Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy.
Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength.
Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.
When you're down, I wish you joy.
When things seem empty, I wish you hope.
May the dawning of this New Year open up new horizons and bring for you promises of brighter tomorrows.
May you have a great New Year.
Happy New Year
Presurfer's Top 10 Most Viewed Posts 2007
These are the 10 most viewed posts on The Presurfer of 2007.
On September 19:
Train Runs Through Bangkok Market
You got to see it to believe it.
On August 21:
Bullet Proof Baby
A controversial post because I didn't know whether this was true or not. In the end, it turned out to be a marketing act. Some readers even thought I was in on the scheme. I still think it's a case of bad taste.
On May 25:
500 Years Of Women In Art
Morphing video of 500 years of female portraits in western art.
On December 26:
The Evil Eye
A cute little baby can give the evil eye on command.
On July 2:
Ethan Haas Was Right
An interactive game with a series of very difficult puzzles.
On March 30:
Do Fairies Live At The Bottom Of Your Garden?
Don't be silly! Of course they don't! Or, do they?
On November 25:
721 Claps Per Minute
Kent French, record holder for most claps per minute.
On July 19:
Simpsonize Yourself
Turn a photo of yourself into a Simpsons character.
On Ocotober 9:
Amazing Audio Illusion
When this video is done playing, replay it to hear an amazing audio illusion. It sounds like the tune is continuing to 'creep-up.'
On August 19:
Salad Alien
A digital image of Alien made out of vegetables.
2008 Already Sucks
Deep down, you know it's true. The war. The economy. Your job. Your relationships. This button sums it all up.
You really can't get more negative than this button. In one short phrase, it condemns an entire new year to the trash heap.
Be the first in your neighborhood to recognize 2008 for what it is... one mess of a year. Have a nice day.
The BUPA World Personality Test
According to the site, the BUPA World Personality Test is based on the symbolism of shapes and colors and has been developed under the guidance of a leading psychologist of the British Psychological Society.
Having studied psychology myself, I know the human brain responds to shapes and colors in unique ways for each person. And yes, since the 1960s, psychologists have speculated about the appeal of certain color combinations for different personality types.
The BUPA World Personality Test is, however, just like any other online personality test. It doesn't really give you an insight into what makes you tick but it's fun and well presented.
Humanoid Robot Drawing Portraits
When the robot recognizes a face in its field of view, it first grabs a snapshot of this face and extracts the relevant features and contours characterizing it.
The Google Privacy Channel
The Google Privacy Channel on YouTube keeps you informed about their privacy policies. How they treat your personal information, and about how you can protect your privacy while using Google.
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: Kitchen Nightmares.
click on the picture for real size
Nils Olav Gets Promotion
Last Wednesday, Nils Olav received a promotion to Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard. Major Egelien from the Norwegian Royal Guard Association said:
Colonel in Chief because all the reports speak about his very, very good behaviour.
Here's a photograph of Colonel-in-Chief Nils Olav inspecting the Guards.
Highway Speed-To-BPM Calculator
The Highway Speed-to-BPM Calculator will determine what speed you should drive to match a song's rhythm with the approaching stripes on a highway. The federal standard for interstate highways is 40 feet between the front of two stripes. This varies by area, but is generally around that distance.
For example, if the beat per minute for a song is 140, you should drive 63.64mph to match the rhythm of Linkin Park's 'Bleed It Out.'
How To Wake Up Early
The most common excuse for not doing something is usually a lack of time. Adding one hour in the morning can make a huge difference in your life.
How to Wake Up Early is about self-improvement for early risers. How to sleep well, wake up early and what to do then.
Glubble
Glubble is a free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser. It permits each member of the family to have their own custom environment, so that when kids use it they only see the very best parts of the Internet based on selections made by their parents or supplied by trusted family brands.
Glubble enhances Firefox to make sure kids can't see the whole World Wild Web. Instead they can only see family friendly parts of the web. Glubble gives you the peace of mind to know your child can only see web sites that you trust for them.
Origami Now!
The Origami Now Folding Station with Michael LaFosse and Richard Alexander. Learn Origami, the art of paper folding. Select a model to begin folding and watch how it's done.
Santa's Gone
Yes, Santa is on his way back to the North Pole but before he went, he wanted to show me something. Sort of... um, an extra present.
You can see it here.
Make your own Santa tattoo.
The House That Nikolai Built
Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far north-west, it is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring 13 floors to reach 144ft. The house that Nikolai Sutyagin built is also crumbling, incomplete and under threat of demolition from city authorities determined to end the former convict's (he spent 4 years in prison on racketeering charges) eccentric 15-year project.
Building began in 1992 and was two stories high, but he soon added three floors. He was not happy with the outcome and he added more floors and just kept goin.
Now penniless Nikolai Sutyagin lives in four poorly heated rooms at the bottom of his wooden log cabin with his wife and daughter.
Peel Microcars
Peel microcars were built in Peel, Isle of Man, in the 1960's by Peel Engineering. Owner designer Cyril Cannell and his workforce led by George Gelling created these cars in premises close to Peel harbour.
Peel Engineering was at the forefront of glass fibre ad plastics moulding technology, famous for its motorcycle racing fairings and boat-building expertise.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Spellify
Spellify is an automatic text field spell checker and also available for download. Type or paste some text into the text field on the site. No need to press the enter key. The spell checker automatically checks the text when you're finished.
Spellify comes in 10 languages: Danish, German, Finnish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish.
Whatsitscolor
Whatsitscolor is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.
Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. Results will display your image on the best suited background for that image. Images are deleted off the server 10min after upload, renamed during the upload process so no other user can view them and copies or image information is not collected by Whatsitscolor.
Sleevefaces
Sleeveface is the art of one or more persons obscurings or augmenting any part of the body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.
