These rust and scratch stickers are designed to make your beautiful bike or car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it's not worth stealing due to its apparent shabbyness. This anti-theft device is not guaranteed to work in any way.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Anti-Theft Bike/Car Stickers
These rust and scratch stickers are designed to make your beautiful bike or car look rusted and scratched so that passing thieves assume it's not worth stealing due to its apparent shabbyness. This anti-theft device is not guaranteed to work in any way.
The Rubber Hand Illusion
An experiment where a woman sees a rubber hand plausibly positioned to extend from her arm while her real hand is hidden. If the fake and real hands are stroked simultaneously, she may feel the stroking in the location of the rubber hand, not the real one.
It is believed this illusion is associated with activity in the multisensory areas, most notably the ventral premotor cortex.
It is believed this illusion is associated with activity in the multisensory areas, most notably the ventral premotor cortex.
The Rudest Travel Book Ever Written
Victorian writer Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer (1802-1878) was a woman of deep piety - and of even more profound prejudices. In the mid-19th century, she wrote the definitive travel guide to the world. There was just one problem: she had never set foot outside her native England.The result is a scrutinizing of nearly every country in the world. My country, the Netherlands, comes out fairly well because she writes:
There is no people in Europe as clean as the Dutch... The poor children at school are much cleaner than English children. The Dutch are very industrious. The king will not allow big boys to stand idle in the streets. The policemen take up idle ragged boys, and send them into the country to drain the marshy grounds; so there are very few thieves, and hardly any beggars.
The Dutch children do not make as much noise at school as our children do. You hear no noise outside the school-house, and when playtime comes the scholars go out quietly. They cannot help making some noise with their feet, as they wear wooden shoes – and wooden shoes, I think, they must need to keep them out of the wet.
(via Nag on the Lake)
For Sale: My Handwritten Journal
Someone called 'xilliontherockopera' tried to sell a handwritten journal on eBay.
The winner of this auction will receive my handwritten journal where I have described the four messages of Jesus Christ who has appeared to me.
Jesus revealed four specific things to me: #1: The precise location of Heaven, #2. The cure for cancer, #3. The solution for the achievement of world peace, #4. He revealed the future to me.
Total number of bids: zero!
The winner of this auction will receive my handwritten journal where I have described the four messages of Jesus Christ who has appeared to me.
Jesus revealed four specific things to me: #1: The precise location of Heaven, #2. The cure for cancer, #3. The solution for the achievement of world peace, #4. He revealed the future to me.
Total number of bids: zero!
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Anti-Ticket Donut
Have you ever been cruising down the freeway, minding your own business when suddenly you look at the rearview mirror, only to be blinded by flashing red and blue lights?Then this is the product for you! The Anti-Ticket Donut! Now you can be ready for that officer. Simply deploy the anti-ticket donut and let that fresh donut do its work. No police officer can resist a yummy donut! Hello donut, good bye ticket!
(via Optical Poptitude)
Posable Hoff
This is a PDF document. A homage to the Knight Rider. The Do-It-Yourself Posable Paper David Hasselhoff. With removable chest hair carpet, 'one button's enough' shirt, and German singing sensation microphone.
Top 50 Dystopian Movies Of All Time
A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis of utopia. It is usually characterized by an oppressive social control, such as an authoritarian or totalitarian government. It's an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.The Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time.
20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing
Nothing means no thing, not anything, something that has no existence. Nothing is commonly understood as the lack or absence of anything at all.
Colloquially, the term is often used to indicate the lack of anything relevant or significant, or to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.
20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing.
Colloquially, the term is often used to indicate the lack of anything relevant or significant, or to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.
20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing.
Build Your Dream Home
Let some real fortune-tellers on a steady diet of tea leaves and tarot cards determine the perfect home for you. Just answer a couple of questions, and they will show you the house of your dreams.
Here's a blueprint of my dream house:
Your kitchen is someplace you never go, because you 'have people for that.' Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet thick enough to reach your ankles.
