The Triassic Four Horsemen.
Sunday, 11 February 2007
Saturday, 10 February 2007
Ruined Music
Breaking up is hard to do. There are tears and sleepless nights, decreased appetites, and packs of cigarettes smoked. Then there are the horrible logistics of the breakup and canvassing your apartment for items left behind or given as gifts by your ex. But perhaps the worst thing about the breakup is the fact that music gets caught in the fallout. Everyone has a song, album, artist, or band that's been ruined by an ex.
Ruined Music is the place to talk about the music you've lost. The songs you can't stand to hear ever again, the album you got for a Valentine's Day gift.
Ruined Music is the place to talk about the music you've lost. The songs you can't stand to hear ever again, the album you got for a Valentine's Day gift.
What The Power Companies Don't Want You To Know
This video shows you how to generate electricity using 2 candles, 2 nails, 2 leads with alligator clips and a magnet.
Early Jobs Of Famous People
Did you know that Michael Dell, founder and chairman of Dell Computer Corp., was a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant earning $2.30 an hour? Or that Sylvester Stalone was a lion cage cleaner?
Early Jobs of Famous People.
(via Dump Trumpet)
Early Jobs of Famous People.
(via Dump Trumpet)
The World's Healthiest Foods
The World's Healthiest Foods provides us with 130 foods that can serve as the basis of your healthiest way of eating.
The World's Healthiest Foods.
The George Mateljan Foundation is a non-profit organization free of commercial influence, which provides this website for you free of charge.
Our purpose is to provide you with unbiased scientific information about how nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods can promote vibrant health and energy and fit your personal needs and busy lifestyle.
The World's Healthiest Foods.
Internet Weather Forecast Accuracy
Forecastinging the weather is a major scientific challenge embracing physics, chemistry and mathematics. The problem that faces meteorology is how to forecast the weather systems and the weather that they bring. This is always a great deal more difficult than most people would expect. There are different methods of forecasting: Persistence, Trends, Analog, Climatology and Numerical Weather Prediction.
But how accurate is this information? How much can we trust it? OmniNerd did some research to test the accuracy of online weather forecasts.
Friday, 9 February 2007
Richard Hammond Crash Footage
Richard Hammond is an English television presenter best known for co-presenting the television programme Top Gear along with James May and Jeremy Clarkson from 2002 onwards.
On September 20, 2006, Hammond was seriously injured in a car crash while filming for Top Gear at the former RAF Elvington airfield near York. He was piloting a jet-powered car, the Vampire dragster. The cause of the 288 mph crash was later determined to be a blowout of the front right tyre.
On January 28, 2007, Hammond made a return to Top Gear where the footage of his crash was shown.
On September 20, 2006, Hammond was seriously injured in a car crash while filming for Top Gear at the former RAF Elvington airfield near York. He was piloting a jet-powered car, the Vampire dragster. The cause of the 288 mph crash was later determined to be a blowout of the front right tyre.
On January 28, 2007, Hammond made a return to Top Gear where the footage of his crash was shown.
Sea Giants
Float-on/float-off or 'flo-flo' operations are the trademark of unique submersible hull ships that transport yachts.Specialized Heavy Lift Ships, also known as semi-submersible ships, provide the capability to load, transport and offload outsized military cargo independent of port equipment traditionally used for handling large or extremely heavy cargo, such as tug boats, barges, landing craft, floating cranes, and single anchor leg mooring systems. Lifts range from approximately 50 to as much as 45,000 tons.
How to Properly Clean Your LCD Screen
LCD screens are not perfect. In fact, you have to be very careful when cleaning them up. Too much pressure using the wrong kind of cloth will most likely scratch your display and could even burn some of its pixels. So the question is, what is the proper way to clean an LCD screen?
Geeks Are Sexy knows How to Properly Clean your LCD Screen.
Geeks Are Sexy knows How to Properly Clean your LCD Screen.
Who's Afraid Of The Dentist?
There's no longer any need for kids to be afraid of the dentist. In a wide-ranging promotion Colgate sent special surgical masks to dentists to get the message across in a striking way.(via Grow-A-Brain)
News Of The Future
Today a new chapter in space tourism was written. Rod Markham and his wife-to-be Susan Millster arrived safely to the moon to spend 5 days as the first guests at the Starbright Hotel that was set up for this purpose two years ago.