Cluster Ballooning
Cluster ballooning is an uncommon form of ballooning in which a single balloonist is attached by a harness to a cluster of relatively small helium-inflated rubber balloons. Unlike traditional hot-air balloons, which possess vents for easy altitude control, cluster balloons rise uncontrollably, expanding as they go.
Cluster balloonists must periodically cut balloons loose to maintain altitude and descend. Bottled water is a common ballast, and can be partially emptied to slow descent.
(via UniqueDaily)
The Future: A Retrospective
Description of 250 consumer products found in a book called 'Future Stuff.' It was published in 1989, and it was about products that 'should be in your supermarket, hardware store, pharmacy, department store, or otherwise available by the year 2000.'
It was based on interviews with the people who were working on these products. It made concrete predictions, with dates and estimated prices. The predictions were more or less wrong.
Great Unsolved Mysteries In Canadian History
A team of historians has been trying to solve some historical 'cold cases' - old crimes in which the guilty ones walked, and even more insidious crimes where a whole village may have been complicit.
There are other mysteries too, about unusual cases from the Viking age to the Klondike Gold Rush.
In 'Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History' your goal is to finish the history and create your own analysis using the same methods real historians do.
Prodigies By James Mundie
Delineations of noted personages rendered in splendid chiaroscuro, brought forth for your edification and amusement from the hand of James G. Mundie.
A curious collection of anomalous humans. This congress of oddities awaits your intimate and learned inspection.
Mouth Eyes Photoshop Pictures
A kind of creepy Photoshop contest. Famous people who've had their eyes replaced with smaller versions of their mouths.
(via Boing Boing)
Day Of Birth
Day of Birth basically tells you the day of the week that you were born on. It also tells you other pointless but fun things such as: your star sign, how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive.
The site also provides links to other websites, so you can find more information such as famous people or events that share your birthday.
Shooting At The Monitor
Some Ukrainian technology show tested the Asus LS201 LCD monitor with a crossbow to see if the Crystal Sapphire Panel LCD Protection was resistant. Apparently, it is.
Wild Solutions To Common Problems
The world is full of day-to-day challenges, seemingly common problems, which in some cases defy obvious solutions.
Overpopulation, difficult traffic situation, shortage of finances and most basic tools - all contribute to the over-the-top, wild spurts of creativity, super-energetic ways to achieve things, often with mixed success.
One Cold Hand?
Visual artist Jennifer Gooch from Pittsburgh, USA, started a website called 'onecoldhand.com' in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates.
It's a project that connects the Pittsburgh community through one unfortunate event - the loss of a glove. The site creates a method for dealing with the conundrum of finding these lost articles.
50 Most Loathsome People In America, 2007
From 'The Beast' comes the annual 50 Most Loathsome People in America. From Nicole Richie to Dana Perino and from Bill O'Reilly to George W. Bush.
Tiny Buildings
Sharon Mount makes simple, yet beautiful, tiny buildings from business cards, cardboard packaging, and other nice papers.
(via Dump Trumpet)
International Year Of The Potato
2008 Is the International Year of the Potato. The potato has been consumed in the Andes for about 8,000 years. Taken by the Spanish to Europe in the 16th century, it quickly spread across the globe.
Today potatoes are grown on an estimated 75,000 square miles of farmland, from China's Yunnan plateau and the subtropical lowlands of India, to Java's equatorial highlands and the steppes of Ukraine. In terms of sheer quantity harvested, the humble potato tuber is the world's No. 4 food crop, with production in 2006 of almost 347 million tons.
(via escape)
Oh My God, Santa, Is That You?
Santa is one of those stars that won't go away, he comes back every year and just seems to get hotter and hotter.
The kind of guy that makes even the North Pole sound cool. So enjoy this Santa Claus extraordinaire.
Eyewitness To History
Eyewitness to History is your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, a digital publisher of educational programming.
Kwout
Kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add a bookmarklet to your browser. Click the bookmarklet on a web page you wish to quote, and the screenshot of the entire web page will be popped up.
By dragging a mouse on the screenshot, select an area you wish to quote, and click the 'Cut Out' button. Then the area you selected will be cut out as an image with an image map. Finally, the embed code, which is used to post the image to your web site, will be displayed.
Here's a 'quote' I took from this website.
Four Hands Guitar
Jerry's Breakdown composed by Jerry Reed, played by Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier on a single guitar.
(via J-Walk Blog)
Dopplr
Dopplr is an online service for frequent business travellers. Dopplr lets you share your travel plans privately with a group of friends and colleagues whom you have chosen. It then tells you when people you know will be in the same cities. It also reminds you of people who live in the places you're planning to visit.
Dopplr works on your personal computer and mobile phone. It links with online calendars and social networks. You put in your travel schedule and link to your friends. It allows you to see where everyone is.
w00t!
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007 is 'w00t!' The word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ('leet,' or 'elite') speak - an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters.
Although the double 'o' in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for 'we owned the other team' - again stemming from the gaming community.
Number 2 in Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 competition was 'facebook' and number 3 was 'conundrum.'
Airstream Trailer Light Show
Airstream trailer light show choreographed to Trans Siberian Orchestra's 'Wizards in Winter'.
(via Neatorama)
You Are Being Watched
Researcher Melissa Bateson of the School of Biology and Psychology at Newcastle University found that people were more prepared to dig cash out of their pockets when they were under the gaze of a picture of a pair of eyes, instead of a picture of flowers. People coughed up almost 3 times as much cash into a donation box when they were being 'watched'.
It's a way of making people behave more honestly in an experiment that could aid strategies for tackling anti-social behaviour. Now, armed with this insight, police are trying a new technique to combat crime.
