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If Only Every Mountain Biking Video Was Shot Like This - Afrojacks.flv. Albert Fish. Mary Toft. The Cure for Insomnia. The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is a film which on its release in 1987 was according to Guinness World Records the longest running.

The Cure for Insomnia

At 5,220 minutes long (87 hours, or 3 days and 15 hours) in length, the film has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. Amazing Cheerleading Stunts. Build a Fire Bed - Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects. Original techniques to tie your shoe laces. The Buttafly Guide to Friendster Photos. Wheel number. Big-Ass Pillow. The Tarahumaras: An Endangered Species : Mexico Culture & Arts.

The Creators Project. Ideas, Strategy & Creatives » Get into Action: 77 Thoughts on Motivation. THEY'RE HERE! 2010 DARWIN AWARDS - You've been waiting for them with bated breath, so without further ado, here are the 2010 Darwin Awards. Eighth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. Seventh Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. These BMX tricks are not of your usual variety. Notes....alternative....hobo signs.

Anarchism and Other Essays: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For. Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (Third revised edition, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917)

Anarchism and Other Essays: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

Sam Weinstein on Transplanting a Baby’s Heart - Best Doctors 2011. Doctor: Sam WeinsteinSpecialty: Pediatric Heart and Lung SurgeryLocation: Montefiore Medical Center Dr.

Sam Weinstein on Transplanting a Baby’s Heart - Best Doctors 2011

Weinstein: The patient was 6 months old and had dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes too sick to beat strongly enough to sustain life. He had months to live. A good transplant has to go like clockwork. The patient arrived in the operating room, and I knew it would take me twenty minutes to open him up and prepare for the new heart. I started the operation by opening the chest and then connecting the patient to the heart-and-lung machine that keeps blood and oxygen circulating throughout the surgery. The Cutest Animated Short Film Ever. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face =) Rent a Tiny Sleepbox At Moscow Airport. For Sleeping. Images credit Arch Group/Ivanov Ilya.

Rent a Tiny Sleepbox At Moscow Airport. For Sleeping.

When I first wrote about the Sleepbox two years ago, I was dubious that it would ever see the light of day, noting "It is an interesting exercise in seeing how small a space one can comfortably live in, but one suspects that the opportunity for, um, misuse might keep this idea of the 15 minute hotel room from going mainstream. " But it has, with a working prototype set up in Moscow. Designed by the Arch Group, about the only change from the original proposal is that it is made of wood instead of plastic (common for prototypes, and the minimum time has increased from 15 minutes to half an hour. They appear to have given up on one my favourite features of the original concept, the automatic bed-changing system:

How to leave a boring class in style. 15-render-FG.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000x750 pixels) - Scaled (68. Guide to flirting. Hilarious Celebrity Portraits. New York-based photographer Martin Schoeller loves to make us laugh!

Hilarious Celebrity Portraits

Take a look at his celebrity portraits of everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Chris Rock and you'll notice a common theme running throughout his work. Weird Family Pictures. Mistaken Identity. In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth.

Mistaken Identity

The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city's areas of racial integration.

Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City?

Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for the top 40 cities in the United States. Fisher used a straight forward method borrowed from Rankin: Using U.S. Census data from 2000, he created a map where one dot equals 25 people. The dots are then color-coded based on race: White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green. The results for various cities are fascinating: Just like every city is different, every city is integrated (or segregated) in different ways.

Washington, D.C., for example, has a stark east/west divide between white and black: Detroit, meanwhile, is marked by the infamous Eight Mile beltway, which serves a precise boundary for the city's black and white populations. However, other cities present better pictures of racial integration. L.A., meanwhile, is sort of the opposite. Lucas Brunelle. Infographic of the Day: Is College Really Worth It? Is going to college really worth it?

Infographic of the Day: Is College Really Worth It?

Probably so, but it's not that clear cut, and economics have been arguing the point for 30 years. Most studies tend to show that college-educated people end up making far more money in the course of their lifetimes. (The niggle: Usually, it's not worth paying for a private university.) Still, that evidence isn't totally cut and dry: What do you really learn in college? The System 472: Road Sage. UPDATE: The Quirky Nomads Podcast has made this comic into a radio production!

The System 472: Road Sage

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