May 2010
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Sad pictures after the Chernobyl disaster →
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The Moeraki Boulders - Almost Perfectly Shaped... →
Alien landscape? Not at all! (unless you think the shoreline of New Zealand is alien…)
More specific information can be found here.
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There is seemingly no end to Lego creativity →
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“a compendium of this age’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas...”
– Atlas Obscura - Curious and Bizarre Travel Destinations
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“Many people see the current group of college students — sometimes called...”
– All about me? College kids lack empathy - Behavior- msnbc.com
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Black and WTF - Strange black and white... →
I’m hoping this is a still from a movie set - but, hey, this being the human race, in its infinite peculiarity…
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View 10 x 10 Prints by erinsaidso on Etsy →
Oh dear. Got a point, though.
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Know-it-All Pencil Set →
Oh I so totally need some of these.
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funny Pictures: Fantasy Sculpture in Forest →
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Horrible Park in Thailand | suradiolive.net →
I realise we’ve got some odd things going on in Thailand, but what sort of fantasy park is this?
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Urban Metrobowls: City Street-Shaped Metal Serving... →
Won’t work for soup!
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“In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human...”
– Will End of Men Imminent? Y Chromosomes Rapidly Losing Genes According to Study
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The Artwork of Leonid Afremov →
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“A study just published in the journal Psychological Science says trying to get...”
– Yes, I Suck: Self-Help Through Negative Thinking - TIME
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5 Rediscovered Underground Temples →
I’m fairly familiar with Damanhur (pictured below). It’s an incredibly stunning construction built (in large part) in secret until found out by the Italian authorities. Would love to visit.
More underground (lost) temples
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“Bad language could be good for you, a new study shows. For the first time,...”
– Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief: Scientific American
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Now you see me, now you don't: The artist who... →
Now this really is throwing yourself into your work.
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Off the wall: The astonishing 3D murals painted on... →
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1000 Awesome Things →
1000 Awesome Things is just a time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things. Launched June, 2008 and updated every weekday. Published as The Book of Awesome in April, 2010.”
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Impressive Conformal Photography →
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“from products and business models to life experiences and habits. We’ve...”
– 50 things that are being killed by the internet - Telegraph
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Brilliant Negative Space Illustrations by Noma Bar... →
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Cityscapes →
Pixelated images inspired by computer game backgrounds.
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Blanka || Iconic TV →
Minimalist delight.
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“Oh, tremors! Quick, under the table! Leave the goldfish though. Little shit. Let...”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
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Save The Words →
Words drop out of usage and favour all the time. Help stop the loss and adopt a word. I adopted the words veteratorian (subtle) - something I not always, but which I admire; and pudify (to cause to be embarassed) - something I am all too familiar with. :>
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Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk Vintage Cigar... →
WANT!
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It begins with a house. « Picture Book Report →
The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth. Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature. Many people went straight into shock as their minds tried to encompass what they were looking at. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
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someecards.com →
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Annie Lennox - Backwards/Forwards - An Earworm... →
Normally I really do not at all care for mashups. But this mix of Annie Lennox songs is pretty damn good.
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Little People - a tiny street art project →
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Fake Science - When the facts are just too... →
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Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rikers Island... →
“One thing that was very evident as we walked down the hallway was that the library service was well-liked, well-used, and in-demand. Most of the prisoners who walked by us (in between a red line painted on the floor and the wall) asked if they could have a book, or if we were coming to their house or not. Sometimes the decision to provide book service to a house is dependent on whether or...
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Watch“Notput” is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for pupils more easy and interesting.
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Won Park – The Master of Origami Paper Folding →
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"Ten Original Singles Way Better than the Movies... →
Tears for Fears, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World (extended edit)” (from Real Genius)
“… but as far as we’re concerned any film made in the 1980s and set in a college has no place invoking any music more highbrow than Kenny Loggins.”
Awww, come on! It wasn’t that bad! Well, okay, maybe it was, but I still love it regardless. (“What were you...
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Tibetan Life Told Through Photographs →
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Cretique » Blog Archive » 70 Stunning Miniature... →
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The Chaos →
Demonstrating the irregularity of English pronunciation, “If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of
hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.”
An exerpt:
Dearest creature in creation,
Study...
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“7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch At the same time that...”
– Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook - Facebook - Gizmodo (via Eye of the Goof)
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Baby's Touch 'N... →
Anna Karenina
Grisha and Tanya turn boxes into a toy train.
This is called foreshadowing.
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Church Mosaics →
Church mosaics made entirely out of butterfly wings.
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The Last 10 Seconds Of Lost As Imagined By Classic...
dmax801:
via atom.com
Best one: the M*A*S*H parody. Nice reference: “I’d like to thank the White Stripes for stopping by” - because of the white/black/red references…
Posted via web from dmax’s posterous | Comment »
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You Dropped Food on the Floor. Do You Eat It? →
“We’ve all been there: You dropped your cupcake on the ground. Did it land icing up, down? Can you just scrape off the icing? How many hours have you lost trying to decide? Here’s a time-saving flow chart to help out.”
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Leaf Tie →
I so need to get some of these!
Proceeds from the sale of these items go towards ecology causes.
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Akinator, the Web Genius →
It guessed Jane Eyre, Joe Strummer, and the Marquis de Sade, but I stumped it with John A. MacDonald!