By putting posters of watchful eyes in crime hot spots, they hope to make would-be crooks think twice.
It's Just A Myth
They are the universal pearls of wisdom that explain some of the more puzzling things about the human body and help people live healthy lives: don't read in dim light, drink eight glasses of water a day and don't use mobile phones in hospitals.
The problem is: there is no evidence to suggest that these gems of advice are actually true.
The Pigeon Man
You would think he was made out of stone, the man who sits, hours on end, on the red fire hydrant on Western Avenue, just north of Lawrence, pigeons by the dozens perched on him.
Pigeons on his head. Pigeons on his shoulders and right down his arms. Pigeons poised on each palm. Pigeons clinging to his chest. Pigeons on his lap. Pigeons on his thighs. Pigeons, of course, perched on each foot.The pigeons peck and coo, occasionally flutter their wings. Sometimes even scatter. But not the man, the man is motionless. You might mistake him for a statue.
Joseph Zeman, 73, commonly known as the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square, can sit for hours, barely flinching a muscle.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Space Shuttle Attacked By Giant Spider
Space shuttle Atlantis has had some setbacks lately. NASA delayed the launch until January due to a fuel gauge failure on the external tank. But that's not all. Now, a giant spider invaded the space shuttle while on the launch pad.
50 Facial Expressions And How To Draw The
A lot of people struggle to draw convincing facial expressions. Here's a Facial Expressions Chart to give you an idea of the characteristics of most of the facial emotions.
Presents Opening Children
At Christmas, children open presents.
It's a good thing it's not the other way around.
(via Sketchblog)
The Red List Of Threatened Species
Biodiversity loss is one of the world's most pressing crises and there is growing global concern about the status of the biological resources on which so much of human life depends. It has been estimated that the current species extinction rate is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be.
The Red List of Threatened Species was first conceived in 1963 and set a standard for species listing and conservation assessment efforts. For more than 30 years the Species Survival Commission has been evaluating the conservation status of species and subspecies on a global scale - highlighting those threatened with extinction and promoting their conservation.
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: The Thing About Beards.
click on the picture for real size
How To Spot A Cylon
Do they ask questions about classified subjects? Have you seen them before, but you know it's not the same person? Do they seem to hear music that no one else can hear? Does their spine glow red when they get, um, excited?
It's a Cylon! Be aware! Be vigilant!
And report immediately!
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas,
Only a hippopotamus will do.
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy,
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy.
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.
The Stray Shopping Cart Project
The Stray Shopping Cart Project is a system of identification for stray shopping carts. Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world.
Until now, the major obstacle that has prevented people from thinking critically about stray shopping carts has been that we have not had any formalized language to differentiate one shopping cart from another.
Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents
People stabbing each other (in real life) for magic swords (inside an online game); men kidnapping a top player to steal his game password; a girl that dies after playing her favorite multiplayer game for several days in a row.
It is a crazy (virtual) world.
Here are the 6 most bizarre online gaming incidents in history.
10-Year Chinese Haunting Finally Debunked
This 5 story 'haunted' building in the GuangXi province of China has scared most of it's owners away. Anyone who ever lived in the house, heard horribly spooky sounds coming from somewhere in the house. In 10 years, the house has been sold to four different owners, and soon after each moved in, they moved out because of the haunting.
Two brothers bought the house and tried to find where in the house the noise was coming from. After numerous nights of searching, they figured out the noise sounded like something flapping in the water and it came from the bathroom pipe on the first floor.
Ten Strange Santas From Japan
Santa Claus is a recent feature of Christmas in Japan and sometimes a few details get lost in translation. Sometimes a lot does. Here's a list of the Top Ten Strange Santas from Japan.
Space Age Pop Music
Space Age Pop is a general and loosely based term for a music genre associated with certain American composers and songwriters in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s, from the dawn of hi-fi to the arrival of the Beatles.
The music is not limited to a single style, and it is not always easily categorized. There are several styles that can be recognized as an influence; classical composers like Ravel and Debussy; the big bands of the 40's, and different exotic styles, such as samba, latin, and calypso jazz. Some of the music in this genre is also known as lounge music or exotica.
Dogs In Costumes
For all you dog owners, these are your dogs.
And this is what they are thinking!
(thanks Linda)
Arthur Benjamin's Mathemagic
In a lively show, 'mathemagician' Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? He'll be happy to tell you.
(via Think or Thwim)
Hand Bell Hero
Here's a nice addicting game.
Pick up your hand bells and give Hand Bell Hero a whirl. Keep an eye on the scrolling scale in the middle of the screen. As the notes pass, hit the corresponding key (a,s,d, or f) to play the song. The more notes you get right, the happier the scene besomes. The more you miss, the more havoc is wreaked on this winter wonderland.
(via Ursi's Blog)
The 12 Days Of Christmas Cutbacks
Effective immediately, these economizing measures are being implemented in the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' subsidiary.
The Bonte Games
A collection of all Bart Bonte's point and click games as well as a top 10 of his personal favorites.
Bristlebot
The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor.
Paying Back Musicians
Many of us own music that we didn't pay for. We don't feel guilty about shafting the record company, but what about the musicians themselves? Here's how it works:
Pick a musician, write them a letter, scan or photograph the letter and send it to 'Dear Rockers,' mail off the letter along with $5, and enjoy your new, guilt-free life.Dear, Mr. Rose, I'm sorry, I hope you won't invite me to 'get in the ring,' but I downloaded some of your soon-to-be-finished songs from the soon-to-be-released Chinese Democracy.
It made me feel good, it made me feel cheap and it made me feel guilty. So in return, I wanted to give you back the $17, one dollar for every year you have spent polishing this gem in the studio.
Smoking Point
Michael Windisch, from the German town of Goslar, puffs a cigar with his head and hands stretching out of holes on the wall of his restaurant.
