Sporting events garner so much media attention these days that you can be certain that anytime something goes wrong, someone will catch it on film.
This is a list of 30 of the most brilliant (and often hilarious) sporting photos caught on film.
30 Brilliantly Timed Sports Photos
Project Cartoon
You're probably familiar with the above cartoon 'How Projects Really Work.' Now you can create your own version of the cartoon by drag-and-dropping the cells, than editing the captions. You can save your cartoon and get a unique URL that you can bookmark and email.
A List Of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
There are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake - the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects. Including, sometimes, how to build a deck or bake a cake.
In this useful round-up by Read/WriteWeb the focus is on such general purpose sites that include some sort of rich media instruction.
The 272 Fast Food Items Highest In Calories
A Calorie Counter went through the nutrition facts of literally every single item from the menus of 25 popular fast food restaurants to put together a list of what ended up being the 272 Fast Food Items Highest In Calories.
Christopher Knight For School Board
This is the now-infamous 'Star Wars' commercial that was made for Christopher Knight's campaign for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006.
It wound up being featured in The New York Times, on the Fox News Channel, every major newspaper in the state, and it was screened at the Pixelodeon Independent Video Festival at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in June of 2007.
Top 10 Food And Drink Hacks
Do you know how to close chip bags without the clip?
Turn a CD spindle into a bagel tote?
Clean anything with vinegar?
Build a fire with chocolate and Coke?
Avoid crying while chopping onions?
Open a beer bottle with a piece of paper?
Here are 10 food and drinks hacks.
Baby Born With A Full Head Of Ginger Hair
Every parent hopes their baby will attract admiring glances. But adorable as she is, Katie-Lee Webster receives attention for only one reason - her spectacular shock of ginger hair.
At only ten weeks old she already has the flowing locks of a child several times her age.
Outrageously Politically Incorrect Adverts
In a politically correct age, they seem like outrageous anachronisms. And there is no doubt these adverts - many taken from the first half of the last century - reveal just how much women used to be caricatured as downtrodden housewives or hair-brained office girls.
If these adverts were released today, they would surely cause a howl of protest.
OK Go - Here It Goes Again
According to the Webby Awards this is one of the most influential online videos of all time. The band 'OK GO' on the threadmill.
How It Sucks
HowItSucks.com rates products based on recent reviews from other users. The rating system is simple: the longer the red bar, the more it sucks.
What Happens Behind The Scenes
From individuals to countries, we often want to persuade others to perceive things a certain way or to think a certain way. There are many standard techniques for doing this.
You can use these techniques to do your own persuading, and you can also use this knowledge to keep yourself from being fooled.
Walking The Dog
All photos in this gallery were taken within a radius of about 3 miles of our home in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, mostly one handed while hanging on to an impatient dog with the other hand.
Dada Dolls
Dada Dolls by Californian artist Elaine Benjamin. Created almost entirely of recycled elements. Click on a Dada Doll to read its own story.
Strictly No Photography
Strictly No Photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever wanted to see that you're not supposed to.
(via A Welsh View)
Morality Quiz
Morality refers to ethical issues - principles of right and wrong conduct - as well as instances of real behaviour - the manner in which individuals comply more or less fully with such standards.
Time has a Morality Quiz which offers some of the dilemmas used to study human morality. Here's an example:
It's war time, and you're hiding in a basement with a group of other people. Enemy soldiers are approaching outside and will be drawn to any sound. If you're found, you'll all be killed immediately.
A baby hiding with you starts to cry loudly and cannot be stopped. Smothering it to death is the only way to silence it, saving the lives of everyone in the room. Could you be the one who smothered it if no one else would?
55% Said they could!
Take the Morality Quiz to see how you compare to others.
(via Neatorama)
Earth Ball
New Way 2 Live, Grow Food, 4 Earth Citizens, All Around OUR Planet. Working 2, End All War - Clean Up OUR Earth - Create Earth Ball Homes. OUR Young Earth Citizens - Around OUR Planet Can Now Look Forward 2 the "volkswagen" of Earth Ball - Homes.
Over 20,000 Teddy Bears On The Ice
I don't know if this is a tradition with the Portland Winter Hawks, but their fans threw what was reportedly a world record 20,372 stuffed animals on the ice after what they thought was their team's first goal of the season - a goal which officials later disallowed.
(via Arbroath)
Peaceful Progression Smoke Alarm
Awake to your next fire calm and refreshed with DigiPliance's Peaceful Progression Smoke Alarm. Choose the perfect way for your family to wake up - from the peaceful sounds of the rainforest, to the celebration of Dixieland jazz, or the hot pulse of the Caribbean - because a fire doesn't have to be a disaster.
No, the products aren't real. But the empty boxes are. Wrap your otherwise forgettable gift in an Onion gift box, and watch as they struggle to feign enthusiasm for a smoke detector that would probably kill them. Or take joy as their faces fall upon realizing there is no such thing as a smoke alarm that awakes them with ambient light and soothing odors - just a crappy bric-a-brac inside you waited until the last moment to buy.
(via Karlson & McKenzie)
FoodTube
FoodTube is like YouTube, but for food and drinks. Enter your food or drink in a search box and find a video recipe, or add your own.
London Tube Announcer Sacked
The woman known as 'the voice of the Tube' on London's underground has been sacked after criticising the network and making spoof announcements including making fun of US tourists.
