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Blind Kid Uses Echo Location!

this is the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen.

Looking for new ways to impress girls? The good-old-fashioned tattoo on the arm just doesn’t do it anymore? Well, you should try the new hottest thing: tattoo your eyeballs! They absolutely love it. I’m just kidding. Who wants to see a guy with tattoed eyeballs…?

But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. It is the case of Pauly Unstoppable, Josh, and Shannon Larratt, who offered to be volunteers and get their eyeballs tattoed as an experiment. The procedure involves injecting the eye with ink.

Read more about it on Modblog.bmezine.com: part 1, part 2 and part 3

straight stolen from Blame It On The Voices

So I finally got around to setting up a mythtv box. I’ve wanted to do it for years but I had a hard time finding good information about hardware. I could never really find many pages where people would actually list all the hardware they were using and whether or not it worked. So that’s what I’m going to do here. This is not the end all be all system or anything like that. Just an example of some hardware that works. I ordered everything new and it all seems to be working good so far. so anyway here we go…

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Just testing out Textmate’s ability to make blog posts through xmlrpc. Pretty neat. I may never have to leave textmate again!

This doesn’t say much for the impartiality of game reviews at gamespot does it?

GameSpot Editor Fired For Review Score

This is a really cool video of a water balloon being dropped. It does some crazy stuff.

from Dark Roasted Blend

Naval fleets once were the largest painting canvases in the world.

War has inspired many great artistic moments but how often have artists returned the favor? Once, as far as I can tell. During World War I Modernism descended on Allied naval planners with a bang (sorry about that), turning fleets into the largest painting canvases in the world.

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this looks pretty awesome.

from their site

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service.

• Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15¢ per gigabyte
• No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment
• Your data is fully encrypted at all times
• Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability
• Access files directly from Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder, and Linux
• Automatically back up your important files quickly and easily

the amazon service sounds pretty neat itself. being so cheap it makes me wonder how long it will be before we start storing all of our data at secure remote locations.

i want to try some of this

Chewing gum just to freshen your breath is a thing of the past. Now with an innovative new gum from Japan, gum can freshen your whole body. Approximately an hour after chewing the gum, the special aroma component is emitted from your skin through the use of the new substances geraniol and linalool.

Available in three different flavors, Fuwarinka fresh citrus, Fuwarinka fruity rose, and Otokokaoru rose menthol for men, this unique gum will be available starting July 21st from CompactImpact.com.

hmm… geraniol is one of the 599 things they put in cigarettes. 599??

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apparently alot of people are coming here looking for Nine Inch Nails photos. most likely danh’s he took with some of the guys from the band. i took the photo section down a long time ago but i still have the pics so here a few of them. i can’t remember what concert these were from…

this is danh with… i think the drummer maybe.

danh with geordie, the guitarist and former twiggy i believe

and trent reznors signature

i have some more somewhere. i’ll try to find them and put them up here before too long.

this is really amazing. when they model tom cruises face it’s unbelievable.

i want some of this stuff.

some amazing looking uh… stuff growing in petri dishes.

Celltrade is a company that helps you to get out of your current phone contract. That way you can sign up with cingular to get the new iPhone.

It sounds like you basically sell your contract to another person. Celltrade just plays middle man. It costs $19.99 but hey that’s cheaper than paying $250 to buy out your contract and then another $599 for the iPhone.

Or if you want to get out for free there are some other alternatives… heh

i don’t know if this is real or not but it’s funny and disturbing.

continuing the odd trivia theme i guess

plant trivia

The raffia palm (Raphia regalis) of tropical Africa has huge pinnate leaves up to 80 feet (24 m) long.

that’s a long leaf

the top ten most dangerous toys of all time.

I had some serious fun with #1

SPACE.com — 101 Amazing Earth Facts
some kind of neat stuff here.

for example:

6. How much space dust falls to Earth each year?

Estimates vary, but the USGS says at least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.

Legendary Singer James Brown Dies at 73

i forgot about this thing. i’m not really sure what it is but it’s kind of addictive. you’ll just have to play around with it. you get sand, salt, water, and oil. oh and the best part, fire.

Falling Sand Game - hosted by Chirag Mehta @ chir.ag