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A desktop that pours beer? Yess!!
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The USB copying device looks useful to me - for organisations that give away USB drives with presentations on as an advertising gimmick.
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31 USB ports? not 32?
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See USB horn-doggies at
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/japanfan/9c89/
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Usb.brando.com mixer would be great alarm for morning:
Get up and turn it off quickly, because otherwise you'll have to pick up the balls all around your room!
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Y'all know the USB Grill is an April Fool's Joke, right?
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Oh lord, that video, when the geek squeaks his cheeks to get moving & the music pauses was too funny. Thanks for the laugh! :D
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Probably a parking garage, not a vending machine.
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It's not a parking garage. Vending machine isn't too far off. The picture is of Palette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo and the cars are part of the Mega Web Toyota showroom. You pick a car you want to see by pushing a button and a giant conveyor belt system rotates the vehicles around until your selection is in view. It's pretty awesome.
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I like the video on the Pimped Office Cubicles link where the office workers show how they converted their colleague's cube into a tiny house while he was on vacation.
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Japan is small, but creative !
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Creepy. Nice post!
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all coasters has been manufactured by italian industry Zamperla
http://www.zamperla.it/
ciao
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It´s remember me the movie "Chihiro´s travel" from Miyazaki.
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Wow..! Great post, that place must be creepy at night
;)
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Okpo Land was very peaceful at night. We went up there at 2am while very drunk. The third picture from the bottom with the swirling lights was taken from the ride as it was rotating, and we could see the city way below.
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FYI,
I would like to correct
some mistakes here.
First of all, the author of this post was not actually supposed
to go inside. It's forbidden
to go inside as it will be
under construction very soon.
Second, it's not likely abandoned.
Around the resort, there are gonna
be new housing area(apartments), and the resort will be transformed
to bigger park!
hope this helped u guys understand!
if you wanna see pictures,
pls refer to the pictures below.
http://pds54.cafe.daum.net/image/10/cafe/2008/06/28/17/57/4865fccfe88fe
http://pds83.cafe.daum.net/image/14/cafe/2008/07/28/15/47/488d6b848cb1f
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Hey Anonymous,
You obviously have no idea what urban exploring is if you think I made a mistake.
There were no signs, in Korean or otherwise, forbidding entrance. Nobody stopped us, despite the fact we were crawling around there for several hours and seen by many people.
Thanks for posting your pictures. If there is anything South Korea needs more of, it's soulless highrises.
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It's great that you guys were able to take pictures of this place, since this place will be gone soon due to the apartment complex construction plan throughout the area. The price of the land in Seoul and its suburban areas including Suwon is considerably expensive because of "supply and demand". (e.g. 1300 ft2 of apartment, not a house, costs minimum $300,000 average and up.-plz google the population density in these areas if interested.) And that's why people would like to utilize this piece of land to build more housing to live.
By the way, FYI, it's kind of sad and true that Koreans really don't talk to Foreigners because of the language barrier. Don't be surprised!
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Just so everyone's clear:
-A city of 1 million may be large by western standards, but in Asia it's relatively small, especially when it's a little south of a city of 10 million.
-A site is abandoned if it has been vacated and is awaiting demolition. The two significantly large neighbourhoods of vacated houses awaiting demolition that are within five minutes of my home are abandoned.
-Not everyone sees beauty the same way. The Japanese have a word, haikyo, which relates to the hidden beauty found in sites like this. There are hundreds of people all over the world who seek out places like this. Korea is not unique in this way.
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I want that big, green gargoyle! ^_^
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Remember the movie "Big", with T Hanks...the wish machine is somewhere in those parks.
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Anonymous,
we see the beauty in these places. When we say weird or creepy we really mean cool. :)
Where are these abandoned neighborhoods you speak of?
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"It´s remember me the movie "Chihiro´s travel" from Miyazaki."
I believe this film was released in the U.S. as "Spirited Away."
(Chihiro's Dad mistakes a portal to the spirit world for the entrance to an abandoned amusement park; surreal eerieness ensues).
Yes, I had the same thought, looking at those pictures.
This and "Castle in the Sky" by Miyazagi are amazing, and well worth renting; but do not select the English language version: it changes the stories too much. Read subtitles on the original Japanese-soundtracks.
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awesome
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I'm sad to report that the front gate arch has been removed.
South Korea is filled with large abandoned neighbourhoods. In the near future I'm thinking of putting together a report on them for this site, but for now you can see a ton of photos on my site.
