Archive for December 2009

Who thinks about staircases?

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Size comparison of stellar objects

This is a fun two minutes — the music selection is so dramatic it’s hilarious.

The Lamborghini Ankonian: Just a concept.

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Check out this tiny human playing “I’m Yours” on the ukulele!

10 Awesome Trees

Le Petite Prince: Your planet is overgrown!

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Guy jumps off roof of building

According to the oft-reliable YouTube comments, this was a 4 meter jump and 7 meter drop. That’s 14.12 feet over and 22.97 feet down *Thanks again WolframAlpha*.

The Giant Crystal Cave: Cueva de los Cristales of Mexico

Even though this place has 100% humidity and is 50.0 C (122 F according to WolframAlpha), I’d still like to see the place. See those orange blobs in the picture? Those are people. Them crystals are HUGE!
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The most accident-prone fishing show ever

This low-budget fishing show seems to have near Spinal Tap levels of bad luck.

10 tricks that will earn you pity claps at holiday parties

Luke Skywalker battles with crippling OCD

Cool blog: My Parents Were Awesome

More 60′ and 70’s snaps at My Parents Were Awesome.

Why Men Shouldn’t Write Advice Columns

The world’s most muscular dog

Wendy, a whippet from Central Saanich, British Columbia is rippling with muscle due to mutated genes. Breeders often try for one mutated gene because it makes whippets run even faster than usual, but Wendy here got two, hence the double muscle on her average-sized frame.
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Object Grouping fail

An oldie but a goodie from FailBlog.
And one for the bonus round:

Time-lapse of unemployment rates by county

“No detail is overlooked, which is reflected in his photographs and retouching”

Uhmm…. I see a “detail” overlooked which may “reflect” badly on his retouching.
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Omniwriter’s serene full-screen text editor

Name a person who cannot find their creative center in a snow-razed, Hoth-like environment while weird chimes of the Mara play about ad infinitum? You can’t. That’s why this new full-screen text editor from Omniwriter is perfect for everyone.

Tilt-shifted wrestling video looks like claymation

Twilight New Moon summed up in one minute

Hipster vs. Hasid: Turf war 2009 – Bike lanes!

Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.

But Baruch Herzfeld, who has tried to bridge the gap between hipsters [...]

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