Emma Clarke has for the last eight years been famous as the voice warning travellers to 'Mind the Gap' between the train and the platform, and to 'stand clear of the closing doors.'
But the 36-year-old, a professional voice-over artist, annoyed her employers with a series of light-hearted spoof announcements posted on her own website, which at the moment is overwhelmed by the sheer number of people wanting to download MP3s of her spoof Tube announcements.
Jellyfish Aquarium
The Aquapict Jellyfish aquarium shows beautiful color-changing jellyfish swimming as they do in the deep sea, but none of them are real.
Made with highly-realistic silicone, the jellyfish swim and change color subtly with the five-color LED lighting system. They move by a slow current created in the tank that does not have an obvious flow or bubbles that make it look fake.
Lingro
Lingro is a very cool dictionary. When you enter a website's URL into the box on Lingro, a page will be created of that same website where every word is clickable.
Here's a example of The Presurfer. Click on any word to get an explanation of that word.
At the moment Lingro is available for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Polish.
Death By Booze
Find out how many of your favorite alcoholic beverages it would take to send you to a drunken grave. Look for your beverage of choice, enter your weight, select your gender, and see how much you have to drink before the alcohol kills you.
I don't drink any alcohol but if I did - let's say beer - it would take 19 bottles of good old Heineken to kill me.
How much alcohol would it take to kill you?
The Top 10 IT Disasters Of All Time
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years. There are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both financially and in terms of reputation - and resulted in some near misses for the public.
Here's a list of some of the worst IT-related disasters and failures.
Strandbeest
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who creates what he calls 'Kinetic Sculptures,' where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only.
The robots are made from plastic yellow tubes. One of his most famous kinetic sculptures is 'Strandbeest,' which means Beach Animal.
(thanks Stanley)
The Painted World
Old photographs with some paint added.
Some look nice, but a lot don't.
(via J-Walk Blog)
Every Image We Have
Over many years, a guy collected rolls of undeveloped film from cameras he found in antique stores. He finally had them developed and ended up with several hundred images that he's placed online.
What Makes 100%?
While 'Hard work' and 'Knowledge' will get you close, and 'Attitude' will get you there, it's the 'Bullshit' and 'Ass kissing' that will put you over the top.
What Makes 100%?
Always Green Grass
Always Green Grass Painting Company, Inc. will paint your grass a lush and beautiful natural green color during the dormant fall and winter months and during the summer months due to lack of rain, drought, over fertilization and fungus.
This means no more brown grass, no more over- seeding with winter rye, no more mowing and almost no lawn maintenance. The non-toxic grass paint can be applied to all warm weather grasses and can last up to 90 days depending on traffic.
Pistol Hairdryer
A hairdryer shaped as an antique pistol.
Just pull the trigget to switch it on.
(via Boing Boing)
Wooden Car
Vasily Lazarenko, an Ukrainian man, gave up his job, sold his two other vehicles and spent one and a half years in his garage to create his dream vehicle. His literally half-modern, half-retro car has a wooden body made of thousands of oak parts.
Wild Animals
Think of your favorite teddy bear. Now imagine it's been ripped open, gutted, and turned inside-out.
That's what Kent Rogowski's Bears series has done to the iconic stuffed animals of our childhoods.
(thanks Stanley)
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: There Must Have Been Some Magic In That Old Silk Hat They Found.
click on the picture for real size
Mayor Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers
Mayor Ken Williams of Centerton, Arkansas, resigned last week claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.
He said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana.
He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.
Read all about this 'weird and amazing' story at Don LaRose's home page.
MagMyPic
Fake magazine covers with your picture.
Upload any picture to create your own cover.
(via Ursi's Blog)
Nerd Scholarship
The only online, micropayment-based scholarship for all lower middle class white males named David who are right-handed, hold a B-average, aren't handicapped, have parents with some college, are proficient at video games, are or were at some point Mormon, use Linux, were born in Mississippi, have no athletic ability, have a fear of public speaking, graduated from Cyprus High, have brown eyes, worked at some point for Cox Communications, and are now currently studying computer science at Georgia Tech.
Nerd Scholarship.
Professional Farters
A flatulist, fartist, or professional farter is a performer who receives payment for farting in an amusing and/or musical manner. A Damn Interesting article on Joseph Pujol, better known as Le Petomane.
Note: the picture above is not of a professional farter.
Super Parking Skill
Can you park your 457 cm long car in a 480 cm tight spot?
This Korean guy can. He does it every day.
(via UniqueDaily)
Early Aviation Image Archive
From the realization of powered flight by an obscure Bavarian emigrant to the weapons of aerial destruction used by Richthofen's flying circus, the Early Aviation Image Archive attempts to archive vintage photographs of flying machines flown before and during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Angry-Gram
An Angry-Gram is the perfect way to let someone know they totally do your head in. Tell the Angry-Gram who they are and why they wind you up. A screaming 3-Pepper Angus, the Angry Whopper, will be send to them and really let them have it.
Here's an example of an Angry-Gram.
Make your own Angry-Gram.
(via Ursi's Blog)
The Castle Builders
Scattered throughout the world, there are a small handful of castles made by non-architects, constructed without a team of workers, and with very little money. These castles were built by a single person, with occasional help from family members or friends.