One of your garages holds your collection of Ferraris, and is measured in acreage. Your home also includes a guest wing and private quarters for your servants. Outside is your hedge maze and gardens, meticulously tended by a team of world-class botanists.
Here's a blueprint of my dream house:
Your kitchen is someplace you never go, because you 'have people for that.' Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet thick enough to reach your ankles.
One of your garages holds your collection of Ferraris, and is measured in acreage. Your home also includes a guest wing and private quarters for your servants. Outside is your hedge maze and gardens, meticulously tended by a team of world-class botanists.
Friday, 28 September 2007
Ashtray Trust
On the 1st of July 2007 England went smoke free. A new law was introduced to make virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces in England smokefree. A smokefree England ensures a healthier environment, so everyone can socialise, relax, travel, shop and work free from secondhand smoke.But now over 10 million ashtrays are homeless and numbers are expected to grow. With nowhere to go, these old reliable friends have faded into the seedy shadows. Gone are the days of lonely late night drunken chats when the ashtray would be the only one who would listen to your ramblings.
The Ashtray Trust is the only ashtray welfare group in the UK. Help them give a happy home to 1,000,000's of stray and abandoned ashtrays. Adopt an ashtray.
Renault Ballet
Here's another car commercial. This time it's a Renault ballet choreography. You've probably seen these car ballet movies before, where everything goes perfect. Well, not always!
H2Om Water With Intention
H2Om is the world's first interactive water. While you drink, use the words on the label as the driving force in creating your own intention. Visualize great, extraordinary, vivid, mental creations.
For the good of you, for the good of mankind, for the good of the planet. Drink in the thoughts as you absorb the crystal clear vibrationally charged spring water of H2Om, then resonate the positive energy throughout your day.
NOSO
With the growth of online activities such as blogging, vlogging, podcasting, skyping, texting, dating, trading, buying, and selling, NOSO offers an oasis to the 21st-century Web 2.0 junkie.NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends.
These 'NO' events, called NOSOs, take place in designated cafe's, parks, libraries, bookstores, and other public spaces. Participants, whose identities remain unknown to one another, agree to arrive at an assigned time and remain alone, quiet and un-connected. NOSOs last for a duration of 1 - 30 minutes, after which participants disperse and return to their regular activities.
Strange And Unusual Japanese Chewing Gums
From Inventor Spot:Japanese chewing gum differs from American chewing gum in many ways, and that probably is a result of the practical way Japan looks at chewing gum. Since it's merely chewed for a while and then disposed of, it just makes sense for chewing gum to serve some function, any function before being spat out.
This way of thinking can produce some very strange and unusual types of chewing gum, and from them we've assembled this Top Ten list! Now then, let's get down to the good, the bad and the sticky!
Solar Powered Bicycle
Canadian entrepreneur Peter Sandler developed the first all Solar electric bicycle driven completely from power derived from the Sun's rays. The 'Sunny Bicycle' has light absorbing solar panels built right into the wheels, creating continual power from the Sun and maintaining a constant charge to the batteries.The variable speed electronic controller drives the bike to speeds of up to almost 19 miles per hour. Cost of the 'Sunny Bicycle' is $1295.00.
(via ReubenMiller)
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Disposable Web Page
You can create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want. Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little hassle as can be.
Each disposable webpage has a count down clock. You can set this clock to count down anywhere from 90 days to 0 days from the time the page is created. When the remaining time reaches 00:00:00:00, the page is automatically set for disposal and will exist for 2 more weeks before it gets incinerated.
Each disposable webpage has a count down clock. You can set this clock to count down anywhere from 90 days to 0 days from the time the page is created. When the remaining time reaches 00:00:00:00, the page is automatically set for disposal and will exist for 2 more weeks before it gets incinerated.
New England Lighthouse Blog
The New England Lighthouse Blog has news reports and vacation information about American Lighthouses and photographs of New England Lighthouses.
Tootsie Pop
How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?
I say three!
I say three!
