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ESPN covers a real life fight club that takes place in the heart of Silicon Valley. This fight club predates the movie Fight Club.

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Daigoro the Standing Alligator is an alligator that stands everytime water is poured on him.

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Improve Everywhere pulled another stunt. This time it was treating a little league game like a major league game.



Here is the press conference following the game.


Best Game Ever: Press Conference from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

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First one is the product on the left. They call it the SteakHouse Grill. It's pretty much a steak toaster. You put your steak into the middle and the electric grill heats it from the sides. The fat grease drip to the bottom which also reduces smoke. It's $199, so why don't you have it yet? Oh yeah, I can't find a way to buy it.

Second (to the right), is a Tetris ice block manufacturer. It's a concept design that they named "Tetrice." It's an ice tray with Tetris block shapes so you can play Tetris as long as ice doesn't melt. So, this is great for when you're outside in below freezing temperatures and you got nothing to do.

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Designed by Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Cristian Cellini and Francesca Fontana. These pen caps can serve as a cutlery.

Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery...this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a fork-cap, a knife-cap and a spoon-cap, that replaces the normal pen cap during lunch time! All caps are made by annually renewable resources, like natural starch and fibres, to be 100% biodegradable and atoxic, warranting the best alimentary use. Dispensing each set in a compostable packaging the whole set is designed to respect the environment. Now give your office ballpoint pen a good excuse to be gnawed by your teeth: use them for din-ink.

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These are teddy bears that were de-stuffed, turned inside out and restuffed. The results are pretty interesting-looking. Also, this is my 300th post, only 65 for a whole year's worth of posts.

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Apparently there's a sweatshop in China that recreates paintings by famous painters. The good thing is that the paintings aren't sold as a counterfeit copy of the real thing but just as a recreation of the original. This is much better than a print copy as you can actually feel the textures of the paint and see the brush strokes that the painters decided on.

The company that makes the reproductions states that they have 622 galleries with over 5,000 artists working there and not all work are reproductions. Some are originals.

I can't imagine what the community is like over there. I guessing that it's like when I was in art school but with 50 times more people and everyone is Chinese.

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Surprisingly, none of them eats people but smells like raw meat or rotting meat. They also have a fleshy texture.

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I love It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia but I didn't think people in Philadelphia was really like that. A Travel & Leisure magazine and CNN Headline News survey found that Philadelphians are the least stylish, least active, least friendly and least worldly. Beating out Washington DC and Dallas/Fort Worth for the honors.

Farley (senior editor at www.travelandleisure.com) pointed out the results...mean people in Philadelphia are ugly or the city is a bad place to visit.

Okay the "..." replaces "don't". But who cares Philadelphia sucks. Especially the way they played .500 ball at the end of the season, forcing the Mets to make the greatest collapse in sports history.

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Instructables has a tutorial on how to get free electricity out of your phone lines. You have to solder stuff, so it's not for everyone. Still it's very informative.

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Michael Harris designed this concept idea for a nail assist. It helps to strike the nail with a bigger metal area at the top. It also helps you strike the nail down straight. The third benefit is the protection to your fingers. If you still hit your fingers even with this device, you do not have the sense of touch and sight.

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"Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures."

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This is like one of my many nightmare scenarios to be in. It's like waking up while you're in surgery. Fortunately, it's wasn't in the part of the autopsy where your stomach is sliced open and the autopsy doctor juggles your intestines. If it was at that point, I think he would've went back to sleep.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

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Weird foam started showing up and these kids start playing in it.

Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.

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I thought these pictures were pretty interesting and medium well.

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Largest island, largest lake, largest island in a lake, largest lake in an island, largest lake in an island in a lake...

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I guess we didn't win after all. This is a building in US Navy's Coronado, California Naval Amphibious Base. Here is the Wikipedia entry for it.

A draft study conducted by the National Register of Historic Places noted that the shape of the six-building complex was simply an oversight that went undetected during the Navy’s approval process.

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So this couple built this very sophisticated pot farm underneath a house. It has hidden hydraulic door in the garage, an irrigation system, surveillance cameras everywhere and an escape route that goes out a door hidden under a fake rock. If I decided to build a pot farm, this is close to how I would do it (mine would include robots in medieval armor that poses as decoration until set off by motion sensors and attack the intruder). The story has lot of pictures of the pot farm and some guesses as to how they were caught.

