What do you do when you're a Twitter addict and you're standing at the altar to get married? You Twitter about it, as software developer Dana Hanna did. He tweeted:
Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride.
The Groom Who Twittered At The Altar
What Happened In My Birth Year?
In my birthyear, the first Volkswagen Beetle arrived in the United States. The model was brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sold the sample car to pay his travel expenses.
World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retired. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance. The last U.S. troops withdrew from South Korea. The People's Republic of China was officially proclaimed. Lionel Richie was born. And Tom Waits. Whoopi Goldberg, too. And I, of course.
What happened in your birth year?
The Resurrection Of The Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 was my second computer after I started with a TRS-80 Model I in 1977. The Commodore 64 was an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982. During the C64's lifetime, sales totaled 17 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time.
Now, the Commodore 64 is set to make a commercial comeback in time for Christmas. New company Commodore USA is hoping to produce a machine with an almost identical chassis to the original C64, with the original, thick, chunky keys, off-white housing, and the striped rainbow logo, but using significantly upgraded internal parts.
7 Stonehenges Made From Recycled Materials
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Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument made of massive standing stones in the heart of England, has inspired many an artist. For decades, people have been making their own reconstructions of the ancient site of worship, with whatever materials are at hand.
The craze, however, hit a new pace in the summer of 1986, when Stonehenge became a world heritage site and was fenced off. Since then, various Henges have cropped up all around the world, their spirit unbroken - and some of the greatest take the druid's credo as their own, reusing and recycling materials to create truly green creations.
Smoking Machine
Norwegian artist Kristoffer Myskja designed this smoking machine.
Could this be the most useless machine ever?
Toilet Paper Roll Art
French artist Anastassia Elias created these toilet paper roll works of art.
I cut the small paper shapes that I stick inside the toilet paper rolls. I use tweezers to manipulate the paper shapes. I selecte the paper of the same color as the roll. It gives the illusion that the paper figures make part of the roll.
(via J-Walk Blog)
Road Popper
The Road Popper is a bike-mounted bottle opener. It fastens discretely to the rails on the underside of the saddle to help keep your bike looking crisp.
(thanks Cora)
20 Most Dangerous Mountain Peaks In The World
Before you go hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, rock climbing, ice climbing, downhill skiing, snowboarding or any other activity enjoyed on mountains, you better prepare yourself. Here are the 20 most dangerous mountain peaks in the world.
A Dog Dancing The Merengue
Dressing up a dog? Learning it to dance? I have my doubts.
But it seems the dog is having fun.
(via Laughing Squid)
Toemail
Toemail is a collaborative photography project featuring original photographs of toes of both genders, from the newborn to the elderly, photographed at outdoor locations around the globe with the names of the locations/landmarks, where the photos were taken. Toemail makes the world a better place one foot at a time.
The Mysterious Stone Horseman Of Bulgaria
The Madara Rider sits 246 feet above ground, on a cliff face in the Madara Plateau of northeastern Bulgaria. The relief is inaccessible, adding to its mystery. How were they able to create it? With no ladders. No climbing apparatuses. Either way, the relief is extraordinary.
(thanks Lauren)
The Map Of Modern Science
The Map of Modern Science was created to celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity. The map primarily includes modern scientist who have made significant advances to our understanding of the world.
Car Jump
A car leapfrogged over another car while racing and goes on with the race at the Autoquad races 2010 at Courses de Bazous St Ferdinand, Quebec, Canada.
(thanks Cora)
Bonehead Dinosaur Folding Brush And Comb
Messy hair is a thing of the past! We've combed through the Cretaceous to come up with the perfect tool to keep you well groomed. What looks like a skull of a prehistoric beast, opens up into our BoneHead two sided comb and brush.
Keep it clean and styled people! After all, messy hair is just so Neanderthal and bed-head is almost as dated as the dinosaur that inspired this comb!
(via Everlasting Blort)
20 Uber Geeky Painted Nail Designs
Here are 15 painted nail designs that are just geeky.
(thanks Danny)
Gormley's Exposure: Art Or Bare Faced Cheek?
Anthony Gormley’s latest mammoth sculpture, Exposure which is to be unveiled formally in September, has opinion divided.
Exposure is weighing sixty tonnes, is 85 feet in height and is poised rather delicately in a crouching position (Dutch residents have nicknamed the work as 'the shitting man') causing something of a ruckus in the Netherlands, where it has been assembled.
(thanks Robert-John)
How To Grow A Rainbow Rose
In 2004, two Dutch companies, River Flowers and Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water.
This way all the colors will be drawn by the stem into petals and the resultant rose will have all the colors in it. The same method can be applied to other flowers especially to Chrysanthemum and Hydrangea. You can use the same idea to color any flower, anyway you like.
