toshism

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

Crazy fungus that infects ants. then grows out the their head.

creeepy

some of these roads look pretty wild

check out this one

Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World

i’ve always kind of been interested in knots. this page has some cool animations showing how to tie various knots

Animated Knots by Grog

sweet, google just released a patent search

Google Patents

i haven’t had a chance to play with it much but it looks pretty neat

i should have posted this along time ago but i haven’t been keeping this site updated much.

anyway… this is a great site of a friend of mine documenting his travels through asia. (a trip i plan to take soon myself) he traveled for a year and has alot of good pics and good info you don’t get from a book.

aarons blog

crazy clouds over hastings, nebraska

link

this page has photos of all kind of interesting things taken from google maps.

Flying Dog Brewery plans to release Gonzo Imperial Porter to honor Hunter.

pics of some crazy looking clouds over Joplin MO

bendable concrete?

photos of cities from around the world. pretty interesting.

World City Photo Archive

this little survey is kind of interesting. here’s my results

i may have to look into something like this soon.

Gas prices are no problem with truck that burns wood

**UPDATE**
this post is over two years old but it still seems to get hits. it seems that the link above no longer works… so… i’ll post a few things here i’ve found recently on wood powered vehicles.

this is an article from Mother Earth News about wood gasification.

after WWII Toyota made 26,000 wood burning trucks in japan. there is more info and a photo here

i think most all of these are based on the wood gas generator described on wikipedia here

i’ll look for some more info as i get time.

The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit

hey adam, free german lessons courtesy of the german governments shortwave radio station.

Learning German | Deutsche Welle

slow page but it has some awesome old flyers for hip hop shows.

people like afrika bambaataa, funky 4, kurtis blow, and doug E. fresh. pretty neat.

someone found a digital camera in thailand after the tsunami and it had these pics on it.

apparently the people who took them didn’t make it out.

this is pretty cool, some guys in alaska made a giant uh… pile of ice. it’s neat looking though

ice wall

cat goes ballistic and has to be shot. yeah, i know all about that.

Ears flat back, hair standing on end and eyes bulging, Mickey lunged across the dining room and attacked her daughter, biting through her jeans and slicing into her leg.

When the cat released its grip, it continued coming at the girl, shrieking and hissing.

*skeered*