Not are they only the first hotel guests on the moon, they also set a new record for expensive accommodation since the price was US$ 3,7 million per night, per person. However, the exclusive transfer from earth to the hotel was included in the price.
News of Future tells you what the future will look like during the next 50 years and invites the people of the world to take part in shaping it.
(via Google Blogoscoped)
Anna Nicole Smith Dead
Anna Nicole Smith has died yesterday near Miami, Florida at the age of 39. Her media-hyped journey of celebrity, marked by dubious successes and all-too-human tragedies, ended Thursday at a venue as colorful as her life when she collapsed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and died at a Hollywood hospital.She was found unconscious in her hotel room and could not be resuscitated. No cause of death has been announced.
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vicki Lynn Hogan in Mexia, Texas, on November 28, 1967.
The Doomsday Vault
The final design for a Doomsday Vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.The seed vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change. Construction begins in March, and the seed bank is scheduled to open in 2008.
Thursday, 8 February 2007
Love(?) Among The Astronauts
Lisa Marie Nowak, a 43-year-old astronaut and married mother of 3, drove nearly a thousand miles from Texas to Florida to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a woman she apparently viewed as a romantic rival. After Nowak arrived in Orlando, things got weird.
The former mission specialist wore a trench coat and wig. Also found in Nowak's possession were a knife, BB gun, and rubber gloves. Now, Lisa Marie Nowak sits in a jail cell in Orange County, Florida. She faces multiple charges, among them are attempted kidnapping and battery.
The former mission specialist wore a trench coat and wig. Also found in Nowak's possession were a knife, BB gun, and rubber gloves. Now, Lisa Marie Nowak sits in a jail cell in Orange County, Florida. She faces multiple charges, among them are attempted kidnapping and battery.
A Bittersweet Guide To The Best Valentine's Day Chocolate
If life is like a box of chocolates, picking out a box to give is even harder: You never know what you're gonna get. That's why a team of National Public Radio employees spent the past two weeks blind taste-testing more than 30 brands of chocolate from all over the world.After gorging on the good (and not-so-good) stuff, NPR's stuffed staff reached some decisions about the best — and worst — Valentine's Day online-orderable gifts to give this holiday season.
Porden
Sometimes you run across a web site you would like to download as a whole. Or you find something controversially on a site which might not be there the next day. You can download the site to your own harddisk or... use Porden.
Just enter the URL of the site you want to store for future use and Porden puts it in its cache. It will stay there forever. You do not have to register, it's all for free. With Porden you can retrieve any page, at any time!
Here's Porden's cache of today's Presurfer.
(via Paperholic)
Just enter the URL of the site you want to store for future use and Porden puts it in its cache. It will stay there forever. You do not have to register, it's all for free. With Porden you can retrieve any page, at any time!
Here's Porden's cache of today's Presurfer.
(via Paperholic)
Sea Shell Pearl Gift
The new fashion in Japan is to make a jewel for your partner. Japanese cell phone straps company StrapYa offers a pearl kit consisting of a sea shell, a chain and a spoon. There are 5 different pearls - white, beige, peach, purple and black - they all come in a can but you do not know which color is in the shell.You open the can, take the shell, open it with a spoon, find the pearl and insert it into a small jewelry cage.
(thanks Raluca)
The Best Place To Hide Money
What is the best place to hide your money from a burglar? Who would be most qualified to answer that question? Why, a former burglar of course.
Conversation with a burglar.
Conversation with a burglar.
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Locked In An Eternal Embrace
Archaeologists in Valdara, Italy, revealed the discovery of a couple locked in a tender embrace, one that has endured for more than 5,000 years.The find was unearthed by experts digging at a neolithic site at a less than romantic industrial estate. Scientists are to examine the skeletons to try to establish how old they were when they died and how long they have been buried.
Archeologist Elena Menotti says:
We have never found a man and a woman embraced before and this is a unique find. We have found plenty of women embracing children but never a couple. Much less a couple hugging - and they really are hugging. It's possible that the man died first and then the woman was killed in sacrifice to accompany his soul.
