Teaching children how to play a musical instrument from an early age could prove very important for their creativity in the future. If your kid is more attracted to stringed instruments than to pianos and such, a 3 string guitar may be the perfect choice…
Dalton Stevens, from Bishopville, South Carolina, has earned the title of Button King after he spent 15 years stitching and gluing thousands of buttons on all sorts of objects.
The story of The Button King began one night in 1983, when his insomnia prevented him from falling asleep…
Forced perspective photo
Forced Perspective Photography creates extremely interesting persona as it makes use of some visual tricks which make it possible for the wrapped perception to appear as the real object. (Photos)
Continue reading… “Brilliant Forced Perspective Photography – Part 3”
Kang Shoe Company electric shoe car.
A footwear manufacturer in China has made an electric car out of a giant shoe. A shoe shaped electric car is the newest promotional tool of the Kang Shoe Company, headquartered in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
Continue reading… “If the Shoe Fits… Chinese Footwear Company Makes Giant Electric Shoe Car”
The worst-hit county in Florida is Collier — home of Naples — with a whopping 32% of homes empty.
It’s not always easy to feel sorry for sunny Florida. But it just got hit with another blow. The Census Bureau revealed that 18% — or 1.6 million — of the Sunshine State’s homes are sitting vacant. That’s a rise of more than 63% over the past 10 years.
Being on a diet makes people more likely to feel irritable and angry, a new study has shown.
The effort involved in exerting self-control over eating can lead to an aggressive frame of my mind – and even a preference for violent films, it claimed.
After they’re done getting a space shuttle into the upper atmosphere, the solid rocket boosters drop off and fall into the ocean. They’re recovered by the NASA vesselsLiberty Star and Freedom Star and refurbished for additional use. This video shows how it’s done. It’s rather long, so let me point out some highlights…
Continue reading… “How NASA Recovers Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters”
The new domain is designed to shut out child porn and make it harder for children to find sexual content online.
A new internet domain especially for pornography is set to go ahead after the official name .xxx was approved by US authorities as an alternative to suffixes such as .com or .co.uk.
Continue reading… “U.S. Authorities Approve Adult Entertainment Domain .xxx”
Of all the cultures in the world, you have to respect China for never letting go of thousands-of-years-old customs, even when it involves boiling eggs in the urine of young boys…
Continue reading… “Local Chinese Delicacy: Eggs Boiled in Urine”
Maria Popova of BrainPickings has posted an excellent article about 7 micro-documentaries about occupations and crafts that are fast becoming obsolete. From being a shoe black to working the film projector to making glass signs, these are the stories of people who are the last of their kinds.
This one above is the story of Taiwan’s last sword maker…
As anyone who has read a tech blog in the past few years will know, AT&T has been under attack for not being able to match the network capacity of larger rival Verizon. And when they won the majority of the bids for the open spectrum in 2008, Verizon also had a clear path to the future. Now AT&T is taking another path: buying T-Mobile…
Continue reading… “In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion”
An elderly woman cries in the devastated town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.
There are events in history that sear themselves into the world’s collective imagination, and enter the realm where myth meets heartbreaking reality.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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