Saturday, December 31, 2011
The Goat Tower
The Fairview Wine and Cheese farm in South Africa is famous for more than just its wine and cheese. Owned and run by Charles Back, it houses a unique monument built for the comfort and use of the farm’s goats – The Goat Tower. Acknowledging the fact that goats love to climb, sometimes even up on livestock, to get a better view, Back first got the idea of the tower some thirty years ago.
The tower, a first of its kind, is built of brick and mortar, and consists of a steep metal roof. It also has a spiral staircase made of wood, and windows too. The goats in Fairview farm have the privilege of climbing the two-story tower at will, resting within it. Since 1981, the tower has become a symbol of the winery, so much so that they produce a wine called “Goats do Roam”. The goat tower is by far, the first known to be built with such a purpose in mind. However, according to Back, the tower was inspired by a similar one his parents had seen during a vacation in Portugal. As a result of that trip the farms first goats were purchased, and the tower built.
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Joke Of The Day
Q: What position did Bruce Wayne play on his little-league team?A: He was the bat-boy.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Giant Outdoor Escalator Built in Colombian Shanty Town
A huge outdoor escalator has been unveiled in one of the poorest districts of Colombia’s second largest city.
Until now residents of Medellin’s Comuna 13 district have had to climb hundreds of steps to get around the shantytown, which clings to the side of a steep hill. Journey times will be reduced from over half an hour to six minutes.
“It’s wonderful, it’s a dream come true, and I was one of the first to use it,” said one local woman delightedly.
The escalator, 384 metres long, cost the equivalent of just over 5 million euros and is one of several infrastructure projects in the city.
Medellin’s mayor Alonso Salazar said he hoped it would help to improve life in a district known for urban violence.
Officials from Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro are said to be interested in the scheme.
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Everyone needs this, it's great with an 'r' on the end but you're sad when the first letter goes away.
What is it?
What is it?
Joke Of The Day
The 'Kentucky Fried Chicken' franchise has a new Bucket of Chicken out. It's called the 'Hillary Clinton Bucket.'It contains two small breasts and two large thighs.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Billboard Of The Day
This billboard is reportedly 5 miles outside Clovis, New Mexico on the Texaco Highway.
Tight Rope Wedding
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A Bizarre and Dangerous Wedding. Filmed in Toulouse, France, this couple have decided to get married on a tight rope, high above the ground. There is no net and the vicar climbs up a fireman's ladder. All very weird and dangerous! Date Unknown.
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Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET COSTER SECTOR ESCORT COURTS
Joke Of The Day
Psychiatry students were in their Emotional Extremes class. "Let's set some parameters," the professor said. "What's the opposite of joy?" he asked one student."Sadness," he replied.
"The opposite of depression?" he asked another student.
"Elation," he replied.
"The opposite of woe?" the prof asked a young woman from Texas.
The Texan replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddyup."
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
War Horse Puppet
The Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa made this amazing life-size puppet. Three puppeteers control the beast in such a way that it looks, acts, and sounds just like a horse. It’s a wonder of both design and choreography.
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The Unfolding Apartment
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In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid $235,000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen.
Then he let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects design a way to pack more density into his small space.
In order to fit more apartment in a small footprint, they created an object that's bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day.
It's a large, blue, oversized cabinet that houses all of the walls/bed/tables/shelving/closets needed for at least 4 full-sized rooms.
By continuing to unfold, or fold differently, Schneider can create a bedroom with accompanying built-in nightstand and closets, but an office plus library, a guest bedroom, and a living room. Or close it up entirely and simply flip down the small bar and the room becomes entertaining space for a dozen.
The Normal Projects architects called their creation the Unfolding Apartment, though given Schneider's affinity for the Japanese sense of space (he spent his first year post-college living and teaching in Japan), it could as easily be called the Origami Apartment.
In total, Schneider spent $70,000 total remodeling his new apartment and this includes not just the cabinet, but the bathroom renovation, all cabinetry, kitchen appliances, furniture and dishes.
In this video, Chen shows us his custom cabinet of rooms and Schneider unfolds a few of his favorite configurations: his bedroom (& closet/changing room), office (& library), guest bedroom, kitchen, dining bar, living room and lounge.
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You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.
Joke Of The Day
Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Lego Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
Bruce Lowell uses the Lowell sphere design he invented 10 years ago to complete the creation that the technique was originally intended for.
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The root tops the trunk
on this backward thing,
that grows in the winter
and dies in the spring.
What am I?
on this backward thing,
that grows in the winter
and dies in the spring.
What am I?
Monday, December 26, 2011
Every Single Significant Bat-Suit Ever
Comic book writer Grant Morrison said it best: “[Every bat-suit is] completely different” – sometimes insanely different – “but they’re all instantly recognizable as [the-bat-suit].”
Unlike Superman, who has more or less been wearing the same blue and red strongman since Action Comics #1 in 1938, Batman just keeps changing his appearance every few years to keep up with the times. Basically, he’s the Madonna of superheroes.
Which is why I created this Batman infographic — to keep track of every single “significant” bat-suit across all mediums (which excludes a grand majority of the bat-suits featured in non-canonical comic books, in case you were wondering).
