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A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day, Milky Way Over Abandoned Kilns by Tom McEwan. McEwan shot some historic kilns in rural Nevada, stitching together a panoramic "digital conglomerate of five separate images taken in early June from the same location. Visible above the unusual kilns is a colorful star field, highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy appearing along a diagonal toward the lower right."
I wish there was more information about this impressively massive sonobe model, but all I can glean is that it appears to have been made by Imogen Warren, and was posted by Room 3. So awesome.
I love how this praying mantis appears to pose as I took the picture.
Bingo! No, this isn't the game where balls fly around in machines and players dab their cards with daubers. In a game of Scrabble, bingo refers to the bonus a player receives when emptying their rack in one turn, which gets them an extra 50 points on top of whatever their play was. Even if you had two blanks on your rack and didn't utilize any premium squares on the board, you'd still have an impressive 56-point turn (at least) by using all 7 of your letters.
Anne Hathaway appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote her new movie, One Day. But before that, she proclaimed herself a Scrabble fiend. She likes to play the board game with family and friends, as well as local play on the iPhone and solo play against her computer. And Jon reveals his son's strategy for using "Best Word" on EA's Scrabble version (something I'm not to keen on)...
Shelfari is a cool free widget that allows users to install a virtual bookshelf with custom picks on most blogs and social networks (Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.com and more). Appears to be owned by Amazon; check it out.
Japanese people are into many things Americans find weird—like YouTube's beloved canine-hosted cooking show or Daito Manabe's light up LED grills or even more insane, a vending machine that distributes live crabs. In light of these cultural oddities, the Japanese phenomenon of visual novels (NVL, or bijuaru noberu), seems relatively normal. A meeting place of books and video games, visual novels are a sort of "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" for the new generation.
Terese Nielsen is a fantasy artist who modifies MTG cards on her own and by request. Force of Will is a favorite, as you can tell from these amazing shots. You used to be able to buy them on eBay, but they appear to all be sold out now so check out her site and shoot her an email if you want to get one.
What appears to be an impossibly boundless volume of water is really an illusion created with the aid of a largely invisible acrylic cylinder. William Pye's "reverse fountain", entitled Charybdis (referring to the sea monster of Greek myth), was designed for Seaham Hall of Sunderland, England.
In what appears to be some kind of hybrid science-art project, Japanese researchers have discovered a method for rendering a dead animal's body completely transparent, in order to dye the skeletal system. Simultaneously creepy and beautiful.
Coach Bob Bradley Confirms Jozy is Fit to Start USA v England Match Jozy Altidore is back in the starting eleven for US. After his ankle injury last week, it appears he is OK.
This is not the type of news I like to read, but the headline popped up like a glaring alarm. While Solicitor General, it appear pending Supreme Court Justice candidate Elena Kagan may have enabled the defense of Monsanto in its fight for GE control of alfalfa seeds in the US.
Canon EOS 7D Firmware Update v1.2.1 Canon's updated the 7D firmware. First time since the November 2009 patches.
Albeit a "staged" performance, the skills appear to be real. This dude pulls off some impressive figure skating tricks, except upside down - on his head, breakdance style. I recommend watching the entire video (it builds), but to get to the real climax, skip ahead to around 1:06 or so.
What would YOU think if it appeared that someone just bent a piece of your expensive silverware? Great trick for family gatherings, meeting a date's parents for the first time, and at restaurants. Perform the bending silverware trick.
Take control of this uncomfortable condition fast. Follow our advice and this embarrassing ailment will disappear as quickly as it appeared. Deal with hiccups.
Aïda Mollenkamp runs through seven basic knife cuts, including the masculine chop, the wily roll cut, and the glorious chiffonade. Also appearing with Aïda are the dainty mince, the foreign-sounding julienne/batonnet, the workhorse dice, and the flirty bias. Do basic knife cuts for vegetables.
Emily and Martha carve a pumpkin flower vase. Pumpkins wear many hats this time of year, appearing in pies and soups as well as in centerpieces. Here's another use: Transform one into a colorful homemade vase. Make a pumpkin flower vase.
In this video you will learn about adjusting curves in Photoshop. Curves can be used to adjust the over-all contrast or tonal range, and color. These changes can be made with with great precision, and can dramatically improve even photos that appear unusable. This video is geared towards beginner users. Adjust curves in Photoshop.
Startup promises to catch 100% of network attacks - Techworld.com.
The cat virus Toxoplasma gondii produces psychotic symptoms in cats similar to those in humans suffering from schizophrenia.
With financial sanctions against it getting tighter and tighter and the drums of war beating louder and louder, Iran appears to be getting proactive -- at least on the food front. As Reuters reports, Tehran is busy stockpiling grain in anticipation of the sanctions' effect on daily life. To Cope with American-led Sanctions, Iran stockpiling US Wheat | EurasiaNet.org.
Sending and receiving email on the go is made easy with the Apple's "Mail" app on the iPhone. However, up until the release of iOS 5, plain text was the only option for sending emails (even though well-formatted messages could still be received). The information below, coupled with unlocking the emoji keyboard will make you an unstoppable force of communicating accurately.
Hook up one of the single jackasses with a girl who may be too young and have her invite him to her house where Chris Hansen appears on "To Catch a Predator." Do the whole thing as if the Jackass is busted as a pedofile.
Ok, probably not the safest idea. Around 1:03 or so it appears that the rocket could have easily hit him, after bouncing off a side wall.
Tame those unruly, thin brows! Follow this how-to to fill them in properly and keep them under control. Fill
For the purpose of simplicity, we shall consider the Windows version to be used as Windows XP. How to start the calculator in Windows XP?
In this video, Sarah shows you how to get drop dead sexy bedroom hair. Waves First, create loose waves with a curling iron or rollers.
Phenomenal Woman by: Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
Cakes. They're delicious and we eat them at birthdays, weddings, and wakes (that aren't ours). In the splendorous world of culinary creations, there is no comestible that allows for such decorative flexibility as the cake. It can be simple, it can be complex. It can be amazing, it can be disastrous.
If, unlike me, you have stopped using crayons for your daily art endeavors (and light, yet nutritionally-bereft snacks), here's a reason to buy a new pack of rainbow glory.
UPDATE: Minecraft 1.9.5 Has Been Leaked! Get it Here. You heard right. This one is hot off the presses! Last night, Notch promised a 1.9 Version 3 Update and here it is!
Night People: A Bad Vibes Label Profile
Crysis 2 is the current standard for high-quality graphics in video games. No other game looks so smooth, so colorful, so... ultra-real. German developer Crytek has built their reputation on PC game technology to the limit, and the CryENGINE 3 graphics engine they used to make Crysis 2 might be the most powerful tool for creating 3D video game graphics on Earth. As of yesterday, it's also free for anyone, yourself included, to download from Crytek's website here.
It's tough to figure out what a mummy would have looked like when he was alive; soft tissue of a human body decays, even in ice. But, Dutch brothers Adrie and Alfons Kennis took the challenge. Using techniques that belong to both science and art, they managed to reconstruct the face and body of Otzi the Iceman, a mummy who was found in the Italian Alps in 1991.
Holy… Lord, help us all—this isn't CG, it's for real. Meet Geminoid DK, the latest spawn from Osaka University Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro's legion of ultra-realistic Androids.
A group of nano-scientists from the University of Glasgow have created the world's smallest Christmas card, measuring in at 200 micro-meters wide by 290 micro-meters tall. (BTW, a micro-metre is a millionth of a meter, and the width of a human hair is about 100 micro-meters.)
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From Lifehacker's Tips Box, four short-cuts to life's small problems, urawaza-style: No Iron?