Office Max has a Christmas widget to turn you into an elf for a holiday greeting! You can see my message to you, or make one yourself! Link -via YesButNoButYes
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Office Max has a Christmas widget to turn you into an elf for a holiday greeting! You can see my message to you, or make one yourself! Link -via YesButNoButYes
Cylinder recordings were the earliest audio recordings, from Edison’s first tinfoil recording in 1877 to around 1929. The Cylinder Preservation and Digitalization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara has a website featuring the history of cylinder recordings and thousands of downloadable music and speech recordings from that period. You can have music recorded over 100 years ago on your iPod!
With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.
Link -via Abandoned Stuff
After the success of their Coke and Mentos Fountain video, the guys from EepyBird pondered the question of whether one Diet Coke/Mentos reaction could be triggered by another. The result is Experiment #214. Hit play or go to this link.
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out.
Are you rich or not? Find out with the Global Rich List. Link -via Simply Left Behind
Has there ever been a child who wasn’t frightened the first time he met Santa? Sometimes Santa isn’t too happy about it, either. Of course, parents want to have a photo of the event. For years, people have submitted photos to the Scared of Santa gallery. There are 69 photos available this year. http://www.southflorida.com/events/sfl-scaredsanta,0,2245506.photogallery?index=1
Ten miners married their sweethearts Saturday a thousand feet underground in the Shanxi province of China. Why? It’s a stunt aimed at making China’s coal-mining industry (the deadliest in the world) less depressing. Mine manager Liu Suisheng indicated they are trying for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest simultaneous underground wedding. The photos must’ve turned out a bit dark, since I couldn’t find any. Link
Alek Komarnitsky gained fame a few years ago with his website that allowed surfers to control his Christmas lights. Turns out that was a hoax. He had plenty of Christmas lights, they just weren’t controllable from your terminal. The full confession came out after Christmas 2004. But Alex took his internet fame and did something with it. The 2005 Christmas lights really were controllable via the web! And the project has raised over $14,000 so far for Celiac disease research through the University of Maryland. Alek contacted me yesterday to let me know he’s got three webcams up and ready at his house for this year’s Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease. Link
An intrepid explorer goes looking for definite proof in this cute animation. Hit play or go to YouTube. -via PAgent’s Progress
Available from Amazon.com. Who knew? 851 people have posted helpful (and entertaining) reviews of this product. And 99 customers added tags. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B00032G1S0/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/103-3528501-3649466?redirect=true&ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort_by=-SubmissionDate&n=3370831 -via Arbroath
It looks like an epidemic of busted screens for users of Nintendo’s new Wii game system, although the ratio of such incidents to Wii systems sold has not been determined at this point. The website Wii Have a Problem is collecting cases of Wii-related accidents. Under the subject of health and safety precautions, Nintendo says:
1. Wear the wrist strap.
2. Hold the Wii Remote firmly and do not let go.
Link
If you don’t like the look of your car, you can have it redone, IF you can afford it. A BMW owner in Canada had his E46 M3 tricked out in many ways, including an all-chrome finish. I’d bet he has a covered garage to store it in, too. Link |more chrome cars on Neatorama
This chair is called the Stokke Gravity™ balans®. From the website:
From a comfortable working position to a reclined position and a feeling of almost weightless. The sloping seat allows wider space between the thigh and the upper part of the body, while the leg cushions prevent sliding forward when working at a table. When leaning back your legs will be lifted higher than your head providing you with the best position for relaxation and well-being!
After seeing the “functionality†demonstration, I want to try this out! Link
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