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Sutree is a video website where you can watch and upload videos. The videos get rated and commented on like any other streaming video website. This website stands out from the rest that the videos are only tutorials. People can upload a video about something that they know how to do. Thiswould be great for the MAKE and ReadyMade audience. This seems like a really good idea.

Of course, you can only make so many youtube clones until you put a clock in it (i.e. Revver, Metacafe) or make a niche version (i.e. Pornotube), so it's not an original idea. But I like where Sutree is going with their site. Though eventually, someone will post a tutorial about sex positions, they'll have to add an over 18 disclaimer and it will eventually become Pornotube. It always happens. Pornotube.

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The US Coast Guard made one of the biggest drug busts in history. They found 20 tons of cocaine in a port in California. The estimated street price is $300 million for frugle shoppers (wholesale) and $600 million for retards (retail).

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It has a motion sensor underneath the bottom of the bulb and when you walk under it, the light bulb lights up.

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This is a very interesting article about two 17-year-old Australian girls that one day decided to kill their friend. They just snuck up behind her and started to choke her with a speaker wire while holding a cloth soaked with chemicals. It sounded like she didn't go down easily, even though the girls said that they were trying to kill Eliza, the victim, without having her suffer. Then they buried her. They pretended to help Eliza's families look for her but eventually turned themselves in. Here are some of the girls' quotes:

"We just did it because we felt like it, it is hard to explain."

"I knew we had wanted to kill someone before."

"We knew it was wrong, but it didn't feel wrong at all, it just felt right."

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Some drunk @$$hole decides to go on stage and attack comedian Jim Jeffries for no reason. Looks like he gets him good and Jeffries wants to go to a hospital. He comes back out, says a couple of jokes and leaves. At the end, they add Jeffries' CD. This seems to be a trend, videos of violence while comics are doing their stand-up. (guitar smash, Paulie Shore (even though it's fake))

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The incredible tall Cory Doctorow posted about this on BoingBoing. It's about this premium wireless carrier called Voce. They are targeting rich people but it's not that ridiculously expensive. Their basic plan is $500 to buy one of their phones, which is unlocked and you're not locked into a contract. Then it's $200 a month after that. It seems like a lot but I know a lot of people are out there that go over on their plans and end up paying that much anyway.

Aside from the price, there is one feature that this carrier has that no one else has worth noting. They have a 24/7 personal assistance service included in their plan. You can call anytime and call your PA anything. The PA will research anything for you and give you detailed information on whatever you ask. One of the testimonials read that when asking about a certain model car and its competition, the PA gave a very detailed information on all of them and set up a test drive for the first car.

Cory also called Voce and noted that the person who, answered within two rings, knew what they were doing. Seriously, you don't get that kind of service from any other carrier. You always go to an automated system where it asks you what language you speak. It's definitely not for me since I don't use the phone that much and I know everything but I know cellphone power users should definitely consider this carrier.

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It's someone's project I'm guessing. You can't be too comfortable. Tell the website to make it or steal the idea and make it yourself. Whatever, I don't even care anymore.

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A New York couple decided to move to Arizona once they retired. Like most New Yorkians, they didn't have a car. Rather than flying and shipping their pets where they can't see them, they decided to take a cab. They asked a taxi-driver, "wanna drive us to Arizona?" The taxi-driver said, "would I?!" all excited like Milhouse from the Simpsons would be. Then they did and gave Milhouse money. The end.

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UCSC School of Engineering & Economics department decided to decorate their building with Postits. Here is the result.

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Here is a How-to on making a pancake like heroin:



From BoingBoing

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The New York Times has an article about Pat Venditte who is a pitcher for Creighton University. He is different in that he can pitch with both hands. Pitchers like Venditte are pretty rare obviously. Most ambidexterious pitchers haven't been that good or is really only good with one arm, they just happened to be able to pitch with the other once in awhile.

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Some dude was walking his dog and found this 8-inch mummified body with wings. Experts looked at it and stated that the body was genuine. X-rays show that it has a skeleton that looks identical to a child's body except that the bones are hollow. They also didn't find just one body, the dude said that there are about 20 of them. BTW, it's April Fools Day. Someone did make these. He's also selling them on ebay.