In part, what makes Batman such an excellent comic book/movie/television/video game/theatrical character is his unique ability to comfortably exist inside of just about every kind of story. He can fight gods. He can play superhero. He can be the world’s greatest detective or just solve petty street crimes. Whether the story is gritty, ridiculous, or brimming with science-fiction – or in the case of Grant Morrison’s work on the character, all of the above – Batman is always capable of thriving creatively.
Batman’s neverending bat-suit wardrobe is a symptom of that. He can wear just about any sort of outfit, for any sort of story or scenario, and still be the most popular superhero in existence. He’s just that good, man.
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The beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end and the end of every place.
What am I?
What am I?
Joke Of The Day
The world's greatest hypnotist is on stage in front of hundreds of people swinging a long chain with a watch on the end.He's saying, "You're all in my power...you're all in my power.."
Fifteen hundred people are going, "Oooo..."
He starts to say it again, "You're all in my...", when he accidentally drops the watch.
He says, "Shit."
It took them two weeks to dig everybody out.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Adam has none, Eve has two, Everyone else has five.
What is it that they have?
What is it that they have?
Joke Of The Day
When the mother returned from the grocery store, her small son pulled out the box of animal crackers he had begged for, then he spread the animal shaped crackers all over the kitchen counter."What are you doing?" his mom asked.
"The box says you can't eat them if the seal is broken," the boy explained. "I'm looking for the seal."
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Muppet Lunch
We’re probably all used to seeing retro-licious lunchbox art decorating the outside of our favorite food carryalls. LunchboxAwesome, however, looks at the artful designs on the inside of lunchboxes. Muppets, cartoon characters, and animated figures are carefully composed out of food, making a colorful and creative display out of your mealtime endeavors.
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Mysterious Space Ball Falls From The Sky
A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA and the European Space Agency on the horn. No one is sure where the hollow metallic object came from, but it definitely came down hard--it was found 60 feet away from its landing site, a hole more than a foot deep and 12 feet across.
Made of a “metal alloy known to man,” the 13-pound ball is about 43 inches in circumference and landed roughly 480 miles from the Namibian capital of Windhoek. And it turns out it’s not alone. Apparently several similar objects have fallen across the southern hemisphere (in Australia and Latin America as well as elsewhere in Africa) over the past couple of decades.
So far, it has not exploded, hatched, or started to glow with a faint, eerie white light. Nor has anyone descended from the sky looking for it. If that happens, we’ll be sure to post something about it here.
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You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match.
Which should you light first?
Which should you light first?
Joke Of The Day
Barack Hussein Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.The bartender looks up and says "Where the hell did you get that thing?"
The Parrot replies "Over in Africa, there's millions of them."
Friday, December 23, 2011
Top 10 Quirky Science Tricks For Parties
Here are ten easy tricks that you can use to wow people at parties.
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What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
Joke Of The Day
There was a baby born in the hospital and he weighed ten pounds.The odd thing about him was his body weighed five pounds and his testicles weighed five pounds.
All the nurses and even the doctor didn’t know what to do with him.
Then, the chief surgeon walked in and asked what was wrong.
The head nurse replied, ”We don’t know what to do with this baby.”
So the chief surgeon took one look and said, “You should put him into a mental institution.”
”Why?’ asked the head nurse.
“Well,” replied the chief surgeon, “take a look at him. The boy is obviously half nuts.”
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Man Publishes Book of 200 Blank Pages: ‘Everything Obama Knows About The Economy’
Get yours here!
It didn’t take very long for Jimmy Moncrief to put together his new 200-page book, “Everything Obama Knows About The Economy.”
Every page of the book is blank.
The 30-year-old banker from Chattanooga, Tenn., told The Daily Caller in an interview that he’s sold hundreds of copies of his gag gift to Christmas shoppers since it was released several weeks ago.
“Initially, I made 100 of them just because I figured I had enough friends and family to kind of give out as gifts,” Moncrief said. “But what happened was when I got a hundred, I sold them all within a week or two.”
Moncrief said the book was inspired by a similar gag book from Sheridan Simove, who wrote a 200-page bestselling collection of blank pages called: “What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex.”
He self-published the book and sells it on Amazon and on his website. He describes the book as “a humorous talking point” that “can also be used very effectively as a notebook.” A couple cigar shops in Chattanooga are also carrying them, Moncrief said.
“Where I live, there’s just so much hatred for Obama,” said Moncrief, an independent voter who says he doesn’t support any GOP candidate this cycle.
“I like capitalism so I was like, ‘how can I make money off this.’ It’s just a funny gift, you know? I just wanted to get people to laugh,” he said.
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A Tree House Shaped Like a UFO
This Treehotel located near the Swedish village of Harads is built in the shape of the UFO. It will cost you $600 per night to stay here.
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A Stop Motion History Of The World
It took Kalle Mattson, Kevin Parry and friends over six months to make this stop-motion music video.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Kalle Mattson - Thick As Thieves (Official Video) from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.
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What flower lies between your nose and your chin?
Joke Of The Day
Q: Why was Cinderella thrown off the basketball team?A: She ran away from the ball.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Beagle Portrait Made From 221,184 Sprinkles
What looks like an image of a beagle is actually a high definition photograph of a 4’ by 1 ½’ board covered in 221,184 nonpareils sprinkles. At a distance of 16 feet, the sprinkles blur, tricking the human eye into believing that it is looking at a large photograph. Only when you closely examine the work do you realize that it has been created entirely with tiny spheres of candy.
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