November 2007
Marty Z says: “My friend’s sister made this for Thanksgiving yesterday — we were voting on which pies were our favorite and no one voted for this one — yet somehow it still won the pie contest.” Link Can’t see the video? Click here
Marty Z says: “My friend’s sister made this for Thanksgiving yesterday — we were voting on which pies were our favorite and no one voted for this one — yet somehow it still won the pie contest.” Link Can’t see the video? Click here
Stangarstökkvarinn Þórey Edda Elísdóttir er ekki undrandi á þeirri ákvörðun Yvonne Buschaum,…
(19 votes - 0 comments - 137 views) This narrated computer animation shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful...
A black conservative Christian pastor of an evangelical megachurch has vowed to take over Microsoft by packing it with new shareholders who will vote against the company’s policy of championing gay rights. He told Microsoft executives at a shareholders’ meeting last week that he would be their “worst nightmare” if they continued to defy him.
Ölvuðum farþega í bíl á leið frá Þorlákshöfn til Reykjavíkur í nótt þótti ekki nógu greitt ekið og…
(12 votes - 1 comment - 110 views) This contains some rare interviews with the guru of Scientology himself - L. Ron Hubbard. Very creepy.
Meðlimir sem tilheyra rússnesku “cult”-samfélagi sem kallar sig “true Russian Orthodox Church,” hafa lokað sig inni í helli þar sem þeir ætla að bíða endaloka heimsins.
Dagblöð í Rússlandi greindu frá því að leiðtogi hópsins hefði kennt þeim andlegar æfingar sem þeir stunda nú til að búa sig undir endalokin, sem þeir segja að verði […]
Kínverskum slökkviliðsmönnum hefur verið bannað að þiggja kynferðislega greiða eða mútur í nokkru formi. Þetta er liður yfirvalda í nýrri herferð gegn spillingu.
Að þiggja kynferðislegan greiða er tilgreint sem “óveraldlegur greiði” af yfirvöldum.
Þá er líka stranglega bannað að þiggja peninga, verðbréf eða önnur verðmæti, og slökkviliðsmönnum og ættingjum þeirra er bannað að reka nokkra tegund...
Landbúnaðarráðherra Noregs vill banna með lögum að fólk stundi kynlíf með dýrum. Það er leyfilegt í Noregi eins og sakir standa.
(11 votes - 12 comments - 129 views) A fascinating trainwreck of misspent energy. All three of these guys display hypocrisy fueled by self-important delusions.
Púkinn er áhugamaður um góðan mat og skammast sín ekkert fyrir að borga vel fyrir það.
En það eru takmörk fyrir öllu og $25.000 eftirréttur er eiginlega utan þeirra takmarka.
Serendipity 3 veitingahúsið í New York býður nú upp á súkkulaðiísrétt, sem nýtur þess (vafasama) heiðurs að vera dýrasti eftirréttur heims.
Verðið skýrist aðeins að hluta til með því að í réttinn eru notaðar 14 dýrustu...
(12 votes - 0 comments - 143 views) “Graphology is the claimed ability to identify personality traits by analysis of one’s handwriting. Here, a graphologist give a demonstration of this supposed ability and fails.”
(16 votes - 3 comments - 305 views) Ten absolute, irrefutable, God-approved proofs that Christians are right and atheists are dumb and deluded!
Leikarinn Jón Gnarr ýtti í dag úr vör landssöfnuninni Þú gefur styrk, sem haldin er til styrktar…
Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos. MLB’s position is that since these videos were “one time sales,” and that means that Wood and everyone else who gave money to MLB...
(12 votes - 7 comments - 185 views) Sarah of Spacedog jamming in the NPL reverb chamber with Mike Blow and Stephen Wolff. The Reverb Chamber at the UK National Physical Laboratory has one of the longest reverb times in Europe.
Þáttastjórnandi hjá BBC lenti í súpunni í vikunni þegar hún var að tala um umferðaröryggi.
Tekjutengingar urðu til þess að milljónir hurfu frá öryrkja. Hafnfirðingurinn Guðmundur Ingi…
The Guardian has an article about the “most bizarre tests ever conducted in name of scientific inquiry.”
My favorite involved 10 soldiers who went on a supposedly routine airplane flight in California in the 1960s. After a while, the plane started falling and the pilot announced they were about to crash.
While the soldiers faced almost certain death, a steward handed out insurance...
Tveir togarasjómenn voru í dag sýknaðir af því að grípa harkalega í pung skipsfélaga síns með þeim afleiðingum að hann lá sár eftir.