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Molly The Hurricane Pony
2008-05-26 10:38:00 Molly is a gray Appaloosa pony from Louisiana. She was abandoned by her owner escaping from the Hurricane Katrina and spent a couple of weeks on her own in the flooded wilderness not far from New Orleans. Then she was taken to the Pony Paradise farm where abandoned animals found their new home. But that ...
Language Usage Statistics From Wikipedia
2008-05-20 15:21:00 There are a lot of different statistics on world language usage published already. Some of them using pretty much data from the very official sources and some of them are just extrapolations. People like to know that their native language is used by millions other people on the Earth or vice versa - rare language ... More About: Culture , Wikipedia , Statistics , Language , Usage
Lenin, Mickey and Jesus
2008-05-19 07:58:00 This is the sculpture named “The hero. The leader. The god” by Alexandre Kosolapov. Exhibited today in Moscow Guelman gallery. Photo by Rustem Adagamov. More About: Jesus , Crafts , Lenin , Mickey
Porsche Cayenne S for Moscow Fire Department
2008-04-29 13:56:00 Russian Moscow Fire Department has received brand new Porsche Cayenne S which is not only painted like a fire brigade career but actually can act as one. It’s equipped with a winch, compressed air cylinders, several kits of fire dept. dress uniform and such. (Photos by Fichetto) More About: Porsche Cayenne
Faces of Africa
2008-04-29 10:01:00 You has a hundred people but the food enough only for ten of them. What should you do? Ask for food for 90 people. Ask for a gun and 90 cartridges. More About: Economics , Culture , Africa , Faces
Zorse - Zebra and Horse Cross Breed
2008-04-27 09:55:00 Yes it is real. The zebra and horse cross breed is very common in parts of Africa where zebras are more resistant to diseases and horses are not. By crossing zebras with horses it makes for a healthier hybrid. Such hybrids are commonly called zorse. Zebras crossed with ponies are commonly called zonies. Temperament of ... More About: Cross , Horse , Breed
Ice Sculptures
2008-04-26 08:42:00 Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decoration. Ice sculptures are generally associated with special or extravagant events because of their limited lifetime. Ice car for kids. More About: Crafts
Giant Van Gogh in Goodland, Kansas
2008-04-22 16:29:00 There is a small town in Kansas - Goodland - surrounded by sunflowers fields and cut apart by I-70 highway. It is a typical Kansas town with one giant difference. It has Van Gogh . Though just a reproduction but the huge one. A 24 by 32 foot reproduction of Van Gogh’s “3 Sunflowers In A Vase” ... More About: Culture , Crafts , Giant
Pat Says Now Mice
2008-04-22 15:18:00 Swiss luxury computer peripherals manufacturer with a fancy name - Pat Says Now - has announced a new line of computer mice decorated with genuine Swarovski crystals, diamonds and white gold. The cheapest one will cost you “just” US$200. But the diamond and white gold version will be hellish US$30,000. More About: Gadgets , Mice , Crafts
Stockholm Subway
2008-04-21 11:17:00 “The Stockholm Subway is sometimes called a long art exhibition.” (c) vargklo Näckrosen (”The Water Lily”) subway station in Stockholm. Made like water lily pond on the roof and walls. More About: Photo , Culture , Crafts
Porche Tractor
2008-04-21 09:02:00 Porche is the best renowned for its luxurious sports cars and a few know that Porche is a brand name in the agricultural machinery market. Here is good example of Porche style: 1954 Porsche-Allgaier P312 coffee tractor. More About: Porche
Tetris - Russian Secret Weapon Against Hollywood
2008-04-15 06:35:00 Russians are plotting to rock the Hollywood with their new sci-fi game-based blockbuster - Tetris : The Movie. A brother dies. A chalange arises. The love, the friendship, the betrayal and the deadly game… Tetris. More About: Humor , Russian , Secret
Laptop Cover Artworks
2008-04-07 10:01:00 Russian website GelaSkins offers a load of famous artworks printed on the sticky tape to customize and individualize your laptop. Each of them offered for about $50 (which is not so pricey but shipped to Russia only) and available for all most popular laptop sizes from 12″ to 17″. You can give your laptop a ... More About: Laptop , Crafts , Artworks , Cover
Huge Hole in Quito, Ecuador
2008-04-04 11:18:00 Photo by Stern. A huge hole in the ground ate a part of the road in the Ecuador capital city Quito after heavy rains in the beginning of April, 2008. According to Latin American news agency Prensa Latina the hole measured 262 feet (80 meters) in depth, 98 feet (30 meters) in diameter. More About: Huge , Hole
NASA finds a black hole in Milky Way
2008-04-03 14:16:00 THE discovery in our own galaxy of the smallest black hole known in the universe is a feather in the cap for NASA, but it will present new challenges to future space travellers who may venture too close. The Daily Telegraph “NASA finds a black hole in our Milky Way galaxy“ More About: Humor , Black , Nasa , Hole
