This is a really cute little animation. The story is somewhat simplistic, but perhaps that’s more of a product of the cynicism of age than a failing on the video’s part. It makes me yearn for the days when the most basic cartoon could completely capture my attention; when I wasn’t so used to the […]
‘Cause saving our planet is the thing to do! For someone who grew up in the 90s, it’s hard not to perk up and pay attention when someone brings up Captain Planet. Can I help it that I’ve memorised the song? That’s sexy these days right? While I will definitely hold that reciting the Captain […]
Now and again you hear of a solution that seems to be struggling to find a problem. That certainly seems to be the case with a technology that’s been patented by Nokia: the vibrating tattoo that denotes incoming calls Yes, the company has come up with an idea for apparatus including “a material attachable to […]
The locations of the men behind the Pirate Bay for the coming months has been set: three separate prisons and a house. But the physical location of the site itself might no longer be static… or indeed on land. Officials have revealed that the three founders of the site, Fredrik Neik, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm […]
There are places, in and around our great cities, where the natural world has all but disappeared. You can make out streets and sidewalks, autos, parking garages, advertising billboards, monuments of glass and steel, but not a tree or a blade of grass or any animal – besides, of course, the humans. There are lots […]
(Photo credit: tori wright) Oh look! More fairytales for Disney to destroy! Historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810-1886) was collecting fairytales in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz at about the same time as the Grimm brothers collected the ones that we all know and love today. Those that Von Schönweth collected, however, have been locked […]
Tommy Edison, who has always been blind, was asked by some of his Youtube subscribers if people who have been blind since birth actually see in their dreams. Here’s his answer: So I’ve bee blind since birth, so I’ve never seen anything in my life, so one of the things that you guys wonder about, […]
If you guys don’t watch Natalie Tran, get on it. She’s hilarious. In this post she discusses how you automatically assume you should be friends with someone when you see they’re wearing merchandise for something you like. I have to admit, I’ve been guilty of this many, many times. How about you guys? [Via Community […]
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What’s 244 years old, weighs 129 pounds, and is about to die? As the headline and image suggest, it’s the printed edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. There have already been responses pointing the blame at Wikipedia, though it seems to be more a case of the Internet as a whole being the culprit. After all, […]