He got the idea of a 'smoking point' in one of the walls of the restaurant after the state government issued a smoking ban in public.
Bendito Machine
Bendito Machine is a short animation by Jossie Malis. It's the story of two rival villages on either side of a hill. At the top of the hill is a god-like machine that gives profitable gifts to both villages.
Soon, one greedy village hatches a plan to crush the other and take all the wealth for themselves. But how long will their prosperity last?
100 Great Christmas Bummers
Tired of traditional holiday cheer? Try Prince's 'Another Lonely Christmas,' Joni Mitchell's 'River,' or William S. Burroughs', 'A Junky's Christmas' on for size.
A list of the top break-your-heart Xmas songs.
The Man Who Lives With Bears
It looks like a circus performance as the man reaches up to cuddle an 8ft-tall grizzly bear. But amazingly, this is not a trained animal but a wild beast that could kill 68-year old Charlie Vandergaw with a single swipe of its huge paw.
The retired schoolteacher risks his life every day to befriend grizzly and black bears. Charlie is convinced the bears - which weigh up to 500lbs when fully grown - are his friends.
(via A Welsh View)
Color Changing Coat
A coat with a black and white polka dot pattern and a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots.
When the coat is first turned on, the lights are synchronized for a while (going through a slow fade of red, green, blue, gold, aqua, pink).
Over time, the individual lights go through their changes independently and out of phase, for a nice random color changing effect.
(via 7 Gadgets)
The Alliance To Rescue Civilization
The mission of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization is to protect the human species and its civilization from destruction that could result from a global catastrophic event, including nuclear war, acts of terrorism, plague and asteroid collisions.
To fulfill its mission, ARC is dedicated to creating continuously staffed facilities on the Moon and other locations away from Earth. These facilities will preserve backups of scientific and cultural achievements, and of the species important to our civilization.
Whale 'Missing Link' Discovered
What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown long-legged rat, fossils indicate.
Hans Thewissen, Professor of the Department of Anatomy, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, has announced the discovery of the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors in the prestigious British journal Nature.
Scientists since Darwin have known that whales are mammals whose ancestors walked on land, and in the past 15 years, researchers led by Dr Thewissen have identified a series of intermediate fossils documenting whale's dramatic evolutionary transition from land to sea. But one step was missing: The identity of the land ancestors of whales.
Lingerie 4 Men
This is wrong. This is so very wrong.Established in July 2007, Lingerie 4 Men is New Zealand's only lingerie brand designed specifically for the male figure. All our lingerie is made from quality fabrics and is available in a wide range of sizes to fit the modern man
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Phreetings
Phreetings is 'Photo and Greetings'. Type keywords to find photos, then drag and drop them into the top rectangle. Type your own greeting in the bottom rectangle. Finally, send your greeting to whomever you want.
(via Dump Trumpet)
Ice Worms
The ice worm is a creature most people think is a myth - if they've heard of it at all. But ice worms really exist. The first ice worm species were discovered in 1887 in Alaska, on the Muir Glacier. These glacier ice worms can also be found on glaciers in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
When ice worms are exposed to temperatures as low as 5°C, their membranes melt and the worm itself liquifies. Ice worms are several centimeters long, and can be black, blue, or white in color. Ice worms come to the surface of the glaciers in the evening and morning.
NameLab
Find the right name for your baby, read fun facts about your own name and get to know some of the wackiest celebrity baby names. Read about the meaning of your surname and discover your name's origin. Track the rise and fall of naming trends over the years, and see where your favorite names rank on the list.
Do you and your name go together like a black suit and brown shoes? Find out what you should have been named, based on your personality traits. I did that last one and found out that, based on my personality traits, I shoud have been named Festus.
Amazing Chain Reaction
In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss built an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long out of common items. Using fire, water, gravity, and chemistry they create a mind-blowing chain reaction of physical and chemical interactions and precisely crafted chaos.
Holiday-O-Matic
Pull the lever on the Holiday-O-Matic to create a delightfully random holiday greeting. Then send your greeting to that special someone. For each holiday greeting you send, a donation will be made to Rotary First Harvest.
Train Snow Plow Getting Stuck
Between Genoa and Limon Co. on the Kyle Railroad, a train snow plow gets stuck. Awesome footage.
10 Weird Psychology Studies
Psychologists are skilled at inventing unusual tests of human thought and behaviour, but some research is pretty weird. There's research into psychic dogs, invasions from Mars, the antidepressant properties of semen, pigeon-guided missiles and men's urination.Psychologists Middlemist, Knowles and Matter designed an experiment to test how the speed and flow of men's urination in a public lavatory was affected by invasions of personal space.
More weird psychology studies.
Creatures With Human Faces
Whether the result of evolution or the inventive efforts of mankind - here are five creatures that display amusing, in some cases disturbing, human features.
How A Double-Edge Razor Can Change Your Life
Is there a way to improve your health, save money, help the environment, and feel better about yourself by doing something you already do every day?
Yes, there is! This method has been around for over a hundred years. A traditional wet shave using a shaving brush, shaving soaps/creams, and a double edge razor.
How To Make An Igloo
An igloo is a temporary dome-shaped winter home or hunting-ground dwelling of Canadian and Greenland Inuit, made from blocks of snow. The builder chooses a deep snowdrift of fine-grained, compact snow and cuts it into blocks.
After a row of blocks has been laid in a circle, their top surfaces are shaved off in a sloping angle to form the first rung of a spiral. Additional blocks are added to the spiral to draw it inward until a dome is completed, leaving a ventilation hole at the top.
How to make an igloo.
Net.Art Generator
Here's a nice little toy to play around with.
