One-minute vacations
"One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else."
Experts Remove Bees, 450 Pounds Of Honey From Home
"The family said they first discovered the bees living in the walls of their home... when honey started dripping from the ceiling."
South Korea bans baseball players from wearing cabbage leaves
A stunning blow to the cabbage industry.
Consumer Vertigo
"A new wave of social critics claim that freedom’s just another word for way too much to choose. Here’s why they’re wrong."
Possible Link Between Diet Soda & Obesity
"People who think sipping diet soft drinks will help keep their waistlines svelte could be taking the wrong approach in controlling their weight. "
Livio De Marchi
"Can you imagine a house made out of books? A house in which even the table, the chairs and the bed seem to have been made of pages to turn and bound covers?"
Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power
And when you're not wearing it, it looks for Sarah Connor.
Guess Which Movie
This site will present you with 4 still images from a movie; you guess which movie it's from.
VoteBook Citizenship Test
"The VoteBook Citizenship Test is based on an actual test administered by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service"
Change Is in the Air!
Who even knew birds had cars? They way they treat *my* car you wouldn't think they'd care so much about keeping them clean.
Genetic Savings and Clone - the leading provider of pet gene banking and pet cloning services.
If your pet is great, then 14 of him would be excellent!
Crying, while eating
Have you ever caught yourself crying while eating, then wanted to share your misery with the world by sending in a video clip of it to a web site that would share them? These people have.
The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster
Very excellent blog by Darth Vader. In the manner of all blogs, begin at the end (use the archive links at the right). Moving and funny.
New Tricycle Morphs into Bike on the Go
"A new trike-bike design lets kids learn to ride on their own by giving them three-wheel stability at low speeds, while letting them experience the balanced freedom of a two-wheeler at high speeds."
Claude the Cat
Interesting facts about cats, mostly made up, but oh so true. Use the little arrow thingies at the bottom to cycle through the set.
Target Corp. Redesigns the Pill Bottle, Hoping to Grab Customers - from TBO.com
"Target pharmacies this month rolled out a flattened bottle with easier-to-read labels and plastic rings that can be color-coded for each family member. "
Mailboxes that fight back
"He's invented three amazing mailboxes designed to deter, punish, or catch mailbox vandals and mail thieves."
Powers Of 10
Your journey starts with a "view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth".
Granny has gnome security
"Battling gran Jean Collop nabbed a burglar — by laying him out with a garden gnome."
Driver Uses Car To Keep Trucker Off Freeway
"A New York man who says he lost a close friend to a drunken driver -- and didn't want to see it happen to anyone else -- used his car to block a tractor-trailer from pulling onto a highway because he thought the trucker was drunk."
World Jump Day
Wouldn't you like to stop global warming, extend daytime hours, and create a more homogenous climate?
Quote of the day
"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. Not
something actively destructive, but someone who irritates, who
disorientates. Someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just
enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all
than the mere humdrum quality of existence."
- musician Elvis Costello.
something actively destructive, but someone who irritates, who
disorientates. Someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just
enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all
than the mere humdrum quality of existence."
- musician Elvis Costello.
Do You Speak American?
"The Big Book Of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide For The Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster offers suggestions on how to pronounce thousands of words and expressions. Here are 100 examples!"
Robotic garage gets OK
"Robotic parking -- like valet parking, but without the valet -- is coming to Fort Lauderdale."
The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
"Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a world of no night or day. It is a world of salt."
Colorado Cracks Down on Left-Lane Dawdling
"Colorado is serious about its no-dawdling law in left lanes. Drivers who insist on staying in the passing lane are risking tickets as the State Patrol has begun enforcing a law requiring motorists to use the left lane for passing only. "
Patient Receives Blood Pressure Implant
"A 36-year-old woman with severe hypertension has been fitted with a pacemaker-like implant that, in limited trials in Europe, has shown promise in controlling wayward blood pressure through electronic stimulation of neck-artery nerves. "
Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast
"Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or "dead zones" in the seas, an international report said on Wednesday. "
Quote of the day
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings
endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
- Elie Wiesel
endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
- Elie Wiesel
Unhappy Hour
"Like a lot of hardworking Americans, I often complain that there aren't enough hours in the day. That's why I dread what happens this weekend, when we're all supposed to "spring forward" between sundown on Saturday and sunup on Sunday."
Getting Rid of "Spam" and Other E-mail Pests
"The basics of spam, "phishing" and other e-mail pests, how they got your address in the first place -- and what to do now that you're inundated."
Penny stacking
"All stacks of pennies were done without any glue. Only the weight of the pennies provides the support."
Longmire does Romance Novels
New batch! "I think a lot of us can agree that a large number of romance novel covers are pretty silly and are just asking to be ridiculed. So that's exactly what I did. "
The Energy Crunch To Come
"This coming scarcity cannot be wished away, nor can it be erased through drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which contains far too little petroleum to make a significant difference even in U.S. oil supplies."
Don't Gross Out The World
"Should you eat fried chicken with your hands while in
England? Leave rice in the bowl while in China? Answer these, and
other pithy questions, in the "Don'tGrossOutTheWorld" Flash game.
"
England? Leave rice in the bowl while in China? Answer these, and
other pithy questions, in the "Don'tGrossOutTheWorld" Flash game.
"
Have trouble getting out of bed?
"After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room. "
The Worst Jobs in History
"In this website, we take you on a journey through 2,000 years of British history and the worst jobs of each era."
Quote of the day
"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
MORE - the movie
An excellent 6-minute movie that will make you want to skip work tomorrow. Presented by one of my favorite companies (check out the links on the left side as well).
Bowling Balls Come in Different Scents
"One bowling ball manufacturer — Storm Products Inc. — is putting fruit and other popular scents into its mid- to high-end bowling balls, resulting in a steady increase in sales. "
Perfect Brown Rice Recipe
"It truly does make absolutely perfect brown rice every time! Never gummy."
How Much Is Inside?
"Throughout the ages, man has pondered the question, "How much is inside?" With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths."
Tower of ice
"'I don't really care for winter; I guess that's why I do stuff like this,' Reeves said. 'You've got to act crazy to keep from going crazy.'"
McAffee wants your WiFi secure
For those using wireless: "Security vendor McAfee, Inc. this week launched an on-line Wi-Fi security scanning service and said that it is developing a standalone WLAN security product that will be released later this year. "
Very Strange Things on the Web
"Proof positive there are too many people with WAY too much time on their hands. "
Resistance is futile
"So it was with genuine anticipation that I opened the book, curious to know what the people at Little Golden Books believed small children who stick Beeferoni up their noses could absorb about the Inscrutible One."
SSI Shredding Demonstrations
Check out this collection of movies: an industrial shredder shredding things that you never thought could be shredded (a couch; a 55-gallon drum filled with concrete; a washing machine; and most satisfyingly, a bunch of computers).
free - Annual Credit Report
"AnnualCreditReport.com processes requests for free credit file disclosures (commonly called credit reports). Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) consumers can request and obtain a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies. AnnualCreditReport.com provides consumers with the secure means to do so."
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