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Battery Adapter.


How to make your C cell batteries work in a gadget that requires D cells. Link

Spy Box.


Artist Tim Knowles sent a package from his studio to an art gallery. The box contained a camera, which took a picture every ten seconds, recording its journey through the postal system. The 6,994 images were later made into a slide show. Link -via Cynical-C

World's Smallest PacMan.


This is the world’s smallest Pac Man game. Shown actual size. You have to be really fast on the keys to win this one! Warning: sound effects are as big as ever. http://guimp.com/pacman_flash.html? -via Reddit

100x100.


Photographer Michael Wolf has been featured on Neatorama before. His latest project opens in exhibit June 30 in San Francisco.
Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate, is composed of 100 rooms, each closet-like in size at only 100 square feet and built in response to a devastating fire in the 1950s that left thousands homeless. In a new series of photographs called "100 x 100," Michael Wolf captures the residents of this housing complex who are almost enveloped by the diminishing space around them, their belongings stacked to the ceiling.

Link to story. Link to image gallery. -via All Night Surfing

Solving a Rubik's Cube in 55 Seconds.


Talented actor, musician, and comedian Will Smith is also good with a Rubik’s Cube! Push play or go to Daily Motion. -via Reddit

Nerd Tattoos.


Yellowforks has a gallery of nerd tattoos. After all, who wouldn’t want to show their lifetime loyalty to a computer system, gadget, or game character? http://www.yellowforks.com/full.aspx?fork=23 -via John’s Blog

Robot to Emcee Wedding.

Seok Gyeong-Jae is a robot designer in South Korea. At his upcoming wedding, the master of ceremonies will be Tiro, a robot he helped design! Link

Train Panorama.


Not a particularly long train, but a very long photograph of a train, by Branislav Kropilak. This is only a small portion. You’ll have to scroll right at Kropilak’s site to see it all. http://www.kropilak.com/files/trains.01.php -via Grow-A-Brain

Penguin Proposal.


It was a memorable public marriage proposal with the help of penguins for a zookeeper in North Wales.
Vicki Small, 23, said she was speechless when Kevin Venton, 27, went on bended knee and asked her to marry him at the Welsh Mountain Zoo.

Fluffy the penguin then walked on with a white gold and diamond ring in front of a big crowd at Colwyn Bay, Conwy.

Miss Small was so astonished she did not say yes straightaway - but she soon did and the pair will marry next June.

Small hand-reared Fluffy the penguin in her work at the zoo. The afternoon penguin parade had a crowd of about 60 observers, who cheered the surprise proposal. Link -via Metafilter

Paul Potts Update


For those of you who enjoyed phone salesman/opera singer Paul Potts' audition for Britain's Got Talent (but don't have access to ITV 1), here's his performance in the semi-finals last night. The voting is now open to the public. See Paulâ's MySpace page, too. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to the show's website.

Bacon Placemats.


Weave your bacon into a delicious placemat! Step-by-step instructions are at Instructables. Link -via Cynical-C

Trepanation.

An Illustrated History of Trepanation traces the practice of making holes in people’s heads from prehistory to some quirky recent stories.
The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull. It has been performed since prehistoric times: the oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks and the early Mesoamerican civilizations. The procedure is still performed today, for both medical and non-medical reasons.

Link -via the Presurfer

Shadow Art.


Tim Noble and Sue Webster create art with a twist. These sculptures are designed to throw shadows of something completely different from what they appear to be! http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/freeze-frame-screen-the-shadow-hot-heads-under-silent-wigs/ -via Reddit

Nine Vegas Hotel Implosions.



If you like to see things blown to pieces safely, Cynical-C has nine videos of hotel implosions in Las Vegas. Nine? Yes, pretty soon you won’t recognize the old city at all. Link

The Best Thought Experiments.

Eight classic thought experiments explained simply. If you’ve heard the terms Schrödinger's cat, Borel's monkeys, or Maxwell's demon, but you didn’t quite understand them, Wired has the short course. Link

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