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Dangerously strong magnets – Boing Boing
I love the warnings for these large neodymium magnets. (I have some tiny ones and when they snap together, they can cause a painful pinch). Beware - you must think ahead when moving these magnets.
How to destroy the Earth (essay)
Other authorized versions of HTDTE are the much longer master version and LiveScience's adaptation . This is a factual writeup. Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
Nine out of 10 of you have probably used some variation of the term "I'll never need any of this in the real world " when you were studying math in high school. True, the mechanics of long division and PEMDAS don't seem as important in day to day life as, say, knowing how to change a tire. But according to science, a lot of the problems you face every day can be quantified with a single equation.
7 Questions You Didn't Know Could Be Answered With Math
We’re simple folk at It’s good to mock HQ. We never claim to know anything because it’s important not to get carried away with things and be under the illusion that we’re anything other than massively confused about the world we live in. We’re very relaxed in our blissful ignorance and have come to terms with our limitations. We like to think we’re a helpful collective and although Jill Y is a Scientist, she understands that not everyone wants to believe in science and that Creationists believe that life on this planet was created by a special unique act of God. That’s why, each day after mass, you can find her selling the following eye and ear guards: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
Essential products for good Christian living Part 546 ~ It's good to mock
Nobody likes waking up in the morning, but if you find yourself describing the process with words like "agonizing", "soul-deep loathing" or "simply impossible", you might want to check out these alarm clocks, which are deliberately designed to make you as miserable as possible in the morning, spurring you out of bed. 1. Time is Money We wrote about the Shredder Clock , a concept that's meant to force you out of bed by shredding more of your precious cash the longer your sleep in. It's currently only a concept, but if you're enamored of the idea, you can hack one together with ease.
The Top 5 Most Evil Alarm Clocks Ever | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."
Beethoven
We've all wondered at least once what our descendants will think of us thousands of years from now. By then, there's a good chance that all we'll leave behind are a lot of very confusing trinkets that archeologists will have to dig out of the mud. We asked you to speculate in Photoshop form what these future archeologists will think of the artifacts we leave behind, and offered $50 to the winner. But first, the runners-up: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
25 Common Items that Will Baffle Future Archeologists Article
You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Post rapture Pet care takes that burden off your mind! We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists.
What will happen to my pet after the rapture? We have you covered! Victoria City, Victoria
Points to ponder
Did you ever stop and wonder... Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin? Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? Why toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat? Why there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why you don't ever see the headline: "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
6 Things You Won’t Believe Got Banned By Modern Governments
As much as we love thinking of ourselves as the rebellious kids fighting against an oppressive society run by unreasonable old men, the truth is that most things that are illegal are illegal for a reason. Society just doesn't enjoy your public urination as much as you do. But sometimes, the grownups get it wrong. Hilariously wrong, in fact. Good old 1998. El Nino dominated the news, Microsoft was sweating the antitrust case, and you could still put a gallon of gas in your car for about a buck and a quarter.
Someone Got REALLY High And Put WAY Too Much Thought Into Rugrats. – Dog and Pony Show - Better at the internet than you...
I can see someone sitting down with a bowl and de-constructing Ahh! Real Monsters. That dude with the eyes in his hands alone warrants at least a bathroom brainstorm.The First Zombie-Proof House - All That Is Interesting
Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film (put “A.M. 180” on and forget that you have a job) 28 Days Later and the best-selling Zombie Survival Guide , we’re all a little too ready to deal with the 2012 of our dreams. “The Safe House,” designed by KWK Promes, starts to get eerily close to something I could work with, if say 200 bludgeoned members of the undead army came over to eat their way into borrowing some sugar. “The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security,” begins the designers’ website in the summary of the structure. Who wouldn’t feel safe in a concrete rectangle that folds in upon itself to become completely sealed? Even the windows are covered with a slab of concrete when the structure is on nap time.From the GCFL archives (it has its own page ). Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory. If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
Rules of the Air
An Engineer's Christmas
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.[img.KRAKEZ.com] random pics that crack you up feel like playing GAMES instead? <a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=58469&m=1&c=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=58469&tp=5&d=s&c=1" width=728 height=90 border=1></a>