Raised rock by rock from the ground, these castles are the result of unfaltering vision, pure will, and a lifetime effort to make literal the phrase 'a man's home is his castle.'
Here are the 15 best self built castles in the world.
The Worst Studio Session Ever
Spence Peppard's dream has always been to become a 'Hardcore Country' singer.
Jester, The Online Joke Recommender
Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes. You'll be given a set of 8 jokes to rate. After that, Jester will begin recommending jokes that have been personalized to your tastes.
Note: Some of the jokes in the database may be considered by some to be offensive. If you are likely to be offended by mild ethnic, sexist, or religious jokes, please do not continue.
Foodpairing
Food combines with each other when they have major flavour components in common. A list was made of 250 food products each with their major flavour components. By comparing the flavour of each food product eg strawberry with the rest of the food and their flavours, new combinations like strawberry with peas can be made.
The way to use it, is just to select a food product like strawberries. You will get a plot where you have strawberry in the middle surrounded by other food products. Take one of those other food products and try to make a new recipe by combining those two. The more flavours food products have in common the shorter the distance between the food products.
Wowio
Wowio is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Sponsors get a powerful new channel to communicate their message to precisely the people they want to reach.
Readers have access to a wide range of offerings, including works of classic literature, college textbooks, comic books, and popular fiction and non-fiction titles. You have to create an account to download the ebooks for free. For now, Wowio is only available to people living in the United States.
(thanks RJ)
Highest Fountain In The World
With 312 meters, the King Fahd's fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the highest fountain in the world. As an extra in the video, you also get to see the world's smallest Qur'an.
Visual Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
When you know what something looks like but not what it's called, or when you know the word but can't picture the object, The Visual Dictionary has the answer. In a quick look, you can match the word to the image.
The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.
Color Changing Paint?
Scientists have developed a new form of auto paint that changes color with the touch of a button. This revolutionary new paramagnetic paint is a technical wonder and is viewed by Nissan and other auto companies as an amazing innovation that would draw huge traffic to dealerships and will make it easier for consumers to get the exact option level they want on a car without the sacrifice of their favorite color.
This article appeared on NextEnergyNews.com around November 6. Turns out Nissan has no idea where this current web urban legend originated from and they confirmed that they aren't developing color changing paint.
Read the whole story at Young Go Getter.
(via Optical Poptitude)
Sanctuary Of Rome's 'Founder' Revealed
Archaeologists unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.
Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary is buried 52 feet inside the Palatine hill, the palatial center of power in imperial Rome.
The archaeologists are convinced that they have found the place of worship where Romans believed a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god of war Mars who were abandoned in a basket and left adrift on the Tiber.
The End
A Flickr photoset of 'The End' scenes in different languages taken from television.
(via Doobybrain)
List Of Oxymora
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word 'bittersweet' or the phrase 'living death.'
Other examples are: clearly misunderstood, random pattern, true fiction, deliberate mistake, and harmless crime.
A List of Oxymora.
Peculiar Streets Around The World
The world's steepest, shortest, narrowest streets and strange road names.
Peculiar Streets Around the World.
Most Amazing Car Concepts For The Year 2057
The Los Angeles Auto Show usually brings some of the most amazing designs in the auto industry.
This year the Design Challenge competition was centered around the theme 'Robocar 2057.' Of course, with a theme like that, a lot of imagination was used.
(via InventorSpot)
Christmas Holidays
Did you have to look twice at the picture above before you knew what you were looking at? I did.
They are geese, crowded together in their open-air enclosure on a farm in Kuhhorst, Germany. The animals will be the centerpieces at the dinner table for the upcoming Christmas holidays.
The Miracle Tree
Imagine a tree that will meet all your nutritional needs, take care of you medicinally, and purify your water for you. This tree actually exists.
For centuries indigenous people in northern India and many parts of Africa have known the many benefits of Moringa oleifera. Its uses are as unique as the many names it is known by, such as clarifier tree, horseradish tree, drumstick tree and in East Africa it has the alias 'mother's best friend.'
I/O Brush
I/O Brush is a drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by 'picking up' and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside.
Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special 'ink' they just picked up from their immediate environment.
(via Dark Roasted Blend)
John Lytle Wilson
John Lytle Wilson's paintings stem from his interest in the power of images. He chooses animal and robot imagery as stand-ins for traditional human subject matter.
The art of John Lytle Wilson.
(thanks David)
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
Butter it's Not!, Could it be Butter?,
What, not butter!, Unbelievable, this is not butter,
Move Over Butter, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Europe United
Europe United is a new music video for Samsung Mobile. SX Media went to 10 different European cities; London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague, Ibiza, Barcelona, Moscow, Edinburgh and Galway and got regular people to dancing in the street.
Dreams Of Flying
Crossing the desert on the back of a dog, or searching for lost treasures on the bottom of the ocean. Jan von Holleben's photographs allow children to make their dreams come true.
Inspired by classic childhood books as well as modern superheroes, he produces 'Dreams of Flying' with children from his local neighbourhood in Germany.
Condition 1 Weather
McMurdo Station in Antartica is a science research center operated by the United States. The weather at McMurdo Station is classified as being Condition 3 (nice weather), Condition 2 (not so nice), or Condition 1.
Take a look at the video to see what Condition 1 is.
