May, 2010

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French artist Nils Guadagnin built this ridiculously awesome, working replica of Marty McFly’s hoverboard.

According to Nils:

Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board.  A laser system stabilises the object in the air.

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Narcolepsy, Inc.

A letter from concerned child David to the Institute of Physics.

Transcript:

Dear Sir,

My brother was telling me about the Large Hardon Collider.  He said they bash hardons together to try to find the Higgs Bosom.  He said if they find it they might make a wormhole.  Is this true cos if it is I am going to save my costume from the school play in case we have to go back to the 19th century.

Yours sincerely

David

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“The worst wedding DJ ever is back and he is behaving worse than ever. Still playing the air drums on Phil Collins ‘In the Air Tonight’, it just feels like he’s doing it on purpose now.”

AKA: Jerry O’Connell goes for the extended solo on wife Rebecca Romijn’s chesticles.

Funny Or Die | Context

Now you, too, can eat the shit they serve our armed forces.  Click the picture for the 26-page PDF recipe.

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…why don’t you have a seat over there.

Caldwell for College Humor

Inside the Air Force’s Secret PsyOps Plane – [Wired]

Google Earth Gives 3-D Look At Upcoming 9/11 Memorial – [NY Daily News]

Who Are The Sexual Predators? (Infographic) – [Weird Worm]

16 Things I’ve Learned From Movies and TV – [BuzzFeed]

The 12 Most Awesome Cowboys In Film & TV History – [Guyism]

Another Brilliant Scathing Sex And The City 2 Review – [The Stranger] (via)

Here’s a diagram of the Top-Kill method that seems to have stopped the oil geyser in the Gulf for now.

If you giggled at “wellhead” and “choke line”, then congratulations, you’re just as mature as I am.

NY Times | LA Times

From Newslite:

Shoppers and office workers in Zurich were left part bemused, part terrified when hundreds of people instantly collapsed to the floor.

All across the city green demonstrators simulated dropping down dead at exactly 12.15pm yesterday – to protest about a series of proposed nuclear power stations.

The campaigners say their action simulated a nuclear radioactivity disaster which could happen in Switzerland, if the stations are built.

If they really wanted to simulate a nuclear disaster, they could have ripped chunks of their flesh and hair out while screaming in agony also…but I guess they aren’t THAT committed.  Posers.

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