Troy Polamalu plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers and is proudly Samoan. His hair is over 3feet long and is endorsed by Head and Shoulders.
For further reading, I found this article right here on Samoan Hairstyles.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
United States as done by planets from Star Wars
Gmail sorts itself
Gmail will now pick the more important emails and keep them on the top of the field.
Remi Gaillard Uses Parkour as a prank
Remi Gaillard enjoys pulling pranks on people. The video above has him annoying big guys and then escaping.
People gathered at a beach dressed in formal wear
Personally I wish I could have joined them. I have always wanted to go skateboarding in a tuxedo. Going to the beach would be just as fun.
600 Hanna Barbera Characters
This link takes you to outline just about every single Hanna Barbera character known to man.
Office Sticky Notes in experimental form
Sticky Note Experiment by EepyBird from Eepybird on Vimeo.
The highly intelligent scientists who brought you tests of mentos in coke, now give you sticky note experiments.
Can you guess all of the oldschool games being referenced
This video shows joke references to just about every game released for the NES, and those people who loved playing them.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Running on Water Ad
This ad above was made to promote the Hi-Tec shoe brand. The Hi-Tec website admits to this. The runners are on a platform just below the water. The camera is placed so that the water reflects instead of showing the platform. Pretty smart stuff.
Baby used for bizarre science experiment!
This baby is being used to control a knew type of wheelchair design. As you can see, when she leans forward the chair moves forward. When she leans to the right, or turns to the right, so does the wheelchair. The device is actually an electric wheelchair hooked up to a Wii Fit balance board. The baby seems unharmed in the video.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Blockbuster to declare bankruptcy
Blockbusters, the video rental chain, has announced that it will declare bankruptcy soon. This is hopes to restructure while paying off large amounts of debts.
The Bible Online Game
It is like Farmville only set in biblical times and places. You get to choose your favorite prophet and raise the land just like him. I would be hoping to be Elisha. With Ehud by my side, we would totally be kicking Assyrian armies out of the land of Milk and Honey without even lifting a finger.
Der Kinderfreffer -Child Eater
The Child Eater was the boogey man of the 16th century. The problem was, at this time in history, there really could have been a cannibalistic maniac who ate children loose upon the land.
Sci Fi Writers of Modern Times
There are 2,000 of them from 1990 t0 today. That is the population of a small town. They could have their own get together of just published authors. This article has each one listed and what kind of books they have written.
World War II Propaganda Posters
World War II is considered one of the greatest wars ever. I have no real idea who does this judging, but I think it would be considered completely Ok if the East German judge gave it a really low score. You will note the Israeli judge would not be allowed to even give a score. To keep people from doing crazy things like telling their friends about where they were going, the countries were scared to death this information would get into the wrong hands. This led to a lower moral, so these great posters were made to keep people thinking that the entire war was actually a giant game of Power Rangers. On the US side was Liberty, Japan had a giant Samurai Warrior, and Germany had Hitler. Russia didn't have a giant robot, but it did have enough brave people, who looked as if they were constantly spacing yet able to destroy most of the world.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
WikiLeaks Sexual Abuse charges are not conspiracy
Swedish prosecutors deny that the charges by two women are an attempt to destroy the wikileaks founder. Wikileaks is famous for posting pictures and articles held in high security or private hands. This includes Sarah Palin's private email, and the leak of the British school that was falsifying information on Global Warming.
Philidelphia charges bloggers $300 a blog
It appears that the city of Brotherly Love considers blogging to be a business, and therefore in need of the business license. In other news, Philly ran out of money.
Emrbionic Stem Cell research halted by courts
And it turns out that a lot of the promises about the research was just ideas of what could be done.
Movie Poster
If you can guess every character and film in this poster, you are equal to me in movie buff knowledge.
Amazing videos
A flame thrower trombone.
This video was shown to announce the writers for Conan O'Brien at the Emmy's.
This video was shown to announce the writers for Conan O'Brien at the Emmy's.
The internet mapped out
This map shows the icon of the page and the size shows the amount of hits it has.
Funniest Joke on the Fringe
Keep in mind the award is British, so you may have to think on this one.