(via Neatorama)
Hairstyle Names From 1970s Ebony Ad
Pictures of hairstyles with awesome names scanned from a 1970s Ebony magazines. These are from an ad for hair products, not from an article. The hairstyle you see here is called 'The Perfecto.'
Useless Account
Today's web is crazy. Every direction you turn you're forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it's for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionaly it's worth the effort. When it's that important, you can't afford to drop the ball. With a useless account you can practice without fear.
Get an account where the only feature is editing your account.
A Useless Account allows you unlimited account editing! Get the hot blooded rush of waiting to see if submitting your email address lands you offers of $uper D!$c0unt Ci@li$. Impress your friends with your ability to tab through form fields and arrow through saved field values!
Get an account where the only feature is editing your account.
A Useless Account allows you unlimited account editing! Get the hot blooded rush of waiting to see if submitting your email address lands you offers of $uper D!$c0unt Ci@li$. Impress your friends with your ability to tab through form fields and arrow through saved field values!
Ear Chair
The Ear Chair, designed by Jurgen Bey, is comfortable, has small tables integrated into the armrests and is eminently suitable for defining smaller and larger areas. Jurgen Bey designed the Ear Chair in 2002 for the reception area of insurance company Interpolis in my hometown Tilburg in the Netherlands.I've been there and I even sat in one of those chairs. I didn't particularly like them, it gave me a confined feeling.
Hiroshima, The Pictures They Didn't Want Us To See
Weblog Fogonazos has an item about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that incited some heated debate in the comments. I'm not trying to evoke the same discussion here, I was just impressed by the photographs accompanying the article.
Warning: graphic images.
For many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records. Although the names of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incised into our memories, there were few pictures to accompany them. Even today, the image in our minds is a mixture of devastated landscapes and shattered buildings...
Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together. This is the horror they didn't want us to see, and that we must never forget.
Warning: graphic images.
Smart Or Stupid
Are you smarter or stoopider than the average person?
Take this short IQ test and find out how you compare.
My score:
Take this short IQ test and find out how you compare.
My score:
The Antioxidant Myth: A Medical Fairy Tale
Antioxidants are chemical compounds that can bind to free oxygen radicals preventing these radicals from damaging healthy cells. Cranberry capsules. Green tea extract. Effervescent vitamin C. Pomegranate concentrate. Beta carotene. Selenium. Grape seed extract. High-dose vitamin E. Pine bark extract. Bee spit. You name it, if it's an antioxidant, we'll swallow it by the bucket-load.
According to some estimates around half the adults in the US take antioxidant pills daily in the belief they promote good health and stave off disease. We have become antioxidant devotees. But are they doing us any good?
According to some estimates around half the adults in the US take antioxidant pills daily in the belief they promote good health and stave off disease. We have become antioxidant devotees. But are they doing us any good?
Penny Postcards
Penny Postcards are postcards that cost 1¢ to mail. Postage was temporarily raised to 2¢ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I. Sending a postcard through the mail for a penny was an affordable link with the outside world for farm families in the early 1900s.The U.S. government had issued plain, penny postal cards since 1873. The Penny Postcard was developed by Post Master General John Creswell.
The Apollo Missions
On July 20, 1969, the first man stepped on the moon. During the next 3 years 6 missions to the moon were made and a total of 12 astronauts walked on the moon. One of the missions - Apollo 13 - failed and they had to return. During these missions thousands of images were taken.
Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with today's computer technics can be stitched together into 360 degrees interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there.
Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with today's computer technics can be stitched together into 360 degrees interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there.
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Word Puzzle Generator
Make your own word puzzle. And if you think this bears a strong resemblance to a certain TV game show, you are right.
Mark Twain's Mississippi
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American author who drew on his childhood along the Mississippi River to create masterpieces of humor and sarcasm, including Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain's Mississippi provides a fully searchable and indexed digital library of some of Twain's publications, placing special emphasis upon his Mississippi novels and reminiscences. These works serve as lenses through which the public may explore additional text, image and sound materials, drawn from the participating libraries, describing the Mississippi Valley that Mark Twain remembered and imagined in writing his classic works of literature.
(via corsinet)
Mark Twain's Mississippi provides a fully searchable and indexed digital library of some of Twain's publications, placing special emphasis upon his Mississippi novels and reminiscences. These works serve as lenses through which the public may explore additional text, image and sound materials, drawn from the participating libraries, describing the Mississippi Valley that Mark Twain remembered and imagined in writing his classic works of literature.