If You're Going To Die, Do It Differently
In Japan, Kenji Urada was killed when a robot at the Kawasaki factory where he worked mistook his head for a component that needed tightening up. Ouch!
More ways of dying differently.
More ways of dying differently.
Barbie Death Camp
Photos taken by Gabe Kirchheimer during Burning Man 2007. Burning Man is always weird and sometimes controversial. Like these weird pictures of the 'Friendliest Concentration Camp on the Playa,' Barbie Death Camp.(via Grow-A-Brain)
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Astronomy Picture Of The Day
A beautiful photo of the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupting. It happened last year.Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows visibly pours down the sides of the 5,000-meter high Tungurahua, while a cloud of dark ash is seen being ejected toward the left. Wispy white clouds flow around the lava-lit peak, while a star-lit sky shines in the distance.
The photo was taken by Patrick Taschler who has more pictures of the eruption. Tungurahua means 'Throat of Fire.'
(via johnsadowski.com)
Tallest Building In Your Mind
The tallest building from each U.S. state in one skyline in a universe where physical space and proportion have no meaning.
Google Sued For Crimes Against Humanity
Pennsylvania resident Dylan Stephen Jayne is suing Google for crimes against humanity and is asking the court for $5 billion in damages. The charge: his social security number, when turned upside down and scrambled spells Google.
Married To The Sea
Married to the Sea is a comic created by husband and wife Drew and Natalie Dee. The comic depicts one-window cartoons provided of text by the site's maintainers.The subject matter on Married to the Sea seems to draw from all spheres - popular music and entertainment, science, history, government, politics, and philosophy.
Top 10 Bizarre Musical Instruments
Since the advent of electronic instruments and the need by composers to produce unique and new sounds, many unusual instruments have been invented or restored to life. Here's is a list of the ten most bizarre instruments.
Weird Hotels
Tired of the same boring hotels?There are plenty of unusual hotels around the world that could provide for any tourist a more interesting and special accommodation.
Some of them are finished and just waiting for you, others are projects or in construction. But all of them are amazing.
The 7 Wonders Of The Food Coloring World
Humans have always used the color of a food to form judgments about its desirability. The act of eating - and deciding what to eat - is a multi-sensory experience, synthesizing perceptions of sight, taste, smell, and touch. Color provides visual information about a food's quality and condition, and influences the perception of its flavor.Today, because of chemical advances, not only are more vibrant and often superfluous colors available in food coloring, but the usage of these chemicals is far more widespread.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Land Walker
The Land Walker is a one-man, two-legged supposed walker transport. Made with the assistance of P.A. Technology, the walker is copyright of the Sakakibara Kikai Company.
The vehicle's design features a cockpit, two legs, and two air cannons. The legs end in feet containing wheels that help push the walker forward. The walker's usual speed is approximately 1 mph.
The vehicle's design features a cockpit, two legs, and two air cannons. The legs end in feet containing wheels that help push the walker forward. The walker's usual speed is approximately 1 mph.
AfriGadget
If you don't have the sources, the materials, or the money, you have to be very inventive. Gadgets for Africa: Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity.
10 Google Services That Get No Love
If you were to interview a broad cross-section of Internet users and ask them about Google services, probably most of them would enthusiastically talk about Gmail or Google Reader. At the very least, they would mention Google's search engine.
But how many people do you think would discuss being able to set up customised RSS feeds in Google News? Or being able to download source code in Google Code? How many people would know that Google offers various possibilities for users to help improve their products?
Here are some Google services that need a lot more loving.
But how many people do you think would discuss being able to set up customised RSS feeds in Google News? Or being able to download source code in Google Code? How many people would know that Google offers various possibilities for users to help improve their products?
Here are some Google services that need a lot more loving.
Sketchcast
Sketchcasting is a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back.
Sketchcasting is new but it's based on an old principle: the whiteboard (or the napkin in a bar) on which you sketch something to get a concept across... or to just have some fun. You have to register to start creating your own sketchcast.
Here's a sample sketchcast:
Sketchcasting is new but it's based on an old principle: the whiteboard (or the napkin in a bar) on which you sketch something to get a concept across... or to just have some fun. You have to register to start creating your own sketchcast.
