Nicest Man On The Planet?

This nice elderly Australian man has directly saved over 160 people's lives over the past 50 years. How? His house overlooks one of the more common suicide jumps in the country, so each day he keeps a lookout for lone people hesitating near the edge. If he sees one, Don goes out, chats with them and then invites them inside for tea. This is a real hero, read up.

Outrunning The Wind Powering You

Here's a weird video that'll take your brain for a loop. Its a vehicle powered entirely by wind going straight downwind 2.8 times *FASTER* than the wind. WTF? Yeah, I know.

Linked To By: Frank

Japan Earthquake: Aftermath

All eyes have been turned to Japan since the 9.0 earthquake hit. These series of photographs are a stunning illustration of the damage that's been inflicted on the country and the strength of its people. I'll warn you now that some of these are a bit graphic.

(Note each image links to a separate gallery. Go look at each of them)

Antarctica Photos

It is so easy to forget how epic our own planet can be, but this little gallery should help slap some humility back into your eye sockets. Nature is still amazing.

Real Life "Up" House

Man, I'm embarrassed to think that I dismissed the flying house so easily when I watched the movie. And by that I mean everything I pointed out in the film still would have prevented it from flying, but its awesome to see a flying house and imagine a poor boyscout clinging onto the patio.

Pirate Ship Bedroom

Is it possible to have a cooler bedroom than this? Maybe if it had a spiral slide to travel between floors in a fake closet and a jail cell with an iron door? Oh wait, it does! Damn, nothing else in this kid's life is going to live up to the expectations his parents are setting up for him.

Linked To By: Shanti B.

Star Wars Papercraft

You know what 100% Grade A wonderful? Making an AT-AT entirely out of paper cutouts. So are the other models showcased on this page. In theory you can even make them yourself!

Space-Time Distortion Cloaking Design

This is a new and very interesting way of approaching cloaking. Instead of trying to hide yourself in space, instead hide yourself in time! As cool as this idea is though, I must point out how incredibly impractical this kind of system would probably be. You need to somehow get this light slowing machine between you and the viewer without them seeing it, and to get any practical amount of cloaking time it'd need to be super deep. (With light going 30 mph, it'd have to be half a mile thick to get 60 sec of cloaking). Still, its pretty bad ass in theory.

The Elusive Alot

If you've ever been to YouTube, a forum or pretty much anywhere else on the internet where people can spew text then you've probably seen some horrific grammar and spelling. If this causes you undue distress, then perhaps Hyperbole and a Half has the solution for you.

Origami Master

This is another one of those niche artists like the pencil guy who has honed his craft to a ridiculous level. This man can apparently make anything out of a folded dollar bill (or sometimes two). I can't even fathom how he got the scales on this koi, or the thin struts of the Eiffel tower. You have to see this.

Sculptures Carved From Pencils

I've seen some pretty awesome art floating around the internet, but every once and a while I something so mind boggling it literally dumbfounds me. Dalton Getty is one of those people. The image you see below is a real pencil that he painstakingly carved into that hanging embedded heart. He didn't insert that thing in and glue it. No, he literally chiseled it out of the middle of the pencil in one piece using a magnifying glass, an x-acto knife and a sewing needle. What... the... fuck...

Trust me when I say you've got to check out this article.

A Real Thinking Cap

I love when science tells me that things I would have assumed were crazy are actually useful. Case and point, see this article describing some tests where they zapped peoples brains into being more efficient. Thats right, targeted electrical pulses to the head made people perform over twice as well on some pattern recognition tests! Perhaps "put on your thinking cap" will be literal someday soon.

An Interesting Take On Inception

Warning, this post contains spoilers!!

Anyway, if you've seen Inception no doubt you've pondered on the various mysteries and ideas it presented. I'm not sure if i'm totally sold on this guy's point of view, but I didn't have a chance to read his post in depth yet. I'm curious what you all think.

Captain Higgins The Flatworm

This is why I love the Oatmeal, he finds the most obscure things and presents them in a hilarious fashion. Who knew parasitic worms could be so amusing? Probably not ants...

Artificial Evolution Creates Stupid Intelligence

Some scientists have put together a cool virtual environment where little pieces of actually evolve to compete for 'food' which in this case is time on the processor. They certainly haven't become any kind of sentient code, but they have actually developed basic 'intelligence' such as remembering where they've been and how to sense where there is more food. AI is perhaps that much closer.

Comic Con Mocks Westboro Baptist Church Protesters

The Comic Convention is a meeting place for all kinds of nerds, and when you stir up that kind of nest the results are often hilarious. The Westboro Baptist Church found this out when they setup shop outside the convention with their ridiculous spiteful signs. I don't want to give away too much, but suffice to say the results were hilarious.

Linked To By: Brad S.

Urban Woods

Its amazing how a simple little idea can be so brilliant. A few mirrors and a tree can add a forest to a city! I'd love to see this thing, but sadly its a little ways off.

Cell Shaded And Action Packed

Continuing on my little art binge, here's some awesome work from Asaf Hanuka. He's got a bold style that somehow just sucks you in. Its hard to due justice to it with words, take a look for yourself!

Paper Art

There are many awesome use for flattened pulverized tree corpses, but making crazily detailed 3d models isn't usually the first one that comes to mind. Well prepare to have all your expectations blown away. Like a leaf of paper... in the wind.

US Government Probably Has A Space Laser

I mean, how else could you explain something like this? Moving water causing soluble minerals to dissolve and leave an underground chasm? Pshhhh, definitely a laser... a moon laser...