The world’s biggest moving machine is Bagger 288, a giant trencher or bucket excavator. It is 300 meters long and weighs 45,500 tons! Link
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The world’s biggest moving machine is Bagger 288, a giant trencher or bucket excavator. It is 300 meters long and weighs 45,500 tons! Link
Nagi Noda is a video designer who has been called “one of the most influential woman in Japan.†She was the brains behind the Poodle Exercise video entitled "FITNESS VIDEO for being appraised as an EX-FAT GIRL" we saw here earlier. Here is another of her many projects. Hit play or go to YouTube. -via Everlasting Blort
Sit back and watch what the the Belgian comic duo Circoripopolo do to your browser. It will be OK! Entertaining, even. http://www.circoripopolo.be/comicduo/ -via Metafilter
The VeinViewer by Luminetx lets medical professional visualize where the veins are before they start sticking. Looks cool, too! Link plus images and video
The Warholizer is a “Flickr toy†that will take your photo and turn it into a collection of filtered silkscreen-like images in tribute to the style of pop artist Andy Warhol. This image is me! Link -via Dump Trumpet
If you find yourself hitting the snooze button and falling asleep again, maybe you need the Flying Alarm Clock. The only way to turn it off is to catch it! The description of this product made me laugh. Link -via New Launches
Houses is a puzzle game where you must assemble three houses using the tangram-ish pieces shown with no pieces left over. It won a recent design contest at Casual Gameplay. Link
Anytime you sign up with a dating service, you get tons of useless inquiries for every possible match. At least that’s what I’ve heard. A friend of mine has launched a new site called Weird Dating Mail to share some of the stranger messages she’s received through online dating services, unidentified of course. You are invited to submit your own weird dating mail! http://www.weirddatingmail.com/
FAR! FAR away, the Google lives, in a land which only children can go to. It is a wonderful land of funny flowers, and birds, and hills of pure white heather.
The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food.
From The Google Book, by V.C. Vickers, 1913. Link -via the Presurfer
Quick! How many Barneys do you know? There are probably more than you can remember right off hand. To help you along, you can consult the The Barney Timeline. Link
Pick your favorite soap opera characters, and predict what they will do in upcoming episodes. From Reuters:
Can this possibly work as randomly as baseball or football games, which are unscripted and broadcast live? And can’t everyone who watches soap operas see what’s coming a mile away? Soapnet is now taking signup and points begin to accrue tomorrow. It costs $9.99 to play for 10 weeks. Link -via Simply Left Behind
The Walt Disney Co.'s SoapNet announced the Web-based fantasy site on Friday at its annual Super Soap Weekend in Florida in a bid to attract women aged 18 to 34, and add a social dimension to the six-year-old soap TV channel.
The game works along the same lines as fantasy football, in which real-life players are chosen for virtual teams and results are based on statistics from actual games.
Can this possibly work as randomly as baseball or football games, which are unscripted and broadcast live? And can’t everyone who watches soap operas see what’s coming a mile away? Soapnet is now taking signup and points begin to accrue tomorrow. It costs $9.99 to play for 10 weeks. Link -via Simply Left Behind
Lala, a 14-year old King Penguin, is a family pet in Japan. His favorite activity is shopping at the local fish store. Yes, he makes it home with the merchandise! Push play or go to YouTube.
Its a part of the penguin post today at Miss Cellania.
Its a part of the penguin post today at Miss Cellania.
Click on and off the little characters to make them harmonize or stop. Nonsensical, but fun. You can save a sequence and send via email. http://www.mypeople.com/sing/index.html -via Dump Trumpet
Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire? is a fascinating account of an academic (Ogi Ogas) who had a system for winning on a game show. Who could resist such prose as:
Did he win a million? I’m not giving away the end of the story! Link
My neurohormones whipped from black misery to shining ebullience, saturating my brain in a boiling cauldron of epinephrine and endorphins. I gaped at the azure screen in front of me as the ultimate question coalesced in hot white font.
Did he win a million? I’m not giving away the end of the story! Link
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