Here's a sample sketchcast:
Simpsons Scenes And Their Reference Movies
72 Scenes from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the movie scene to which they refer.
Monday, 24 September 2007
Seven Years
Today, The Presurfer celebrates its 7 year anniversary. Seven years ago when I started this weblog, I never realized that one day I would come up with these numbers:Seven years, 2,555 days, 21,928 posts, over 4,700,000 visitors from 168 countries, thousands of loyal readers and hundreds of friends.
And you know why I can proudly show you these numbers today? Because of you! Without you The Presurfer is nowhere.
Therefore, on this day, I have something very important to say to all of you. Just two words. THANK YOU!
Your Real Age
Longevity experts say that everyone has two ages: your chronological age and your real age. Your real age is determined by your lifestyle rather than your birthday.
I have always looked younger than I am, I'm young at heart and my exam results prove there's nothing wrong with my lifestyle. I'm 58 years old but my real age is 46. I have a life expectancy of 90.
What is your Real Age?
(via debgpi)
I have always looked younger than I am, I'm young at heart and my exam results prove there's nothing wrong with my lifestyle. I'm 58 years old but my real age is 46. I have a life expectancy of 90.What is your Real Age?
(via debgpi)
ComplimentBot 4000
Need a compliment? Use the ComplimentBot 4000. ComplimentBot 4000 is a random compliment generator for those moments when you could use a little extra praise.
Grumf Sings... Barry
Grumf, a character created by Ludovic Savonnière, sings Barry White.
(Congratulations to Everlasting Blort)
(Congratulations to Everlasting Blort)
Onine Alarm Clock
Klokoo is an online alarm clock. Before you go to sleep you must choose an alarm and set the volume of your speakers or earplugs high enough and click on the button 'Test the sound.'You can also add an RSS/Atom feed which is updated on wake up.
(thanks Vincent)
Home Schooled
Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson.
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.
Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.
Title: Nocturnal Goings On.
click on the picture for real size
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.
Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.
Title: Nocturnal Goings On.
click on the picture for real size
Sunday, 23 September 2007
TomTom Mapshare Feature
TomTom is a Dutch manufacturer of navigation systems. One of their latest products is the TomTom GO 720. Nick's Techno Picks explains the new mapshare feature. Be in for a surprise!
Super Spork
They said it couldn't be done! That brilliant invention called The Spork has now been bested with the Super Spork! A common spork is an eating utensil with a spoon on one end and a fork on the other. But the Super Spork also has a knife built right in!So now you can eat with one hand - scooping with the spoon, stabbing with the fork, and cutting with the knife - while your other hand does whatever it damn well pleases.
A Compendium Of 150 Monty Python Sketches
Comprised of British performers John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman, along with American animator Terry Gilliam, Monty Python was an international cult phenomenon, honing their singular blend of broad slapstick, edgy black comedy and social commentary in a string of successful television programs, films and albums.
A Compendium Of 150 Monty Python Sketches.
A Compendium Of 150 Monty Python Sketches.
Universal Decision Maker
For when flipping a coin just seems so 20th century, the Universal Decision Maker makes your daily decisions both easy and entertaining. Just think of something you have to make a decision about, then click the Start button.
Saturday, 22 September 2007
NOIS - The Planetary Freedom Movement
I really don't know what this site is all about. It's plastered with words like 'One Love, One Nation, Love Nation. Tesla, Angel, Light, Time, Continuity, Free Energy, Zero Point Energy, Resonance, Golden Mean, Ascension, Eternity, Absolute Reality, etc.'Can someone shed some light on this?
Christian The Lion - The Reunion
Two guys, Ace Berg and John Rendall, raised a lion cub who they named Christian, but sadly he got too big for them to take care of. So they decided to release him in Kenya, to live as a wild lion.In this footage, a year has passed and it looks like Christian's adapted to living with a pride of lions when his old friends come back to visit him. Watch closely and you can see the look of pure disbelief that dawns on his muzzle - it's awesome.
