“An inspiring Iranian artist has conquered her disability by using her paint to create art.”
Skiing On Watermelons
03/10/11 -- Ridiculous
Jaw-Dropping Picture Of The Sun
03/10/11 -- Amazing
“Holy wow! Click to ensolarnate. And I mean it: you want to see the bigger version of this. This picture was taken by Alan Friedman, who is no stranger to this blog: his picture of the boiling Sun last year was hugely popular, and so amazing I featured it as one of my top pictures of 2010. And with this he’s done it again… and maybe even topped it. Alan used a filter that lets through only a very narrow wavelength of light emitted by hydrogen, so this tracks the activity of gas on the solar surface. He also inverts the image of the solar disk to increase contrast. Somehow this adds a three-dimensional quality to the picture, and reveals an amazing amount of texture. I swear I had a rug in my bedroom growing up that was this texture. The scene-stealer is that detached prominence off to the left. That’s the leftover material ejected from the Sun by an erupting sunspot. The gas is ionized — a plasma — and so it’s affected by magnetic fields. The material follows the magnetic field of the Sun in the explosion, lifting it off the surface and into space. Sometimes it falls back, and sometimes it leaves the Sun entirely. In this case, Alan caught some of the material at what looks like the top of its trajectory.” w/ photo
Top 11 Best Drug-Influenced Movie Scenes
03/10/11 -- Top Lists
“Over the years, movies have given us a trippy cornucopia of moments of drug use on screen. Most of it is used to amplify your mind in an another world or dream-like sequence, and this experience can be scary, hilarious, or even both at times. Yet which movies out of the thousands have done the most damage to our psyche? Like an acid flashback that won’t abate, today we are going to 11 and listing the best drug scenes movies have to deal.” w/ photos
Millions Of Dead Fish Turn Up In Marina
03/10/11 -- Unbelievable
“It’s been a couple of months since a large group of animals has baffled locals and scientists alike by mysteriously turning up dead, but it appears the trend continues this week in Los Angeles. Millions of small fish, including anchovies, mackerel and sardines, washed up dead in the middle of the night in Redondo Beach, California, in another bizarre mass death that has authorities puzzled and looking for a cause. Boaters woke up this morning to find the dead fish up to a foot deep from the water’s surface at King Harbor Marina, which is about 22 miles south of Los Angeles… Gabrielli suspects that the silvery fish were attempting to escape a red tide, a naturally occurring rapid accumulation of algae in a water column, which will poison fish or starve them of oxygen. What is clear is that it was high winds in the area last night that swept the fish into the harbour, clogging the waterways for boaters. The wall of fish was so thick in spots that boats were unable to move, according to Gabrielli.” w/ photos
Die Antwoord – Rich Bitch
03/10/11 -- Videos
Solar Pool Skimmer
03/10/11 -- Neat Products
“Clean your pool for free with energy from the sun! The solar-powered robot pool skimmer removes leaves, dust, organic material and debris of all types from the surface of your pool before it sinks to the bottom. It operates all day while the sun is shining and for several hours after sun-down, using energy stored in its rechargeable battery. This ensures that your pool is always swim ready, or party ready – no more hand skimming. Best of all, removing this debris from the surface means that less filtration and bottom cleaning is required and a reduction in pool pump run time – saving hundreds of dollars a year in energy costs!” w/ photos
The Demo Knight
03/10/11 -- Hilarious
