Traffic lights and road signs are dangerous Posted on November 14, 2006 by Robin Reply 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 responsibility for safe driving from the government and put it into the people’s laps.
Strange Maps Posted on November 7, 2006 by Robin Reply 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.
Brain eating virusses Posted on November 3, 2006 by Robin Reply 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 such as chronic forgetfullness.
Can you hear this? Posted on September 4, 2006 by Robin Reply 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.
10 unlikely celebrities Posted on August 9, 2006 by Robin Strange people and even stranger that they became celebrities
Earthship Posted on August 1, 2006 by Robin 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 are recycled and cheap, you have a custom built design to suit your needs at a fraction of the price of a ‘normal’ house. Sounds like an ecologically sound and attractive idea. Am I turning into a tree hugger?
Wear Sunscreen Posted on July 20, 2006 by Robin But slap it on, do not spread it into your skin. The best defence is getting no sun.
Baby Name Voyager Posted on July 20, 2006 by Robin 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.
Dutch courts respect computer privacy Posted on July 14, 2006 by Robin 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!
Airlines for smokers – Smintair Posted on July 12, 2006 by Robin 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 26th 2007. Hopefully this will work and they will grow!
Heineken Brick Bottles Posted on July 11, 2006 by Robin 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.
The Christian Fish is a symbol for fertility Posted on July 4, 2006 by Robin Apparently it’s a very old symbol, used to signify the Earth Mother, female anatomy and reproductive potenency.
Interactive Urban Growth Map Posted on June 16, 2006 by Robin 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.
Brainfuck Posted on June 9, 2006 by Robin Nice little optical illusion, showing the effect of imprinting on the cones in our eyes.
World Mapper Posted on May 17, 2006 by Robin 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.
CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD RESONATOR Posted on May 11, 2006 by Robin 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.
Mexican florists are dangerous Posted on May 5, 2006 by Robin 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?
How to open your mind Posted on May 2, 2006 by Robin A nice wikihowto on how to go about opening your mind
Aphrodesiacs that work Posted on April 24, 2006 by Robin 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!
How people look at websites Posted on April 19, 2006 by Robin In a sample size of 232 users, people had their eye movements tracked and mapped over three different websites. This showed that people viewed websites in an F-shaped pattern. Interesting pictures.
100 Best April Fools Jokes Posted on April 3, 2006 by Robin Over the ages, going back a long way – very inventive some of them
Bizarre guide to Russia Posted on March 24, 2006 by Robin If you’re an anti-tourist and just want to see… more… of the place.
The 20th century sissy Posted on February 24, 2006 by Robin The Wall Street Journal letters editor has a lovely rant on how a six year old kid could possibly be ‘sexually harassing’ another six year old girl by placing two fingers inside a girl’s waistband. It ruminates on how ridiculous the situation is becoming in America – take heed Europe, we don’t want to go this path!
Biggest heist this century – massive reward Posted on February 24, 2006 by Robin The tunbridge heist which netted the robbers GBP 50m – making it the biggest heist in the past 100 years – now has a reward offered by the security company on it for GBP 2m.
Peak Oil just keeps happening! Posted on January 30, 2006 by Robin First it’s peak oil, then the Shell tells us they don’t have as many reserves as they’ve been telling us, then the scientists claim that oil will NEVER run out, and now Kuwait – believed to hold 10% of the world’s oil reserves – claims that they actually… uhm… have only HALF what they thought they did. Way to convince the US to jump to their aid in 1990!
