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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Hangboard Ride

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This wild new sport is emerging on the slopes of British Columbia. Here are the highlights of the 2006 season on Mt. Washington Alpine Resort, Vancouver Island.

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Mysterious picture
What are these strange mini-vehicles?

(original unknown)

UPDATE: They are vehicles for the "Blue Impulse" Japanese Flying Group engineers. Here is another picture and a "junior set" for sale:

Vegetable Life

Urgent Alchemy & Mechanical Animals
Mesmerizing portfolio by Claudia Drake:

(images credit: Claudia Drake)

Mixed fresh links for today:

Alien Landscape? Try to guess what it is - [fascinating]
Unforgettable Online Shopping Experience - [cool flash site]
9 Creative Staircases - [architecture]
List of Bizarre Phobias - [interesting]
Matching Album Covers - [cool art]
Horrible Deep Sea Creatures - [nature]
Cat plays piano... with feeling - [wow video]
Monty Python: Argument Clinic - [fun video]
This is why you get stuck in traffic - [fun video]

"After the love is gone" - photo art by Shannon Calvert

(image credit: Shannon Calvert, used by permission)

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Some very creative ideas for pranks.

The pictures with the post it notes and the endless piles of paper remind me of my cubicle. And no one even had to play a prank on me!

The mobile cubicle for your boss is a great idea.

However, if that idea proves inpractical, I have an alternative for dealing with your boss:

(1) Attach a small, inconspicuous electronic motor underneath his chair. Ensure that the device can be operated by remote control.

(2) Install a small strap belt onto the chair for safety reasons.

(3) Using a remote control, wheel your boss around the office anywhere you like.

Cheers

Andrew
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You can add this one to your collection:

http://cx6cau.urugate.com/img/me_at_work.jpg
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I want to do the wrapped up phone, the jello, and the stuffed rats.
Let you know how they turned out
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ZOMG!!!!!
love that "music" video!!!!!

sooo awesome!!!
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"Note the Nazi Germany soldier sharing his experiences with Stalinist Army, widely practiced cooperation just before the onset of World War II."
Actually - Russians and Nazis together started WWII by attacking Poland.
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exactly, they even signed a pact who will take which part of this country
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Yes, what's more, there is even a school of thought that maintains that Hitler attacked Russian in a preemptive effort not to be attacked himself by "world revolution"-crazed Stalin. See here
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The KV-VI Behemoth is a hoax. But the story is great entertainment though.
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,,By the way, on the bottom left is one of the Hitler's macho dreams - the Maus. This would give you some idea what unspeakable scale was projected for the Soviet "Bolshevik" tank from 1932.''

Actually, it's the other way round: left-bottom corner silhouette depicts the Kollosalwagen, whereas the Maus can be seen on the right.
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feature this next!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontos

^its called the M-50 Ontos

and i may be in love with it
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I have seen film of Fiat tanks that look like a bathtub with two guys and a machine gun, 22 hp topolino motor and no suspension.

They were shown going down hill, only!
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see the genetic tank dreamed up in the days of prog rock
http://www.danmeth.com/Weirdness/elp%20tarkus.jpg
ELP's Tarkus
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Thank you guys, great info!
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Rocket firing Sovjet tanks are not very special. After the experimental types ALL russian tanks sported 125 mm, or bigger, SMOOTH bore cannons that fired either fin stabilized grenades or sabots or guided rockets.
The Germans had a siege tank, the Sturmtiger, that was armored with halve a foot of steel on the front, that drove up to a bunker and fired a 38 cm rocket, at point blank range in the bunker, penetrating 2.5 meters of reinforced concrete, destroying it.
As for the Russian and German soldier shown together: the first pacts between Stalin and Hitler entailed a joined development of tanks and tank warfare strategies during which training bouts the germans actually kept up with the pace of the Allied tank armies, which had been forbidden by the treaty of Versailles.
www.achtungpantzer.com for all details on all german tanks (although it doesn't have the ball tank on it)
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With respect to the A7V, your joke about stormtroopers is unfortunate. It took me a while to figure out you meant the Star Wars Stormtroopers and not the WW1 Stosstruppen or the Nazi Sturmabteilung. You have to allow that some of your readers' references go back a little farther than the last 15 hours!
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Uhm... avi abrams...
And the Japanese attacked PH in order to anticipate the bloody expansion of the paranoid US. The history showed they're write. to bad for them.
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The Fahrpanzer or a close derivative appears on a book in my collection. "Permanent Fortification" by Lt Col G J Feibeger of West Point (1900),it appears to be a manual for West Point Cadets. Thank you for publishing the photos, it has assisted my efforts immesurably.

M J Ney
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The oversize multi-turreted tanks are explicable; when the internal combustion engine was new, people envisaged "land ships"; terrestrial versions of Naval battleships. That there would be an upper practical weight of about 50 tonnes for tanks, was not obvious.

See this prediction from 1900:
"Huge forts on wheels will dash across open spaces at the speed of express trains of to-day. They will make what are now known as cavalry charges."

http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm
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That tank with all those legs really is the most awesome tank I've ever seen! Now we just need to get someone to make it into reality...
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It's not a MC-1, it's a MS-1. You can find the tank in the game "World of Tanks".
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Well... this whole show is pathetic. See why:
http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/Evidence

This one is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is
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Every survival training I have seen says "Drinking your own urine will only make you thirstier" It's too salty.
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Yes, maybe some shows are fake or untrue, but the show itself is prepared bloody good!
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i also have caught a couple episodes of this show and I was not impressed. It is a rip-off of a great Canadian show

http://www.survivorman.ca
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Survivorman is genuinely great, it feels and IS all real. Plus survival advices he gives are in fact quite clever and, uhm, helpful. Bear's are dumb, aimed to sound terrifying/disgusting, and sometimes even dangerous to your health (like the one about drinking pee).
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Survivorman is much better ... he's got a safety crew somewhere but has to hump all his own camera gear on top of making it through.
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Bear Grills would rip off survivor man's testicals, eat them raw and wash them down with his own pee.
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Bear, the Eaton boy and son of the late Conservative parliament member has people to do the washing for him.
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Yeah.. Bear's a joke http://www.daughtersoftiresias.org/bearwiki/TV_%27survival_king%27_stayed_in_hotels
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I never did much like that show, with Bear Grills. I never thought it was fully truthful. So glad I never got into watching it. lol
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¡Hi!

Te spoon-fork photo is originally made by spanish photographer Chema Madoz. Really interesting photos...
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Wow! Someone's done a lot of work putting this together. Good work!
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The milk carton appears to be a copy of the one used in Blur's "Coffee & TV" video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUil383us4
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The human embryo in the egg yolk is from Worth1000's sister site Freaking News:
http://www.freakingnews.com/Human-Eggs-Pictures--1626.asp

If you want to track down the origin of images I suggest you start using the TinEye application.
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These just look amazing, it make me think about how well Bento plays with food in japan, with all the game characters! When food looks good, it just tastes better!
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The top three pics weren't the cranes fault....it was on a flatbed trailer and the driver of the rig went under a bridge that is too low....

The crane hooked the first part then went up and through as the driver pulled it in.

By the way....I love DRB!
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