“I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.”
Hitler was a Black Jew
DNA tests show that Adolph Hitler had ancestry to Morocco Jews. Well his relatives did anyway.
Evil Cat Lady
A woman was caught by security cameras throwing a living cat into a garbage can. Check out this link for more information and many many tapes on the matter.
Fire Tornado
Captured on film by Russian News. It is from Sao Palo Brazil and is being caused by a bad dry season.
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
It seems a newspaper in London reported that there were trees and bat creatures on the moon. The report was entirely made up, but was believed so much that it showed up in all sorts of things for several years.
fascinating no?
fascinating no?
Medical Marijuana User wants to be Police Officer
The marijuana is for epilepsy. A former coworker reports from my old job.
Friday, August 20, 2010
North Korean Government Gets Twitter,youtube, Facebook account
The picture above shows both South Korea and North Korea. The one without lights except one dinky spot is North Korea. The capitol Pyangyong is the only city in the country. It is also the only place that receives electricity.
I keep hoping this picture is just a bad day for the guy but really just a mistake. The more you study on the history of North Korea though and you find yourself in a bit of a reality shock.
This same country has a twitter account. I am still looking for the account itself but it has made the news all over the place. The theory is that this is the only way for North Korea to talk to the outside world. Possibly because there have been enough warnings from people to not believe the normal people promoting North Korean politics. The old method used people to move into the country and take their money. The Facebook account is down for the moment, but I am continuing to look. The honest response is that the facebook account might have been a joke. However the youtube account is up and ready.
The only thing I can really say is
Update:
I just found the website. It looks like a website from the 1990's.
New Update:
And now for the Twitter Account.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Alligator hunting season
Florida has a season to hunt alligators. Another reason why Hawai'i is better.
Okotanpe the Glass Ball Juggler
Okotanpe is a glass juggler. He has a youtube account with his more advanced and artistic jobs. The opening flame one is pretty impressive. There is also a website dedicated to him, though it is entirely in Japanese.
Here is an interview with him.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky's photostream
Sergey was asked to photograph the wilds of Russia in the 1910's. He used a new form of color film that made three separate images based on the color scale. In other words, there was a picture that showed the yellows, one that showed the blues, and another that showed the reds. These pictures would combine to make the great pictures seen here.
Old Genttle Man's article
Gentlemen wore hats and were able to show how high up they were by there hats.
Coca Cola Village has a Facebook Thumbs up sign
The sign works by someone just pressing the button. Coca Cola village is found in Israel.
Communist China propoganda Beat it
Someone has taken Michael Jackson's Beat it and put it into a Communist China propaganda video. The more you know, the funnier this video gets.
Bears Guard Marijuana... Steal some
Mounted police found over 2300 potted pot hidden away. Several bears were found wandering around guarding the marijuana in an amiable way.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Quasimodo was based on a real person
It seems that while Victor Hugo was doing research for the book Hunchback of Notre Damme there was a real hunchback who was working as a sculptor in Paris.
Journalism labels
Tom Scottt decided to make labels for his local paper. He is releasing these labels on his papers where ever he can.
The Fridge of the Future
It is made of some strange jello that lets you put in whatever you want. A tiny bubble is made for each item allowing everything to not bother other stuff. It looks insane and is likely the wave of the future.
A real life racing game
RACER DEMO 0.1 - video game mashup from sputnic on Vimeo.
These guys have connected a camera to a radio controlled car, and then transmitted the video to an arcade cabinet. They then built a track for the RC Car.
Art smaller than the eye of a needle
This man creates sculptures using a microscope and patience. He says he has accidentally inhaled some of his sculptures.
This Clothes Washer has a good beat
Seeing as most refrigerators and freezers make sounds that sometimes have a nice beat, this is the first ever recorded showing of a clothes washer.
Do you know the evolutionairy joke history of LolCats?
This family chart will help you understand the intricate knowledge of how such strange ideas as Long Cat have come to be.
Free Phonecalls using Facebook
Vonage has promised that an app will allow you to call up your buddies phone using facebook.
