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Blind spots
Most people (even many who work on the brain) assume that what you see is pretty much what your eye sees and reports to your brain. In fact, your brain adds very substantially to the report it gets from your eye, so that a lot of what you see is actually “made up” by [...]

I love Dr. Bonner’s Soap, it the peppermint smells so good and so does the tea tree.  I first started using it when camping, because it is a low sudsing soap good for backpacking.  Anyway, if you have never seen the bottles before they are great, completely covered with random/great text about the soap and [...]

The Saturday Video: Investment Castings
Have you ever heard of investment castings? If you haven’t, you’re not alone, the BIC and his Apprentice actually learned a thing or two by watching this week’s installment of CoolStuffBeingMade.
long, but awesome / interesting video about how stuff is made
via MAKE 

Cornfield Custom Maize Custom Cornfield Maizes Maize Cornfield Maizes
wow, lovely webpage title, but its still a cool collection of aerial photos of corn field mazes
oh, and happy friday the 13th

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Bionic Quest
read the post about Michael Chorost’s quest for an improved bionic ear, and then listen to these samples of what it might be like to hear the world with such an implant
via digg

Video: Volvo C70’s origami hardtop - Autoblog
If there’s one piece of automotive engineering that never ceases to amaze with all of its iterations, it would have to be retractable hardtops.
um, holy cow batman, watch the video of this thing retracting, its disgustingly awesome

Interesting to say the least
Psychology Today: Queer Eyes: Blips on the Gaydar
Until now, the concept has been the stuff of urban legend. But in fact, according to a study conducted in 2005, some people are better at identifying gays than others, and overall, gays are better at it than straight individuals.
Gay men and women not [...]

Markets: Stock Quote
Apple Computer, Inc.(NASDAQ NM:AAPL)
AFTER- HOURS 81.26 0.40 / 0.49%
Jan 10 6:29pm ET †
MARKET CLOSE 80.86 4.81 / 6.32%
Jan 10 4:00pm ET †
if you get it right away,  you are a nerd
if you need spoilers, the first one is here
the second one is here
if you laugh now, there is hope for you yet in [...]

Yahoo! News Photo
Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose

i think its kinda cute

The Eagle_Fire Garfield Randomizer
it takes the three cels from a garfield strip, splits them up and then loads them randomly together, creating a new strip that still, strangely makes sense
via

NBCSandiego.com - News - Hydrant’s Water Pushes Minivan Into Air
A California woman accidentally backed the vehicle over the hydrant. The water pressure was so great that it lifted the tail off the ground.
nuff said

Boners: Japan WTF: Butt Funnel
Japan WTF: Butt Funnel
um, anything that can even be properly described by the phrase “butt funnel” is seriously funny / fucked up

Great program for fixing tags and file names if you have full CD’s but sometimes the tags just aren’t right
X Development homepage: TagScanner
Features
# Rename files based on the tag information
# Advanced multiple files TAG editor
# Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack files
# Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / [...]

The IT Fire Department | unguided
“Think of us IT guys as your fire department. When there’s no fire theres nothing to do. we just kick back and maintain and polish our fire trucks; but when there’s a fire, you better DAMN WELL HOPE that you have a fire department, otherwise your FUCKED.”
So, I had a [...]

Improv Everywhere Mission: Suicide Jumper
A few weeks ago I was walking down 31st Street near 8th Avenue and noticed a four-foot tall ledge protruding from a seemingly abandoned building.
The next logical step was to stage an Improv Everywhere Mission with a suicide jumper on the absurdly small ledge.
Hahahah, i would have loved to see this