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Roam the Lands
Aug 30th
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Breakdancing Fingers.
Aug 29th
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An experiment of the internet famous kind. On August 24th, an experiment was held in zero gravity...
Aug 29th
Tinysaurus is Tiny. A lazer cut figure.
Aug 29th
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A trick you probably shouldn’t try, involving a backhoe and some rope.
Aug 29th
A real help desk ticket. Doh.
Aug 29th

Words That Will Help You Win Scrabble

“1. Aa. And I don’t mean the acronym for Alcoholics Anonymous, either. Aa is “basaltic lava...
Aug 29th
100 Web Tools for Healthy Eating
Aug 29th
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A compilation of 3038 photos from Boston, shot over a 3 day period. (via LaughingSquid)
Aug 29th
Net mob search for iPhone girl’s identity ...
Aug 29th
yvynyl: artistspaid: Hobnox Audiotool (via echolot) Been...
Aug 29th
Computer virus strikes space station -...
Aug 28th
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Cyber clean!  Squishy goo that cleans your electronics. (via Swissmiss)
Aug 28th

Who Owns the Moon?

“A NASA working group hosted a discussion this week to ask: Who owns the moon? The answer, of...
Aug 28th
You can purchase your very own solid gold Kate Moss for a...
Aug 28th

Rocketboom Hires Group of Writers

skeetonmischa: slippy: dembot: I always imagined - true or not, I still don’t know exactly-...
Aug 28th
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A French rap battle and the suspected outcome.  They are, um, lyrical.  (nsfw)
Aug 27th
(via Swissmiss)
Aug 27th
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Reactions of some Chinese men and women when given with a Fortune Cookie.
Aug 27th

Michael Phelps Goes Absolutely Nuts!

Aug 27th
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Hurrican Fay Street Tubing.  Probably not the smartest idea, but looks fun.
Aug 26th
William Lamson has some fun with balloons, including...
Aug 26th

Cattle are Compases

“ Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? Images from...
Aug 26th

Pixifood (PIKZ-ee-food), noun: Any food...

“Baseball Card Gum As a child it tastes like: Bubble blowing magic. As an adult it tastes...
Aug 26th
I think you’ll enjoy Tweetrush if you’re as...
Aug 26th
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A Fox news reporter gets an interesting reaction to his questions while walking through a...
Aug 26th

Who Knew It was Legal for Women to...

… go topless in NYC??? Apparently so, due to a 1992 court ruling. Enjoy the warm weather!
Aug 26th
Russians Americans are eating up one of a kind (well, every...
Aug 25th
Olympic Medals Per Million Population by Country via...
Aug 24th
Recycled Hotel Made From Shipping Containers “The 86...
Aug 24th
Pigeon in custody for drug smuggling -...
Aug 24th
meltinyourmouth: The Best Photos Of The 2008 Olympics part...
Aug 22nd
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The Most Stupid NES game death ever. Inspired to post this after rewatching Karateka’s...
Aug 22nd
Xbox 360 Providing Voter Registration via...
Aug 22nd
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Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider ‘Fair Use’ Before Sending Takedown Notice In the...
Aug 22nd
Living with humans has taught dogs morals,...
Aug 21st
The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes mp3s of Francois...
Aug 21st
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Knight Rider Video Game Demo Run from 1989 And it’s still infinitely more dramatic than the...
Aug 21st
1950’s Space Art
Aug 20th
Animals No Larger than Your Finger (via Very Bored (thanks,...
Aug 19th
lightning in sunset over Toronto’s Centre Island via...
Aug 19th
JR y las favelas de Rio de Janeiro (via Sefarad) More at...
Aug 19th
Where rainbows come from
Aug 17th
Landschap en portret fotograaf
Aug 17th
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A reporter in war ravaged Georgia was shot (not seriously) and kept reporting, all while being...
Aug 15th
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I suggest you plug John Mayer into your feed.  Here’s just a few of his video suggestions,...
Aug 15th
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vinh: Thriller…. with Lego Matched shot for shot, but too bad the quality isn’t better.
Aug 15th
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Bears and more bears, and more bears!
Aug 15th
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A Short Love Story in Stop Motion
Aug 15th
Genetic map of Europe.
Aug 15th
Aug 15th
I want to see one of these, right about now…
Aug 14th
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The “Flat Mobile”.  It’s only 19’ tall!
Aug 13th
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A preview of “City Space”, a server based reality game.  It looks incredible.
Aug 13th
“ Ask anyone how many arms an octopus has and the...
Aug 13th
Chinese fast food offered at the Olympics. I bet it’s...
Aug 13th
Google photoshopped this entire area, not even trying to...
Aug 13th
Oh, NBC! This photo is a screenshot of NBC’s new...
Aug 13th
New trend in outdoor decorations: circular water...
Aug 13th
“This Google “steet view” van image by Joe...
Aug 13th
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Boredoms 88BoaDrum: Los Angeles (Afternoon Rehearsal) On 8/8/08 Japanese rock band Boredoms...
Aug 13th
The Gmail Fail Also, this is part of a ridiclious (in a...
Aug 12th
A conman who died in 2006 claimed he lived on 5th Avenue in...
Aug 12th
Robert Talbot makes original sized replicas of guns, with...
Aug 11th
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Brandon Morse: Procedural animation via Generator.x
Aug 11th
“The Beauty #5”, 2000-2001 by Tina Hauser. via VVORK
Aug 11th