Feds keeping Airport body scans
Some federal investigators have admitted that they have kept the images from body scans in airport security checkpoints. It was originally promised that this would not happen.
Water Powered Jet
This would be a perfect solution for the island hopping person in Hawai'i. The water pack goes on for hours, so long as it has enough power and water. There is a height limit because of the hose that is sucking up the water from below.
Trained Police Dogs
These dogs are fully trained and ready to keep their human companions safe. They move with a speed and accuracy that is scary. Indeed I would say, "You go dog."
San Francisco at the beginning of last century
The more you watch this video, the more you can see the mindset of the average person in San Francisco of that time. The train car is slow, so slow that I probably could have out run it on the streets without really trying.
North Korea in Funk
The original videos were to show North Koreans what an amazing country they had. They are promoted so hard that it gets to the level of ridiculousness. If you would like to know more information, take Brother Murdock's class on North Eastern Asian history.
Ghostbusteers Backpack
Ghostbusters was a Movie series and Cartoon show in the 80's. It was so enjoyed by youth that many children would tie a stick to their backpacks and pretend to have a proton pack. Someone out there remembers this.
Popcorn
The song being heard from the popcorn is called Popcorn. It was created by a Swedish techno group in the 1960's. There have been several renditions of it, including one by Crazy Frog. (Note how I am not posting a link to it.) Here you can find several of the editions and listen to how it was changed over the years.
Slow Motion Cat
A man videotaped his cat doing cat things. The process of slow motion videoing involves taking more frames per second than the average speed. A normal video will show something around 30-60 frames a second for any video, while the video of the cat is showing 400 frames a second. This makes a fluid motion of the cat slowly jumping out of the box.
A cannon the size of a finger destroys stuff
This cannon is classically built, but so small it could fit onto a hand. This would be a bad idea because it works perfectly well.
Prince Mongo is a publicity Nut
Prince Mongo is the name of a fairly wealthy man who enjoys getting attention. No one really knows where his money comes from, only that he specifically works to annoy people to call the police and give him some free publicity. There are so many stories about this man that it is difficult to tell just a few. He would keep piles of junk in his front yard, repaint his outer walls to ugly colors, and never once wore shoes. He also owned a bar and sold to minors. He owns 5 homes, 2 in Tennessee and 2 in Florida. The 5th one is unknown, but some guess
Tokyo University Totally wants to change your opinions on stale cookies
Tokyo University has created a meta cookie. It is a stale bland cookie with a special design on it that a computer will recognize and respond too. The computer will switch the image of the cookie and then the smell and taste of the cookie so that the person eating it will experience a good cookie taste. Just think, a few years into the future, people will be hacking computers using cookies. Macguyver would be proud.
This Woman Demands Chicken Nuggets
This video shows a woman attack a person at a McDonalds because she wanted Chicken McNuggets.
Pictures of Politicians When they were younger
Some are easily recognizable, and others simply not. These are old highschool photos of many big time politicians of today.
Videogame Updates
Star Craft 2 has a level editor that actually allows the creator to make more than just Star Craft style games. This amazing game was made as a multiplayer over the shoulder zombie shooting game.
Facial Hair and the lack of it seems to be a common thing for videogames. Usually we believe the big amazing warriors have no mustache at all, so what would happen if they were given some facial hair?
Some people enjoy making art for games that never existed. A competition on this website challenges game makers to look for such art and then make a game based on it. The big message here is free games.
Because of the release of Star Craft 2, South Korea companies have been promoting this.
Unicorn Song
This song is for children in Ireland. The office Mascot, Hyrum loves this song. While singing it, many have pointed out that it sounds like Yellow Submarine by the Beatles.
Pop Up Books as Art
These pop up books are supposedly a children's toy. Peter Dahman of Germany made these and others to support his portfolio.
Parkour champs
Parkour is the art of running in France. Parkour champs combine aerobatics, combat running skills, and imagination to run across Paris will style. This link shows the top videos found on Parkour.
Amazing classic photos
I don't know the exact history of these photos/drawings. They were taken in the 1890's and put on postcards.
