An in-bred mouse
“‘Always’ and ‘never’ are two words you should always remember never to use.” – – Wendell Johnson
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The Swimming Pool that Turned into a Museum
Have you ever been to a museum swimming pool?
The city of Lille, France had a beautiful municipal swimming pool. It was an Art Deco masterpiece built between 1927 and 1932 by the architect Albert Baert. But over the years, the support underneath the pool was weakened, and it was declared unsafe in 1985. Instead of abandoning the building, the city undertook an extensive renovation project, turning the facility into a museum called the La Piscine-Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent. The locals just call it La Piscine…
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Euro Coins with QR Codes are Legal Tender
Coins with QR codes. Far Out!
The Dutch Royal Mint in Utrecht is celebrating its 100th anniversary by releasing silver 5€ and gold 10€ coins. It has been reported that they include functional QR codes and are legal tender in the Eurozone…
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Anti-Gravity Dancing
Whee! Four skydivers do a choreographed dance in the Skydive Arena wind tunnel in Prague, Czech Republic. The music is “Fot i Hose” by Casiokids.
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Mad Libs Creator Leonard B. Stern Dies at 88
Mad Libs spurred creativity in students for generations.
Mad Libs creator Leonard B. Stern died this week. Obituary writers seized the opportunity to insert blank spaces and [adverb] [noun] [adjective]s in their homages, to mimic the format of Mr. Stern’s famous creation in cheap pursuit of lulz. Mr. Stern was also a prolific, Emmy-winning television writer who would have come up with more original material.
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DIY Magnetic Silly Putty
As far as at-home science experiments go, this one is both kid-friendly and non-explosive. It’s a great way to illustrate non-Newtonian flow and magnetic attraction to kids, but it’s also cool enough to keep grown-ups hanging around to see what happens. For the full instructions for making your own magnetic putty, check out the post on instructables by user mikeasaurus…
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Weight Watchers newest diet plan begins every meal with a vegetable shower
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” – – A. Whitney Brown
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The View From Inside A Hula Hoop
Warning! May cause nausea while watching.
Where is the strangest place you can affix a tiny GoPro camera to get a radical “point of view” video? I would have never come up with the inside of a hula hoop, but someone did, and that’s awesome.
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Four Year Old Australian Art Prodigy Shows Off Talent at First Solo Art Exhibit in NYC
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Four-year-old Aelita Andre welcomed art lovers to the opening of her first solo art exhibit called The Prodigy of Color at the Agora Gallery in Manhattan on Saturday.
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It was only a couple of beers ociffer, honest
“I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you’re having a good idea but it’s just eggs hatching.” – – Jack Handey
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Video Glasses Can Stream Everything You Do to Social Media Sites
But how much do we actually want to see?
Video cameras and wireless technology have gotten so small, now developers at ZionEyez in Seattle are working on Eyez, a pair of glasses with a tiny embedded video camera that can continuously record everything you see in 720p, transmitting it wirelessly to social media sites for all to see…
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Joystick Attachments for Smartphones
Play those smartphone games in style!
A company called Ten 1 has developed a gadget that can slip over smartphones and serve as joysticks for easier movement while playing video games. So far, they’re available for iPhones, iPod Touches, and Androids. The company says that it’s done extensive testing and the joysticks do no damage to the mobile devices…
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