Create art through a Google image search and some automatic image manipulation. The generation of your piece of net.art may take 1-2 minutes.
I typed in 'presurfer' and I got this work of art.
Basket Case
If you've been searching for a way to look like an idiot, your quest is over. Meet... Basket Case. Basket Case is basically a basketball hoop hat. The goal of the game is to toss red and white balls into the air and catch them in the net on top of your head.
There's no way you can avoid looking like an imbecile as you play this game. Just pray that nobody has a camera when it's your turn to play it.
What Is That Thing?
Here's something for conspiracy theorists. Through Google Earth, an object is found in the middle of Greenland. It is 79,83 kilometers long. That's 49,61 miles. What is that thing?
I think it's a glitch in the satellite image processing.
(via Miniature Brainwave)
Presurfer City Is Growing
Yesterday I started Presurfer City with just one single house. Today, population has grown to 104, the transport network is up to date but there's an unemployment rate of 44%.
Keep visiting Presurfer City once a day to improve the town.
Walter Potter Taxidermy
Walter Potter (born 1835) was a country taxidermist, based in Bramber, Sussex, UK, but the scenes he created of stuffed animals behaving like tiny humans became a world-famous example of Victorian whimsy.
Hip Hop Grannies
Wu Ying was in her sixties when she fell in love with hip hop music and started dancing. She then organized a group of 30 women in China to learn and perform hip hop dance moves. The youngest is 48, but most are in their 60s. Now Wu is 71 years old, and the group has won numerous awards and will perform at the Olympics in Beijing.
(via Neatorama)
Christmas Tree Decorations In Camouflage
SHAR-404 portable set for improvement of forest units in the face of the new approaching year.
Presurfer City
Build your own city at MyMiniCity! Select a country, name your town, and then revisit to see it grow.
I created Presurfer City, which is supposed to grow as more people visit.
(via Neatorama)
Ear Candles
Also called ear cones, ear candles are long, hollow tubes made of wrapped muslin. Ear candles are used for ear wax removal. They are believed to help with ear infection and ear problems such as lack of hearing by removing the wax in which various bacteria and parasites live.
Using ear candles is called ear candling. It is generally more comfortable and less expensive than conventional ear cleaning where water is forced into the ear canal. Ear candles are considered a folk medicine. The practice of ear candling is actually an ancient art from many other countries such as China, Czechoslovakia, Mexico and Italy.
Virtual Jello
For those who don't know what jello is, it's a dessert made from gelatine, sweetened and flavoured; known in north America as jello; patented in 1842 by Peter Cooper as a coloured fruit flavoured gelatine powder for desserts.
Here's a virtual jello.
(via Dump Trumpet)
Computer History Museum On YouTube
The Computer History Museum on YouTube is committed to preserving and presenting the history and stories of the Information Age. On YouTube they offer videos of the many events and lectures at the museum.
Combimouse
The left unit of the Combimouse is stationary and provides the function of the left hand side of a conventional QWERTY keyboard.
The right unit has a similar mass and centre of gravity to a conventional mouse. It can be moved around on a support surface like a conventional mouse.
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: It's What Friends are for Part 2.
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How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?
This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass.
I coult take 12 five-year olds in a fight.
How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?
Brotherhood 2.0
Brothers John and Hank Green have decided not to communicate with each other except through video blogs for an entire year... and they don't mind if you watch them do it.
Brotherhood 2.0.
Voodoo Princess Clarice
I am Princess Clarice. I have been practicing voodoo for 25 years. Voodoo is a religious work. The word voodoo means 'invisible force.' Voodoo is not evil though naturally, it can be used for good and bad...
Regardless of your situation, my powerful ancient love spells can restore love, passion, romance and commitment or remove or place a hex or get revenge.
Top 100 PC Tech Innovations Of All Time
Stroll through PC history and tip your hat to the technologies large and small that have either endured for decades or changed the game completely.
Quick Change Artists
Married magic couple David and Dania performing their quick change act on America's Got Talent. I've seen many magic acts but nothing like this. It's absolutly amazing!
Roadkill Toys
Roadkill is a new designer toy boutique, creating original toy characters. They make toys with a twist. Toys as dark as the inside of a heifer. And they all have one thing in common.
They've been run over.
Fender, after being hit by a purple Vintage Volvo on the M20 Northbound, died on 12th June 2007 aged 8. Born in Amersham on 12th June 1999, he had an illustrious schooling.
After graduating from Exeter University with a First Class Honours degree in musicology, Fender dedicated his life to achieving a peace treaty in the Middle East. He was also a vociferous campaigner for Chicken Rights. He will be terribly missed by his sister Anastasia.
(via Everlasting Blort)
Gold Pill Makes Your Poop Glitter
If you've got so much money that you're just looking for new ways to waste it, Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid created the Gold Pill for you. It's a pill dipped in gold and filled with 24-karat gold leaf.
You're supposed to eat it 'to increase your self-worth.' Supposedly an added benefit is that it will make your poop sparkle, but no one seems to have proven that part yet. The Gold Pill costs $425.
Xmas Joke
I just read this at J-Walk Blog.A man in Chicago calls his son in New York the day before Christmas and says, 'I hate to ruin Christmas this year, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.'
'Pop, what are you talking about?' the son screams. 'We can't stand the sight of each other any longer,' the father says. 'We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Atlanta and tell her.'
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. 'Like hell they're getting divorced,' she shouts, 'I'll take care of this.' She calls Chicago immediately, and screams at her father, 'You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?' and hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. 'Okay,' he says, 'they're coming for Christmas and paying their own way.'
Pass it on, and give credit to the blog where you found it. Let's see if we can get this joke on every single blog in the world. Theoretically, this will create a pyramid of millions of link chains - any one of which can be followed back to the joke's original source.
