Japanese Scientist Creates Robot Twin

A mixed bag of links.

Mexico vows to keep looking for 'lost' island

Mix-up at Royal Mint creates dateless 20p pieces worth £50

Japanese Scientist Creates Robot Twin (via)

When Matadors Get Gored

Satirical Maps - An Incomplete Evolution of the Cartoon Political Map

There, I Fixed It.

NES Controller Turned Wireless Doorbell

The Best Sites to Understand and Share Your Strange Dreams (via)

Top 10 Jokes in America

The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice

Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer

Horror as two-year-old girl is strangled to death by pet python in the middle of the night

BBC NEWS - British followers of Japanese fashion

Abandoned House in Iran

Urban Exploration - Irelands largest Urbex Community

Tunnels under Moscow [HDR]

Remarkable Religious Structures Reclaimed by Nature

An old Soviet Russian nuclear missile launching silo in Ukraine, now turned into museum

Abandoned Soviet Trains In Belarus

Abandoned motels in USA

Abandoned Places In The World

Abandoned House in Iran

Bizarre Fences

Fowlness emanates from Cooper Green

OK Magazine Publish Dead Michael Jackson Photo

Tasteless sensationalism, one commentator quipped.

Friday Games

Brilliant Blocks

Doom 2D

Secret Files. Categorise the falling words.

Pwong 2

Traffic Slam

Twibik

Color Infection 2

Fat Slice

5 Cool Free Internet Games for Kids That’ll Make them Love Math(via)

The Deep Space Homer Quiz! 4/10 for me.

Photos Of Fighter Jets Breaking The Sound Barrier

10 Obnoxiously Annoying Driving Habits (via)

20 Biggest Car Fails of All Time

15 of the World's Strangest Limousines

16 (potentially) deadly car noises (via)

Wow, bad license plate

The Wienermobile is the Greatest Vehicle in America

Biking down the World's Most Dangerous Road

13 Interesting Side Carts

Live Interactive Ship Location Map

Masabumi Hosono: The Man Condemned for Surviving The Titanic

Abramovich Launches the World's Biggest Yacht

DIY Water Bike From China

Bike With A Purpose

Photos Of Fighter Jets Breaking The Sound Barrier

Ekranoplans Showcase, Part 2

Riding a motorcycle on water

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Transformers, Ever

14 Bizarre Japanese Toys

The Top 6 Water Guns of All Time

10 Creative Rubik's Cubes

8 Obscure Twists on Monopoly

The 10 Least Necessary Doctor Who Figures

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Transformers, Ever

Star Wars figures and chipmunks by Chris McVeigh. Thanks Steve.

12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

Photos Of Rain

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The Evolution Of Space Cruiser Design

Space Shuttle Science & The Tunguska Explosion (via)

'Misty caverns' on Enceladus moon

After more than 18 years studying the Sun, the plug is finally being pulled on the ailing spacecraft Ulysses

Daytime in space

Planet Could Hit Earth in Distant Future

Saturn’s rings do the wave

Ontario Public Asked to Help Find Meteorite; Scientists Cross Their Fingers

Huge Mars Region Shaped by Water, Rover Mission Finds

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite

The Evolution Of Space Cruiser Design: A Gallery

From one moon to another

Not space junk yet: Mars rovers carry on despite age, ailments

Saturn: a brief guide. In the wake of claims that there may be life on one of its moons, John Crace offers a primer on our sixth planet.

Top 10 Strangest Things Floating in Space (via)

Silly Experiments in Spaaaace!

Fourth Annual Layers 100 Wicked Tips

20 Effective Reflection Photos

60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots

Daryl Peveto - Visual Journalist based in Southern California (via)

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

A Tribute to KODACHROME: A Photography Icon (via)

Tokyo camera style

The Rise of Digital imaging and the Fall of the Old Camera industry

An Introduction to Time-Lapse Photography

Ten Tips For People Photography

Top 10 Incredible Early Firsts In Photography (via)

28 Online Photo Editing Websites To have Fun With

22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials

Fourth Annual Layers 100 Wicked Tips

8 Guidelines To Taking Panoramic Photos With Any Camera

Professional Photographers vs. "Hobby" Status (i.e. Working for Free)

How to Shoot in Direct Sunlight

British Journal of Photography - All quiet on the Westminster front. Police deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph.

How to reduce your PSD files size using Photoshop

Swan or Geese (not duck) Serenade

Surgically augmented by Cooper Green

Lost's Final Season Grows

11 Best Homer Simpson Quotes About Movies and Television

Official: 'Earl' finishes list, not going to TBS

Brian Lynch: 30 Rock is a rip-off of The Muppet Show!