Playing World of Warcraft on Asus eeePC
2008-03-30 23:09:00 A guy from the Ultramobilegeek.com running World Of Warcraft heavy MMORPG game on his Asus eeePC 701 ultra mobile notebook (which is often called mininote for its modest size and weight). Of cause the eeePC he’s got for it is not the cheapest one. This is 4G model with 2Gb RAM. Also he have used ... More About: Internet , Gadgets
Zimbabwe Inflation
2008-03-30 21:16:00 10 million Zimbabwe an dollars and the grocery market prices in Harare. Photos by Bishop Asare / EFE and Reuters respectively. Being under the Mugabe’s regime for over a twenty years Zimbabwe (a not so small and pretty populated African country situated to the north of South Africa) experienced the most crazy inflation in XXI century word. ... More About: Economics , Culture , Inflation
Painted cars
2008-03-26 06:53:00 Aerography is one of the most fascinating method of painting primarily used in cars and other 3D objects decoration. More About: Cars , Crafts
Even radios go natural
2008-03-25 07:36:00 The Natural Radio concept designed by Cheol-Ki Jo has a brand new look at the user interface. Instead of pushing buttons or turning dials you need to put some stones on the stylish wooden scales to control the frequency and volume. This radio would look great in the stone massage practitioner’s office but I think it’s ... More About: Gadgets
How to make your car greener
2008-03-17 16:15:00 There are a lot of buzz on zero emission cars nowadays. But electric, hydrogen fuel cell, hybrid and even compressed air cars are very expensive. Not a problem. There is an affordable way to make your good ol’ ride more environmentally friendly, more greener: More About: Make
What?s causing traffic jams
2008-03-16 21:03:00 This is time lapse webcam looking at the heavy loaded traffic roundabout in the center of Romanian capital city of Bucharest. Some bright minded guy on the SUV wanted to save a couple of seconds trying to overtake the stream driving by the tram line. Bad luck! He has lost a couple of hours and ... More About: Humor , Culture , Traffic , Jams
iPod in space
2008-03-15 19:53:00 Apple iPod spotted in the cockpit of the Endeavour space shuttle: Here you can find the big picture from NASA. More About: Space , Gadgets , Ipod
Czech sewage pump truck
2008-03-14 15:28:00 Czech sewage collection and disposal service has a wonderful slogan printed in big brown letters on the sewage pump trucks: Vase Hovno Nase Radost. It means ‘Your crap - Our joy’. More About: Humor , Truck , Pump , Czech
A series of unfortunate construction site accidents
2008-03-14 10:14:00 Perhaps anyone knows that it’s dangerous to stay under the workin crane but did you know that parking at the construction site could be as dangerous? These Mercedes and BMW guys sure did. More About: Accidents , Series , Construction , Site
iPod, iPhone unlocking service
2008-03-14 07:39:00 As popularity of the recent Apple products such as iPod and iPhone grows in some third-world countries a lot of small businesses offer unlocking services for the ‘gray’ imported devices. Since no official mobile phone companies have iPhone on their shelves this is the only way to get one there. Photo by NL More About: Culture , Gadgets , Iphone , Ipod , Service
Doga or what to do if you got stucked in elevator with your dog
2008-03-12 10:12:00 If you ever have thought that this world is gone mad you were probably right just lacked the whole picture. Reality indeed much more amusing. Well, a littler example: How often are you doing your yoga exercises? Or have you ever doing any? I guess not often if any. But your dog and your neighbour’s dog ... More About: Elevator
Morgan Life Car and other great oldschool rides
2008-03-09 10:45:00 During Geneva Motor Show that is going right now the barely known British car manufacturer Morgan has shown its hydrogen fuel cell concept Morgan Life Car. More About: Great , Crafts , Oldschool
Hasselblad and Leica film cameras in gold
2008-03-03 05:55:00 This is an actual snapshot of a camera store in Frankfurt airport taken by Tim Bray. Just a couple of traditional film cameras. They aren’t new - Leica R4 was announced in 1980 - 28 years ago. They haven’t any megapixels at all. But they are very good optically even nowadays. And they have a ... More About: Photo , Film , Gadgets , Gold , Cameras
Livre eBook reader concept
More articles from this author:2008-02-28 07:51:00 Nedzad Mujcinovic - a student of Australian Monash University - has won the 2007 Dyson Student Aword with the concept of the eBook reader which he called Livre . The key feature of this device is that it has no buttons at all. Instead of that touch sensitive screen mounted on the electronic paper display. You need ... More About: Gadgets , Reader , Ebook , Concept 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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