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What Your Toilet Paper Preference Says About You

2016-04-22T20:32:43Z

If you assumed that hanging a toilet paper roll one way ... arbitrary decision, you'd be wrong. Your toilet paper pr... actually be correlated to your demographic and political... shows.

A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff | WIRED

2015-08-28T18:45:06Z

George Orwell - A Nice Cup of Tea - Essay

2015-04-19T14:45:15Z

If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that come... will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most yo ... lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on se ... important points. ... as golden:

20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.

2014-03-11T09:20:35Z

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What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

2014-01-04T16:26:22Z

It's great. John Graham-Cumming is collecting screen sho... from movies and TV shows on the tumblr Movie Code and ex... actors are really looking at. Just because it's filled w... Below is scenes from Terminator (he's looking at 6502 as ... What all th

101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home | Glamumous!

2014-01-04T11:33:55Z

I love to discover tips which make housework easier! Fro... tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things,... provides a wealth of information and advice. In this post I've collected 101 visual tips from all ove ...

Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2012-12-19T18:50:30Z

photo Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger" David Varela has taken on a 100 hour writing challenge t ... ... ously wrote me a Hexaflexagon poem about Ginger the cat!

InsertScript: PHP Non Alpha Numeric 7/6 Chars

2012-12-17T20:43:50Z

If you don't know anything about php non alpha numeric c... I used the following charset: $_=+(); As you can see only 7 chars. In the end the function log will be created,because this ... ... it back to us. So the code will look like this $_=_($_)

Mining enthusiast creates his own replica in his garden (From The Northern Echo)

2012-11-27T10:20:53Z

A MINING enthusiast has built his very own 150ft ironsto... his back garden. John Wiggins has spent years making the perfect 19th cen ... Despite being located just 15 feet underground, the mine ...

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com

2012-11-18T07:52:08Z

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave... job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University,... Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away prese... She was a little surprisedÃ¢â¬âa parting gift seemed an od ... Schaefer op

[1210.8144] Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific

2012-11-06T18:44:27Z

Twitter / wunderkamercast: Most terrifying cause of death ...

2012-10-24T06:55:39Z

Bubble Ball Unicode (Characters Map)

2012-10-22T21:29:18Z

Bubble Ball Text - Unicode Character Map This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Upside Down Unicode (Characters Map)

2012-10-22T21:28:51Z

Upside Down Text - Unicode Character Map This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

JS/UIX - Terminal

2012-08-24T10:33:20Z

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises ... tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-manage ... and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-ma ...

Every Third Thursday-iShred-snowboard-iBoard-iPad-by-signal-snowboards - YouTube

2012-08-10T06:13:36Z

Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

2012-07-30T10:44:50Z

Ã¢â¬ÂTake the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

5 Guys, 1 Piano - Goodnet

2012-07-30T07:40:55Z

MAKE | Lego Star Wars Relativity

2012-06-10T20:21:00Z

Paul VermeeschÃ¢â¬â¢s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foo... scenes from classic Star Wars settings. Six months in the making, I present my largest creat ...

A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE - YouTube

2012-05-30T08:42:27Z

xkcd: Tic-Tac-Toe

2012-05-29T14:24:26Z

BBC Nature - Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'

2012-05-12T10:44:33Z

Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their ... researchers. British scientists have calculated the methane output of ... By scaling up the digestive wind of horses, they estimat ... They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the ..

2012-04-28T21:42:21Z

QR Code Usage In Japan ÃÂ« Blog

2012-04-28T21:39:27Z

HereÃ¢â¬â¢s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos... Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

Space-age Christmas c.1973 | Retronaut

2012-04-19T09:29:06Z

Ã¢â¬ÅThere are two theories about the kind of Christmas pr... expect in 2003, and no one can say exactly which of them... Ã¢â¬ÅBecause of the incredible advances in automation, mac ... Ã¢â¬ÅSo, if that theory is correct, Christmas presents in ... Ã¢â¬ÅThe oppo

EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

2012-04-08T10:09:10Z

HOWTO Make a Dalek Egg - Boing Boing

2012-04-08T10:06:41Z

0x10Ã¢â¬â ÃÂ¨

2012-04-04T13:48:28Z

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended,... In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compa ... It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first ... Game Features ... re programatically advanced of you can get a head star

Woolly Thoughts

2012-03-26T15:12:19Z

The world's deepest bin - Thefuntheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se - YouTube

2012-03-14T10:35:19Z

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behav... is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

Pi Land

2012-03-14T08:05:17Z

Pi Land by Eve Fun Activities: ... Source: xkcd

Workshop: Farmbot - How I built a Sheep Herding Robot (workshop) : 3Dcamp

2012-03-13T11:34:34Z

In this workshop Niall Dempsey will host a Q&A session a... built for his Roscrea farm. FarmBot (the sheep herding r... inspired when Niall needed some assistance with herding ... Farmbot is a small (2 ft x 3 ft x 2 ft high approx.), fo ... Currently i

Popcorn Maker | Mozilla Popcorn

2012-03-12T18:50:16Z

Popcorn Maker is a creative tool that makes authoring in... pages as easy as point and click. Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plu ...

