“Over at JohnCow.com they have a contest going on where there web hosting provider is giving away $500 prize! Here’s your chance to win a Playstation3,or an Xbox360, a Nintendo Wii, an iPhone .. you name it, they’ll pay it! Don’t miss out and check out their mad cow blog!” JohnCow eh? there site is [...]
What is a Google twin you ask? A “Google twin” is a person who shares your name, and whose information returns results on Google when you egosurf. They may or may not be currently ranked higher than you. If your Google twin is ranked higher then you on google then you have to defeat him [...]
John Chow dot Com a local Vancouverite (or close by) who has runs a website that helps you make money is running a contest for a 24″ wide screen LCD monitor. To enter all you have to do is make a post about the contest (like this one) and mention there sponsor BluFur that provides [...]
Over the last few months all I have been hearing about is AGLOCO. As I understand it, its a tool bar for your browser that monitors what you search for and replaces ads with there own and you get a share of the income. This is nothing new but it hasn’t been around since the [...]
Ms. Danielle is giving away a 30GB Microsoft Zune that she won from John Chow. In her contest you have to talk about her new blog site and link to at lest one post. I checked out her site and found a interesting post right away my-top-5-favorite-childhood-cartoons and I decided to write my own top [...]
Here is a house that converted its backyard in to a corn maze and charge people to run the maze. I seen this done many times with corn mazes where the maze its self makes more money then the actually corn could. Goggle maps with satellite photo Step up to the counter and check in [...]
There is not a kid in my elementary school that hadn’t heard of Mario by the time he was twelve, its ingrained in to our childhood. Mario and his friends will always have a special spot in our hearts. Because there are so many fans of Mario and his friends after a while fan art, [...]
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I enjoyed them so much the first time I posted some riddles that I am going to do it again. Answers after the cut… A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the [...]
The urban cactus building Found via boingboing.net, Who found it on archidose.blogspot.com Urban Cactus is a housing project in the Vuurplaat section of Rotterdam by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers and done for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten. Due to its siting at the end of harbor, the architects chose to conceptualize the [...]
Happy 420 everyone. Here are some riddles that I enjoyed enough to save just for you guys. Answers after the cut… What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house? What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? What comes once in a minute, twice [...]
A few months ago I found a Youtube video of Sachiko Kodama ferrofluid sculpture. There are more then a few of them running around on you tube just search for Ferrofluid. There is also the snake oil project that I posted earlier. They looked amazing and pretty simple too do, an electric magnet and iron [...]
The Eden project was inspired by Jon McCormack‘s time in the Litchfield National Park, in Australia. The artwork is a self-generating, artificial ecosystem complete with rocks, biomass and sonic animals populated. The creatures evolve, move about the environment, emit and listen to sounds, forage for food, encounter predators and mate with each other. After reading [...]
In my endless wondering around the internet I found this interesting site middlezonemusings.com that had an intersting writing contest recently. Write a story in 6 words Some of the better entries include; In between her smiles, despair danced, Kittens are harmless! (Sophie’s last words.), Never was cutting toenails so fatal, ‘wedding cake, kids, debt, divorce, [...]
Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, and has been credited with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form”. He is the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. Cooper earned a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where he [...]
Ceramic Egglings look and feel just like real eggs, Just crack one open, add water. Perfect for brightening any home or office space. Plants thrive for months in their shell and can be replanted in soil. Spicy red pepper, lavender and wild strawberries, and many others. Price $9.50 US, each. Elsewares.com
How to make cheap plastic babies with plastic wrap and clear tape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7QzfNS3xk A gallery and videos can be found on mark jenkins website, it looks like he mainly builds sculptures out of plastic wrap and clear tap. Imagen creating a scare crow with the same technique, or filling them up with LEDs to make [...]
I hate buying batteries, I hate having to turn my house up side down looking for a fresh battery when I desperately need it. I will go out of my way to make sure that all my little gadgets have built in NiMH/NiCd Cells with adapters that I plug in each nigh. USBCELL are your [...]
Isnoop.net has created a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/Airborne package’s progress with Google Maps. Just enter your tracking number (the tracker automatically detects which company your package was shipped with) and press enter and you will be presented with a map of the progress of your package. Also [...]
Fellow 1: “Now my grandfather, he knew the exact day of the year that he was going to die. It was the right year too. Not only that, but he knew what time he would die that day, and he was right about that too.” Fellow 2: “Wow, that’s Incredible. How did he know all [...]