Fish that glow in the dark
These fish are for sale and have a glowing personality. They were specially bred to glow in the dark and make your mind go insane.
Roger Federer Can hit a can off a head
William Tell once shot an apple of his son's head with a bow and arrow. Roger Federer hit a tin can off of someone's head using a tennis serve. The best part is he compensated for the guy to duck.
3 Year Old Memorizes Poetry
This child has memorized "Litany" by Billy Collins. I was learning how to ride a bike when this kid was memorizing poetry.
An Eastern Orthodox Priest Skateboards
Notice how he never did a single jump. Still though, he has excellent balance and can talk all while doing some cool moves.
Not that flooded rescue
It appears that a horrible flood, was small enough that a dog could walk through it.
Nintendo Wii will help uDraw
The uDraw is a drawing tablet used by artists that will hook up to a Nintendo Wii controller. There are several games previewed in this article. The big thing here is that it is actually being made by a company other than Nintendo. The major parts of the uDraw is that you can make drawings and then save them onto an SD card. Will this work out? We will have to see.
Ginger Pop Matryoshka
A woman named Ginger has created Matryoshka dolls that are painted to look like famous pop stars. A matryoshka is where a doll is inside of a doll which is inside of a doll. Such great pop sensations as Guns N Roses, The Beatles, The Golden Girls, and Saved By the Bell were made into the stackable dolls.
Friday, August 13, 2010
The destruction of Libraries
A writer talks about what is very likely happening to hundreds of libraries around the world. The backlog of books in storage are being destroyed because it is assumed that the books will be found on Google Books.
The idea of destroying libraries because they will be found on a database somewhere was expected. With the introduction of eBooks and all of that stuff it was expected completely by economic theorists over a decade ago. Yet the idea of losing them so suddenly has had an impact on several people who love the feeling of books.
A historian explores old books to find information. The library is the natural state of a historian, and they tend to have a large supply of books at their homes. I have about 50 books just sitting around my room, these were entirely after leaving home to this school a year ago. Most of them are actually from the discontinued section of the schools library. It feels like a hunting trip to find things that no one else has seen before.
On the other hand, finding old texts is much easier now that it can be downloaded to an eReader like the Kindle. Let's also be honest that the price is way lower than some of the books that are required for school. Check that same link to see what some book sellers and dealers are trying to charge for buying the eBook.
So taking something from the past and changing it has its challenges.
Then we have publishers. There is Authonomy where an author can post their book and pray the other authors with the same desire like it. Then the eBooks market has two major publishers in Amazon and Google. We would include Apple in this, but it doesn't look like Apple gets it. They are using regular publishing companies to post their books.
The problems comes down to the reality that more people can write and would like to be published today then years before. Computers have made it easier to type and edit a book than in the days of Heinlein, Asimov and Kafka. This means that the usual means of publishing has hit a large snag. There is simply not enough people to read the slush pile, and not enough money to publish all of the books in the traditional way.
So the eBook wins, how people get published is unknown. What happens to the old printed books is unknown as well. We just know that it scares some people, and that libraries are going to be very different.
The idea of destroying libraries because they will be found on a database somewhere was expected. With the introduction of eBooks and all of that stuff it was expected completely by economic theorists over a decade ago. Yet the idea of losing them so suddenly has had an impact on several people who love the feeling of books.
A historian explores old books to find information. The library is the natural state of a historian, and they tend to have a large supply of books at their homes. I have about 50 books just sitting around my room, these were entirely after leaving home to this school a year ago. Most of them are actually from the discontinued section of the schools library. It feels like a hunting trip to find things that no one else has seen before.
On the other hand, finding old texts is much easier now that it can be downloaded to an eReader like the Kindle. Let's also be honest that the price is way lower than some of the books that are required for school. Check that same link to see what some book sellers and dealers are trying to charge for buying the eBook.
So taking something from the past and changing it has its challenges.
Then we have publishers. There is Authonomy where an author can post their book and pray the other authors with the same desire like it. Then the eBooks market has two major publishers in Amazon and Google. We would include Apple in this, but it doesn't look like Apple gets it. They are using regular publishing companies to post their books.