Groovy X-Mas
Send a dancing Santa video to your friends. Select your favorite Santa style - biker, ballerina, rap or disco - upload your photo or use the original, choose background dancers and style, and send your Santa-Gram to a friend.
(via Ursi's Blog)
Human Super Soaker
Watch Winston store and pour water from within his stomach at will.
(via Neatorama)
Tank On Empty
Help solve a mystery that has puzzled mankind for years... How far can you go after the gas light in your car has gone on?
Tank on Empty.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
USB Wine
The invention of the century. Order your wine online and receive it immediately through a special faucet which you insert in your USB port. The USB Wine key allows you to download wine from home and straight from the vineyard.
The Wine Store offers more than 1200 different wines you can taste immediately with just a few clicks! The page is in French but play the video on the site to see how it works.
Adultitis
Adultitis is a common condition occurring in people between the ages of 21–121, marked by chronic dullness, mild depression, moderate to extremely high stress levels, a general fear of change, and, in some extreme cases, the inability to smile.
Although Adultitis has been around for centuries, it has only recently been discovered and named by Jason Kotecki. The first breakthrough came when he made the peculiar observation that children rarely complain about being stressed and seem to enjoy life way more than grown-ups.
Adultitis.org is the official website dedicated to increasing awareness while providing diagnosis and treatment for Adultitis, the sinister epidemic that makes the Black Death look like a trip to Disneyland.
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is open source drawing software for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Tux Paint is free and works on Mac, Windows, Linux and other systems.
The Hospital
Today the hospital is an abandoned building. Broken, displaced, damaged, eroded, its interior now compares to a mutated skin covered with open scars leaving before us a body that finds its existence in a narrow universe between dream and reality, clean and unclean, logic and illogical, life and death.
Television Tunes
At Television Tunes you will find tonnes of TV theme music and songs from yesterday and today. Browse the huge archive of 3,721 theme songs. All of the theme music is in MP3 format.
The Ten Nastiest Fish Of All Time
Ten of the most nastiest and ugliest fish if all time.
(thanks David)
Electronic Tattoo
Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring.
This Electronics Tattoo video expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers.
My Christmas Tree
This is my Christmas tree. Want to leave me a gift? A fruitcake? A pair of socks? How about a new car? Now you can with this Christmas Tree toy.
Click on 'Leave a Gift', pick one, choose a gift box, enter your name (or nickname), and the present will automagically appear under the Christmas Tree.
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Get a Christmas tree for yourself.
(thanks WaterLearner)
Get The Message
Got a message to send? Let the British Royal Navy deliver it for you. Choose from 5 scenarios and choose whether you want to send your message to an email or mobile address.
Here's my message to you.
Make your own message.
(via Istasworld)
Bionic Assessment Test
You've had a terrible car accident. But you're still alive. The operations were a success. Doctors replaced your legs, arm, right ear and eye. Now they want to know if your functioning properly. They want to determine how bionic you are through a series of five short test.
Me, I'm 59% bionic.
How bionic are you?
Quit Doing It
Quit doing what? Tobacco of course. The Quit Doing It Labs is your resource for the most innovative tools to help you quit tobacco.
Quit Doing It is a multimedia website that will guide you through a futuristic installation where you can learn about the harm of smoking.
25 Skills Every Man Should Know
Do you know how to patch a radiator hose, fillet a fish, change oil and filter, paint a room, or extend your wireless network?
25 Skills Every Man Should Know is the Ultimate DIY Guide. These days, you can outsource almost any job - but some things you need to know how to do yourself. Study this master list with step-by-step tips from the experts, and test your DIY aptitude each step of the way.
Santa's Office
Santa's Office far away in the North of Finland on the Arctic Circle is quite unique in that every day of the year people come from all over the world to see him there. Thousands upon thousands of them.
Santa's Office allows you to take a peep inside his workplace. You will naturally meet the man himself, and maybe you'll find the answers to some of the questions that have been puzzling you.
Christvertising
Christvertising is a network of communication specialists and advertising professionals which helps you navigate through the maze that is the world of competitive brands. If you like your product, so do we, but more importantly, so does God.
Christvertising manages a network of creative, innovative, and pro-active believers, who will help you, through intensive prayer, improve your brand in the eyes of the Lord. If God loves your brand, it will become stronger and more successful.
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is an illustration site for children, but you're allowed to play too. How to indulge your sweet tooth without all those pesky cavities?
Hop on over to Jennifer Beck Harris' latest creation and decorate a gingerbread house! It's a lot less messy than making the real thing, and almost as tasty. Just hit refresh to reset the candies and start over!
(thanks April)
Christmas Ornament Wizard
The Christmas Ornament Wizard takes the guessing out of decorating. Let the Christmas Ornament Wizard do the math for you!
Just enter your tree height and base width and the Christmas Ornament Wizard will calculate the perfect number of ornaments for your Christmas tree.
Tar Ashtray
London based designer Anthony Voz created this concept ashtray which would measure the ash in its base to guesstimate just how many minutes, days, weeks, and years you shave away with every puff.
The tar ashtray automatically senses and weighs the amount of ash placed inside it using an internal weighting system. The built in microchip an LCD display then conveys how many days you have taken off your life by smoking so far.
CyBeRev
CyBeRev means Cybernetic Beingness Revival. The purpose of the CyBeRev project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient digital information about a person so that recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology.
The first step toward achieving that goal, and the purpose of CyBeRev, is for participants to store digital reflections of their mannerisms, personality, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values with as great a fidelity as is possible.
(thanks Mike)
Operation Cat Drop
Presurfer reader Stanley send me a link to a very strange story.In the early 1950's, the Dayak people of Borneo suffered a malarial outbreak. The World Health Organisation had a solution: to spray large amounts of DDT to kill the mosquitoes that carried the malaria. The mosquitoes died; the malaria declined; so far so good.
