Michael Vick's old jerseys put to good use (PIC) www.sfgate.com — The Atlanta Humane Society is now accepting Michael Vick t-shirts and jerseys. They'll be used as bedding, chew toys and rags for cleaning up dog doo. Which is only appropriate, right, Rocky?More... (Offbeat News) |
Gotcha! Overly friendly Shark Wrestled to Beach [Pic] www.dailymail.co.uk — Biologists caught a two-metre-long (7-foot-long) shark that had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on a Spanish beach, wrestling it with their bare hands and dragging it ashore. The fish turned into a novelty by swimming regularly into plain view in very shallow water. Bathers gathered daily to snap photosMore... (Offbeat News) |
www.diskusjon.no — The absolute best jump kick you will ever see.More... (Offbeat News) |
gizmodo.com — You may have seen the blurry spy-shots, but this is a crystal-clear rendition of what the next-generation iPod nano will allegedly look like. And yes, I still hate it hate it hate it... although I admit I'm starting to lik-- no, I hate it.More... (Apple) |
84 Years Old and Still Driving His First Car [PIC] www.nytimes.com — But Mr. Curtiss, 84, of Shelton, has followed the advice with the first car he ever owned, a 1929 Ford Model A; it has 200,000 miles on it and still runs. Mr. Curtiss said he was 15 in 1938 when he bought the car, which sold for $400 when new, from a Derby man for $10.More... (Offbeat News) |
DIGG: Home Page Improvements Coming, Paving The Way For Digg Images blog.digg.com — "...Over the last few months we've been working on some new features based on your feedback. The development team is hard at work on multiple concurrent projects (home page, images, comments, etc.) which we'll be releasing over the coming months..."More... (Tech Industry News) |
Fun with Labels at the Asian Market [Pics] sidesalad.net — OMG Pork Uterus?!?!?! BLECH!More... (Offbeat News) |
Photos of Police in "Action" -- Now with less boobs! [PICTURES] www.thatsnotnews.com — Police have a bit of a reputation here. So I asked myself "Do police have a bad reputation all over the world?". The conclusion of my unscientific research says "Yes, yes they do". Observe...More... (Offbeat News) |
Chinese man with world's largest hand goes for surgery (INSANE pic!) shanghaiist.com — 24 year old macrodactyly patient Liu Hua from Jiangsu, the man with the world's largest hand, has arrived at the Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital for radical plastic surgery. He was born with a left thumb, index and middle finger much larger than normal, which grew dramatically together with his arm as he grew older.More... (Offbeat News) |
blogs.pcworld.com — [PIC] I bet the owner is a programmer!More... (Programming) |
Guerilla Gardening: A Subversive Way to Help Save the Planet [pics] www.weburbanist.com — Accused at times of everything from vandalism to terrorism, guerilla gardeners continue skirt the law (often acting under the cover of night). Their mission: convert dead public places into useful growing spaces in cities around the world. Who would have thought that gardening could be not only subversive but even illegal?More... (Environment) |
Solar Cell Innovation: Silicon Nanoparticles Improve Performance www.treehugger.com — Solar is booming, as it should. Third generation solar cells are seeing rapid growth, organic solar is breaking records, and the solar power bikini is the latest rage. But don't count plain old silicon out of the game just yet. Munir Nayfeh (pictured), a physicist at the University of Illinois, has developed a process that harnesses moreMore... (General Sciences) |
www.af.mil — An amazing photo of the air and sea military might.More... (Offbeat News) |
Microsoft: Now and then [w/pics] www.trendplex.com — Would you have invested back then? A short comparation regarding Microsoft's staff and a big question on how those geekish people managed to help Microsoft become the large corporation today.More... (Microsoft) |