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MapCrunch - Random Google Street View. Of All The People In All The World. Of All The People In All The World, a traveling art exhibit in the UK, uses grains of rice to bring the large numbers behind world populations to the grasp of the average human being. In the exhibit, one grain of rice equals one person and those grains of rice are put together to represent all kind of statistics from the small (such as the number of people who have walked on the moon) to the large (the population of the United States as seen below). Link. 29 Semi-Productive Things I Do Online When I?m Trying to Avoid Real Work. You don’t always have to work hard to be productive. Productivity can simply be the side effect of doing the right things. So here’s a list of 29 semi-productive things I do online when my mind is set on avoiding ‘real work.’

Check delicious popular tags like ‘useful,’ ‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’ etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.Watch one of the thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.Read an online book list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the library. Here’s another list. And another. Oh, and ever since I bought my new (super sexy) Apple iPad , I’ve been enjoying all of these sites on the go and catching looks from almost everyone who passes me while I browse.

So what kind of semi-productive things do you do online in your off-time? Photo by: Colorblind Picaso Party Casino Related 30 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in 30 Minutes or Less April 19, 2012 In "Happiness" October 4, 2010. Amazing Fact Generator. Detroit in ruins - The Decline of a major American City. Detroit in ruins – The Decline of a major American City “Detroit in ruins“, a series of pictures taken by photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre on the decline of a great American city. Breathtaking images that reflect the sad fate of some major U.S. cities… via / via / photos by Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre. Cntower_timelapse.swf from topleftpixel.com. Two Major Cities 64 Years After The Bomb Was Dropped, We Know Little About... Interesting Laugh - Funny Pictures | Funny Videos - I suppose Id be jumpy too. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia,...

The sentence's meaning becomes clearer when it's understood that it uses three meanings of the word buffalo: the city of Buffalo, New York, the somewhat uncommon verb "to buffalo" (meaning "to bully or intimidate"), as well as the animal buffalo. When the punctuation and grammar are expanded, the sentence could read as follows: "Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

" The meaning becomes even clearer when synonyms are used: "Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully, themselves bully Buffalo bison. " Sentence construction Bison engaged in a contest of dominance. A comic explaining the concept The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". Marking each "buffalo" with its use as shown above gives: Buffaloa buffalon Buffaloa buffalon buffalov buffalov Buffaloa buffalon. "New York bison New York bison bully, bully New York bison", or:"New York bison whom other New York bison bully, themselves bully New York bison". Usage. The goodbye shirt.

Conservation Status - StumbleUpon. S Curiosities. In an interesting experiment, this beekeeper decided to see what would happen if he put a glass jar over one of the holes in a beehive. Barn Cars. Barn Cars A New York man retired. He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal.

The modest farm house had been vacant for 15 years. The owner and his wife both had died and there were no heirs. The New York guy bought it at just half of the property's worth, moved in and set about to tear in to the barn. What was in the barn? Classic cars, specialty cars, Mercedes, Lotus, Astin Martin, Porsche, Volvo, Austin Healy, Alfa Giulietta, BMW, Formula Racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30, Alfa Romeo Fiat Cabriolet (1200 or 1500), Ford Cortina MKII, Mercedes Benz 180/190 Astin Martin? Opel GT, Lotus Elan FHC, Lotus Super Seven Series IV, Lotus Elan DHC Porsche 356, Austin Healy Sprite MKII, Volvo PV 544, Ford Y ? Giulietta Sprint, Giulia Sprint Speciale (SS), Nash Metropolitan Alfa Giulietta, Lotus Europa, another Lotus Elan FHC, Matra Djet? Lancia Flaminia Coupé Abarth 1300 Scorpione Lancia Flaminia Coupé, Peugeot 504 and 404 Cabriolet. We could all learn something from this guy.avi - Tír na Saor ~ Land of the Free. Walking with cheetahs... the big cats of the Kalahari who are mans best... - StumbleUpon.

By Jonathan Scott Updated: 08:07 GMT, 12 November 2010 A Nomadic tribesman of the San people strides across the hot ­Kalahari Desert — in the company of a cheetah he has helped to tame. Though they’re killers in the wild, these big cats are ­surprisingly easy to domesticate. The animals in these striking pictures, taken in the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary in Namibia, were hand-reared from cubs after their mother was shot by poachers five years ago. As a result, the three cheetahs — a male and two females — are happy to trot next to their handlers, men from the San tribe, on their daily three-hour walk across the desert.

Taking a stroll: A Nomadic tribesman walks side by side in the company of a cheetah that he has helped to tame Fast learner: A cheetah picks up tips from a Bushman on how to hunt in the grasses that fringe the desert After stretching their legs, the cats — who can run 100 metres in 4.5 seconds — even play ‘fetch’ when the tribesmen throw bits of rope for them to chase. Tandem Story - StumbleUpon. The Minivan Video Your Kids Shouldnt See. Ever. Yes, ICantSeeYou This blog is here to amuse you. There are funny stories, pictures, jokes and news. The content is updated every day. Anyone with a sense of humor should get at least one laugh a day. I try to find the unusual... after all you get the usual from all the other places! « Olivia Wilde's desperate plea from the year 2050 | Main | Cowboys & Aliens Trailer - This Looks Awesome! October 30, 2010 The Minivan Video Your Kids Shouldn't See.

Stumble It! Posted on October 30, 2010 at 04:30 PM in Amusing | Permalink Technorati Tags: funny, kids, minivan Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Minivan Video Your Kids Shouldn't See. Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. i luv the look on the little girl's face at the end I can't stop laughing!

Haha! @SuperSparky. Techno jeep. Pictures of Pennies. Hi, I'm Mitch Fincher and these pages are from a talk I gave while a Civil Engineering student at Texas Tech University. The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten pennies high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad". Below is a stack with two triads resting on top. Now, I'll show you how to build a simple bridge. Carefully filling the space between with pennies, we create a one penny-span bridge. Repeating the process by putting an extra triad on top of each stack, we can create a two penny-span bridge. Although it looks weak, it will actually hold quite a bit of weight. We can move on to a three penny-span bridge.

And finally to six and seven penny-span bridges. Click "Next" to move on to "The Big Tower". Submit your amazing coin stacking pictures. Human World. Human World The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth. When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him.

The nurse at his side didn't understand German. St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish. The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927. St. Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died. Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets. A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I. Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Because they had no proper rubbish disposal system, the streets of ancient Mesopotamia became literally knee-deep in rubbish.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies. List of unusual deaths. This is a list of unusual deaths. This list includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers. Oxford Dictionaries defines the word "unusual" as "not habitually or commonly occurring or done" and "remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others.

Some other articles also cover deaths that might be considered unusual or ironic, including List of entertainers who died during a performance, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, List of association footballers who died while playing, List of professional cyclists who died during a race and the List of political self-immolations. Antiquity[edit] Middle Ages[edit] Renaissance[edit] 18th century[edit] 19th century[edit] 20th century[edit] 1920s[edit] 1950s[edit] 1960s[edit] 1961: U.S. 1970s[edit] 1980s[edit] 1990s[edit]

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