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I’ll bet you thought that Superman was a really great guy, what with his saving the Earth from all manner of calamity, but not so I’m afraid. He also has a strong inclination towards homicide, blackmail and just general mean-spiritedness, as evidenced by these comic covers. continue reading… »
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FedEx Furniture is furniture put together by empty FedEx Boxes, and held together by fedex packaging supplies. All of the furniture seen here is 100% functional.
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Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest.
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For all you guitar players (or aspiring guitar players) out there. The ability to change out of standard tuning to any tuning you want is particularly useful. Be sure to press the ‘Strum’ button!
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I can’t really describe this, except to say that it involves dog shit and the President.
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Photographers catch George Bush writing Condi Rice a secret note during the Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit. Behind every great man…
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You’ll lose your job. Your significant other will leave you. Your children will starve. You will be entertained for the rest of your life. StumbleUpon adds a button to your web browser that when pressed, presents you with a random web page based upon your selected interests. When you’re bored with the page, just press the button again for more entertainment. And again and again and again and…
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Avast, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, so grab some grog and learn to speak like one you bilge rat!
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Easier than Outlook. Simpler than notepad. More useful than either. 37Signals Backpack is an outrageously cool and useful web application that you can post to, read and edit effortlessly. The basic service is free and probably useful enough for most people as-is. I can’t say enough good things about this tool and have only scratched the surface in my own usage.
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
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Have you ever wondered what a stack of one million pennies looks like? How about a trillion? Or maybe one quadrillion? Perhaps a quintillion? Did you even know there was such a number as one quintillion? I didn’t. This site is all sorts of useful.
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Another optical illusion. Stare at the cross in the center of the circle and try not to move your eyes off of it. Eventually the outer circles should appear to fade or disappear entirely.
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Peter sings Cleveland a song to comfort him after his wife had an affair and subsequently left him.
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This is what a real robot looks like. The pioneering roboticist Hans Moravec first described the idea in the late 80′s. This abstract summarizes the concept, math and geometry of a “bush robot”. Such a robot could perform tricks like surgery without incisions, act like a lens, project holograms, and of course, embody a human mind with plenty of CPU & RAM left over to carry out its unimaginable posthuman agenda.
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