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Too bad you weren't able to get inside the floating restaurant with the windmill. Maybe come back at night and borrow one of the boats to get across. Would suck if the door leading up turned out to be locked.
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Oh, I later got into two of the floating restaurants. The one titled "...and another one" has some pretty cool stuff inside.
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This is the first time I can ever say, on any comments on any web page, "FIRST!"
I know, I know. It's been done before.
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The Boohbahs aren't weird - they're a British kids' programme!
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man, I'm from Lithuania but that Lithuanian Folk Art cracked me up. I have no idea what is that. And maybe that really is an ancient handjob porn, carved in a tree, LOL.
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I think they're badly placed scissors. See, she has cloth in the other hand.
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Heh! the cupid peeping around the corner would certainly startle the bejesus out of someone if they didn't know it was there. :P
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I love the "Black Hole Office" video but I'm sorry it had an unhappy ending.
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Quite an amazing array of geeky goodness. The tower designs were pretty freaking amazing!
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Re: Japanese Toys Resting
Ummm, I am not sure, but I think that the toys are possibly for ADULT MEN if you know what I mean. I believe that the Japanese make them in Anime style as well as more human-like form
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chocolate hills are spectacular
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Don't forget about Texas City, Texas, home of two major disasters in 60 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
April 16, 1947 saw the ignition of 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate loaded on board the french-registered vessel SS Grandcamp. it is considered the worst industrial accident in US history with a death toll of 567.
58 years later, as insult to injury the BP refinery there exploded do to a running truck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_(BP)
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Another huge explosion occured in Siberia, 1982.
A Soviet gas pipeline system exploded after the CIA modified the firmware in a shipment of pipeline control chips.
The resulting 3 kiloton (approx) explosion was seen from space.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071087/posts
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You also missed the PEPCON disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster
The two explosions, measuring 3 and 3.5 on the Richter scale respectively, left a crater 15 feet deep.
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Closer to us, in 2001 (10 days after 9/11), 300 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited in a fertilizer factory in the middle of the Toulouse, France. It was a 100 kiloton blast that killed 30 people, injured 3000 and made 40000 people homeless for several days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZF
The factory next door produces rocket fuel and uses phosgen (mustard gas). Miraculously, there were no deadly leaks, or else the death toll would have been between 50 and 100000 deaths.
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A picture of the Fauld, Staffordshire crater can be seen here http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile27084/RAF-Fauld-Explosion-near-Tutbury,-Burton-upon-Trent-in-Staffordshire.htm
Also, regarding the anonymous comment about the Toulouse blast - there is no way 300 tons of ammonium nitrate can produce an equivalent blast of 100 kilotons. One ton of ammonium nitrate does not have the explosive force of 333.3 tons of TNT...
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In 1921 IG Farben (later BASF) used dynamite to break up a mixture of Ammonium Sulphate and Ammonium Nitrate that was stored in a warehouse. This was a process that they had reportedly followed numerous times previously.
On 21 September they learned empirically that the mixture was explosive. 500 people died.
A report: http://www.corporate.basf.com/en/ueberuns/profil/geschichte/1902-1924.htm?id=V00-QdITSDCGVbcp0-D
A picture of the blast damage: http://www.bufata-chemie.de/reader/ig_farben/pics/1-4-3_01_oppau-big.jpg
DRB is a compulsory daily read. Thanks for the interesting site.
Andrew J. Winks
Cape Town, South Africa
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Enschede, Netherlands
A local firework factory blows up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5X0N8M_o8
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When I was a kid I read at Readers Digest about the Mont Blanc explosion and I remember a question. The anchor of the Mont Blanc it was found two milles far.
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I think the biggest non-nuclear explosion ever was the "Tunguska Event"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.[1] (0:14 UT, 7:02 a.m. local solar time[2]) on June 30, 1908 (June 17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time).[2]
Although the cause is the subject of some debate, the explosion was most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 miles) above Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates for the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.[3]
Although the meteor or comet burst in the air rather than directly hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact. Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons[4] to as high as 30 megatons[5] of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely[5] - roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion set off in late February 1954, about 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and about one third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.[6] The explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles). It is estimated that the earthquake from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale, which was not yet developed at the time. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.[7] This possibility has helped to spark discussion of asteroid deflection strategies.
