Whenever there was a clown funeral, it was hard to decide whether to laugh or cry
We pulled out all of the stops on this weeks top 10 photo list. So, in the coded language we use to write this post, “pulling out all the stops” actually means you will no longer have the ability to [...]

1.) Dad at Comedy Barn
 Yes, this is his real laugh!
 
After scouring high and low for great YouTube videos, these are the unusual ones that rose to the top this week.
 

 
Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too – by living longer.
It’s an element of the debate over tobacco that some economists and officials find distasteful.

Whimsical Tree House In Oregon
Nature with architecture is not an odd pairing by any means, but it’s never been done quite like this. But another factor plays heavily on this contemporary, flowing style – music. Architect Robert Harvey Oshatz has created this awesome, artistic piece of architecture in the woods of Portland, Oregon, for a [...]

Fire-Tagging 
For a split second there, it looked like graffiti’s future was purely virtual. There was the Wiispray controller, which simulated tagging down to the paint drips; and before that there were a number of “light graffiti” projects. But the taggers? They flouted that, and the medium has evolved: Fire tagging, as its known, is the [...]

Inhalers make way for GPS 
Thanks to David Van Sickle, we’ll soon be able to track (and hopefully eliminate) recurring asthma attack outbreaks. Sickle, a scholar in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is working with students in the biomedical engineering program to create an asthma inhaler with a built-in GPS [...]

Concept DOT 
Certain design elements of the Concept DOT remind us of the stackable cars concept, and well, it does appear to have functions similar to MIT’s concept as well. The zero emission vehicle moves on three wheels and uses electromagnetic motors to propel itself. While on the road, it is capable of networking with other [...]