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Yes, these sandals have a built-in flask. Think of the possibilities! The possibilities!

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Zamzar is a free online service where you can upload most files that you need a special program to open. Then you tell it what file format you want. The website then sends you an email with a link where you can download the converted file. This is a very useful tool that can be used by anyone.

Check their conversion types to see what file types you can convert to and from.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Matt White bought a piece of property that belonged to his great-aunt for $50,000 so that she can go to a nursing home. Then while working on the property, he kept digging these weird flat rocks. They were Goshen stone. They cost about $100 per ton, which is a lot if you think about it. They're just rocks. It turns out that he might have 24 million tons of it. Despite the prospect of becoming a billionaire, it seems like Matt White is still trying to play in the Majors.

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I think it was found in some drug lord's house. More people should be labeled lords. Maybe a lady with a lot of cats should be called a cat lord.

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Yes, it's a bubble machine that blows bubbles that taste like chicken. It says it's made for dogs but I think it's more of a suggestion.

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I found this to be pretty amusing even though it's weird.

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Scienceblog has a post about the science of Godzilla, explaining the biology of Godzilla. It talks about both the original and the dumb one they made in 1998 where he was a monster created by the Mountain Dew marketing department. It has dinosaur experts talking about Godzilla if he had actually existed.

They expert did agree that the Mountain Dew version was less plausible even if it did look more "real." They also explained why Godzilla wouldn't need to eat and how he would be able to breath radioactivity.

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Cinemorgue is a directory of actors and actresses and the movies in which they died in. I guess it's good to know, somehow. Maybe if you really hate an actor/actress and wish to see them dead.

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Here's another interesting link I found. Actually, I'll probably be posting more old links. This is a calculator where you enter your annual income and it tell you where you rank in the world. Link

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Dandelife is a "social biography site". People can add their events on a timeline. You can wander around to other timelines and biographies. It's like how people on mySpace blog about things they've done or places they've been but much more organized. One cool feature is the integration with your Flickr account. You can associate pictures to events on your timeline. Same thing applies to your YouTube account. You can have your YouTube video connected to the event as well.

Their main competitor seems to be OurStory, which seem very traditional when you compare these two companies' business model. OurStory seems like one of those Web 2.0 companies that just offer a free service to get out there and start charging for "premium" accounts that have more features. I haven't tried registering with them but I think you can host your pictures there. Of course, they could offer more storage space for a fee. Very traditional Web 2.0 business model. In contrast, Dandelife seems to have a very different business model, according to Techcrunch. The stories you create with your Dandelife account and timeline can be bidded on by corporations to sponsor your story. Maybe it will be like "Sung's trip to Las Vegas is sponsored by Miller Lite" or "Welcome to the Taco Bell Drive to New Mexico". Mmm...Taco Bell...

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer sold his stories to Elaine's boss Mr. Peterson and couldn't tell the stories to anyone. Proving again that all good ideas come from Seinfeld.

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Cory Doctorow posted on BoingBoing about this wasp that attacks roaches. It starts by stinging the brain so that the roach doesn't try to defend itself. It doesn't kill the bigger roach. It pretty much makes it a zombie. The wasp then uses the roach's antennae to guide it into the wasp's lair.


The wasp then lays eggs in the roach's stomach(on the outside part). All while the roach is still alive. The eggs hatch and the larvae eats its way through to the inside of the roach.


This comes after seeing this horrible video where a praying mantis and a cute little mouse are put in a glass jar to fight it out. The video might have scarred me for life. It was a very long and bloody fight struggle. The praying mantis slowed chewed into the mouse's eye and into the brain while holding the mouse's body away with those hands. The mouse didn't even want to fight. It was trying to climb out of the jar. I don't know if I should provide the link. I don't want others to feel that disgust towards the beavis and butthead that trapped them in the jar like that.

ok, ok. here is the link

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This is a ridiculous story where Joyce Urch, a blind woman since 1979, woke up in the hospital after suffering a heart attack and could see again. Then she looked at her husband and mirror and said we're old. She was able to see her grandchild for the first time.

The doctors say that she has glucoma but that wasn't the reason for her blindness in the first place. They are still looking into how it happened.

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