(via corsinet)
Favicon2Dots
A favicon, also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface. If you look up to the browser bar you will see this site's favicon in the form of the letter 'P'.
Favicon2Dots is just a funny application that will convert your favicon to a 3D dot image. If you have a favicon for your web site, just type in the URL and click '2dots!'.
Favicon2Dots is just a funny application that will convert your favicon to a 3D dot image. If you have a favicon for your web site, just type in the URL and click '2dots!'.
Faces of the Human Past
Judging from their astonishing paintings and engraved images of animals on the walls of European caves, people have been making pictures for at least thirty millennia. In contrast, attempts by scientists and artists of our own day to make credible likenesses of the cave painters and their more remote evolutionary antecedents go back a mere 150 years. In fact, scientific evidence for prehistoric humans was not generally recognized much before then.
Artists and scientists work to recreate Faces of the Human Past.
(via debgpi)
Artists and scientists work to recreate Faces of the Human Past.
(via debgpi)
Color Your Braces
Not every web site on the Internet has a purpose. Some sites are totally useless. Like this one!Color your braces.
(via Dump Trumpet)
Lists Of Unsolved Problems
Is immortality possible?
What is consciousness?
Were Egyptian hieroglyphs the first written language?
Is autism a physiological or a mental disorder?
Why do we dream?
What is dark matter?
From Wikipedia: Lists of Unsolved Problems.
What is consciousness?
Were Egyptian hieroglyphs the first written language?
Is autism a physiological or a mental disorder?
Why do we dream?
What is dark matter?
From Wikipedia: Lists of Unsolved Problems.
The Beauty Of The Universe
When someone reads an article about a star, the star is only the abstraction for that reader. The reader cannot emotionally feel the reality of the star without actually seeing it.Wikisky.org strives to create an extremely detailed sky map to help everybody to better understand the information gathering about any space object and various phenomena connected with those space objects. To understand how the map works you'd better click on 'Getting Started' first.
Monday, 5 February 2007
The Museum Of Lost Wonder
Founded in 1997, the Museum of Lost Wonder exists to illuminate some of life's biggest mysteries. Follow in the footsteps of early scientists and philosophers who combined imagination and observation in their search for knowledge.Embark on a journey of discovery at the Museum of Lost Wonder where learning is an adventure and science is about the alchemy of inspiration.
The Presurfer Is A Googlewhack
A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words, all of which must be in Google's dictionary, and without quotation marks - that returns a single result.
Presurfer reader Laurence discovered that searching for etymologic kayaked! returns The Presurfer as a single result.
It's the former Presurfer's address but nevertheless. You can see the search result here.
Of course by publishing about this find I just created a problem. When a Googlewhack is reported somewhere on the web, the possiblity exists that it will no longer be viable, as the page where it is reported will probably be indexed by Google, rendering the Googlewhack obsolete.
Presurfer reader Laurence discovered that searching for etymologic kayaked! returns The Presurfer as a single result.
It's the former Presurfer's address but nevertheless. You can see the search result here.Of course by publishing about this find I just created a problem. When a Googlewhack is reported somewhere on the web, the possiblity exists that it will no longer be viable, as the page where it is reported will probably be indexed by Google, rendering the Googlewhack obsolete.
Abigail and Brittany Hensel
Abigail Hensel and Brittany Hensel (born 7 March 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States), are dicephalic conjoined twins. They have two spines which join at the pelvis. They have two stomachs, three lungs, and two arms.Each of the twins manages one side of their conjoined body, controlling her own arm and leg, and receives no sensation from the other side. Yet, by coordinating their efforts, they are able to walk and run normally.
Despite sharing a body, the twins have different tastes in food and clothes. Some of their clothes are altered so that they have two separate necklines in order to emphasize their individuality.
The Microsoft Mouse
Back in 1983, Microsoft released the Microsoft Mouse. Packaged with Microsoft Word, it came with three programs: a musicial tutorial, the Game of Life, and the Multi-Toll NotePad. The price of the Microsoft Mouse was $195.
