Monthly Archives: March 2012

Bad ad of the day

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed

Source: VintageAds.

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Found Artifact #45

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed
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2,300 year old musical instrument comes to life

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed

The broken and burnt remains of the 2,300 year old lyre instrument. Photo credit: PastHorizons. Archaeologists have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe. The broken and burn fragment of the lyre instrument was … Continue reading →

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LG mass producing flexible plastic e-ink displays

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed

A major hurdle in all smart phone and tablet displays is the rigidity of the screen. Lack of flexibility makes it impossible to carry around these devices comfortably in your pockets or bags. Of course, flexible displays have long been … Continue reading →

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Jeff Bezos’ plan to recover Apollo 11 engines from ocean floor

Posted on 03/30/2012 by Zed

Apollo 11′s F1 Engines. Photo: NASA. I wonder what the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos does in his spare time? Last year, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, with a team of experts, set out to locate the F-1 rocket engines … Continue reading →

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Celebrities that look like mattresses

Posted on 03/28/2012 by Zed

If there was a World Wide Web Hall of Fame, this would be the first induction into it. Many more here Source: Wlathamstow via blameitonthevoices

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Bad science of the day: Chocolate makes you thinner

Posted on 03/27/2012 by Zed

Every good journalist knows that people tend to focus on headlines and the first few paragraphs of a news story. So, any good writer always puts the most eye-grabbing and most attention-getting line at the very top. The caveats and … Continue reading →

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200,000 galaxies in a single photo!

Posted on 03/27/2012 by Zed

The above photo is a 55-hr exposure from the VISTA telescope in Chile. And even though there are many stars in the picture–mostly the blue dots, there are over 200,000 galaxies in it! What’s insane is that this picture is just … Continue reading →

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Spurned fruit flies turn to alcohol

Posted on 03/26/2012 by Zed

Fruit fly. Image used under Flickr CCLi. Photo by Flickr user bareego Fellow men, if you have ever drowned your sorrows in alcohol after being spurned by the members of the opposite sex, don’t feel bad: You are not alone! … Continue reading →

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Deathwish bike parkour

Posted on 03/26/2012 by Zed

I have to admit I closed my eyes numerous times during this video because I simply could not bear to watch. Biker is Andrew Dickey. And this is nuts. Source: holykaw.alltop

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