(via Dark Roasted Blend)
Chewbacca Backpack
Strap the Chewbacca Plush Backpack to your back and he'll be carrying your books in style. His arms wrap around you to let you know he's secure - even his legs will secure around your abdomen, for some extra cuddly fun.
Ugliest Man In The World?
Wealthy Croatian lawyer Emil Kacic says he must be the ugliest man in the world after having 5,000 marriage proposals turned down. Kacic has logged all the failures in a little black book. He said: 'Money can't buy you love, at least if you have a face like mine.'
'I've got to the point where I have even been asking women I am meeting in the streets to marry me, but they always say no.'
(via UniqueDaily)
Dawn Of The Computer Era
Do you have any nostalgia about the days when computers were big and slow?
Now, the size, appearance and speed of the first computers seem to be lame but it was not always the case.
Bid, Do Not Watch!
Someone who goes by the monicker Dearhunter35 tries to sell a 2003 Yukon Denali rear seat on eBay. But he doesn't want you to just watch, he only wants you to bid.THERE ARE 25 WATCHERS AND 1 BID!!!!!!!! SOME PEOPLE THINK THERE TAKEN ME FOR A JOKE. ITS THIS TO MUCH TO ASK DONT WATCH IF YOUR NOT GOING TO BID AND I ONLY WANT TO DEAL WITH SERIOUS PEOPLE. IM TIRED OF HAVING LITTLE KIDS WITH WISH LIST THINK IM SANTA CLAUSE. QUIT WATCHING IF YOUR NOT GOING TO BID AND IF YOU DONT LIKE IT FLY A KITE!!!!!!!!!!
Miss Landmine
Angola is littered with thousands of landmines all over the country. In 23 years, over 80,000 people had died or lost limbs due to one wrong step.
To call attention to this problem and to raise funds to eliminate landmines, Norwegian artist Morten Traavik launched a controversial beauty pageant called Miss Landmine, where 10 women competed for the title of most beautiful mutilated Angolan woman, and the first prize of a leg prosthesis.
(via Neatorama)
The Most Beautiful Flower Garden
The most beautiful and the most visited flower garden in the world is Keukenhof Gardens here in the Netherlands. It's a 70-acre showcase for the Dutch flower industry. Visitors can see a changing display of more than 7 million flowers - including some 1,000 varieties of tulips alone.
Where Keukenhof is situated now, was a hunting area in the 15th century. Herbs for the kitchen of the castle of Jacoba of Bavaria were also collected here; hence the name Keukenhof (keuken = kitchen, hof = garden).
A Psychological Optical Illusion
The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception. This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800's.
Take a look at the picture above. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world. After you have examined the picture, read the Eyes and Vision website for a more detailed explanation.
New And Improved Stereotypes
Germans can get pregnant from the sound of David Hasselhoff's voice. Belgians evolved from crabs, not apes. New Yorkers lack the ability to recognize faces.
These and other New And Improved Stereotypes.
(via Everlasting Blort)
High-quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon
YouTube's co-founder Steve Chen has announced that high-quality video streams are coming soon.
He said: Although YouTube's goal is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if viewers want it.
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: Draw, Pilgrim!
click on the picture for real size
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. Watch the video below to see what it is all about.
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a sequel to the popular freeware game Crayon Physics which you can download at the Kloonigames site. I tried it and it's actually quite entertaining.
400 Year Old Ship Found Virtually Intact
A 400 year old ship has been found virtually intact at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Battery Operated Back Scratcher
With its long reach and self-powered motion, this extra hand massages your skin and eliminates those unbearable, impossible-to-reach itches without stretching and squirming.
How To Fold A T-Shirt
Yesterday I posted about 'How To Fold A Towel Elephant.' Presurfer reader Stanley sent me a link to a video about 'How to Fold a T-shirt.'
(thanks Stanley)
Graffiti Archaeology
Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years.
The photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and other cities, over a timespan from the late 1990's to the present.
Lots Of Toes
I dreamt I had lots of toes. First, all my toe nails were gone. Completely gone. Just some soft dents at the end of my toes. Then I saw some nails coming through. Not at the end, but where my toes bend. And I thought 'That's strange. Very strange.'
Ordering Pizza In 2010
Data mining is the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns. A simple example of data mining is its use for retail sales. If a clothing store records the purchases of customers, a data mining system could identify those customers who favour silk shirts over cotton ones.
Here's an example of data mining. Don't think this isn't going to happen because it is. And if this wasn't so funny, it would be really scary.
The Predatory Lending Association
The Predatory Lending Association is dedicated to extracting maximum profit from the working poor by increasing payday loan fees and debt traps.
The working poor is an exciting, fast growing demographic that includes: military personnel, most minorities, and a growing percentage of the middle class.
(via J-Walk Blog)
How To Fold A Towel Elephant
Yes, something we've always wanted to know.
How do we fold a towel elephant?
7 Incredible Natural Phenomena
Venezuela's everlasting storm, Honduras' rain of fishes, Morocco's climbing goats, Kerala's red rain, Brazilan's longest wave on Earth, Denmark's black Sun, and Idaho's fire rainbow.
7 Incredible natural phenomena.
The 'Elvis Is Alive' Museum
Discovering the truth that Elvis never actually 'left the building,' 80-year-old Missourian, Bill Beeny (pictured above), opened the 'Elvis Is Alive Museum' 15 years ago to tell the world his story.
