Biggest wave in 40 YEARS swamps Cornish fishing village during the worst storm of the year
www.dailymail.co.uk --  It was the biggest storm of the year, ripping off roofs, causing widespread flooding... and sweeping this man three feet into the air. As he and his friend braced themselves against the gales pounding Hurst Point in Dorset, one gust was so powerful that he achieved temporary lift-off. The clean-up was beginning this morning after the gale-force storms that ripped through large parts of Britain. Sixty homes were damaged when a t..
2 Comments - Submitted by Brett on November 15, 2009

Evolipse - Image Painted Computationally With Ovals (must see) [vid]
www.youtube.com --  The program tries several thousand different random placements/shapes/colors of an ellipse each second, and keeps each one that improves the likeness between its current image and the target. There's a lot of heuristics going on to help reduce computation time..
3 Comments - Submitted by Brett on October 5, 2009 

Amazing Photo Of A Lightning Strike Up-Close [pic]
i.imgur.com --  This is one of those photos taken at exactly the right moment, showing a house getting struck by lightning...
3 Comments - Submitted by rebux on October 20, 2009

11 Horrific Layoff Stories
www.billshrink.com --  Layoffs are rarely pleasant even under the best circumstances. After all, it’s pretty tough to put a positive spin on the sudden loss of your job. However, given the already bad undertones of a layoff, the way in which it is handled can make all the difference. Some employers (especially during recessions) add insult to injury by delivering news of layoffs in hurtful, embarrassing, or completely unexpected ways, which can create serious..
3 Comments - Submitted by Brett on October 6, 2009

15 Most Unfortunate Town Names
oddee.com --  Fucking? Take a left at Penistone, and just after Middelfart, it's your first right in Dildo. Is it me, or are most of these in the UK?..
2 Comments - Submitted by tarius on November 13, 2009

Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered? - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk --  An historian has claimed to have discovered the real identity of Jack the Ripper, and believes the notorious Whitechapel murderer was also responsible for killing two more women...
1 Comments - Submitted by david on October 6, 2009

Lady Waisted Corset Blog - Lady Waisted web site
www.ladywaisted.com --  Lady Waisted Corsets launch a new website, with tons of new designs. They also now stock lingerie and accessories...
1 Comments - Submitted by Calvin on October 29, 2009

Bizarre Creatures Found in Japan [vid]
www.youtube.com --  Probably fake.. what do you think?..
Add Comment - Submitted by elephanty on September 26, 2009 

Polar bear cub hitches a ride
news.bbc.co.uk --  Arctic waters are at best chilly and at worst close to freezing. Which may explain why a polar bear cub has recently been seen riding on the back of its mother as the bears swim across parts of the Arctic Ocean. The cub then briefly rode her back as she clambered out of the icy water, a unique event photographed by a tourist...
Add Comment - Submitted by david on October 3, 2009

Gallery - The world's smallest art prize
www.newscientist.com --  Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye. Every year the Small World competition run by optics giant Nikon celebrates this hidden world. This year the winners range from an anglerfish ovary to the sex organs of plants via a rusted old coin...
Add Comment - Submitted by veikko on October 10, 2009

Now they find water on Mars: Meteorites uncover ice which could point to life
www.dailymail.co.uk --  International space missions have found evidence of ice on Mars - a sign the planet could sustain extraterrestrial life. Nasa said its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted ice at five new Martian craters, likely kicked up by meteor impacts. 'This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from perhaps just several thousand years ago,' said Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona. 'This is a real water resource.'..
Add Comment - Submitted by lolinternet on September 26, 2009

Damn Interesting - Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations
www.damninteresting.com --  In the year 1760, a Swiss naturalist named Charles Bonnet became concerned when his grandfather Charles Lullin began to experience a parade of “amusing and magical visions.” The eighty-nine-year-old Lullin was being visited by visions of people, birds, carriages, and buildings, all of which were invisible to everyone but him. Apparently these mysterious objects materialized spontaneously among the few bits of the world he was still able..
Add Comment - Submitted by Brett on November 9, 2009

Underground CERN: it's Half-Life in real-life
www.cernlove.org --  It’s one of the greatest games of all time. You clamber over pipes and through ducts. Cables of unclear electrical status dangle uncomfortably close to puddles of water. Tunnels lit by rudimentary emergency lighting lead on and on past a hissing steam pipe, then dripping water, then silence, until the darkness slowly reveals a moist and fleshy lump growing out of the ground...
Add Comment - Submitted by pendle on October 30, 2009

Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning
www.dailymail.co.uk --  Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach. Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away...
Add Comment - Submitted by pendle on November 11, 2009

Left4Dead Teletubbies Mod [vid]
www.youtube.com --  This is creepy. "Flameknight7 made a mod that changes all the common infected to Teletubbies. The complete package comes with a sound mod and you hear the zombies saying "Eh oh" and at the end of a round, listen to the music."..
7 Comments - Submitted by Brett on September 26, 2009