Ghost Detection Activity And Measurement Meter
For sale on eBay: a CellSensor EMF Ghost Detection-Paranormal Activity & Measurement Meter.
A spirit emits a pulsating electromagnetic field. Paranormal activity will activate the CellSensor with a spiked needle, a beeping sound and a flashing light which corresponds to field strength. Great for traveling to check out your hotel rooms, cemeteries, historical buildings and more.
Create Your Own Newspaper
NewsCred lets you create newspapers about your interests and passions and share them with your friends. The service is totally free for one newspaper but if you want to have one in your own domain you need to pay a month subscription fee.
You have full control over your newspaper. You can fill your newspaper with news content from 2500+ sources, choose the topics that you're interested in, customize the look and feel of your newspaper, and choose your news sources. Your newspaper comes with high quality articles, blog posts, topic pages, beautiful images, videos, twitter buzz and more.
I'm interested in car racing and I created a journal with the latest news from Formula 1.
Create your own newspaper.
(thanks Cora)
Ode To Quantum Mechanics
A long time ago I studied quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics providing a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter.
Quantum mechanics is difficult to understand. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once said: I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Here's an ode to quantum mechanics.
Minas Tirith Made From Matchsticks
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There are some things which require a great deal of patience and others that simply go beyond that. This is just one - an enormous rendering of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings - made entirely out of matchsticks. This is not a hobby, this is a magnificent obsession.
(thanks Robert-John)
15 Truly Bizarre Mental Delusions
When you are delusional, you lose the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy. Sufferers stumble through life, constricted by pseudo-worlds of their own making. Although the term was first coined in 1977, symptoms of delusion have been recorded for over 150 years.
(thanks Danny)
Tuned Pale Ale
Matt Braun and Chris Mufalli designed a beer bottle with marks on the side to let you know what notes are made when blowing across the bottle when the beer is at those levels.
Tuned Pale Ale is a product that explores the musical affordances in everyday objects and promotes social spontaneity. While drinking beer, people become musically encouraged and often start making music with objects around them.
This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. This product aims to inform users about the musical qualities of existing bottles and to make the bottle a better instrument.
(via Laughing Squid)
16 Weird And Amazing Bird Facts From Around The World
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In Russia the keen eyesight of the pigeon is put to a very practical use for, at one factory in Moscow, they are used to sort ball-bearings. After four or five weeks special training, the birds inspect the ball-bearings as they pass on a conveyor.
If any show the least blemish the pigeons peck a special plate which operates a reject sign, the faulty bearing is removed and the birds is rewarded with a few millet seeds.
16 Weird and Amazing Bird Facts from Around the World.
My Wife Knows Everything' Beats 'The Wife Doesn't Know'
What happens when during a horse race at Monmouth Park on August 22, two horses compete neck and neck to the finish, one being the #3 horse Mywifenosevrything and the other being the #7 horse Thewifedoesntknow?
You get a very funny announcement.
(via Miss Cellania)
Owl Puke
Great hands-on science. Dissect this sanitary owl pellet which contains the skeletal remains of an owl meal. Learn about the owl's habitat, place in the food chain, and predatory skills. Use some archaeological skills to piece together the skeletons using the bone chart.
Owl Puke Dissection Kit.
(via Boing Boing)
29 Fascinating Facts About Plants From Around The World
The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 350 ft or more in height and may be up to (26 ft across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has ever lived.
29 Fascinating Facts About Plants From Around The World.
11 Foot 8
Low clearance can be a real challenge for a truck driver. Especially inexperienced drivers of rental boxtrucks seem to be quite oblivious to the warning signs. So frequently do trucks crash into the 11-foot-8 railroad bridge at Gregson and Peabody in Durham, North Carolina, USA, that the railroad company installed a crash beam in front of it.
This is a compilation of 13 crashes at the railroad bridge.
The 11 foot 8 web site.
Pallet House
The Palettenpavillon by German designer Matthias Loebermann is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods.
Designed to be easily assembled and dismantled, and then entirely recycled at a later date, the resulting building is intended as a temporary meeting place.
Most Embarrassing Emmy Award Moments
The Emmy Awards are an annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. They are considered the equivalent to the Academy Awards for film and are presented in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment programming, news and documentary shows, and sports programming.
Over the years the Emmy Awards celebration have experienced innuendo-filled speeches, missing glasses, boycotts and the ever-popular wardrobe malfunction. Here are 20 of the most embarrassing, weird and awkward moments in Emmy Awards history, including a pair that happened off-camera.
Kodak Kodachrome Film Test 1922
A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture films. In this test, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark, which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome in a feature film.
The Year The Army Stopped Niagara Falls
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In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers accomplished an awesome feat: They turned off Niagara Falls. They did it to clean up the area, and check for structural integrity. Here are pictures of this bizarre episode in structural engineering history.
