Archive for August, 2008
Look Inside The Digg Office
On August - 30 - 2008
Digg’s headquarters are also located in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most dugg stories appear on the front page.
Guns And Equipment From Westerns
On August - 29 - 2008
If you like tough cowboys from Clint Eastwood movies and wild wild west this post is for you. Great still life photography of the equipment, necessary to shoot a good western.
Male-Male Competition
On August - 28 - 2008
Don’t drink and drive
On August - 26 - 2008
if you gonna drive don’t drink, if you gonna drink don’t drive
“I say don’t drink and drive
You might spill your drink
Before you get behind
the wheel, just stop
& think
You can take your chances
But there’s so much to lose
Another bumpy road,
There’s so much wasted booze
I’m not so worried
About how many I kill
I’m much more concerned
With how much beer I spill
35% of accidents
Are cause by pixilated
The other 65% are not
Alcohol related
What does this tell us
About the drunk drivers
They seem to have a
Better record than
the sober team
I’m not so worried
About how many I kill
I’m much more concerned
With how much beer I spill
“
Odessa Graffiti Street Art
On August - 25 - 2008
Street art in Odessa, Ukraine.
Amazing Shutter Art
On August - 24 - 2008
When shop owners put their shutters down at the end of the day, the plain metal shutters tend to give the streets a dull and deserted look. But not when such talented graffiti artists are around.
Shutter art in Bargoed, UK
99 Excuses for Skipping out of Work
On August - 24 - 2008
1. My kids are locked outside.
2. My kids are locked inside.
3. My kids are stuck in the door.
4. I have to pick on my kids.
5. I have to help my grandmother bake cookies… Read the rest of this entry »
Olympics Medal time line 1896 at 2008
On August - 23 - 2008
Olympics Medal time line 1896 at 2008
Athens 1896
Paris 1900
St. Louis 1904 Read the rest of this entry »
The top 10 essential places to have sex
On August - 22 - 2008
Grab your love life by the collar and get out of the bedroom; there’s a whole world of cheap thrills and naughty sex out there. So ditch the duvet and work your way through these 10 essential places to have sex before you die. Read the rest of this entry »
Chand Baori - The Deepest Step Well in the World
On August - 21 - 2008
Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village Abhaneri near Jaipur in Indian state of Rajasthan.
The Chand Baori, a vast well with flights of steps on three sides, is a 10th century monument situated in Abhaneri. It is a fine example of the architectural excellence prevalent in the past. This impressive step well is as deep as a seven storeyed building. The famous Harshat Mata temple situated opposite to this well shows that there must have been a religious connection with the step-well. The well is 35 m on each side with steps leading down from each side and water can be drawn from any level.
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Stats On How I Will Probably Die
On August - 18 - 2008
how men in the United States will die in 2008. There are various causes covered including suicide, heatstroke, and electrocutions. The data was collected from the CDC’s WONDER Database. WONDER stands for Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research which is a collection of data that’s available to public health professionals and the public at large, boasting a wide array of public health information.
Thanks to this it looks I don’t have to worry about shark attacks (1), foreign objects left behind during surgery (2), or fireworks accidents (5).
The Panda from Apocalypse Now
On August - 18 - 2008
Do not mess with this bear.
13 things that do not make sense
On August - 17 - 2008
1 The placebo effect
DON’T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. Except it’s not quite nothing. When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. The shocking result? The pain-relieving power of saline solution disappeared.
So what is going on? Doctors have known about the placebo effect for decades, and the naloxone result seems to show that the placebo effect is somehow biochemical. But apart from that, we simply don’t know.
Benedetti has since shown that a saline placebo can also reduce tremors and muscle stiffness in people with Parkinson’s disease (Nature Neuroscience, vol 7, p 587). He and his team measured the activity of neurons in the patients’ brains as they administered the saline. They found that individual neurons in the subthalamic nucleus (a common target for surgical attempts to relieve Parkinson’s symptoms) began to fire less often when the saline was given, and with fewer “bursts” of firing - another feature associated with Parkinson’s. The neuron activity decreased at the same time as the symptoms improved: the saline was definitely doing something.
We have a lot to learn about what is happening here, Benedetti says, but one thing is clear: the mind can affect the body’s biochemistry. “The relationship between expectation and therapeutic outcome is a wonderful model to understand mind-body interaction,” he says. Researchers now need to identify when and where placebo works. There may be diseases in which it has no effect. There may be a common mechanism in different illnesses. As yet, we just don’t know. Read the rest of this entry »
Evil easter bunny
On August - 16 - 2008
The Easter Bunny is nice only one day out of the year. How is he the other 364 days?
Were Closed!
On August - 13 - 2008
There’s honesty - they usually only say it with their eyes…
Lego Sushi Sculptures
On August - 12 - 2008
Lego Sushi set that looks almost like the real thing, except for the inedible part. Taken from Big Daddy Nelson Flickr page, these has got to be the most intricate lego sculptures of sushi ever made. Every detail is made to look like its real life counterpart, the ikura sushi (fish eggs seaweed roll) shows its brimming fish eggs, wasabi with uncanny matching color and the ebi sushi (shrimp sushi) that looks ready to be eaten.
Check out 14 more pics of lego sushi sculptures after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
The Many Uses of Vodka
On August - 11 - 2008
Aside from being a fantastic drink, vodka has many uses which you may not have known about. Since vodka is one of the world’s most popular drinks, many of us have a bottle handy in the home. And since its typically filtered and pure, it makes a handy liquid to have around.
Here are a few uses:
12 Most Popular Myths Busted!
On August - 10 - 2008
Some of the most familiar wives tales and urban legends, plus some that sound dubious but which turn out to be true. You know them, now let’s bust them
It takes seven years to digest gum
While it may prove a bit more difficult to break down than organic foodstuffs, chewing gum gets no special treatment from the digestive system. Doctors figure this old wives’ tale was invented to prevent kids from swallowing the rubbery substance.
The Great Wall of China is the onlymanmadestructure visible from space
A demon barbarian’s guide to impressing a girl
On August - 9 - 2008
Satirical Maps of Europe
On August - 8 - 2008
Vintage stuff is way underrated, especially when you see such great artwork forgotten by time. We’ve come across some satirical maps that describe in a humorous fashion Europe’s situation as seen during the first World War. Here are the artworks:
Beautiful Paper Cutting Art
On August - 7 - 2008
