Archive for October, 2007

Rollerblading competition video

The video above is from a freestyle rollerblading slalom competition in Korea. The girl in the video won 1st place. That little girl is amazing. The way her feet just slide right in between the cones and weave in and out is almost unnatural. Who knew rollerblading was even a sport, and why don’t we have [ READ MORE ]

Man made tornado in a car museum

Would you believe that the largest man made tornado in the world is in a car museum? Yep, that picture you see in the post is of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The architect didn’t want to build the fire doors required by the local fire code. he thought it would mess up his design. So instead, [ READ MORE ]

Strangest Cleaning product ever

The name for this item is just wrong. You know how some people will moisten their thumb with their tongue and then use it to clean something off? Or how about when you spit on an item, like a shoe, and then polish it off to get a temporary shine? Well, that was obviously the inspiration [ READ MORE ]

Storm Troopers can dance too!

Ok, here is another one of those pointless videos. Danny Choo is dressed up as a Storm Trooper and goes around dancing at different street corners in Japanese cities. Actually pretty funny. Via Japan Probe: Dancing Shibuya Stormtrooper Video [ READ MORE ]

Pictures of a Soviet Nuclear Missile Silo

Picture courtesy of Martin Trolle Found this great Flickr set of an abandoned Soviet missile silo in Latvia. With the recent news about US missile silos for sale, I thought this was a bit interesting. Check out the entire set at Flickr: Soviet Nuclear Missile Silo [ READ MORE ]

Let’s Play Presidential debate Bingo!

Found this cool little bingo card. Buttafly created it for watching the presidential debates. And the card is pretty funny, no matter what side of the fence you are on. Or even if you don’t like the fence model. Maybe you can use this to turn those depressingly long and boring debates into a fun [ READ MORE ]

Pointless cat conversation

Since my last post was about cats, I thought I would post this one as well. Enjoy this little cat conversation. I think it might be negotiations over a head cleaning. But I’m not sure. Can anyone translate? LOL [ READ MORE ]

LOLCode.Net – A LOLCat programming language

  A few months ago, I wrote about a humorous site that was trying to make a programming language based on the lol cat language. You know, the funny pictures of cats with captions that are all over the net. Well, I thought it was nothing but a joke and no real compiler would ever come of [ READ MORE ]

Facebook adds support for Blackberry

While I’m on the topic of cell phones, I’m really excited that Facebook actually added a blackberry application. I’m both a huge Blackberry fan and an avid Facebook user. So this is really great news. I’ve been feeling a little left out since Facebook released an Iphone version. Don’t get me wrong, the mobile web interface [ READ MORE ]

How Cell Phones are affecting our world

Jan Chipchase a researcher at Nokia gave this very interesting presentation on how cell phones are changing peoples concept of self and place. I was really intrigued by this video. Mainly because I wonder what the future will hold for us as our “connectedness” increases. Watch the video. I personally think it will be worth [ READ MORE ]