I found this video of a very elaborate practical joke via Dark Roasted Blend. Identical twins trick numerous passers by into believing they cannot see their reflections. Most of them seem very disturbed by this trick. I only wish it was in english, or had english subtitles so I could hear what they were saying.
Chris Fowler’s latest video has a lot of technical juggling on it. Technical juggling is what Chris does best, so this video is definitely a keeper. He’s been working on his spins quite a bit, and it shows. That 5 ball 3 high 1080 degree spin was incredible.
This is a video of a U.S army robot trying to disarm a road side bomb.
Everyone who works in the building trades will eventually have to deal with difficult or awkward customers. Everyone handles the problem in different ways……
Alice the Architect believes in an eye for an eye.
Beedlebrox of plumbing the depths believes in running away and letting his partner deal with the problem.
A Sears’ tech sells his own Click Here to continue reading.
This company sells carbon offsets to people so that they can feel righteous. Here is a description of one of the ways you can offset your carbon…..
The treadle pump is a simple device which uses human power to pump water from wells, streams and lakes. One person – man, woman or even child – can operate the pump by manipulating his/her body weight on two treadles and by holding a bamboo or wooden frame for support. These pumps displace the diesel pumps that are more commonly used.
Benefits
• Replaces polluting diesel-powered pumps
• Allows 2 or 3 harvests a year, instead of 1
• Prevents farmers having to leave their families to work in the city during ‘off season’
Farmers’ income increases, often between two and five-foldAs a guide: 1 treadle pump = 0.65 tonnes CO2 saved per year.
I would think that this whole company was fake except that David Cameron apparently buys carbon offsets from this company.
Megan McArdle is scandalized by the child labor implications of “or even child.” But I can’t get over how funny the whole thing is. If someone did this as a parody I would say that they were a genius. But to have someone try to pass this stuff off for real is just priceless.
I got to get in the business of selling offsets.
A German teenager accidentally climbed out of a fourth-floor window and fell 10 meters to the ground where he kept on sleeping, albeit with a broken arm and leg.
According to this article, no drugs or alcohol was involved.
Ok, so this could so easily be me. . .It’s a detailed and funny (especially if you can relate) tale of a lady dining out of her class. I can relate; totally. Nearly nothing can make me feel so uncomfortable as dining out of my class, and I completely agree with this statement:
I am so out of place. I am beneath… contendedly so. And I’m fine that way. I will never get use to food I can’t recognize in a glance. I will never understand silence at a dinner table, talking only of surface subjects – everything being wonderful and beautiful – instead of talking wildly or debating the latest subject, laughing hilariously about something that happened that day, cutting back and forth in between bites, each sharing their part of a story, finishing off each others sentences – disagreeing and just agreeing to disagree, moving right along to the next topic – dinner time being the best part of our day, feeling so close and connected. That’s where we formed our beliefs, our loves, our memories.
I’ll never quite understand why there is five eating utensils and two glasses, and a napkin that looks more like something you would frame.
I don’t want to spoil the story and ruin all the build-up and such, but I will say that it involves taking food that appears to be safe (some type of potato), and only finding out after it’s in her mouth that it’s really a sea urchin!
Go read it.
Maybe you might even begin to understand why I avoid all formal occasions like the plague. Actually, I might have an easier time dealing with the plague. . .
Have you ever heard of liquid armor? Well here is a demonstration of principles behind the idea.
Berkeley Breathed is being censored by many news papers. From his web site….
Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus’ host paper The Washington Post. The strips may be viewed in a large format on their respective dates at Salon.com.
According to the website Little Green Footballs this censorship is happing because the newspapers feel that these comics are offensive to Muslims. I don’t think that they know this for a fact. I think they are just saying because of the sample panel that Berkeley Breathed posted on his website.
But the sample frame does support their theory…..