increasingly wealthy customers.
“The horn is tested differently – with two continuous weeks of only honking, the setting of the horn is different, with different suppliers,” he said.
Can anyone who has been to Mumbai confirm what this article says about the use of car horns in that city?
Here's a great shot taken at just the right moment as an airman jumps out of a HC-130 in Georgia. Superman can fly through the air, but this guy can walk on it.
Link -via Gizmodo | Photo: Airman 1st Class Douglas Ellis, USAF
Etsy seller LightYourselfUp made this adorable bookcase. It may not be practical for storing books, but we're too busy playing video games to read them anyway.
I haven't been able to track down the person responsible for this table, but s/he is certainly clever. It looks easy to make your own. Just remove the center plank from the picnic table, then attach a gutter. Keep your wine cool during picnics by adding ice.