The museum is home to thousands of pages of FBI files which shows Elvis' involvement with the FBI and DEA as an agent, the DNA sample analysis which proved the body in the coroner's report was that of a different man, handwriting and voiceprint files from 'The King' discovered after his supposed death, and hundreds of facts refuting the notion that Elvis Presley had departed from this world.
(via Neatorama)
Is Santas 'Ho Ho Ho' Offensive To Women?
Santas in Sydney, Australia's largest city, have been told not to use the traditional 'Ho Ho Ho' greeting because it may be offensive to women.
Sydney's Santa Clauses have been instructed to say 'Ha Ha Ha' instead.
Miss America Kid Safe Internet Browser
Our children aren't safe when they surf the Internet, or when they send and receive email. It's important for parents to take action and provide a solution that kids will want and use.
That's why the entire Miss America Organization, including reigning Miss America 2007, Lauren Nelson and Children's Educational Network are proud to provide a superior solution: Miss America Kid Safe Internet Browser for Kids.
The Miss America Kid Safe Internet Browser accesses over 10,318 web sites - all prescreened for child-appropriate content. This includes thousands of sites helpful for doing homework, plus sites featuring educational games and other child-appropriate content.
Jyve
When you want answers and don't have hours to spend plodding through robotic Web searches, try Jyve first. The only live, interactive 'Ask' engine, Jyve gives you instant access to the knowledge stored in millions of minds worldwide.
By asking a question, you instantly generate a live thread along with a list of 'experts' from all over the world. People who are online and ready to share information with you one-on-one via Instant Messages or live Voice-over-IP calls.
In an unadorned way, you type in a question and you get a life answer. I gave it a try and although I think Jyve has potential, for the moment it seems the 'experts' they are talking about are mostly children or would-be comedians. Here are some questions asked by people and answered by 'experts.'
What is Islam?
Islam is a country.
Will I buy a new car next year?
Yes you will, and you will have a great time in it with the one you love.
How to agree a girl for exposing?
Marry her!
How do I grow my beard?
By not cutting it.
The World's Saddest Cubicle
Is your office cubicle soulless, bland, filthy, tiny, grim, or depressing? Does it suck the life force from all ye who enter? Despair not. It's not the saddest cubicle in the world. Unless you are David Gunnells.
He 'won' the Saddest Cubicle Contest held last month by Wired News. David is an IT guy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His desk is penned in by heavily used filing cabinets in a windowless conference room, near a poorly ventilated bathroom and a microwave. And the other side of the wall is a parking garage.
Not A Cough In A Carload
Early in the last century, when questions about the health effects of smoking became a topic of widespread discussion, tobacco companies undertook a multi-faceted campaign to allay the public's fears.
As terms like 'smoker's cough' and 'coffin nails' (referring to cigarettes) began to appear in the popular vernacular, tobacco marketers recognized the need to counter this threat to their livelihood.
From the Stanford School of Medicine: Images from the tobacco industry to hide the hazards of smoking.
Zune Art - Tokyo Plastic
Tokyo Plastic is a unique animation collectively comprised of the pioneering directing talents of Sam Lanyon Jones and Andrew Cope.
Flexible Pet Ownership
Flexpetz is a shared dog ownership concept that provides members with access to a variety of dogs.
Flexpetz is a unique concept for dog lovers who are unable to own a full-time doggy pal, but miss spending time with a canine friend.
Through the shared dog ownership concept, members can spend from just a few hours to a number of days with each of the dogs. Flexpetz dogs are available in varied breed sizes.
The World In Panoramic
ViewAt.org was born with the idea of creating a virtual space where anybody can upload their photographic works in panoramic format and relate them to the place where they were taken.
Shown above is a typical Dutch landscape.
Recommended Words - Forbidden Words
This Chinese clothing store put up a poster of what their workers can and cannot say to customers.
Ugly Mickey
Mickey Feio (Ugly Mickey) is a site in the Portuguese language with a collection of the most ugly pictures of Mickey Mouse.
(thanks Calista)
Google Pirate
Search for torrents, music, video, albums, software, eBooks, ringtones, comics, and roms with Google Pirate. It seems to be legal but I don't know how Google will react on the use of their name.This website is completely compliant with the DMCA. Before you send off emails, be aware that this site has a legal use and does not condone copyright infringement or intellectual theft in any way.
This website does not contain any illegal material, nor does it even contain direct links to illegal material. It is designed using Google's Custom Search tools to narrow search results down to filetypes to remove unwanted sites that aren't related to the client's search.
Melody Road
Scientists from Japan's Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute have cut so many grooves into a stretch of highway that motorists can hear a melody created by the sound of their tyres. The Melody Road will allow a car passing above it to play a simple tune, which is made audible by ridges on the road's surface.
(via deputydog)
Veropedia
Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited. The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.
In order to be included in Veropedia, articles must meet very strict criteria of our own. There can be no cleanup tags, no 'citation needed' tags, no disambiguation links, no dead external links, and no fair use images. In addition, each article will be given to recognized academics and experts to review. These experts can either provide their stamp of approval or make suggestions as to how the article can be improved further. In that way, users will know that the article is reliable.
Baseball Pitches Illustrated
You probably know what a curveball is. Or a cutter and a splitter. But do you also know what a circke changup is? Or a forkball?
Here are 12 illustrations of fastballs, breaking balls, and changeups.
