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Twitter's Fail Whale, rendered using pure CSS. No images or anything here.

http://www.subcide.com/experiments/fail-whale/

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That's quite a feat. It's pretty hard to replicate manually, so it's awesome!

http://youarenotsosmart.com/

I love this site. It takes common sense facts, and explains why they're wrong

Quote:The Misconception: Makeup serves no deeper purpose than to enhance culturally-defined concepts of beauty.

The Truth: Makeup has a deeper value; it enhances the contrast of the human face, allowing for faster recognition of gender.

I like the one about Hindsight Bias and the Just-World Fallacy.

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Yes, that is indeed an airsoft minigun ripping apart a TV. Too bad the guy cheated as he loaded it up with metal BBs. Still, i'd pay good money to have that in my arsenal.

ditto

I wanna see that thing against zombies. Slowly tearing the zombie apart... mmmm~

Oh wow you can literally mow a crowd with that. The TV even caught fire.

hmmmmmmm

This is so cool: modern day gadgets reimagined as 1970s creations.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ALT1977-W...ERS/545221





I would totally wear those headphones.

That got me wondering if it's possible to make a "Pocket Hi Fi" mod out of a nano. Would like it to look more steampunk instead of retro though~

Music geek in me instantly thought about the cost of LP to digital transcribing, which would be about 30k for the two machines (record player and signal converter).

(06-23-2010, 03:07 PM)Grim Wrote: [ -> ]I would totally wear those headphones.

The spring adjustments on the side look awesome. They look like a slightly more retro version of my Zumreed orange/white border phones crossed with Grados for the headband

Great display of Krav Maga in some movie called Blade 2, which stars Raven from Tekken

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herbal !!!~