Run is a simple game that will drive you mad. The object is to not fall into the abyss of space while you run at a steady pace. That pace gets faster as you go, and I succumbed on the fifth level. Better start out with the tutorial. Link -Thanks, David!
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Run is a simple game that will drive you mad. The object is to not fall into the abyss of space while you run at a steady pace. That pace gets faster as you go, and I succumbed on the fifth level. Better start out with the tutorial. Link -Thanks, David!
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EatStreet developed a font literally made of food. Design students met at a a few restaurants, played with their food, and photographed the characters they made. You can download the finished product free! http://www.chank.com/freefont_detail.php?sku=1111 -Thanks, michael!
The annual Toronto Zombie Walk attracted 3,000 of the undead over the weekend. This zombie apparently couldn't find any brains and had to settle for a pizza! See lots more gruesomely awesome pictures at BlogTO. Link -Thanks, Roger Cullman!
Cliff divers deal with insane heights, variable water levels, and falls that are not exactly straight down. Take a look at locations where the most adventurous cliff divers risk life and limb for an extreme thrill. Pictured is the popular diving cliff in Wolfgangsee, Austria. Pro Traveller has six more, with videos. Link -Thanks, Andy!
There are places on earth where tectonic plates are moving, sometimes too slow for humans to discern, sometimes rather suddenly. deputy dog found five places where the earth has cracked open, with photographic evidence. Shown is a volcanic vent that appeared suddenly in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2006. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/10/5-enormous-cracks.html
Also: I am grateful for the opportunity to use this awesome headline.
Chris Hausbeck unveiled this 50 foot tall, 10 ton sculpture on the grounds of Wild Bill's Nostalgia in Middletown Connecticut last week.
The Head was purchased 5 years ago from an antique shop near Gillette Castle in Connecticut after languishing in the elements for dozens of years.
We were told it was created for Bob Keeshen the original 'Clarabell The Clown' on the television show Howdy Doody in the late 1950's. Mr. Keeshan later went on to become Captain Kangaroo after this fiberglas mascott was created. The Head has recieved a major restoration due to the significant damages done by mishandling and weather. We used 300 sq feet of fiberglas cloth and 4.5 gallons of epoxy resin to repair the structure to withstand harsh New England storms with aplomb. The giant clown head will be painted to bear likeness to the original Clarabell in tribute to the late Mr. Keeshen.
This mechanism has been built inside a 40 foot tall grain silo made of stone and brick constructed in the mid 1800's and is supposedly one of four left in existance.
With the mechanism completed and connecting rod attached the clown head appears as if from nowhere from the top of the silo and peer down to the traffic and with a smooth running mechanism churning away below.
Details of the construction are recorded in a Flickr set. Link -Thanks, Chris Hausbeck!
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making simple ghost decorations with cool LED eyes!
You can make these simple LED ghosties (based on LED throwies) from a soda bottle, a couple of LEDs and batteries, string, and a scrap of fabric. Hang them in your trees, your haunted house, or in your porch for Halloween. They look especially excellent because the eyes seem to float in mid-air behind the fabric.
Why have a bare wall when you can have a Living Dead Zombie Attack Wall Art Vinyl Decal? Link -Thanks, John "Widgett" Robinson!
Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I couldn't. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19459
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Their name is easy to remember: Tokyo-based d.v.d is a trio with two drum players, Itoken and Jimanica and visualiser Takashi Yamaguchi (ymg) on the hardware front. So while the two are furiously beating two drum kits in front of a huge screen, their sounds trigger geometrical shapes with processing, Pong-style game settings or bizarre drop landscapes that interact, transform or collapse.
See more videos and an interview with the group at PingMag. Link -via picdit -Thanks, Adam Fuhrer!
Here are some stories you can share for Halloween, or maybe even travel destinations! Web Urbanist has a slide show featuring abandoned places all over the world. Shown here is Balestrino, Italy, a medieval town abandoned because of seismic instability. The next earthquake may destroy it completely! Link -via Digg
In a post about the ten longest limousines in the world, we find this:
The last limousine is actually the longest super stretch limousine in the world. Total length is 100 feet (more than 30 meters). It has 26 tires, room for a lot of passengers, a heated Jacuzzi, sun deck, swimming pool, a few beds and… a helipad!
http://www.limohead.co.uk/top-10-longest-super-stretch-limousines-in-the-world-ever/ -Thanks, Peter Jensen!
After World War II, the Soviet Union jumped into the nuclear arms race with both feet. A plant was built in a secret city named Chelyabinsk-40 to produce plutonium. Between 1948 and 1990, a million residents of the Chelyabinsk Province in Russia found out what happens when radioactive waste is not properly stored or cooled -not that they were told what was happening.
The Worldwatch Institute calls it the “most polluted spot” in history. Damn Interesting has the story. http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=973
Thirty-nine years of effluent had saturated the lake with nasty isotopes, including an estimated 120 megacuries of long-lived radiation. In contrast, the Chernobyl incident released roughly 100 megacuries of radiation into the environment, but only about 3 megacuries of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137. A delegation who visited Lake Karachay in 1990 measured the radiation at the point where the effluent entered the water, and the needles of their Geiger counters danced at about 600 Röntgens per hour–enough to provide a lethal dose in one hour. They did not linger long.
The Worldwatch Institute calls it the “most polluted spot” in history. Damn Interesting has the story. http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=973
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