The 14lb Pearl And Other World Record Gems
The largest diamond, gold nugget, pearl, emerald, ruby, sapphire, alexandrite, kidney stone, and moon rock in the world.
The 14lb Pearl And Other World Record Gems.
US Coast Guard Mascots
Since mankind first took to the seas thousands of years ago, they always brought along members of the animal kingdom with them on board their ships. The animals were brought along for many reasons, such as a source of food, to fight rodent infestations, or for companionship.
Coast Guard crews followed this ancient custom and adopted numerous varieties of mammals and birds, among others, as mascots and brought them along on their voyages. Many times these animals were actually enlisted in the service, complete with service and medical records, uniforms, and their own bunks.
Here is a sampling of some of those members of the animal kingdom who kept the crews of cutters and shore stations company, sharing in their hardships and dangers, and making life a little more tolerable just by being aboard.
Ghost At Gas Station?
People looking to fill up their gas tanks in Parma Ohio, USA, got an eyeful, but no one's exactly sure what they were looking at. A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from the gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams.
(via Arbroath)
Book Autopsies
Brian Dettmer is an American contemporary artist. He alters books without inserting or moving any of the books' contents.
Dettmer seals, then slices and carves into older textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, medical guides, science books, engineering books, history books, comic books, and others, exposing select images and text to create intricate derivative works which impart or reveal new or alternative interpretations of the books.
Tequila
Do you have feelings of inadequacy? Do you suffer from shyness? If you answered yes, ask your doctor of pharmacist about Tequila.
Celebrity Aptronyms
An aptronym is a name that is suited to its owner.
Worth1000 members Photoshopped celebrity names with more aptly suited professions.
The picture above is obvious. It's Kevin Bacon.
On-Line Color Thesaurus
Color names are a powerful means of selecting and communicating colors. There are a variety of color vocabularies and dictionaries available but there has been less work in capturing the similiarities and differences in color naming.
To use the online color thesaurus, simply type the color name in a text field. Once you have typed in your color name click on 'submit' and the results will be displayed.
Caligynephobia
Yesterday I stumbled upon an article on unwarranted fears and discovered there was a phobia called Caligynephobia, the fear of beautiful women. At first I didn't believe someone could actually be afraid of a beautiful woman. But it's true, Caligynephobia does exist.Caligynephobia, also called Venustraphobia, is the persistent and unwarranted fear of beautiful women, often experienced when physically interacting with an attractive female. Caligynephobia is estimated to effect approximately 0.47% of males in Britain, and 0.61% in America.
Its effects ultimately lead to a decrease in social and business activities, as communication with alluring women is generally attempted to be avoided where possible. Thus symptoms are easily detectible and mostly harmless. They include shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, perspiration, nausea and overal feeling of dread.
For all those suffering from the fear of beautiful women, there's an effective treatment for Caligynephobia.
Everyone Important
I have no idea who created this cool picture. It's a painting of everyone that is important to the world past and present. How many people can you recognize?
The Gimli Glider
A brand new Air Canada Boeing 767, Flight 143, was outbound over Red Lake Ontario at 41,000 feet. The Engine Indicator and Crew Alerting System beeped four times in quick succession, alerting them to a fuel pressure problem.
When a second fuel pressure warning light came on, captain Pearson felt it was too much of a coincidence and made a decision to divert to Winnipeg. Flight 143 requested an emergency clearance and began a gradual descent to 28,000 feet.
The 120-tonne, $40-million plane becomes a glider, dropping at over 600 metres per minute with no hope of reaching Winnipeg. Amazingly, the powerless plane makes a successful emergency landing at an abandoned airbase in Gimli, Manitoba.
The Cures In Your Kitchen Cupboards
Most of us keep the bathroom cabinet stocked with remedies for common ailments - but we could just as well look in our kitchen cupboards instead.
Many everyday ingredients can double as home cures for a host of complaints, from toothache to sciatica - and with no worry of side-effects. Here are 25 of the best home remedies.
World Kindness Day
Today is World Kindness Day. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to look beyond ourselves, beyond the boundaries of our country, beyond our culture, our race, our religion; and realise we are citizens of the world.
As world citizens we have a commonality, and must realise that if progress is to be made in human relations and endeavours, if we are to achieve the goal of peaceful coexistence, we must focus on what we have in common.
Join people around the world on this day and commit random acts of kindness.
Songza
Songza, a Chicago-based music startup, launched a new music search engine and jkukebox player to search, play and share music online. With one button click you can play, share, watch video, rate or add to playlist.
Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun is a contemporary Chinese artist working with paintings and sculptures. The paintings and sculptures of Yue Minjun always feature uniform laughing faces.
And if these laughing faces are observed carefully, it will be noticed that these faces are the face of... Yue Minjun.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Gangsta Breath Mint Spray
You be steppin' out and smellin' good.
When da man is talkin' ev'rybody be sniffin'
'Cause da man smellin' so good.
Who da man? You da man!
Reading Toes
Reading Toes is a method used to obtain self-knowledge and to analyse personalities and behaviour patterns by interpreting the position and shape of toes. Reading Toes was developed by Hungary-born Dutch journalist and ex-radio and TV producer/reporter Imre Somogyi.
He interviewed hundreds of people during fifteen years of research. Gradually he discovered the meaning of the different shapes and positions of toes, and learned to relate the shapes and positions to the peronalities and behaviour of people.
