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An Odd Hypothesis About Bubbles Could Finally Lead to Nuclear Fusion. The Alaskan Town Living Under One Roof. Thousands of Fish To Be Freed From Abandoned Mall Fish-Hell. Archeologists discover mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt. It Took 25 Hours of Continuous Concrete Pouring To Build This Aquarium. 1,400 Free Ebooks and Movies For Your Kindle or iPad. This is how professional designers create their logos.

I'll always been a "jack of all trades" guy, and I've never said no to trying out new projects.

This is how professional designers create their logos

So a long time ago I was referred by someone by word of mouth that I could help design a logo. I had never done it or even tried. Regardless, I took a laptop, a 27" LCD, mouse keyboard, my pencils, paper pad, and a wifi hotspot. It was just a couple guys who did "event promotions" for clubs and the like. So I sat down with them and asked if they had an idea already then started to take notes and drew out some ideas (pretty much like he did) then when we had a sample, I turned to the computer, I was using photoshop and roughly within 5-10 minutes composed the image I had drawn. But as he said, it's just part of what happens. This was the end result of that first time, they just removed the dark shading around the L & P. They could have inverted the black lettering outside the ring, but by then I was no longer involved. 7 Famous Fictional Places You Can Explore With the Oculus Rift. The Tech That Will Kill Passwords Dead. Unreal in-game footage makes GTA V totally look like a parallel reality.

It's getting closer to the uncanny valley, but thankfully it's not there yet.

Unreal in-game footage makes GTA V totally look like a parallel reality

In particular how people move is still pretty different from real life. It looks like these are much lighter and weaker beings living on a world with much lighter gravity.Down on earth, we have to compensate our movements (if you lift an arm, you have to tense leg and body muscles and lean slightly in the other direction), and move to minimize physical stress. Most people also have some physical defects or peculiarities making them subtly different from others. We're Running Out of the Nuclear Fuel That Powers Space Travel. What If We Dressed Like Our Social Networks? The definitive answer to why we must invest in pure science research. Why Earth isn't flat and why you wouldn't fall off of it even if it was. Kinja is in read-only mode.

Why Earth isn't flat and why you wouldn't fall off of it even if it was

We are working to restore service. You referring to the idea that the world is flat and to simulate 'flat' gravity the entire plate needs to be moving "up" ? Flagged Well The Earth Plate™ would have to maintain a constant accelleartion of 9.8m/s² So the equation you would look for (if the Earth Plate™ was 6000 years old) is: vf = (9.8 m/s2) * (1.8934x10^11s) How the World's Top Assault Rifle Is Rebranding As a "Weapon of Peace" Names and faces of celebrities combined in a series of hilarious mashups.

AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Gets Inside Every Cellphone Network in the World. Watch a woman show what 100 years of beauty looks like in 1 minute. Kinja is in read-only mode.

Watch a woman show what 100 years of beauty looks like in 1 minute

We are working to restore service. Any decade is better than the 80's. I've always thought that decade was esthetically the worst. The fashion totally sucked! The hair styles for males and females were beyond bad. Movies though were original, exciting, and memorable: Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Return of the Jedi, ghostbusters, princes bride...

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Scientists say these mysterious shrimps may hold keys to alien life. Kinja is in read-only mode.

Scientists say these mysterious shrimps may hold keys to alien life

We are working to restore service. There are no approved replies for this post. To see additional replies that are pending approval, click Show Pending. Warning: These may contain graphic material. What Is the Outernet and Is It the Future of the Internet? The gates of hell just opened in Russia (again) Kinja is in read-only mode.

The gates of hell just opened in Russia (again)

We are working to restore service. Wow. And here in America we have a pesky thing called "regulation" to keep us from getting the gates of hell open despite having towns named after devils. Google Just Gave You a Good Reason to Quit Spotify. Comet landing live coverage: Commands sent for lander separation. This is one really damn cool visual effect. Who Designed the Blanket That Practically Every Newborn Gets Wrapped In?

Mystery spy spaceship lands on Earth after record 675 days in orbit. Short film: Machines keep on fighting a war even though everyone is dead. Recommended by Casey Chan Chainsaw artist transforms a log into Groot from Guardians of the… How the addictive magic material known as bubble wrap is made.

Short film: Machines keep on fighting a war even though everyone is dead

Anti-trolling animation left me speechless. Recommended by Omar Kardoudi The art of zoom in movies summarized in one cool mashup Anti-trolling animation left me speechless The most iconic photos in history recreated in impressive live action.

Anti-trolling animation left me speechless

Brilliant Packaging For Invisible Clear Tape Makes the Box Look Empty​ Here's how all the Pixar movies are connected in one universe. I'm a huge fan of this theory.

Here's how all the Pixar movies are connected in one universe

Ever since I saw the nascent version on Cracked's After Hours a couple years ago, I've been tickled by the idea of the Pixar movies somehow being linked together. Not to the point where I actually tried to account for all the movies, of course, but still. I enjoy it when people make these funny/weird connections to explain continuity between disparate films. (The exception being the Tommy Westphall Universe, which I think is just stupidly overreaching. Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems. Recommended by Casey Chan Good night, Amsterdam Jumping on a trampoline has never looked this cool Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems The eyes of animals look a lot like alien worlds.

Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems

The Alley Cats of Japan Look Pretty Badass. Kawaii! Even the ugly ones are cute. Cats gained my love when mine jumped from a tree to my arms when he was a cub. That was around 10 years ago... The cute bastard is sitting next to me at the moment, haha. At last, Mars Curiosity finally reaches its destination. Old black and white photos come alive in disturbing ghostly GIFs. Extremely rare case of woman with no cerebellum puzzles doctors. Pixlr, a Great Online Photo Editor, Is Now Free on the Desktop. How to Do Hyperlapse Photography on a Budget. Watch How "Electronic Makeup" Completely Transforms This Model's Face. How Bad Is California's Drought? This Bad. Mysterious Sinkholes Are Forming Near the Site of This Rising Supertall.

The evolution of video game controllers in 16 cool photos. New pictures and video show interior detail of the Siberian hole. This Abandoned Warehouse Is Full of Live Jellyfish.