Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This is by far the best star wars MOC, and possibly the best MOC ever seen. Simply amazing. This is a lego layout of the battle on Hoth from Star Wars episode IV The Empire Strikes Back.
It took four years, a gazilion bricks and $3,000 to complete.
You can check out all 90 pics over [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
A brilliant meteor shone its alien light over Alberta and Saskatchewan at approximately 5:30 p.m. last Thursday.
[The meteor] likely weighed between one and 10 tons and shone brightly enough to be seen over an area 700 km (435 miles) wide.
“It was somewhere between the size of a chair to the size of a desk,” said [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Massive sculptures are fascinating and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty walks the fine line between nature and the artificial. In 1970, he built a 1500-foot long, 15 foot-wide counterclockwise coil out of mud, salt crystals and rocks at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
When Smithson set out to build ”Spiral Jetty” in 1970, he hired a [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree.
The aptly-named Banyan Town shopping center near the entrance of Onoyama Park features a twenty foot tall tree with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches.
Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specializes in locally [...]
This guy has turned his own face into a music visualizer using electrodes to stimulate his muscles.
Now if you could just use the electrodes as an input rather than an output…
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
You wouldn’t get a flat, the wheels would just split, you wouldn’t get very good traction, the suspension would be get battered, the ride would be rough as hell, the brakes wouldn’t work, handling would be shit… perfect fit for Hummer drivers.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Don’t click on continue unless you are really sure you want to risk losing your breakfast. You have been warned, this is defo NSFW. No really, you don’t want to continue. Okay, don’t say I didn’t warn you…
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Ludovic Hubler is a crazy Frenchman who at the age of 25 decided to hitchhike around the entire world, including hitchhiking on ships to cross the oceans. It took him 5 years.
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some people have got way too much time on their hands
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