Water Pistol Umbrella
The Water Pistol Umbrella encourages adults to play in the rain. This unique, funnel shaped umbrella harnesses the flow of rainwater down into its handle, a water pistol.
The user can fire at will, maintaining a constant flow of water as long as rain continues to fall.
(via Optical Poptitude)
Lizard Club
The Lizard Club is a visual art project by James Mercer. It's a very weird site. You can click on a lot of things which will bring you to another, even weirder page.
How Open Minded Are You?
Are you receptive to new and different ideas or the opinions of others? Or are you narrow or conservative in thought, expression, or conduct?
I'm pretty open minded.
How open minded are you?
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: Honor the Complexity of His Struggle.
click on the picture for real size
Ask 500 People
In 2004 James Surowiecki wrote a best-selling book called 'The Wisdom of Crowds.' The book's premise is that diverse, decentralized people voting independently are better at predicting future events or trends than individuals, small groups or even domain experts.
There are tools for surveying groups of independent voters, but they're either slow, expensive or both. Ask500People gathers input and opinion data in minutes instead of days, and creates a platform that other applications can integrate.
(via Ursi's Blog)
The World's Finest Police Cars
Ever wondered what happens to the money you pay to the police when you get a ticket?
Here's the ultimate battle of police supercars worldwide.
LOLinator
An advanced, highly scientific tool that gives us a glimpse into an alternate universe where lolcats created the web.
With LOLinator you can turn any website into a LOLcats site. Just enter the URL of a site and see the LOLcat version.
Here's a LOLcat version of CNN's page
The Big Picture Book Of Viruses
The Big Picture Book of Viruses is intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the Internet and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses.
The Book shows you what viruses look like, either by electron microscopy or by computerassisted imaging. The viral images are listed by their taxonomic groups. Each image is presented in a miniature format with the original fullsized image being available by simply clicking on the image of interest.
Famous Trials
Douglas Linder of University of Missouri-Kansas City's School of Law has put together a page of Famous Trials. From Socrates to Sacco and Vanzetti, and from Alger Hiss to Zacarias Moussaoui.
Famous Women's Faces Quiz
Look at each image and identify the famous woman by clicking on the button corresponding to her name. The answer key will be provided after the quiz is scored.
Institute For The Prevention Of Restless Mind Syndrome
The Livescribe Institute is dedicated to easing the pain and embarrassment of those afflicted with RMS through the advanced development of a breakthrough treatment.
(thanks Adam)
The 2007 Weblog Awards
PostSecret won the 2007 Weblog Awards in the category 'Best Blog' ahead of The Huffington Post, Michelle Malkin and Boing Boing. Congratulations.
This year, The Presurfer was a finalist but I never had any illusions of winning this competition. I had to compete against some of the best blogs in the world.
Nevertheless, I'm extremely proud that my site even made it to the finals. Thanks to anyone who voted for The Presurfer.
LOLsaur
LOLsaur is another offspring of the many LOL pages that can be found on the Internet these days.
Art For The Sky
Art for the Sky is a unique, large group, team building activity for schools, special events, festivals and corporations that awakens our ability to see that elusive Big Picture. These magnificent group creations only make sense when viewed from high above.
HEMA
HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands. HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany. In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.
Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.
(via Dump Trumpet)
Poof
Imagine this. You are dating someone new. He/she invites you to a romantic, home-cooked dinner at his/her place. After dinner, the curry he/she took the time to make for you is not sitting well. What do you do?
Poof it! One drop of Poof will forever change the way you do your business!
(via Everlasting Blort)
Foamee
Foamee is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice-versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.
You'll need a Twitter account to use Foamee.
People With The Highest IQ
IQ (intelligence quotient) is a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age, multiplied by 100.
There is continuing scepticism about IQ tests, and doubts about their objectivity, the innateness of what they measure, and their correlation with meaningful mental ability.
Here's a list of people with the highest IQ. You can also take a test to see what your IQ is.
How To Win At Monopoly - A Surefire Strategy
Monopoly is a game of luck, strategy, and people skills. No strategy will guarantee you a win; that's one of the reasons Monopoly is so interesting. In any given game, a newcomer can beat a lifetime champion.
Still, there are a few strategic tips. You may not win any given game, but in the long run, you'll come out ahead.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Mr. T: The 'T' In I.T.
Mr. T saves the I.T. world from corporate zombies, a cold-hearted consultant, and dumb disk arrays.
Make My Logo Bigger
Make My Logo Bigger is a new easy-to-apply cream with a clinically proven logo enhancing formula.
The cream improves brand recognition, grabs customer's attention, works in just minutes, and goes on smooth. You can make your logos up to 1000% bigger.
Digital Scans Reveal Mona Lisa Secrets
For centuries, the Mona Lisa has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now French engineer Pascal Cotte claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.
More info at Lumiere Technology with pictures of the new discoveries.
(via bookofjoe)
Bananas Anyone?
Yesterday, thousands of bananas washed up here in the Netherlands on two North Sea islands. At least six containers fell off a cargo ship in a storm and at least one burst open.
A half-mile stretch of beach on Terschelling island, 70 miles north of Amsterdam, was littered with bunches of unripe fruit from Cuba. Bananas also washed up on neighboring Ameland island.
Flight Patterns
Designer Aaron Koblin used data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density.
