Joe Raciti - Cardboard Song: All Hail the Great Blue Whale
This is the music video for a song made entirely from cardboard instruments and my voice. Pah! -Joe Raciti-
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Original post by hahanu
Archive for June, 2008
Sitcom Settings
Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will find out how well you know the places where televisions sitcoms took place. I scored 67%, which surprised me because there were a lot of shows in this quiz I have never seen. Link
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Original post by Miss Cellania
The End of Summer
Best surfing movies:
1. Endless Summer
2. Riding Giants
3. North Shore
Worst:
1. Blue Crush (I walked out on it)
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Original post by jstruan
Thing That Change After College
Hah - Miss Cellania posted a list of the 24 things that changed since college. A sneak peek:
17. You’re the one calling the police because those damn kids next door won’t turn down the music.
18. You get out of bed in the morning even if it’s raining.
19. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
20. You always know where you are when you wake up.
21. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
How many of them do you agree with? Link
Original post by Alex
Hope, the Bionic Dog: We Can Rebuild Her, We Have the Technology
Hope the Maltese puppy was born without front legs, so orthotist David Turnbill made her a wheeled-device (out of airplane model parts) that lets her skate through life!
Emily Bregel of the Times Free Press has the story: Link - via Scribal Terror
(Photo: Tim Barber)
Original post by Alex
Sometimes the Headline Just Writes Itself …
I bet you dollar to donuts that Bryn Mickle of The Flint Journal had a lot of fun writing that headline and lede Link - via Super Punch
Apparently sagging jeans is the new menace - last year, authorities in Mansfield, Louisiana, also .. er, cracked down, on the fashion phenomenon.
Anyone here understand why people wear jeans down their butt? It sure looks silly to me, but what do I know, I’m a fuddy-duddy.
Original post by Alex
Snakebot!
(Evil mad?) Scientists at the Hirose Fukushima lab in Japan have created our next robotic overlord: the ACM-R5 snakebot that can slither on land and swim gracefully in the water:
The control system of ACM-R5 is an advanced one. Each joint unit has CPU, battery, motors, so they can operate independently. Through communication lines each unit exchanges signals and automatically recognizes its number from the head, and how many units join the system. Thanks to this system operators can remove, add, and exchange units freely and they can operate ACM-R5 flexibly according to situations.
GeekAlerts has the video: Link (awesome!) | Hirose Fukushima Lab website
Original post by Alex
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Webisodes
Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer , Angel, and Firefly series, is bringing his next project straight to the web.
The 3 10-minute webisode (perfect for the Net’s short-attention-spanitis) "Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" is "the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to."
The series, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day, is set to be released in a the next month or so (can’t wait!)
Always Watching has the trailer: Link | Joss Whedon’s blog
Original post by Alex
The Holy Grail in War on Global Warming
A team of US scientist have invented a new hope on global warming problem. Being built at a laboratory in Tucson, Arizona by a company called Global Research Technologies, this machine can absorb a large amount of greenhouse gas from the air. The idea perhaps will be a great solution in the global climate change battle if it becomes a reality. Click to read more. -Hang-
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Original post by thu.hang
A Bra’s Tale
Betty Jenkins was once an adventurous young woman with a flat chest. Her mother gave her an inflatable bra to attract men. But what happens when you wear a partially-inflated bra in a plane flying over the Andes Mountains?
It turned out the cabin was not pressurized, and the bra was expanding.
“As the thing got bigger, I tried to stand up,” Jenkins said, “and I couldn’t see my feet.”
The instructions said that the bra’s pads could be inflated up to a size 48.
“I thought, ‘What would happen if it goes beyond 48?’” Jenkins recalled.
Big trouble in South America, that’s what. Link -via YesButNoButYes
Original post by Miss Cellania
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