Adalberto Abbate’s disaster-themed micro-sculptures
Charming arrangement of toy cars depicting riots, murders etc.
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Steampunk problem light
Patrick Kovacich made this steampunky “Problem” light that you can switch on when your life is giving you problems; he lavishly documented the build in a Flickr set so you can make your own.
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20 magic trick videos
http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/414509/snap_vanish_explanation.swf
Here’s a collection of 20 videos produced by amateur magicians showing you how to do some wonderful tricks with cards and other small props. Shown here: The Snap Vanish.
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Solar beach tote charges your phone
The Juice Bag is a beach tote with an integrated solar panel that will charge your phone, camera, laptop and MP3 player while you manufacture vitamin D.
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HOWTO make a toy soldier table
Simple and striking DIY “soldier table” — just line up your soldiers on a flat surface and cover with a sheet of glass.
The “toy soldier table” is very remenescent of the super-cool ‘Floor’ installation by Do-Ho Suh at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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UK rejects tourists visas for stupid reasons
From the BBC News website, this report highlights some of the ridiculous, yet common, reasons for UK visa refusal — including ‘planning a holiday for no particular purpose other than sightseeing.’
The government goofballs who reject tourist visas for no good reason also delight in using confusing language to explain why tourist visas were rejected:
The provenance of the funds depicted is not evidenced allied to other financial commitments.
You have failed to complete pivotal areas of Section 6.
P>I can only assess your mutual knowledge in a subjective context.
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Chess tactics explained in plain English
A Field Guide to Chess Tactics. Chess tactics explained in plain English, with hundreds of examples. A great site for beginning to mid-level players. Includes a large library of positional problems, organized thematically, with the solutions explained and discussed. For example, learn about knight forks, then quiz yourself on the same topic.
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Brie. Roquefort. Camembert. Gouda. Edam. Gorgonzola. Parmesan. Cheddar.
Ratmaze 2 is a flash game by PixelJam.
You are a RAT. Start ACTING LIKE ONE. You noble mission: to EAT ALL CHEESE. Your universe consists of an ATARI MAZE. Your soundtrack is COOL PCM MUSIC. Eating cheese awards MORE TIME. DON’T FORGET THE CRUMBS! Eating FRUIT speeds you up. Eat LETTERS for SECRET BONUS. Some walls are FAKE. Get ALL THE CHEESE for AWESOME BONUS ROUND. Solve bonus round for COSMIC CHEESE BONUS.
PixelJam also made Gamma Bros..
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Count on it.
1, 2, 3,4, 5,6,7, 8, 9,10, 11,12!
Classic Sesame Street taught us Counting
and other important stuff.
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The future is not clean and antiseptic
Slime molds may control our future computers and robots, and fungi may protect us in outer space.
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Girls. Cars. Etcetera.
Some Girls and Cars. Just Girls.* Just Cars. Some Girl(?) and Her Cars. Some Girl’s Cars.*Some Car Girls. Some Girls.Cars.
(*=Mildly NSFW if you work for idiots)
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FEELS LIKE A LASER! FEELS LIKE A LASER!
The LED Museum has long been the Internet’s premier source of absolutely obsessive LED and Laser analysis. Going strong since 1999, Craig Johnson’s amassed quite a range of test equipment. Recently, he acquired a Playstation 3 Blu-Ray Laser Module. Did he mod it? Oh yes he did. (Warning: NSFC64)
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Crazy Mammoths
Crazy Mammoths is the finest single-button, mammoths-encased-in-blocks-of-ice racing game.
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The Incredible Shrinking World
The great-grandfather could walk six miles to go fishing; the grandfather could walk a mile to go to the woods; the son can’t go more than 300 yards from his house. How children lost the right to roam, including a map illustrating the point.
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This guy needed some wheels.
There goes an a**hole. Brooklyn neighborhood security camera set to music.
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Prisons of the World
Prisons of the World | Interesting locations, harsh conditions and little known facts, includes images and video.
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Office Inspired by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
I’m officially jealous of the people who get to work in this office workspace custom designed to look like Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, from 20,000 Leagues.
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Apple’s Billion Dollar Gamble Riding On Its Lack of Keyboard
�There has never been a massively successful consumer device based solely on a touch screen� …designers and marketers of electronic devices centers are having a spirited debate about whether consumers will have the patience to overcome the hurdle that will be required to type without the familiar tactile feedback offered by conventional keyboards.
Any significant number of returns of the iPhone could conceivably undermine what until now has been a remarkable promotional blitzkrieg that culminates in the phone�s release June 29.
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I have been called a voluptuary, a sybarite, a hedonist, a creep. ..
I have been called a voluptuary, a sybarite, a hedonist, a creep. .. George Meyer’s silly rhapsody on conferences, symposia, seminars, etc.: "The OFF-SITE is a born provocateur. She blends the dirty fun of a PowerPoint presentation with the raw danger of a Kaffeeklatsch. One minute she�s showing you charts and graphs, then up pops a �Far Side� cartoon. It�s high-stakes poker, and everything�s wild."
from the New Yorker , May 2007.
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Yes, I know. This post is nothing without a 15-minute-drum-solo spotlight dance.
Iron Butterfly Line Dancing. That is all.
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jellyfish venom harpoon at 40,000 Gs…ouch!
An "order of magnitude older than the dinosaurs," even older than clams, bugs, vertebrates, are jellyfish. At almost 600 million years old, jellyfish are some of the oldest animals on the earth that have survived the test of time. Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin, (yes, of that Gershwin family) is a scientist studying jellyfish in Queensland, Australia and was recently interviewed by the ABC. I was particularly disturbed by her gripping description of the tiny Irukandji jellyfish and how the venom affects humans. This summer, swim at your own risk.
RobDurdle.com 
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