But there were unexpected side effects. Amongst the first was that the roofs of the people's houses began to fall down on their heads. It seemed that the DDT had also killed a parasitic wasp which had previously controlled thatch-eating caterpillars. Worse, the DDT-poisoned insects were eaten by geckoes, which were eaten by cats.
The cats started to die, the rats flourished, and the people were threatened by outbreaks of typhus and plague.
Read this article to find out what the World Health Organisation did to cope with this problem.
Tacky Christmas Yards
You've probably seen them before: tacky Christmas yards full of decorations. When you drive through your neighborhood you see millions of watts of Christmas lights, thousands of acres of fake snow, hundreds of plastic Santas. Not satisfied with 20 or 30 strings of lights, some people decorate their yards with hundreds and even thousands of strings.
TackyChristmasYards.com is somewhat of a scavenger hunt. Not a malicious attempt to end all decoration, just a fun challenge to find the most violations.
Freaky Ad Moments Of 2007
Over at AdFreak, they're hosting a bracketed tournament for the Freakiest Ad Moment of 2007. There will be voting all week as they whittle the list down from 64 contenders to one ultra-freak.Popcorn kings back from the dead. Insane little lads obsessed with berries and cream. Car drivers eating bird poo. Milked men. There was no shortage of freaky ad moments in 2007. Now, we're going to try to pick the single freakiest one - with your help.
Wonder Sauna Hot Pants
Wonder Sauna Hot Pants. For men and women. Slenderize exactly where you want. One size fits all and easy to inflate. Reduces waist, tummy, hips and thighs.
Sleep.FM
Sleep.FM is the first sleep and wake up social networking site, where your friends' alarm messages wake you up. It is revolutionizing a centuries old wake up device and in turn creating a new form of Internet communication.
Sleep.FM will put you to sleep with soothing sounds, while your friends or family members wake you to alarm messages of birthday wishes, reminders, songs, greetings to whatever. Why wake up to just a noisy buzzer, when you can now be awakened by audio messages from those closest to you.
See Sleep.FM in action.
Don't Touch Me!
Give Electric Shot to Crazy Japanese Businessmen! Pink Seal Charm 'Ouch!' Lovely Pink Seal Taser. The most Kawaii Stun Gun ever!
Who imagines this lovely seal is a stun gun? It gives an electric shock to a naughty guy trying to touch you.
Brawndo
Brawndo, the energy drink that destroys plants, debases the human race, and makes those who drink 'win at yelling.'
Mysterious Mammal Caught On Film
The Long-eared Jerboa (Euchoreutes naso) is a nocturnal mouse-like rodent with a long tail, long hind legs for jumping, and exceptionally large ears. It is distinct enough that authorities consider it to be the only member of both its genus, Euchoreutes, and subfamily, Euchoreutinae.
The long-eared jerboa can be found in deserts in Mongolia and China. Now, the creature has been caught on camera for what scientists believe is the first time.
The Toy Train
Believe it or not, the photo above is of a train interior in Japan. It's a photo of the 'Omoden', the Toy Train, designed by Eiji Mitooka. The train was created for child-friendly public transportation.
It contains hundreds of toys, tv screens showing cartoons, immaculately clean wooden flooring and cots for younger children.
10 Technology Wonders That Don't Exist Yet
There are electronic monstrosities so far ahead of their time that only concept designers dare tackle giving such products a face and a name.
Take a peek into these 10 futuristic and nonexistent - but awesome - tech toys that take our gadget lust to a more advanced level.
Zaky Infant Pillow
The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of the mothers hand and forearm to help her baby with comfort, support, protection, and development.
The Zaky Infant Pillow can help calm your baby and help your baby sleep better through the night.
Crazy Blind Date
Are you feeling adventurous? Crazy Blind Date likes to keep things simple. That's why on very short notice they can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.
Crazy Blind Date is a place where you can coordinate a date on extremely short notice. Online dating sites are cool, but sometimes you just want to go out immediately, with reckless abandon. It's not for everyone, but it is for social, outgoing, and adventurous people. And it's completely free.
Currently you can have a Crazy Blind Date in Austin, Boston, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
I'll Do Anything For A Million Dollars
Eric wants a million dollars. So he's asking you to put up the cash. He'll do anything for it. Anything! Except causing permanent disfigurement to himself or others, he'll abide by the laws of the country the acts are held, and he will not cause harm to any other living creature or human.
Why does he want to do this? Well, he could buy a house, pay off his debt, buy a round at the bar, invest it, help the people who have helped him... whatever!
Doesn't matter, he just wants a million dollars.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
Unique Soviet Snowmobiles
Exotic Soviet military snow vehicles, and some civilian and scientific applications of these machines.
Emoticon Transforming Stamp
With the Emoticon Transforming Stamp, you don't have to limit emoticons to online chatter. It's made of 100% silicone, which means it can squish and flex to make almost any sort of face.
Once you get the emotion you want, stamp it on your letter. Once you let go, the stamp will snap back into its original face, ready for action. A great way to make love letters more fun, board meeting minutes more enjoyable, and paychecks more playful.
Christmas Ham Soda
The Holiday Season is once again upon us and this year the folks at Jones Soda have decided to celebrate a little differently. They have created two packs for your holiday enjoyment.
Introducing, the 2007 Christmas Pack and Chanukah Pack.
The Christmas Pack consists of Christmas Ham Soda, Christmas Tree Soda, Egg Nog Soda and Sugar Plum Soda. Flavors in the Chanukah Pack are Latke Soda, Apple Sauce Soda, Chocolate Coins Soda and Jelly Doughnut Soda.