The problems comes down to the reality that more people can write and would like to be published today then years before. Computers have made it easier to type and edit a book than in the days of Heinlein, Asimov and Kafka. This means that the usual means of publishing has hit a large snag. There is simply not enough people to read the slush pile, and not enough money to publish all of the books in the traditional way.
So the eBook wins, how people get published is unknown. What happens to the old printed books is unknown as well. We just know that it scares some people, and that libraries are going to be very different.
Japan is missing some people
Around 200 people over 100 in Japan are missing, but their families are collecting retirement checks.
Transformer Furniture
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This furniture is designed to help find extra storage in ordinary places. This means that stuff you misplaced could be anywhere.
This furniture is designed to help find extra storage in ordinary places. This means that stuff you misplaced could be anywhere.
Manly Things
Darth Vader as either a Samurai or Batman are manly.
Being the President of a country and fighting fires is manly
The above video is manly.
Losing inmates at a prison because you were too busy playing Plants vs Zombies is not manly at all.
Being the President of a country and fighting fires is manly
The above video is manly.
Losing inmates at a prison because you were too busy playing Plants vs Zombies is not manly at all.
A Komodo Dragon turns 8
This is not why I am posting the picture. There is a hat on the dragon. This thing would eat people in the wild, how did they get the hat on the thing? They also left a present of a meat cake with 8 dead mice. Children watched as the Dragon ate the mice.
Yahoo
This article is about how Yahoo went from amazing company that had it's own magazine -I had a subscription as a gift from a friend- to almost completely forgotten.
Google View the Google View Cars
Thats what happens when you drive in Holland. All of the streets will make you do turns you didn't expect, and suddenly you are driving up when you should be driving down. So the good people of Google discovered this.
Spooky Ads
The ads you will be looking will make you disturbed or flinch very hard. There are babies with razors, Santa Claus smoking, and a reference to 9/11.
Speaking of things that will disturb you, someone has proposed that power lines look like giants.
Speaking of things that will disturb you, someone has proposed that power lines look like giants.
Spooky Ads
The ads you will be looking will make you disturbed or flinch very hard. There are babies with razors, Santa Claus smoking, and a reference to 9/11.
Fights in Pro Baseball Then and Now
Back in 1982
Now... Sorry for the music.
Hey guys, this isn't hockey
This is all nothing to the Taiwanese Parliament.
Now... Sorry for the music.
Hey guys, this isn't hockey
This is all nothing to the Taiwanese Parliament.
Pictures of Europe in 1906
Boing Boing has posted some very wonderful pictures of Europe. There are pictures of places that friends and family have been to. I was especially enthused by the pictures of Schwerin.
The Rubiks Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a device that was created to make smart people be quiet. I would set it up for my roommate Tuan and stop worrying about him for at least 5 minutes. He would have solved the cube about 4 times in that 5 minutes.
Will Smith likes the cube.
Of course the article doesn't realize that Will Smith is really good at the Cube anyway.
Will would be impressed by today's announcement that any Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves. So I guess Tuan is now just going to look at the cube with disdain.
Will Smith likes the cube.
Of course the article doesn't realize that Will Smith is really good at the Cube anyway.
Will would be impressed by today's announcement that any Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves. So I guess Tuan is now just going to look at the cube with disdain.
Top Campsites
The best places to go camping within the US mainland. Almost every single one is in the Rocky Mountain side of the country. In other words, most of the mainlanders from the US have been to these places. Check it out.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Saami
Thats the name of the people you are looking at. They raise reindeer and are the basis for the idea of Santa Claus' sleigh. Guess what, they are found in northern Sweden.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
8 bit modern
Um, some of these games were in 16 bit. I mean, Mario Kart was sold for the Super Nintendo.
Blondes
They are dumb hah hah... My sister didn't get it. Though really I think the joke isn't really intelligent.
North Korean Funk
After studying all of this in a history class, this video actually relieved a lot of stress for me.
Japanese Weirdness
A friend of mine wants to point out that the Japanese can be completely sane as well.
MS Carrier no longer exists
Seeing as they were miscariers I am glad. The motto used to be "We deliver the future."
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