8 Starship Enterprise Facts Every Trekker Should Know

The Stories Behind 10 T.V. Theme Songs

10 Celebrity Commercials We're Sold On

A Tangentially Sportive Chat with Survivalist, Tennis Fan and Urine Connoisseur Bear Grylls

Lost's Final Season Grows

Doctor Who and the Terrence Dicks Novelisation of the Earth!

10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons

Top 10 Bizarre TV Shows For Kids (via)

6 Songs Used to Torture and Intimidate

Net gives pirate radio the last laugh

Who really benefits from paperless concert tickets?

Oh, my ears! Auto-Tune is ruining music

The anatomy of "Bomb the bass - Beat Dis". Here is the song for real Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis.

The human iPod: Derek Paravicini is blind and severely disabled yet can master any song after hearing it once... What is his secret?

Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else?

Ten British bands that changed the music world

10 Celebrities Injured on Stage

Music Tidbits: Cyndi Lauper

Complaint Box | iPod Volume

Michael Jackson patented a gadget to perform dance magic

A relatively long list of music videos by Michel Gondry. From his humble beginnings with Oui Oui to his eventual mastery of both space and time. Some great stuff here. Thanks Hypersloth.

12 Greatest Key Changes In Pop Music (via)

6 Songs Used to Torture and Intimidate

And finally, for now, over at Amy's place leave a comment and tell her your oops moment or the craziest thing you have ever done and you could win a prize.

This Is Luck

Look at the top picture and you can see where this guy broke through
the crash barrier (right side where the people are standing on the road).

His truck left the road, traveling from right to left. He flipped
end-over-end, across the culvert outlet and landed on the left side of it.

Now look at the picture below.

Bad Day

Blue Angels - Raw Cockpit Footage

Footage shot from the cockpit of the United States Navy's Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue Angels (Official Website).

YouTube - Blue Angels Cockpit Footage (via)

Collapsed Building In Shanghai

7 Simple, Unexpected Ways to Save Water

The madness of temporary ski jumps

The Town Devoured By Rock

6 extraordinarily stubborn 'nail houses'

6 Intriguingly Shaped Communities As Seen On Google Maps


Collapsed Building In Shanghai

The tridge: the bridge's mutated cousin

7 Most Fascinating Underwater Ruins

Spectacular Dams Around the World (via)

The World's Largest Residence

How to Heal Sunburn

Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class

Why your brain just can't remember that word

A collection of images of Nurses taken from Film, TV and The Media from the 1930s to the present, showing how uniform styles have changed over the years.

My stomach was in my shoulder!

6 Disgusting Ways Animals Can Improve Your Health

Gene could allow lab-grown teeth

Australian scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse"

How to Heal Sunburn

Mother of 555 pound teenager charged with neglect

Obese Michael Hebranko has lost and gained 3,000 lbs

Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn't Age

Hide and Seek Champ

Winners of the Worlds Ugliest Dog Contest

Read the Story Here

Sigur Ros Talk Takk

In this 30 minute short (links below) you can listen to an interview with the band members in which they talk about each song on Takk individually. The band tells us about the origin, inspiration, recording process, and general comments about the songs on Takk. The interviews are accompanied by images of the band's surroundings in álafoss and reykjavík.


sigur-ros.co.uk - Takk Documentary

Or here on YouTube in 3 parts
Sigur Ros-Takk Documentary(2005) 1/3
Sigur Ros-Takk Documentary(2005) 2/3
Sigur Ros-Takk Documentary(2005) 3/3




Takk is still far and away the most played CD in my collection. A complete classic.

Here's a few stunning videos on YouTube featuring some of the songs from the album in full.

Glósóli
Hoppípolla
Sæglópur

Magic Tricks Revealed

A mixed bag of links.

Questional: Ask A Question. Find an answer. Discover and Share.

Cleaning the Window

Scary Washing Machine

Boxing: A Manly History of the Sweet Science of Bruising

The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

Russian Ice Sculpture Park

Logic Behind The Design Of Digits

Celebrities Who Own Private Islands!

Ostrich People of Zimbabwe

Magic Tricks Revealed

Anti-Abuse Bus Stop Ad Only Batters Women When Nobody's Looking

Can Hands: Pringles

Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour?

We had simple needs back then

Geologists have discovered in India one of the world’s rarest rocks, dating back to the birth of the planet

Scientists found mysterious forms of Water

The Five Stages of Your Life

The Professional Gambler

Cummingtonite From Wikipedia

Poor Little Orphan

Aww, Bubbles