You can have a wall clock or a desk clock made with your arms telling the time! I Got Clocked will make a clock with your picture and your choice of backgrounds. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
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You can have a wall clock or a desk clock made with your arms telling the time! I Got Clocked will make a clock with your picture and your choice of backgrounds. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
A collection of 111 different designs used for “Add to Cart†buttons on the top internet retailer’s sites. If you can’t guess who they belong to, a click on each button will take you to the online store. Link -via Metafilter
The Panda Chair was designed by Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana. My daughter would kill for this, but its a limited edition of 25 chairs. Link -via Dump Trumpet
If you want to set up a meeting with a friend somewhere between where you both are, you can consult A Place Between Us. Enter your location, your friend’s location, and the type of place you want to meet. For example, if I were in Charleston and wanted to meet a New York friend for lunch, Gaithersburg, Maryland is about halfway between. This Google Map-based application suggested four restaurants in the area. Link -via the Presurfer
Plupon is an addictive math game. You get big points by combining three numbers to total ten or twenty. Smaller points if you go under, and you can combine small numbers to make a bigger number. Minus points if you go over. Unused numbers count against your time. http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/sw/2007/05/post.html -via Metafilter
Tvashtar is a volcano on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The New Horizons space probe captured five frames of an eruption, which became the first "movie" of an otherworldly eruption. The plume in the image reaches 200 miles above the surface. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPhotos/pages/051407.html -via Metafilter
New York City’s deadliest terror attack before 9/11 took place at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway on September 16, 1920, when a horse-drawn wagon was abandoned by its driver.
A bomb consisting of one hundred pounds of dynamite packed with five hundred pounds of cast-iron slugs violently vomited red-hot shrapnel and destruction in every direction. A number of passers-by were instantly vaporized by the extreme heat and pressure. The blast sent a nearby automobile careening through the air as countless jagged iron fragments ripped through the crowd.
Damn Interesting, where you often find history you’ve never heard, has the story. Warning: gory details. Link
Georg Gerster is a Swiss aerial photographer whose work spans 40 years, six continents, and 111 countries. This photo is Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park, taken in 1982. I could spend way too much time looking through his extensive gallery. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
A light made of ice? Yes, a ball of ice with an LED inside. Instructables has directions on making your own, with plenty of cool pictures. Link -via PAgent’s Progress
Jennifer Strunge makes monsters out of recycled clothing and linens. Each is a one-of-a-kind creation that she sells at Cotton Monster. According the the FAQ, they need to be handled gently, and although they may pretend to eat your arm, they prefer broccoli. Link -via Everlasting Blort
The world’s first surviving all-girl sextuplets were born to Graham and Janet Walton in 1983. The girls grew up in the Walton’s eight-bedroom house and left home at age 18. Now, at 23, five of the six have moved back in with their parents (the sixth lives nearby)! Link -via Look at This
The Food Timeline not only shows when certain foods were first used for human consumption, but also contains links for the history of most foods featured. For example: did you know that a botanist wrote about seeing 100 pounds radishes in 1544? That ancient Egyptians used marshmallows and licorice for medicine? Fascinating! Link -via Cynical-C
The World of Mr. Toast by Dan Goodsell has comics, animations, and delightful pictures of Mr. Toast and his food friends. Link -via Everlasting Blort
The Menton Lemon Festival (Fête des Citrons) is held every year in late winter. Menton is in the French Rivera, between Monaco and the border with Italy, and has a wonderfully mild climate that draws tons of tourists to see the fantastic citrus sculptures. http://www.menton.com/fr/citrons/ More pictures here. -via J-Walk Blog
My mother once opened a fortune cookie and read "You got the wrong cookie!" Have you ever opened a fortune cookie and wondered what was going through the mind of the person who wrote it? Here’s a collection of those! http://weirdfortunecookies.com/ -via Dump Trumpet
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