And here's the world's most expensive computer mouse, cast from 18 carat white gold and set with 59 brilliant cut diamonds. For $24,180 this baby is yours.
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: And Now The Conclusion, Old West Style!
click on the picture for real size
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.
Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.
Title: And Now The Conclusion, Old West Style!
click on the picture for real size
The Mouth Revolution
Mouths of the world demand real organic food and will unite to take a stand against trans fats, artificial ingredients, GMOs and pesticides.The Mouth Revolution is a humorous 4.5-minute live-action film that parodies history and contemporary culture while informing viewers about the vital importance of eating real, organic foods.
Narrated by revolutionary mouths who take it upon themselves to decide what they will and will not eat, personalities like 'Sojourner Tooth' and 'Captain Mouth' unveil their 'Mouthifesto' - a Declaration of Indigestion that details their objectives and demands: No Trans Fats, No GMOs, No Pesticides, and No Artificial Ingredients.
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Super Bowl Sunday
It's Super Bowl Sunday in the USA. Super Bowl Sunday is about more than football. It's a framework upon which to stitch together a tapestry of friends, food and fun that, with a bit of party planning, can appeal even to confirmed non-sports fans.Who: The Chicago Bears against the Indianapolis Colts.
Where: Miami's Dolphin Stadium.
Part of the attraction is the halftime and pre-game entertainment. Prince will play the Pepsi-sponsored halftime show along with special guest Beyoncé, Billy Joel will sing the national anthem and Cirque du Soleil perform pre-game. The innovative and extravagant commercials (see last year's ads) also draw their share of fans. But for most viewers, the game is the essence of Super Bowl Sunday.
Kanji Characters
Kanji characters are complex Japanese symbols originally from China conveying information in a pictorial form. Kanji characters are used in the Japanese language to provide the root and core meaning of most nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Kanji symbols are also used to write names in Japanese. All Japanese family names and most Japanese first names are written in Kanji. The names of foreigners are usually written in Katakana.
Here's my name written in Katakana.
The Kanji used to write my name are: Rule, Wisdom, Fine silk, Asia, Leading.
Which means 'Clothed in fine silk, you lead Asia with your wise rule, mighty king.
See your name in Katakana and Kanji.
Kanji symbols are also used to write names in Japanese. All Japanese family names and most Japanese first names are written in Kanji. The names of foreigners are usually written in Katakana.
Here's my name written in Katakana.
The Kanji used to write my name are: Rule, Wisdom, Fine silk, Asia, Leading.
Which means 'Clothed in fine silk, you lead Asia with your wise rule, mighty king.See your name in Katakana and Kanji.
The Book of Clichés
The Book of Clichés lists phrases to say in times of trouble in a number of categories. There are phrases for most of the painful situations that you might encounter.
Since The Book of Clichés first appeared on the Internet in late 1996, it has grown into one of the classic cliché-sites and has won numerous internet awards.
Since The Book of Clichés first appeared on the Internet in late 1996, it has grown into one of the classic cliché-sites and has won numerous internet awards.
Charles Robert Darwin
Before 1800, only a handful of scientists had given the idea of an evolving Earth serious consideration.Relying on interpretations of the Bible, most people believed that Earth was only about 6,000 years old - not nearly old enough for countless species to have evolved. Today, we know from radiometric dating that Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
The 1859 publication of 'On the Origin of Species,' in which Charles Robert Darwin demonstrated that all living things evolved from earlier forms of life by the process of natural selection, revolutionized human thought. Darwin's theory of evolution became accepted as one of the foundations of modern biology.
How To Unlock Your Car If The Keys Are Inside
The subtitle with this video says it's a unique way for women to recover keys they forgot in a locked car. That of course is a misogynic remark. It has happened to me too. That being said, I do not know whether this works on all cars.
Blondie Unlocks Car - video powered by Metacafe
(via J-Walk Blog)
Blondie Unlocks Car - video powered by Metacafe
(via J-Walk Blog)
The Story Behind 10 Famous Entertainment Websites
You've all heard of Fark, Digg, B3ta, Something Awful, Rotten and eBaum's World. They are all famous entertainment sites. What is the story behind these sites? Who started them and why is there sometimes controversy surrounding them?
Saturday, 3 February 2007
Catmusic
Do cats like to listen to music?
