Archive for the 'Cool' Category

Refacing Government Tender

This guy has a photostream on flickr where’s he’s just simply drawn on money with some pretty funny results, like Emo Lincoln above.

Like, How Well Do You Remember Totally Rad 80s Fads?

Take a quiz over at Mental Floss to find out. I got 8 out of 10. Put some scores in the comments.

[via Neatorama]

Snoop Dogg and Willy Nelson in Amsterdam

If reefer can get Snoop and Willy on stage together, it may be the key to world peace.

Free AT&T Phones

Amazon has the entire AT&T phone line up, minus the iPhone, on sale for $0.01. That’s one red cent for any phone including Treos and Blackberry’s. They require a 2 year agreement, of course, but still… not gonna get any cheaper than that.

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses

Slide on these bad boys and now you can see exactly what the “driver” of your RC car sees. It even turns and pivots the so you can check your blind spot. I think this might cause some serious motion sickness.

Scientists Find Frozen Mammoth

An immaculately preserved baby Mammoth was found frozen in the Russian Arctic. They have most recently done CT scans of the animal to learn more.

“We could see for the first time how internal organs are located inside a mammoth. It is pretty important from a scientific point of view,” said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Science’s Zoological Institute, who has been leading the project.

“Her internal organs were well preserved — the heart was seen distinctly with all its ventricles and atria, as well as the liver and its veins,”

Pretty awesome stuff.

Prototype Hill Climb

This is fast!

Muppet Rick Roll’d

That’s right. Beaker and band are getting in on this, too.

Young Me, Now Me

Submit photographs of “now” you recreating a childhood photograph of yourself.

Best Little League Game Ever

Improv Everywhere has done it again. Except this time, instead of some light hearted shenanigans, they’ve made some 10-13 year old little boys dreams come true. This mission picked a random little league baseball game and turned it into a Major League event including raving fans, mascots, announcers, a jumbo-tron, and even the Goodyear blimp. Read the complete story here.

Golden Eagle vs. Goat

A Golden Eagle attacks and flies away with an entire goat. At least the goat gets a sweet ride before he’s killed and eaten.

Back In the Saddle

Huzzah!  The move is completed.  I changed servers and upgraded my Wordpress installation.  I’m impressed so far with the recent version.  Let me know if you see anything that’s out of whack.  I’m gonna get some posts up tonight or tomorrow.  In the mean time, did you see this beamz thing?  Holy shit.  I’ve never seen a worse commercial for a worse product in all my late night TV viewing.

Fold-Ins, Past and Present

madfoldAl Jafree’s MAD magazine fold-ins from the 1960’s until present day. The New York Times has them in neat, paper-cut-free, interactive form. I was always amazed by these things.

Jimi Hendrix: Johnny B. Goode

Guitar humping and teeth playing. A real Guitar Hero.

“Chuck. Chuck. It’s Marvin - your cousin, Marvin BERRY. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this.”

Ferrofluid Dynamic Sculpture

The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.
Each cone uses one electromagnet, and its iron core is extended and sculpted. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of the electromagnet. The shape of the iron body is designed as helical so that the fluid can move to the top of the helical tower when the magnetic field is strong enough.