Archive for June, 2007
June 30, 2007 at 10:43 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Crazy.
A collection of head-over-heels video clips from the 2007 Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake from www.SoGlos.com. Every year daring competitors throw themselves down an almost vertical hill in Gloucester, UK, chasing an 8lb Double Gloucester Cheese. It can never really be caught as it reaches breakneck speeds but the first person to cross the line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese. Thousands of spectators turn out for the event each year and, unsurprisingly, there are usually a good few injuries. Thankfully St John’s Ambulances are on hand to whisk the casualties away to the local hospital.
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Original post by hahanu
June 30, 2007 at 10:40 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
… is “and per se and”, meaning “and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and”. Click on the image to read more. I did not know this. -Vlad-
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Original post by hahanu
June 30, 2007 at 10:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Think of them as 3D origami toys. Visit Matt Hawkins’s homepage and download all available make-it-yourself paper toys. The video below is showing the Owwwl, toy of June.
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Original post by hahanu
June 30, 2007 at 10:17 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Tired of the same old objects around you? Shoot them to pieces for the sake of art!
High speed, or “flash” photography is an art, widely used in scientific research, which also has a dedicated following among those wanting to “blow things apart” in the most elegant way possible. -LMS-
It’s not easy to come up with a perfect shot… consider 1200ft/sec average speed of a bullet, plus a synchronizing laser, hi-tech flash setup and a fancy camera-work. Stefan, a.k.a. Fotofrog has a gorgeous set, where fruits and some vegetables get blown to smithereens, together with some tableware:
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Original post by LMS
June 30, 2007 at 8:52 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Link: PlayMyGame
At the site Play My Game, you can put yourself into a videogame! Upload a picture, choose from five games (boxiong, iDance, SuperMe, Cake Fight, or Birthday), and create an embeddable player. This is SuperMe shown. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
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Original post by Miss Cellania
June 30, 2007 at 8:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
A tuxedo made of wine corks? That’s a corkxedo!
891 Corks Total
686 Corks in the Jacket
181 Corks in the Top Hat
24 Corks in the Cane
More than 240 Wineries Represented
Total Weight: Merely 15 Pounds
Oldest Cork: 1935 Chateau Lynch-Bages
Link -via Grow-A-Brain
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Original post by Miss Cellania
June 30, 2007 at 7:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The $54 million pants (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Here’s an update on the case of the $54 million pants, which we posted before:
A Washington, D.C., judge Monday threw out a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner accused of losing a pair of trousers. The case got worldwide attention as the worst example in years of unfettered litigiousness, in the view of some lawyers.
"The court rejected a case that clearly had no merits, that was outrageous and ridiculous from the outset," says Bill Schulz of the American Association for Justice, representing trial lawyers.
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Original post by Alex
June 30, 2007 at 7:45 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The world’s smallest school, an elementary school in China, has just one teacher and one student:
He explained: "At first, the school had more than 400 students, but in the ’90s, more and more families migrated from the mountain village to make a living outside, and there were just over 10 students left.
"In 2000, the city education bureau decided to shut down the school after the graduation of the last student. New kids can register and board at another school in nearby Sanhe town, which is a two-hour drive away."
But the family of a third grader named Han Hongyang can’t afford the boarding fee, so she became the last remaining student.
"We have been like this for more than half a year. She is my only student, and I’m her only teacher," says teacher Li.
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Original post by Alex
June 30, 2007 at 7:44 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Troy Landwehr did his own version of Mount Rushmore with 700-pound block of cheddar cheese! (Photo: M.P. King/Post-Crescent)
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Original post by Alex
June 30, 2007 at 7:44 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Meet Aldo, a 3-week-old pygmy hippo:
Anais, the mother hippo, keeps an eye on its son Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis Liberiensis), at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Aldo looks, eats and lazes like a hippopotamus but he is only about as big as a human baby, at 53 centimeters (21 inches). (Photo: Jacques Brinon/AP)
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