Seven Strange Lucky Charms
Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been in use since prehistoric times all over the world. Stones, coins, and amulets with symbols are the most common.
Others are taken from nature, such as the rabbit's foot, or are considered lucky because of their rarity, such as the four-leaf clover. But a few lucky charms are just a bit odd.
(via Miss Cellania)
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: The Night Before Christmas.
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Freddie Linsky paints over and over, making us curious to know what is going on. It seems that one stroke is being repeated - the same stroke or one very close to it, hence the possibility of the infinite opening up of the structure of time.
This repetition perfectly renews the painting itself, as an experience of time, and space too. The artist's whole life has been dedicated to his art.
Notice that last sentence? It's true!
Freddie Linsky has been painting all of his life.
Here's Freddie Linsky.
Google Base
Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they do related searches.
On Google Base you can search for events and activities, hotels, housing, jobs, recipes, vehicles and a lot more.
Like
This is Cathy, 20, from Santa Barbara.Is it, like, because I, like, say 'like', like, so much?
From the Academy of Linguistic Awarness. [sic]
The People History
The People History, covering history from 1920 - 2006 for every year including popular culture, music, film and TV, technology, world events, cost of living, inflation, price of goods and property, wages and the value of money.
I found out that in the year I was born the average cost of a new house was $7,450, the average cost of a new car was $1,420, and bacon was 50 cents per pound.
ListenToYourWife
Husband and wife Howard Ro and Jamie Jang started ListenToYourWife.com, a social networking startup for wives and future wives. To share their expertise and stories, and their life experience.
Yamelo
Yamelo brings back melodies. Remember that High School party? Remember your first kiss? Remember driving your first car? Some melodies are probably seamlessly connected to these moments.
Yamelo brings back the memories of your musical timeline. Choose a year and month and listen to the music of that particular time. The timeline goes back to 1965.
White Rhino Poop For Sale
Need a gift for the person who has everything? For the first time in history you may find rhino poop under your Christmas tree.
This year the International Rhino Foundation is auctioning off endangered feces - dung from endangered rhino species. It's all part of an effort to save one of earth's most recognizable, but most threatened wild animals.
The Really Truly Hillary Gallery
The Really Truly Hillary Gallery is the ultimate online archive of unflattering Hillary Clinton photos.
The World's Most Unusual Christmas Trees
This Christmas, don't go with that ho-hum, run-of-the-tree-farm tree your family always gets year after year. Try something new and unusual...
Like these 10 strange Christmas trees.
Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents
People stabbing each other (in real life) for magic swords (inside an online game); men kidnapping a top player to steal his game password; a girl that dies after playing her favorite multiplayer game for several days in a row...
Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents.
Field Guides To Evel Knievel's Injuries
Evel Knievel was perhaps the most famous daredevil in the world. His death on November 30, 2007, was preceded by years of constant battle against the persistent pain of broken bones and severe trauma after jumping and crashing motorcycles.
In his 16 years of performing Evel Knievel broke about 37 bones in his body. He spent more than half the years 1966 to 1973 in hospitals. By the time he quit performing in 1981, he had undergone 14 major operations, with several steel plates and metal pins set into him.
The World's Strongest Dad
The story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick Hoyt was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. 'He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life' doctors told Dick Hoyt and his wife Judy. But the Hoyts weren't buying it.
Dick Hoyt, 65 now, has pushed his 43-year old disabled son Rick eighty-five times in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also participated in triathlons, towing him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars - all in the same day.
Take a look at the video and I'm sure you'll be impressed.
Pro-Street Romania
This is the only Romanian street race website in English. I want to race international. Please check out my car and some of the girls of my town on the web page. Enjoy!
You will also please see my best enemy Dragos Dacia. He is also a street racer but does not take it serious. I will always beat him. Multumesc!
The Programmer Dress Code
Is it true that computer programmers all grow beards, have long hair, and dress like a slob? It looks like it.
So, who was the guy that started the unkempt programmer code of honor? Was it this guy?
Or did someone else start the Programmer Dress Code?
JustStolen
JustStolen.net was established by Police Officers to assist consumers, college students and business owners retrieve lost or stolen valuables. The website is a powerful database that members can use to register their personal property.
Any descriptive information can be entered into the database including make, model, color, serial number and anything else you can think of. You can even upload photographs of your items. If the property is lost or stolen, JustStolen.net works with law enforcement to return the property to the rightful owner.
Human Calendar
The Human Calendar.
It's possible to put a 'portable' version of humancalendar.com on your website. Users should see the correct date depending upon their location.
Future Scanner
Future Scanner scans the web for the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and then sorts it by future Year and Category.
R2D2 Translator
Type in a word to translate into R2D2 language. You can modify your text or download the translation to your mobile phone.
(thanks Cécile)
Ostrich Riding
Riding an ostrich is not a common form of transport, however the Ostrich's powerful legs and bulky body make it more than capable of supporting a human being.
Their ability to run at up to 35 mph while carrying a person has led to ostrich racing, which is popular in Africa and some Arab countries. A dangerous sport, like horse racing, it demands a considerable amount of skill to stay on.
Hot For Words
Intelligence is sexy. So is Marina! Marina is a philologist.
She teaches about the origins of words. If you'd like her to discuss a word, please leave her a comment and she will try to get to as many of them as she can.
(thanks Jay)
History Of Religion
See how the geography of religion has evolved over the centuries, and where it has sparked wars. This map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted.
(thanks Stanley)
The Best Things To Do With Your Old Computer
The best things to do with your old computer and peripherals.
Amazing And Record-Setting City Roads And Streets
7 Urban Wonders of the World: Amazing and Record-Setting City Roads and Streets.
(via Dark Roasted Blend)