Yes, they do.
Here's a cat listening to music.
Some other examples of cats listening to music.
Yes, they do.
Here's a cat listening to music.
Some other examples of cats listening to music.
The Saga Of The Lost Space Tapes
As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his 'one small step' onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. Millions of television viewers around the world saw those fuzzy, moving images.
What they didn't know was that the Apollo 11 camera had actually sent back video far crisper and more dramatic spectacular images that, remarkably, only a handful of people have ever seen. Only in recent years was the agency reminded of what it once had - clean first-man-on-the-moon video images that could be especially valuable now that NASA is planning a return trip.
About 36 years after the tapes went into storage, NASA was suddenly eager to have them. There was just one problem:
The tapes were nowhere to be found.
Camhacker
You can find many online public webcams around the world that can be viewed without access restrictions, only using your web browser. Many cams show traffic or areas in or around factories and offices. This is possible because sometimes people forget to protect their webcams.
With Camhacker it's very easy to find those unprotected cameras. Just type in a keyword (like beach, restaurant, square), and choose a camera type. For instance, type 'live' and choose 'Axis cameras' to see hundreds of unprotected webcam views.
With Camhacker it's very easy to find those unprotected cameras. Just type in a keyword (like beach, restaurant, square), and choose a camera type. For instance, type 'live' and choose 'Axis cameras' to see hundreds of unprotected webcam views.
Conan O'Brien Versus Serena Williams
NBC Late Night host Conan O'Brien challenges 2007 Australian Open champion Serena Williams to a set of tennis on Nintendo's 'Wii Sports.'
Top 10 Big Brother Companies
Today, many major companies spend millions collecting a variety of data on individuals such as you. What charities you donate to, your political beliefs, your shopping habits, your educational data and your contact information.
Unfortunately, you never get to decide how much your privacy is worth to you, because these companies aren't asking your permission. Business Intelligence Lowdown highlights ten of the worst corporate offenders when it comes to invading privacy.
Unfortunately, you never get to decide how much your privacy is worth to you, because these companies aren't asking your permission. Business Intelligence Lowdown highlights ten of the worst corporate offenders when it comes to invading privacy.
Windows Vista: Yes Or No?
Don't know whether to stay with your old version of Windows or upgrade to Vista? Need some help deciding?Here's the Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart.
Nailing Jelly To A Wall: Is It Possible?
We've all heard the old saying 'it's like nailing jelly to a wall' to describe a task that is very difficult or impossible. But is our view of the difficulty of this task justified?
Has anybody actually tried nailing jelly to a wall?
In this experiment I attempt to establish, one way or the other, the validity of the old proverb.
Friday, 2 February 2007
The Presurfer RSS Feed
RSS feeds seem to be a problem with the new version of Blogger. A lot of people are telling me they can't read my RSS feeds. Here's what to do.
Put the following URL into your reader:
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I've tried this with Bloglines, Feedreader and Google Reader and they all work for me.
Put the following URL into your reader:
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I've tried this with Bloglines, Feedreader and Google Reader and they all work for me.
Smoke Signal Generator
Generate satellite-visible smoke signals from any place in the world. Here's my 'smoke signal' message to you right from the heart of the city I live in.Click here to read my message.
Create your own smoke signal message.
(via dotSphinx)
Bahamavention
When concerned family members, friends, or miscellaneous day laborers 'Bahamavene' in the lives of a loved one and offer him or her the help only the Islands of the Bahamas can give, that is a Bahamavention.
A Bahamavention is the single-most important 'instrument of love' you can use to get overworked, overstressed, and undertan loved one the treatment he or she so desperately needs.
Hidden Songs
A hidden song (also known as a 'ghost track') is a song on an album which is not listed on the album sleeve or jacket. On a CD, usually the song is accessed by playing the final track through then going through a brief moment of silence.
Hidden Songs has a comprehensive listing of hidden and unlisted tracks from albums by all types of artists. Each listing tells the artist, album, hidden song title, author, and any special information such as what the song is about.
Hidden Songs has a comprehensive listing of hidden and unlisted tracks from albums by all types of artists. Each listing tells the artist, album, hidden song title, author, and any special information such as what the song is about.
What Side Of The Road To Drive On?