(sqrt(cos(x))cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 - Google Search

2012-02-16T08:29:47Z

Makego

2012-02-15T16:16:20Z

The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

2012-02-13T09:53:59Z

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

Euphemisms: Making murder respectable | The Economist

2012-02-07T14:27:51Z

Toronto News: Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high - thestar.com

2012-01-27T09:18:28Z

Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 k... Published On Wed Jan 25 2012 Email Print ... the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

2012-01-27T09:17:52Z

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program... 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ... 1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ... 1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ... 1936 - Alon

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

2012-01-27T09:17:52Z

Trade between belligerents Ã¢â¬â Marginal Revolution

2012-01-04T12:17:14Z

I have been enjoying Adam HochschildÃ¢â¬â¢s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh... The Germans

Tech Specs | Sphero

2012-01-04T12:05:05Z

Sphero is like nothing youÃ¢â¬â¢ve seen before. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s the ... that you control with a tilt, touch, or swing from your ... tablet. Sphero delivers a unique mixed-reality experienc... multi-player games that let you engage in the virtual wo... real one. M

BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

2011-10-30T08:31:06Z

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

2011-10-30T08:30:52Z

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ... The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ... Or, more ac

Kern Type, the kerning game

2011-10-12T18:33:41Z

Draw a Stickman

2011-10-11T16:53:37Z

Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem shows off Cars hybrid iPad app and toy - YouTube

2011-09-27T17:27:06Z

Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem shows off Cars hybrid iPad a... VentureBeat Loading... 194 views ... ean Takahashi interviews Disney Mobile chief Bart Decrem

Sending children through the post

2011-09-17T19:27:02Z

Child by mail This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photog ... By Jason Kottke

Ã¢â¬ÂªThe Wednesdays - Sam's posterous

2011-07-25T12:57:18Z

The Wednesdays via youtube.com Reminded of this today by someone. Brilliant.

BBC News - Creating Cumbria's musical hill

2011-06-03T07:38:42Z

Five hundred musical instruments, powered only by the wi... The sound made by the instruments, some conventional and ... French composer Pierre Sauvageot, along with French grou ... He explains how it works and how his team went about ins ... "Harmonic F

MpembaÃ¢â¬â¢s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars

2011-06-02T17:03:45Z

Ã¢â¬ÅMy name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.Ã¢â¬Â With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

Dalek 6388 - A History of the Dalek Props from 1963 to 1988 - Doctor Who and The Daleks

2011-05-08T17:01:22Z

"An exhaustive - if bonkers - work of genius!" Mike Tucker In the spring of 2002, before most of the world had hear ...

Video: Test driving the Parrot AR.Drone | Technology | guardian.co.uk

2010-11-19T14:48:46Z

Technology editor Charles Arthur sees if he has the righ... Parrot's Wi-Fi controlled quadricopter for a test flight

Out of Print on Cool Hunting

2010-11-08T23:36:15Z

Turning classic book covers into inspirational t-shirts,... recently added a kids line to its collection of "intelli... fashions. Tykes can don soon-to-be-favorite reads like "... Rye," "Moby Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" or "Brave New W... distressed,

GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash.

2010-10-24T08:52:46Z

n GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy, fun and free!

First and last letter of sentence - Interesting Illusions

2010-07-31T09:28:00Z

First and last letter of sentence << Previous Next >> First and last letter of sentence This text started circulating the internet in 2003. Its ...

Self-Referential Aptitude Test

2010-07-18T15:10:54Z

Self-Referential Aptitude Test by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu) A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ... The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ... ... all of the above

I Write Like

2010-07-16T14:03:00Z

Check which famous writer you write like with this stati... tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style ... with those of the famous writers. Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, jour ...

Dry Erase White Board Paint for Offices | IdeaPaint

2010-07-12T17:42:52Z

When youÃ¢â¬â¢re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it,

WarMouse Meta: the Multi-Button Joystick Mouse

2010-07-09T10:21:46Z

WarMouse Meta

The 100 most funny and unusual 404 error pages - FrancescoMugnai.com - Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends

2010-07-09T10:20:46Z

Author's website banner About the author About Francesco Mugnai ... Less is more: 30 excellent examples of vCard websites

the history of computing project

2010-07-03T10:44:59Z

history of computing project

Old Computers - rare, vintage, and obsolete computers

2010-07-03T10:35:42Z

Early personal computers were nothing like present day c... personality! Each was different and more exciting than the previous, ... sharp-pc7000 This website is dedicated to the preservati ...

