Absolutely Genius Ideas. Data-original="images/genius/29.jpg" class="lazy image"/> data-original="images/genius/75.jpg" class="lazy image"/>
The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth. It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night.
These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted. " Places like... Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there. Also skulls. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein.
[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page.
I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. " "Imagination is more important than knowledge. " Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement) Neil Armstrong. A True Formal Apology.
10 Helpful Websites You Have Never Heard Of. It’s easy to get lost on the internet among the millions of useless websites and the couple dozen or so good ones.
Unfortunately, some of the few good ones go way under the radar, and you’ve never even heard of them, let alone visit them. Ranging from practical and educational to just plain fun, these are sites you’ll want to bookmark. 10. Zeer If there was a website that could save your life, it’d be Zeer. 9. Wikipedia’s overrated and about to become outdated. 8. 5min Forget Ehow, Wikihow, or any other how-to website out there. 5min is your “one-stop shop for instructional videos and DIY projects.” 7. You can test drive a car, why shouldn’t you be able to test drive a phone? 6. Google News is an amazing source of news. 5. Despite popular belief, many people do actually enjoy reading books, but they just can’t find any time to set aside for this underrated hobby. 4. Traveling is a hassle. 3. 2. Think of the copious amounts of videos that exist all across the vast World Wide Web today.
BearFood: a daily list of awesome and/or neato links.