In about 75% of the countries of the world people drive on the right side of the road. In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him.In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. These wagons had no driver's seat; instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team. Since he was sitting on the left, he naturally wanted everybody to pass on the left so he could look down and make sure he kept clear of the oncoming wagon’s wheels. Therefore he kept to the right side of the road. (from World Standards)
Here's a list of countries and whether they drive on the left side of the road or the right side.
Geico Caveman's Crib
GEICO is an American auto insurance company. I've been posting about the GEICO caveman before. In 2005, GEICO began an advertising campaign featuring cavemen in a modern setting. In these commercials a GEICO spokesman explains that using geico.com is 'so easy a caveman could do it.' This slogan offends cavemen who are shown to still exist in modern society.
Zev, who works for GEICO, emailed me that they have a new Caveman's Crib site that allows users to play in the GEICO caveman's house and tinker around with his stuff. Visit the caveman's house and start clicking on everything.
Zev, who works for GEICO, emailed me that they have a new Caveman's Crib site that allows users to play in the GEICO caveman's house and tinker around with his stuff. Visit the caveman's house and start clicking on everything.
GoogleLoops
Really Magazine, a web site concentrating mainly on science, technology and environmental issues (although they occasionally, and possibly foolishly, delve into other realms) might have inadvertently created a bizarre Google oddity.
Here's an example: click here.
More examples at Really Magazine.
For a while now we've been listing odd phrases from Really Magazine which Google seems to like. Just recently, we've noticed that it's been 'listing its own listings' - such that in a perfectly formed software loop, the Google entry on the page (usually the top entry) leads you directly back to the page you're already on.
Here's an example: click here.
More examples at Really Magazine.
Block Posters
Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed.
Once you're happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall.
(via Ursi's Blog)
Once you're happy with your selection, you can download the PDF file containing your newly created images and print each one massively blown up, resulting in a huge pixel poster to stick on your wall.(via Ursi's Blog)
Borat In 30 Seconds
Borat, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Bunzakhstan.
In other words: Borat in 30 seconds and reenacted by bunnies.
(via Everlasting Blort)
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Linking To This Site
There seems to be something wrong with the set-up of my domain name. If you want to link to The Presurfer please use:
presurfer.blogspot.com.
presurfer.blogspot.com.
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton Stolen Video
Remember, you saw it here!
The Britney and Paris stolen video.
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The Britney and Paris stolen video.
Brit & Paris Stolen Video - video powered by Metacafe
A Dog's Body
A dog's body is similar to ours. Each of us has a skeleton that holds our body together. Inside our skeleton is a brain, a heart, and lungs. We both have backbones.
Can you think of other things that we have in common with dogs?
(via Information Junk)
Gelli Baff
Gelli Baff turns bath water into goo... and back again! Simply run your bath, add Gelli Baff and watch in amazement as your boring bath water magically turns into a fun, thick goo. The goo is a completely harmless powder that soaks up 400 times it's own weight in water. When the fun's all done, add the disolver sachet and the goo dissapears.Gelli Baff is totally safe. It's developed by the leading beauty and spa products manufacturer Gelicity Skin Technology and conforms to strict cosmetic testing regulations.
Drifting - by Andy Mckee
One of today's finest guitarists, Andy McKee is hailed by many musicians in the acoustic world as the most promising fingerstyle guitarist to arrive on the scene in some time. Over the last thirteen years, Andy has cited numerous influences from Metallica, to Bjork, to Don Ross, to Tchaikovsky, and has created a unique voice on the acoustic guitar by drawing from these inspirations.
(via Reality Carnival)
(via Reality Carnival)
Ten Worst Rock Star Plane Crashes
Blender, the Ultimate Guide to Music, has an article about the 10 worst rock star plane crashes.What is it about famous musicians that makes them believe it'd be a swell idea to charter a small, unreliable aircraft through inclement weather? Music history is quite literally littered with the tragic wreckage of such ill-fated journeys. Blender examines the 10 worst rock & roll air disasters and the sometimes dubious decisions that led to them.
(via Neatorama)
The Human Marvels
The Human Marvels website presents for your edification evidence of plausible and near impossible prodigious, curious, eccentric and unusual human beings who stand as testaments to the variety of humanity.
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