Although the Tunguska event is believed to be the largest impact event on land in Earth's recent history,[8] impacts of similar size in remote ocean areas would have gone unnoticed before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Januar 12, 1807 a ship loaded with 17 tons of black powder exploded in the cite of Leiden blasting away a great part of the inner citty and killing 150 people.
animation:
http://www.infofilm.nl/animaties/kruitramp/kruitramp.html
dutch wikipedia with some images:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidse_buskruitramp
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How about the even BIGGER explosions of stars? National Geographic has a photo gallery:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/03/cosmic-explosions/cosmic-explosions-photography
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The Fauld crater appears to be more like 200m across, not 3/4 of a mile.
The depth may have changed, but the crater width would remain unchanged.
If you look at the detailed google map of the area, it is easy to see the dimensions have "grown" with time....
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You should look up the SS Richard Montgomery, its still loaded with thousands of tons of ammunition from WW2 sunk in the Thames estuary, read that if it goes up it will be the biggest non nuclear detonation, I have fished from a boat next to it a few times, worst fishing spot on the planet I imagine.
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1800's - fertilizer plant in Opau Germany blew up. Flattened half the town.
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This is also a big explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nC0FetkeqA , a fireworks safety test(The tiny thing in the middle is the shipping container).
Great site you have btw, one of my favourites :).
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Its looking more and more like I don't want to live near harbors nor anywhere having anything to do with bulk fertilizer.
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"..300 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited in a fertilizer factory in the middle of the Toulouse, France. It was a 100 kiloton blast.."
Just to clarify, 300 tons of ammonium nitrate cannot ever equal 100 kilotons of TNT. For example, the fission weapon "Little Boy" detonated over Hiroshima produced a 13 to 16 kiloton blast. Ammonium Nitrate in a blast prepared slurry also containing nitromethane - not just stored fertilizer - has a TNT equivalency of 1.6, IE: 1 ton ANNM is equal to 1.6 tons of TNT.
Comparatively, the most common fission nuclear warhead in the US arsenal is the
B61 which has a
disclosed yield up to 350 kilotons
Better living through chemistry, eh?
Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
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Thank you everybody for really explosive information... will go into the next part. Fantastic info.
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Ripple Rock--I believe it is supposed to be one of the largest intentional man-made non-nuclear explosions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_Rock
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For another in humanity's long running attempts at self-immolation see:
www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/related/7d98l/the_largest_nonnuclear_explosion
A tale of Russia executing the largest intentional non-nuclear explosion in our sorry history of blowing things up, intentional or otherwise.
arrtist
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Really nice blog!
I have seen the original photo 'an inquisitive cat' on Flickr... This is the link :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsteele/231795031/
Thank you Marie, credit added.
What's under the photos of Africa stops being funny after seeing that poor child shot in the legs.
My dog can out-wise that one.
Hey - those cartoons are great! I love that black Humor. It reminds me a bit of the old "Parking Lot is full" cartoons - http://plif.courageunfettered.com/ - worth a look if you haven't seen them already!
The truck tire hole looks suspicious to me. Why is the rubber inside the hole the same color and wear as the outside of the tire? Shouldn't it be somewhat cleaner rubber?
I agree that the punctured tire photo is almost certainly fake.
Not only is the image dubious, but the physics behind it doesn't make sense.
Those traffic cones are relatively flexible, and hollow all the way through; a tire like that would smash it flat, not be cut through by it.
(And especially not in such a regular way, and while STILL smashing the cone flat and off to one side.)
Sigivald...
It's possible the orange cones were placed there to mark the spot of the STEEL PIPE STICKING VERTICALLY FROM THE GROUND which may, or may not, be able to cut a piece of rubber out of a tire that has several tons of pressure on it.
As for the cut being dirty, the tire probably made quite a few rotations over dirt after the puncture was made. Since it's part of a dual they took the truck off the site to fix it.
the truck tire hole is a fake. period.
The last pic is from The Creature From The Haunted Sea. Really bad old horror movie.
The 'Deadly Surveillance' robot guy was shot by me, thanks for consideration! Original flickr can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/floze/1588186509/
There's some more shots of his fellas right here:
http://www.floze.org/2008/04/big-brothers-work-in-progress.html
Thanks again, cheers
Thank you Floze, credit added, plus link to your other images. The Big Brother never slumbers, nor sleeps.
I love those speed-stacking-cup kids! Imagine practicing a routine like that when they should be sitting in front of a TV playing video games!
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