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The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
it spins clockwise for me, I couldn’t even figure out how it would spin the other way but then I crossed my eyes and it did.  Then I had trouble making [...]

Smugglers try to use bugs as drug mules
The insects held only about 10 ounces of cocaine, worth about $11,000, Nanninga said.
oh, it was barely any cocaine at all, only $11,000 worth; it was barely worth reporting?

6EMEIA - a photoset on Flickr

Awesome graffiti on storm drains.

Man Threatens Suit After Being Wrongly Jailed For 37 Days - News Story - WFTV Orlando
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man spent 37 days in the Orange County jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, an attorney for the innocent man wants Orange County to pay for the mistake. He’s threatening to sue unless [...]

Registration plates | Auto Express News | News | Auto Express
New rules introduced at the beginning of the month aim to crack down on dodgy styles and fonts. And unless your car now carries special identifying marks, it won’t pass the annual MoT test.
Apparently there is a large problem with people making their own license [...]

New WordPress Upgrade (2.3) Does not play nice with Google Sitemaps : TechVat
This is the error I get here:
WordPress database error: [Table 'tv_news.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ [...]

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.3
Finally installed the Dexter build of wordpress

YouTube - Will It Blend? - Marbles
Very clever advertisement for BlendTec blenders.

Do try this at home - Times Online
This is where the chocolate comes in. The distance between the globs of molten chocolate is half the wavelength of the microwaves in your oven, so double the measurement you have taken of the gap between the molten globs to find the microwave wavelength. In the New Scientist [...]

Video: Proto-Cookie Monster Eats a Gadget - Boing Boing Gadgets
Watch as this Muppet—surely a precursor to Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster—devours a toothsome talking gadget with his mouth full of fangs.
Gadget Monster?  I don’t understand what makes the talking gadget “toothsome” but its still kinda funny and random enough to make me smile this early in [...]

SUBWAY CELL SYSTEM CAN TRACK YOU DOWN
Once cellphone service is installed in the subways, authorities will be able to pinpoint a 911 caller’s location in the station, in many cases far more accurately than if the caller were on the street.
Do they get cell service in the subway already? The article seems to focus on [...]

Inventions That Don’t Exist 1.
Hand-drawn plans of impossible and absurd gadgets.
But they so totally should.
See also International Chindogu Society
 Do you know what a chindogu is. Well, dogu is Japanese for “tool” and chin is Japanese for “weird” (not to be confused with the Japanese for “penis”, which is also chin). Thus, a chindogu is [...]

Verizon FiOS installation sparks … nothing? | NetworkWorld.com Community
It’s axiomatic in this business that “Planes land safely at the airport” simply isn’t news, much the same as with “Dog bites man” or “Security flaw found in IE.”
This standard of ordinariness does not apply, however, when talking about the installation of Verizon FiOS, especially when the [...]

YouTube - look around you Brain
British “education”
I found the first episode a week or two ago when learning about calcium.
from the Brain video
the opposite of the brain is probably the bum.  its nowhere near as intelligent as the brain, it doesn’t have to be as it only needs to make very basic calculations.
I recommend watching [...]

Best Word Book Ever - Cover on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever, 1963 vs 1991 editions (with revisions).
Flickr photo set of changes between the 1963 version and the 1991 edition.  They added the father to the kitchen scenes, teachers are now male, no more “mail man” now its “letter carrier”, and [...]