Amazon Sued For Selling Smarties | Techdirt

2010-06-10T07:57:37Z

I remember, as a kid, enjoying "Smarties" candies, which... hard pill-like tablets of pure sugar that were sold in r... that in the rest of the world, there's a totally differe... Smarties, made by NestlÃÂ©, which appear to be something ... But, yes, i

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

2010-04-29T15:45:15Z

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents in ...

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2009-11-15T14:03:41Z

Twelve Days of Christmas - Notes on the Festival and the Carol

2007-12-21T13:05:40Z

The twelve days of Christmas,1 as a festival, have a lon... According to one source, it was first mentioned as a fes... eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth ... declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 5... As a song,

Playing Cards

2007-11-13T09:34:55Z

"Classic" Playing Cards Download: PNG's: classic-cards.zip TGZ: classic-cards.tgz *

Tech.Chick.Blog

2007-05-13T19:56:02Z

Tip of the Hat: the Apple Recycler Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago. under Tip of the Hat Tags:apple computer, mailboxes

Science Toys

2007-01-28T15:24:14Z

Science Toys Make toys at home with common household materials, often ...

Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > just fun

What Your Toilet Paper Preference Says About You

A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff | WIRED

George Orwell - A Nice Cup of Tea - Essay

20 Jokes That Only Intellectuals Will Understand. Number 5 Took Me A Minute.

What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home | Glamumous!

Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

InsertScript: PHP Non Alpha Numeric 7/6 Chars

Mining enthusiast creates his own replica in his garden (From The Northern Echo)

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com

[1210.8144] Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific

Twitter / wunderkamercast: Most terrifying cause of death ...

Bubble Ball Unicode (Characters Map)

Upside Down Unicode (Characters Map)

JS/UIX - Terminal

Every Third Thursday-iShred-snowboard-iBoard-iPad-by-signal-snowboards - YouTube

Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

5 Guys, 1 Piano - Goodnet

MAKE | Lego Star Wars Relativity

A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE - YouTube

xkcd: Tic-Tac-Toe

BBC Nature - Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'

QR Code Usage In Japan ÃÂ« Blog

Space-age Christmas c.1973 | Retronaut

EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

HOWTO Make a Dalek Egg - Boing Boing

0x10Ã¢â¬â ÃÂ¨

Woolly Thoughts

The world's deepest bin - Thefuntheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se - YouTube

Pi Land

Workshop: Farmbot - How I built a Sheep Herding Robot (workshop) : 3Dcamp

Popcorn Maker | Mozilla Popcorn

(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 - Google Search

Makego

The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

Euphemisms: Making murder respectable | The Economist

Toronto News: Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high - thestar.com

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Trade between belligerents Ã¢â¬â Marginal Revolution

Tech Specs | Sphero

BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

Kern Type, the kerning game

Draw a Stickman

Disney Mobile's Bart Decrem shows off Cars hybrid iPad app and toy - YouTube

Sending children through the post

Ã¢â¬ÂªThe Wednesdays - Sam's posterous

BBC News - Creating Cumbria's musical hill

MpembaÃ¢â¬â¢s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars

Dalek 6388 - A History of the Dalek Props from 1963 to 1988 - Doctor Who and The Daleks

Video: Test driving the Parrot AR.Drone | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Out of Print on Cool Hunting

GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash.

First and last letter of sentence - Interesting Illusions

Self-Referential Aptitude Test

I Write Like

Dry Erase White Board Paint for Offices | IdeaPaint

WarMouse Meta: the Multi-Button Joystick Mouse

The 100 most funny and unusual 404 error pages - FrancescoMugnai.com - Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends

the history of computing project

Old Computers - rare, vintage, and obsolete computers

Amazon Sued For Selling Smarties | Techdirt

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

file23147.gif (GIF Image, 887x900 pixels)

Twelve Days of Christmas - Notes on the Festival and the Carol

Playing Cards

Tech.Chick.Blog

Science Toys

QR Code Usage In Japan ÃÂ« Blog

0x10Ã¢â¬â ÃÂ¨

(sqrt(cos(x))cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 - Google Search

Trade between belligerents Ã¢â¬â Marginal Revolution

Ã¢â¬ÂªThe Wednesdays - Sam's posterous

MpembaÃ¢â¬â¢s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars