Topic: STRANGE - on September 2, 2008 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Man Jumps Off Golden Gate Bridge, Survives
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 27, 2008 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
WoW - RL Race Across Azeroth
We've always wondered what it would be like to run the same distance in the real world that we run every day in Warcraft. Finding out required duct tape, computers, custom scripts, sore legs, and elf ears. We had been wanting to connect a treadmill to Warcraft and calibrate the speed for a long time. Probably since we started calling Warcraft "RunCraft" because neither of us had mounts.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 24, 2008 at 1:45:00 PM CEST
The “Wow” and Other Mysterious Sounds of the Earth
If you listen closely, you’ll find that the earth is full of sounds. Some are things that you hear every day, some are truly remarkable and some sounds hail from origins completely unknown. What follows here is a list of "sonic mysteries" for your pleasure - many of them include audio.
"No discussion of mysterious sounds would be complete without this one, although it’s not a sound from earth - it’s from space.
On August 15, 1977 a SETI scientist working at the Big Ear radio telescope of the Ohio State University noticed a very strong signal that lasted for 72 seconds. The type of signal resembled signals that are non-terrestrial and non-solar system in origin."
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 14, 2008 at 10:57:00 AM CEST
The World's Weirdest Vending Machines
Today’s news that Best Buy is to put vending machines into airports got me thinking about these automated, mechanical stores. Vending machines can be incredibly useful if they are put in the right place, and sell the right things. They are available 24 hours and can empower even the shyest of shoppers to buy normally embarrassing items (toilet paper, anyone?)
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 7, 2008 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
The binary-ASCII code from Crabwood 2002: a second message embedded somewhere?
On August 15, 2002, a now-famous crop picture appeared at Crabwood in England. It showed the schematic image of a "military grey alien" using an old-fashioned 60-line TV signal from the 1950's, and also the image of a "spiral compact disc".
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 6, 2008 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Flat-earthers
Flat-earthers are people who believe, here in the 21st century, that the earth is flat. (Believers in a round earth are called globularists.)
And what about the fact that no one has ever fallen off the edge of our supposedly disc-shaped world? Mr McIntyre laughs. "This is perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions," he says. "A cursory examination of a flat earth map fairly well explains the reason - the North Pole is central, and Antarctica comprises the entire circumference of the Earth. Circumnavigation is a case of travelling in a very broad circle across the surface of the Earth."
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 24, 2008 at 1:01:59 PM CEST
Camera-Equipped DelFly Micro Weighs Only 3 Grams
When we wrote about the super tiny 16 gram DelFly MAV (micro air vehicle) last November, we promised that there were even smaller versions in the works, including the DelFly Micro at 5 grams. Looks like that was an overestimation, as the DelFly micro has had its maiden flight and it tips the scales at an incredibly tiny 3.07 grams. What do you get for 3.07 grams? Everything you could ask for, pretty much… The ornithopter has a 10 centimeter wingspan, is fully remote controllable, and includes an onboard camera that streams video to a base station
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 23, 2008 at 11:53:04 AM CEST
How Americans Die
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 17, 2008 at 11:24:10 AM CEST
Buy the typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote Hitchhiker's Guide for $25,257.94
There's something so appropriately surreal and disarming about seeing a literary cultural artifact like the autographed typewriter Douglas Adams used to write The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on a book reseller website and sitting right next to a huge red "Add to Basket" button. But there it is, the original Babelfish that translated Adams' own genius-madness into transmissionable form!
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 16, 2008 at 1:20:44 PM CEST
Girls Sleeves Tiger Full Body Tattoo Shirt
The newest item from Sleeves, this full body tattoo shirt emulates traditional Japanese chest plates. Depicted amidst these Japanese images is the tiger which represents sincerity of the heart and the cherry blossom, reflecting the fleeting nature of youth and beauty.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 10, 2008 at 2:26:58 PM CEST
Woman kills husband with folding couch
A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 10, 2008 at 2:25:04 PM CEST
Wii Damage
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