Wacky Stuff from the Internet: 05/01/2008

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Strange Looking Animals

Some are bizarre looking:

http://www.sharenator.com/Worlds_strangest_looking_animals/

Friday, May 30, 2008

Woman lives in man's closet without him knowing

For a year!

http://gizmodo.com/394396/security-camera-system-busts-homeless-woman-who-lived-undetected-in-a-mans-closet-for-a-year

Friday Fun

A bunch more:

Cute mini pigs why not, I guess. New pets?
The world's deepest swimming pool 108 ft!
Weird traffic accident Who gets the ticket?
News coverage makes Americans stupid?
Bumper sticker: "Guns don't kill peple, Drivers with cell phones do".
Robotic arms on humans Now that the Segway is done, Dean Kamen moves on to cooler stuff

Best use of Flash:

Borders new website browse books just like you're there.
Knickerpicker online dressing room

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Redneck Power Windows

This guy cracks me up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd876iqGdT4 (45 sec vide0)

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Obama exceeds 65535 contributions, breaks Excel

Most people are still using Microsoft tools from before 2007, so they hit the annoying limit of 65535 rows:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10609.html

Clinton also hit the limit.

Massive Solar Power -- backed by Google, Chevron

Half a million mirrors! Ouch, my eyes!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_TUtlIwV7Fw

Funniest Newspaper Headlines

Pretty good ones:

http://www.oddee.com/item_96156.aspx

Buying a Jungle

If Brazil put the Amazon jungle up for sale, it could fetch $50 billion

http://www.smh.com.au/news/conservation/we-could-buy-the-amazon-for-52b-tycoon/2008/05/27/1211653986834.html

Smart Student?

I guess he was bored... Entertaining way to take a test:

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/upload/exam1.jpg

Jumping to earth from 25 miles up

What a cool thing to try:
http://gizmodo.com/393142/frenchman-plummeting-25-miles-from-the-sky-will-break-sound-barrier-world-records

Unfortunately, his balloon blew away without him onboard. So I guess he'll have to try again later:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=673380d7-9f6a-499e-9e7c-aef2cfffe1e9

The dark side of New York

Pictures over 30 years:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

Mars lander video

Pretty cool movie animation of the flight, touchdown, and sampling:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080525m.html

Monday, May 26, 2008

Nude maid pockets $40k in jewelry

What an entertaining story -- you wonder if it's really true:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-527nudemaid,0,1045406.story

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Weekend Summary

Lots of wacky stuff this weekend:

It's official -- Firefox users are smarter :-)
0-60 in 2.5 seconds! Yippee!
Time to make a U-turn!
Dissolving plastic bags faster (teenager's research)
Unmarked chopper guards NYC from a mile high
Dangerous nipple cream

Friday, May 23, 2008

Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice

This probably isn't good:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7417123.stm

"Now ice that's 3000 years old, and as thick as a 10 story building, is falling apart. A major feature of the arctic, now fractured."

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Giant Microbes

Wow, these are so much cuter than a beanie baby or stuffed animal:

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Tallest Building

Imagine the view...

As if this weren't already too tall:

http://www.madarchitect.org/super-structures/the-tallest-building-in-the-world-is-burj-dubai/

there are plans for a building that's 1001 meters tall (0.621 miles, or ~3300 feet). I assume this includes the tower on top.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Zuza Fun -- Impressive Art

Check out Zuza Fun:

And there are hundreds more... wow!

Who wants a 200 mpg car?

From VW -- they don't expect to sell a lot:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/497/vw-will-sell-a-200-mpg-car-in-2010.html

What do you do with 5 million legos in San Francisco?

Find a steep hill and...

http://gizmodo.com/391587/5-million+piece-lego-boulder-chases-indy-crashes-into-car

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Relax on my sofa...

Just too cool:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2411400635_f6da20ca11_o.jpg

Gas pump Y2k problem

Sort of like a Y2k problem -- some old gas pumps are limited to $3.999/gallon:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/16/mechanical-gaspumps.html

How short-sighted. :-)

Friday, May 16, 2008

MyDocuments laptop case

So nerdy:

http://gizmodo.com/391012/my-document-laptop-case-is-charmingly-iconic

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Radioactive Cat picked up by Feds

While driving down the freeway at 70 mph, an agent using a radiation sensor picked up a signal from the cat in this guy's car:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2004300343_danny23.html

Pretty cool technology!

Bizarre Website

If you figure out what this website is, please comment:

http://www.screenvader.com/root.html

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Embed your friend's keyboard in Jello

They did something similar on "The Office":

http://www.offbeatearth.com/jell-o-keyboardmouse-prank/

Hair Dying, Doggie Style

Some people are crazy:

http://www.dogguide.net/blog/2008/05/no-im-not-kidding-15-photos-of-dogs-with-dye-jobs/

Swarms of Ants in Texas

Home of the fire ant, now "crazy raspberry ants":

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/14/national/a110350D66.DTL

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Space Aliens are God's Creatures Too

It's official -- and I guess it makes sense:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90KSE100&show_article=1

Monday, May 12, 2008

Modems circa 2008

Remember the old Hayes and USRobotics modems that connected to your serial port?

Nowadays this is what a modem looks like:

http://www.provantage.com/usrobotics-usr5637~7USRR00M.htm

Extreme solar power

Clever idea: magnify the sunlight 2000x to a temperature of 3000 degrees F, making the solar cell very efficient. Then use "nanotech goo" to keep it cool: