A NY state judge has ruled that since Jeb Corliss was very aware of the risks involved and attempted to mitigate them as much as possible, his attempt to jump off the Empire State Building was not reckless and endangering behaviour and thus legal. Of course those namby pamby pussies who get adrenal rushes from Read more about BASE Jumping Legal in US[…]
In a study under around 700 participants in the South of Spain, it turns out that women discriminate most against women (as opposed to men) and display much more controlling leadership styles… This is called the ‘Queen Bee Syndrome”. Guess women will have to emancipate themselves!
An inhabited island, which used to house 10,000 people, has sunk beneath the waves off the coast of India.
This site has a huge database of Gods from different cultures online. You can search per culture (eg. aztec, caribbean, egyptian, etc), then per letter, or you can search on the top ten lists per culture or of all the cultures. The results page is a little story about the god, interlinked with the other Read more about Find your God[…]
A real advancement in technology! This condom is now in testing, but is touted as being faster to apply, fit better and not slip. It works by inserting your penis in a casing, press the button and it would spray a liquid which solidifies quicly around your dick. They plan to have it apply within Read more about Spray on Condom[…]
Sitting at 90o is bad for you, 135o is much better as it places the stresses all along your spinal chord, this study conducted with positional MRIs has found. What they haven’t found is the best position though, as they only tried 3 positions out.
In Drachten they’ve gotten rid of almost all traffic lights and road signs, leading to the death toll going to 0 over the past 7 years (where they used to have 1 death per 3 years), no more traffic jams and much faster goings from a to b. They figure it’s because they take the Read more about Traffic lights and road signs are dangerous[…]
This site has a whole load of strange and unusual maps – from fantasy lands to Europe in the 15th century as well as how the states formed in the Australia.
Several virusses such as HIV and herpes are known to be able to cross over to the brain and then start eating it up. There are several more of these types of virusses, which when taken over the lifetime of the individual, will eat up enough brain matter to impair cognition. This takes on forms Read more about Brain eating virusses[…]
Odds are if you’re not a teenager you won’t hear a thing. Your hearing degrades after a while. Dogs will go crazy with this sound on.
Strange people and even stranger that they became celebrities
These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials Read more about Earthship[…]
But slap it on, do not spread it into your skin. The best defence is getting no sun.
This Java applet shows how many people (y-axis) were born in a given year (x-axis) with a given (part of a) name (area under the curve) on a graph comparatively to other names starting with the same letter.
To my surprise, Dutch higher courts dispute the right of music companies (in NL BREIN is the equivalent of RIAA) to obtain IP addresses from your ISP, hack your computer, scan your harddrive and then link it to an individual. BREIN comes out stinky in the court’s verdict as breaching privacy laws. Hurray for freedom!
Finally someone has decided to fly those fuckers who banned us from smoking in the face: Smintair (Smoking International Airways) is planning to open a route between Dusseldorf and Tokyo, for smokers only! Apparently they will have an above average air cleansing system and extra comforts. They hope to make the first flight on March Read more about Airlines for smokers – Smintair[…]
Apparently in the 1950s mr. Heineken tried to do something for the world by creating beer bottles that could be used to create housing in poor areas from. Unfortunately the plan was voted down somehow.
Apparently it’s a very old symbol, used to signify the Earth Mother, female anatomy and reproductive potenency.
The BBC has a map showing the population of urban centres globally over time. What it very specifically shows is that the Middle East and Asia are growing at an astonishing pace.
Nice little optical illusion, showing the effect of imprinting on the cones in our eyes.
An interesting way of viewing the globe using maps where countries get larger as they have more of a property and smaller as they have less. This site has quite a few properties they’ve mapped the world to.
This guy hooked a few hundred random number generators up all over the world and they feed to a single output. When major world events occur statistical anomalies occur with the random number generation. Caused by world consciousness or something.
Flower vendors cause 50 police injured, 11 seriously and take another 11 police hostage, set up road blocks and refuse to budge. Who’d have thunk it?
A nice wikihowto on how to go about opening your mind
Instead of just moving blood around, PT-141 – a nasal inhalor – works on the brain causing arousal, for both men and women. So you don’t just walk around with a huge erection, you also actually feel like having sex too!