The 10 Oddest City Names

Fucking, is a town in western Upper Austria that has been around since 1070, named after a...
Aug 10th
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Not only can this man play an entire song with a Coke bottle, but he can use the tambourine as well!
Aug 10th
Fishy?
Aug 10th
Baroque Dragon Tank
Aug 10th
Peace of Cake (via Laugh Lines)
Aug 8th
Is IKEA going solar? (via The Ampersand)
Aug 8th
2009 bubble calendar (via Peteski)
Aug 8th
CONT3XT.NET: call for collaboration
Aug 8th
Listen: to define your brand… (via Museum 2.0)
Aug 8th
Vote Here
Aug 7th
A screenshot of the first Olympic website, circa 1996. (via...
Aug 7th
“Internet Memes” database can be viewed as a...
Aug 7th
‘bodies in urban spaces’ by willi dorner and...
Aug 7th
DJ Spock #2 Logical Awesome are the rockstars behind...
Aug 7th
Chipotle Burrito Less Healthy than McDonalds...
Aug 7th
DJ Spock
Aug 7th
Matt, Jerry & The Montauk Monster
Aug 7th
Biggest Douchebag Ever?
Aug 7th
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Sci-brarians! Librarains compete in a dance competition using their book carts and some lab coats.
Aug 6th
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This is a video from “The Tinkering School” (which I wanna go to!!!).  Kids...
Aug 6th
The Club Scene A newly scanned Flickr set of nightlife...
Aug 6th

Uncensored

A book that the government tried to censor from the general public has now been released. ...
Aug 6th
Try and guess the top 100 words used in the English...
Aug 6th
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Daft Punk and the Charleston dance go very well together, as seen here.
Aug 6th
An animation dedicated to fresh eggs.  Watch and be filled...
Aug 6th
World connection density map. By artist Chris Harrison.
Aug 6th
Olympic metals in a neat visulazation. (via NYTimes)
Aug 6th
peteski: Mechanical Wooden Elephant? why not this is...
Aug 6th
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Ants make a friendly little home in the scanner section of a home printer.  Talk about a bug in the...
Aug 5th
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elspethjane: Mysterious Hexagon on Saturn.
Aug 5th
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Time lapse thunderstorms.
Aug 5th
Did you beat me up Friday night? “I can live with the...
Aug 5th
Free topographical maps used for hiking and general...
Aug 4th

The Night Climbers of Cambridge

The Night Climbers of Cambridge is an interesting book written in the 1930’s that documents...
Aug 4th

Personal Training on a Wii, $110/hr

A Manhattan gym is charging customers $110 an hour for a training session that includes a Nintendo...
Aug 4th
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Chuck Norris in Mario Brothers.
Aug 4th
Accent Game Watch a video and guess where the person is...
Aug 4th
Obama vs. McCain Visual Map of Top Words Used Reveals...
Aug 4th
Urban Decay. A flickr set of buildings in a state of decay...
Aug 4th
The Design Patterns of Yehrin Tong
Aug 4th
Brazil Wins 2008 World Cosplay Summit Who knew they were...
Aug 4th
'Reading the OED,' by Ammon Shea
Aug 4th
Birthmarks Tattoos: is braille the new chinese character? ...
Aug 4th
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Friday’s solar eclipse as seen from plane (via neatorama)
Aug 4th
Montauk Fist Bump. (via montymash)
Aug 3rd
markwilson12:They’re young…They’re in love…They eat lard!
Aug 2nd
Camball DVR in a Ball Within this tiny little black orb...
Aug 2nd
from ‘thailand - same same, but different’ book...
Aug 2nd
Graph of amount of money borrowed again the Federal Reserve.
Aug 1st
Many people in South Korea believe that when operated in...
Aug 1st