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Balloon Bowl

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:08:35 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: This was over 8,000 balloons and all of the popping sounds are real.

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Tags: balloon, balloons, skateboard, skateboarding, skating, skate bowl, skate trick, skate tricks, trick

Plants that Suck Up Indoor Pollution

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:28:49 GMT

clipped by: proftrader
clipper's remarks: Cool! I think I'll buy some of these indoor plants that suck up pollution in your house

Clip Source: www.plant-care.com

Flowering plants such as gerbera daisy and chrysanthemums were rated superior in removing benzene from the chamber atmosphere. Other good performers are Dracaena Massangeana, Spathiphyllum, and Golden Pothos. "Plants take substances out of the air through the tiny openings in their leaves," Wolverton said. "But research in our laboratories has determined that plant leaves, roots and soil bacteria are all important in removing trace levels of toxic vapors".

Combining nature with technology can increase the effectiveness of plants in removing air pollutants," he said. "A living air cleaner is created by combining activated carbon and a fan with a potted plant. The roots of the plant grow right in the carbon and slowly degrade the chemicals absorbed there,

Tags: plants, indoor pollution, remove pollution

10 Rare Cloud Formations

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:38 GMT

clipped by: Patty2007

Clip Source: listverse.com

10 Rare Cloud Formations

Clip Source: listverse.com

1. Nacreous Clouds

2. Mammatus Clouds

3. Altocumulus Castelanus

4. Noctilucent Clouds

5. Mushroom Clouds

6. Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

7. Lenticular Clouds

8. Roll Clouds

9. Shelf Clouds

10. Stratocumulus Clouds

Tags: clouds

Obscure light-bulb jokes

Tue, 01 May 2007 07:27:37 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: Two more:

Q: How many postmodernists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: In a Derridaist reading, wherein light is a social construct, there is a dialectic between Darkness as a reality and reality as a mode.

Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fish.

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Q: How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two: One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

Q: How many Welsh mothers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: "Don't worry dearie, I'll just sit here in the dark, alone."

Q: How many Marxists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None: The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.

Q: How many Greek Orthodox priests does it take to change a light bulb?
A: What do you mean, "change"!?

Q: How many Spaniards does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Juan.

Q: How many Zen masters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: A tree in a golden forest.

Tags: light bulb, light, bulb, joke, jokes, funny, light bulb jokes

Humorous Last Words

Tue, 01 May 2007 07:01:29 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: Now I'm thinking what I'll say when the time comes.

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Pancho Villa: "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

Roman emperor Gaius Caligula: "I am still alive!"

Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian: "I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct."

Henrik Ibsen, after his housekeeper told a guest he was feeling better: "On the contrary!"

Karl Marx, to his housekeeper, who had just asked whether he had any last words: "Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"

British surgeon Joseph Henry Green, after checking his own pulse: "Stopped."

Union general John Sedgwick, sizing up enemy sharpshooters: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist–"

Tags: last words, death, humor, macabre

How to escape any maze

Tue, 01 May 2007 06:55:52 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: If I ever get into such a situation, I will have to presume that this information is correct.

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

There are a number of ways to solve a simple maze like the one above, by following a wall, for instance, or counting turns. But these don't always work in high-dimensional mazes, and some require a compass or other orienteering knowledge. Suppose you find yourself in the nine-dimensional Arcturan Insanity Labyrinth, haunted by the six-souled Fury Demon of Ragnab Zeta? What then?

Your best hope is Tremaux's algorithm, which works in all mazes with well-defined passages. Draw a line on the floor. When you reach a junction, turn around if you've been there before; otherwise pick any direction. If you revisit a passage that's already marked, draw a second line (you'll never need to take a passage more than twice) and at the next junction take an unmarked passage if you can.

That's it. If there's an exit, you'll find it. If there isn't, you'll find yourself back at the start. Good luck with that demon.

Tags: maze, solve, escape

Contradictory Proverbs

Tue, 01 May 2007 03:49:19 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Out of sight, out of mind.

You're never too old to learn.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Better safe than sorry.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
Nice guys finish last.

Many hands make light work.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Silence is golden.

Tags: contradictory, proverbs

Obscure Holidays

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:46:58 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: I, for one, will be celebrating "International Talk Like a Pirate Day."

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Pi Day (March 14, or "3/14″)
Pi Approximation Day (22 July, or "22/7″)
No Pants Day (the first Friday in May)
National Talk In Elevators Day (the last Friday in July)
National Underwear Day (August 11)
International Orgy Day (September 3)
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19)
Ask a Stupid Question Day (September 28)
October Fool's Day (October 1) (the Southern Hemisphere's version of April Fool's Day)
Mole Day (6:02 on 10/23) (ask a chemist)

The first Friday the 13th of the year is "Blame Someone Else Day."

Tags: obscure, holidays, holiday, rare, unknown, odd

Greek Wisdom

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:28:26 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: I agree with this. It would be good to live by, I think.

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

The condensed wisdom of Greece's "seven sages," as recorded on the temple wall at Delphi:

Solon of Athens - "Nothing in excess."
Chilon of Sparta - "Know thyself."
Thales of Miletus - "To bring surety brings ruin."
Bias of Priene - "Too many workers spoil the work."
Cleobulus of Lindos - "Moderation is the chief good."
Pittacus of Mitylene - "Know thine opportunity."
Periander of Corinth - "Forethought in all things."

Tags: greek, wisdom, delphi, sage, sages, advice, condensed, ancient, history, philosophy

Witty Quotes

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:28:20 GMT

clipped by: rko2007
clipper's remarks: Some more can be found on the original site.

Clip Source: www.didyouknow.cd

Witty Quotes

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
- Winston Churchill

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian proverb

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
- Elias Schwartz

Everything you can imagine is real.
- Picasso

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Tags: quotes, famous, advice, life

Weird Band Names

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:47:57 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: Yeah, I've got nothing.

Clip Source: www.futilitycloset.com

Best entries in The Canonical List of Weird Band Names:

Alcoholocaust
The Ass Baboons of Venus
The Couch Slugs
The Dancing French Liberals of 1848
Dick Duck and the Dorks
Ed's Redeeming Qualities
Ethyl Meatplow
Hell Camino
Individual Fruit Pie
Lavay Smith and The Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Lawnsmell
Mussolini Headkick
Rash of Stabbings
Stukas Over Bedrock
Technosquid Eats Parliament

A few are designed to look good on a marquee, like FREE BEER AND CHICKEN and HORNETS ATTACK VICTOR MATURE.

Tags: weird, band, names, bands, odd, oddly enough

Powered robotic exoskeleton increases wearer's strength

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:27:51 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: Kinda reminds me of the Spartans in the Halo games, with their battle suits.
Maybe someday...

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: halo, spartan, spartan 117, halo 2, sci-fi, japan, technology, robot, robotics, suit

Easy bar trick to amaze friends

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:58:13 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: If anyone wants to try this and tell me how it goes, that would be great.

Clip Source: video.stumbleupon.com

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Tags: bar, trick, magic, cool, wow, neat, interesting

Beyond the picture

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:19:12 GMT

clipped by: earthshine

Clip Source: www.tricks4u.com

Tags: art

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:16:12 GMT

clipped by: ontoforever
clipper's remarks: I thought this was pretty cool. It was made by a college professor.

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: web, web 2.0, web design, html, xml, internet, technology, code, web sites, future