23 Simple Health Tips For Bloggers
As a blogger, your well-being should be something you think about. You should pay attention to the state of your body and the state of your mind. Do you find yourself feeling sluggish a lot of the time? Do you find yourself feeling depressed?
These are signs that your body is giving you that are indicative of something being wrong. By taking these signs seriously, you can use them as cues for action.
23 Simple Health Tips For Bloggers.
These are signs that your body is giving you that are indicative of something being wrong. By taking these signs seriously, you can use them as cues for action.
23 Simple Health Tips For Bloggers.
The Man Who Saved Millions Of Lives
Today's world as we know it, is like it is because of Stanislav Petrov. Stanislav Petrov is a retired Russian Strategic Rocket Forces lieutenant colonel who, on September 26, 1983, potentially avoided a nuclear attack on the USA.Assuming the reports from the satellites were in error, Stanislav Petrov deliberately certified what otherwise appeared to be an impending nuclear attack as a false alarm, and some question exists as to whether he then reported what appeared to be a US attack. The computer reports were later confirmed to have been in error. Petrov's actions were kept secret until 1998.
Friday, 21 September 2007
Good Ride
A guy from Russia posted this photo of his newly bought Honda on his site. Just a few days later he posted some other photos.
Pictures From A Chinese Toy Making Plant
More than 70% of the world's toys are made in China. Lately, Chinese toys have been set in a bad light because of fears that they are covered in dangerous materials. In the US, millions of toys have been sent back by worried parents or taken off the shelves of Wal-Mart and Toys R Us.Photographs taken in one of China's toy making plants.
Best Crappy Stuff Of All Time
From Inventor Spot:Well, I was having a crappy day and it got me thinking that the world is full of crap... literally. So I went on my merry way to prove my hypothesis true... and I have. Here are my best finds for all the things inspired by the poop in people's lives.
Flying Fox Discovered
Looks like a fox, doesn't it? It's not! It's a bat.This species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist. Jake Esselstyn, a biologist with the University of Kansas, was among a team of researchers that found the animal, a type of fruit bat, last year while surveying forest life on the island of Mindoro. The animal is now known as the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat.
The World's Endangered Languages
Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works.National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots - the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages - and documenting the languages and cultures within them.
(via A Welsh View)
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Will Chuck Norris Blend?
Wat could challenge the Total Blender's blending capabilities? What could be stronger than anything they ever blended?
Chuck Norris, of course!
Chuck Norris, of course!
The Adventures Of Mr. Fly
A photographic essay by Nicholas Hendrickx.Gerald caught my attention as he was sitting on a flowerpot with nothing but a cardboard sign that said 'Will work 4 food.' Over the years he degraded from a successful cab driver to a poor lonely insect as he had 173 wives who cost him a fortune on make-up and clothing. Not to mention his 2,184 kids, who all needed money for education and iPods.
So there he was, staring at me with his big mosaic eyes, begging me for help. Macro filters in hand I offered him a job as my new photography model.
(via Neatorama)
Huge Crab, Coconut Crab, And Other Terrestrial Arthropods
Hugecrab.com was created on September 15, 2007 to catalog the internets RAPIDLY GROWING stockpile of huge crab; hencefore, All Your Base are belong to Us.
That's How Marketing Works
That's how marketing works.
National flags of the world, with clients' comments.
National flags of the world, with clients' comments.
Powerful X-ray To Unravel Fragile Dead Sea Scrolls
Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays. The team will examine rare and unread fragments of the scrolls, which are believed to shed light on how the texts came to be written in caves along the north-west coast of the sea nearly 2,000 years ago.The technique will give scientists from Cardiff University a first opportunity to read ancient texts considered too fragile to open. They will look at the texts using x-rays produced at the Diamond Light Source in Didcot, Oxfordshire. The machine works by propelling electrons at great speeds around a giant tunnel. As they corner, they emit x-rays 100bn times brighter than a medical x-ray.
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