Teen Chat Decoder
Parents, do you ever wonder what your child is really saying online? Just start typing the acronym you wish to search for in the Teen Chat Decoder. The teen chat term database will automatically start to display all possible acronyms results for your search.
Some examples:
saa - same as always.
e2eg - ear to ear grin.
g2e - got to eat.
raggin - mom is calling me.
t2yl - talk to you later.
(via zlythern)
Bar Hopping Through History
Ever wonder what it would be like to drink in the great watering holes of yore?
Well, climb aboard the Modern Drunkard Magazine time machine - your guide Richard English is taking you on a whirlwind tour of the hottest of history's hot spots.
Leaning Tower Of Pisa Loses Title
A German church steeple has knocked the leaning tower of Pisa from the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most lopsided building. The tower in the village of Suurhusen has now officially beaten the famous landmark in Pisa.
Guinness Book of Records confirmed the award after officials measured it leaning at a 5.19 degree angle compared to only 3.97 degree angle at which the tower of Pisa leans.
Leaping Lemurs
When travelling, Sifaka lemurs remain upright and jump with their powerful hind legs. In this way, they clear distances of over 30 feet.
Weird And Wonderful Foreign Phrases
English is a rich and wonderful language - but sometimes it's just not good enough. For example, have you ever searched around in vain for a word to describe someone who gets excited by eating garlic? Or wondered why there isn't a nice pithy term for a person who is only attractive if they're standing quite far away?
Other languages do have such words. Some examples:
Hira Hira - Japanese: the feeling you get when you walk into a dark and decrepit old house in the middle of the night.
Dona - Chile: to take lice from a person's head and squash between one's teeth.
Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman.
Poronkusema - Finnish: the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break.
Weird And Wonderful Foreign Phrases.
Top 101 U.S. Cities
Hundreds of top lists from U.S. cities in varied categories.
Did you know that Pickton-Pine Forest in Texas has the most residents born in the Netherlands?
Or that 12.6% of the people in Bethel, Alaska, take a taxi to work?
That the city with the most residents born at sea is Hutchins, Wisconsin?
Or that Gonzales, California has the highest percentage of female farm supplies merchant wholesalers.
Top 101 U.S. Cities.
That's My Home Mime
Johann Lipowitz (David Armand) mimes to Paul Young's 'Wherever I Lay My Hat Thats My Home.'
(via Everlasting Blort)
What Second Life Is Really Like
Second Life is a virtual reality community in which you create an identity, meet people, buy land and build your own objects. It is a 'massively multiplayer online role playing game', but one that offers users total freedom to create and interact as if they were living another life.
Steampunk Tree House
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used - usually the 19th century, but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy.
Steampunk Tree House is essentially a metal tree with a wood and metal house perched within its branches. The house component will be accessible via a ladder system on the exterior of the trunk but contained with in the greater diameter skin of the tree.
(via Dark Roasted Blend)
Snowpulse
Snowpulse is an airbag that significantly increases survival chances in case of avalanches. The airbag is triggered manually by pulling a handle.
Similarly to a life-jacket used in the sea, the 'Life Bag' keeps you on your back and your head out of the snow. It's the best solution to avoid being asphyxiated.
(via YesButNoButYes)
Glamour Mug Shots
Getting arrested stinks. But that doesn't mean a gal can't try to strike a pose during her mug shot session. Just like these 18 recent bustees.
How To Make Homemade Bread
Homemade bread is substantially tastier than store-purchased bread, isn't laden with preservatives, is very inexpensive to make, and doesn't take all that much time, either.
How to Make Homemade Bread.
How Much Of A Web-Fiend Are You?
Have you ever wondered if you spend too much time online? Is there such a thing? We all know those people who live on the internet, but you're not one of them, Or are you? Take this quiz and find out!
I'm 30% Web Fiend.
How Much Of A Web-Fiend Are You?
(thanks Mary)
Eric Joisel Origami
Origami is derived from the Japanese words 'ori' meaning 'fold' and 'kami' meaning 'paper.' Centuries ago, the first origami models were simple and stylized.
Today, origami has developed into an art form that produces sophisticated, complex and highly technical models sculpted by professional artists. Artists like Eric Joisel.
How To Paint Your Shoes
If you are going to paint shoes, choose something sturdy. Canvas shoes can be painted, and don't require a white undercoat the way leather does. The more the shoe bends, the softer the leather or canvas, the more cracks will appear in the dried paint. If you are going to use leather, start with black.
(via Everlasting Blort)
Sharkwater
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
(via Ursi's Blog)
DanceWriter
DanceWriter converts text to simple dance moves. Create your own choreography by typing a message. You can also share it with your friends, and send them your animated emails.
Here's DanceWriter 'dancing' the word presurfer.
VectorMagic
With VectorMagic, a product from Stanford University, you can convert bitmap images to vector art. Just upload your image and VectorMagic will vectorize it for you.
Vectorization is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image. Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves.
Here I vectorized my Maria (I've always wanted to say that).
Momspit
Momspit is the universal no-rinse cleanser. It's not a sanitizer and does not contain any alcohol. In fact, it’s gentle enough to use on your face.
Momspit foams for easy application, eliminates dirt and grime, and leaves skin moisturized and yummy smelling. It's the perfect thing to throw in your purse, place on your desk, or keep in your car.