Bleeding billboard reduces accidents [video]

Every time it rains, this billboard ‘bleeds.’

Turn off your computer at night! [flash]

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Fwd from an email:

When you go to bed at night and ‘forget to shut down your computer,’ I think you ought to know what actually goes on..

It’s 2 a.m.  And do you know where your icons are and what they are doing? Click on the link below and you will see what happens when you leave the computer on during the night!

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Celebrities drawn from crayons! [art]

Can you believe the photos below were all drawn from crayons?  About the artist:

“Don Marco was born in Northern Minnesota in the late 1920’s. His interest in art was evident even before starting school. As a young adult in the Army Air Corp, he began his life’s career in Air Traffic Control, which continued until his retirement from Honolulu International Airport in 1973. Much of his spare time was spent as a professional artist.  Before retirement, Don started developing a technique to create fine art using Crayola Crayons. Shortly after retiring he published his first print. Living in Southern California, his work was in demand including commissions from Burt Reynolds and a one-man show at his Dinner Theater in Florida.”

See all his stunning artwork here.

The world’s first underwater sculpture park

I thrive on creativity and unique ideas, and was thrilled to find this beautiful world of underwater art created by Jason de Caires Taylor.  Here are some samples of what you’ll find on the website:

“The sculptures are sited in clear shallow waters to afford easy access by divers, snorkellers and those in glass-bottomed boats. Viewers are invited to discover the beauty of our underwater planet and to appreciate the processes of reef evolution.”

To see the full gallery and more, click here.

If you suffer from motion sickness, don’t look! [photo]

Is this photo the coolest or what?

Hypno tree ©2009 ~ShangyneX

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Six things patients do that frustrate their doctors [health]

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I’m guilty of #3, 4, 5, & 6 (yikes).  After reading this article, I’m sure my doctor needs a few tranquilizers after I leave his office just to cope

“Patients are full of complaints about their doctors, but many doctors feel the same way about some of their patients. In fact, results from a 1999 survey of doctors show that physicians find up to 15 percent of their patient visits “difficult.” So what are patients doing that make these visits so hard? A health reporter has compiled this list of 6 things patients do that frustrate their doctors. The list includes patients bringing meddling family members to appointments, stopping medications without consulting the doctor, and requesting prescriptions or medical tests that doctors haven’t recommended.”

1. Meddling families in the room
2. Keeping mum about the herbs
3. Quitting medication without notice
4. Change my lifestyle? Must be a pill for that
5. Hi there. So, I need a prescription for…
6. I’ll take a CT scan, MRI, a strep test, please

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And the wallpaper just keeps on comin’ [photos]

My favorites for wallpaper (I have the first one on my desktop right now):

For beach lovers

For cigarette lovers

For music lovers

For travel lovers

For water olympic lovers

Find all of these on www.uwall.net

Links for doodle lovers [links/video]

Image by nuanc via Flickr

I just love doodling.  Here are some goodies…

A Doodle-a-day
Doodle-Art – all kinds of links

“Bullet” photos

More here

A sexy tag for George Clooney fans [photo]

Enjoy this “sexy” George Clooney photo.  I certainly am!

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Breathtaking “Visions of Earth” from National Geographic [photos]

How I wish I could travel, how I wish I could be in the right place and time to capture jewels like these (well, maybe not the second one).

Fetus of a foal in a jar

Brown tornado

Shuttle Endeavour flying over the Mojave Desert

"Morning Glories" roll over the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia (link)

Standing in Victoria Falls (found in "Visions of Earth" 2008)

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The entire series (2006-2009) found on the website is worth looking at.

If you love shoes, you’ll love this post… [photos]

Source: from fowarded email

Dedicated to all shoe fanatics: these shoes are definitely not made for walking!

Chinese/Japanese drinking habits may prevent cancer; info re heart attacks [photos]

Source: edited from a forwarded email:
The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water.

For those who like to drink cold water, this is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this ’sludge’ reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

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Common Symptoms Of Heart Attack…
A serious note about heart attacks. You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting . Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw. or even the chest which can mimic indigestion, can wake you from a sound sleep. Keep an antacid and a 325 mg aspirin at your bedside; swallow or chew the antacid, and chew the aspirin and let some of it disolve under your tongue for fast access to your blood stream.

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One-in-a-million picture [photo]

When lightning flashes, this is not what you want to see…

This is a picture that someone took who works on an oil rig.  He was going to take a picture of the lightning and was unaware of the tornado until the lightning illuminated it!

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Taken on the evening of

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Lariat Sandridge Energy

South of Ft. Stockton, TX

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[news] Teenager survives a direct hit from a meteorite

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Amazing story:

Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw a “ball of light” heading straight towards him from the sky.  A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot-wide crater in the ground.  The teenager survived the strike–the chances of which are just 1 in a million–but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.

He said: “At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.  Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder.  The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards.

“When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,” he explained.

Scientists are now studying the pea-sized meteorite which crashed to Earth in Essen, Germany.

“I am really keen on science and my teachers discovered that the fragment is really magnetic,” said Gerrit.  Chemical tests on the rock have proved it had fallen from space.

Ansgar Kortem, director of Germany’s Walter Hohmann Observatory, said: “It’s a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and scientists.

“Most don’t actually make it to ground level because they evaporate in the atmosphere. Of those that do get through, about six out of every seven of them land in water,” he added.

The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.

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[news] $1m mattress gets junked

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The events that people go through…

Jerusalem — Associated Press, Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2009 07:38PM EDT

An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million (U.S.) inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported today.

The woman told Army Radio that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise on Monday and threw out the old one, only to discover that her mother had hidden her life savings inside. She was identified only as Anat, a resident of Tel Aviv.

When she went to look for the mattress it had already been taken by garbage men, she said. Subsequent searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing.

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel. Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, told the radio station that his staff was helping the woman, saying she appeared “totally desperate.” He said the mattress was hard to find among the 2,500 tons of garbage arriving at the site every day.

He said he increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters at bay.

For her part, Anat said it could be worse. “People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad,” she said.

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Directory of educational resources on the web [education]

This website was designed to aid educators.  You will find many links under these categories:

• Curriculum Tools
• Games & Entertainment
• Resource Tools
• Teaching Resources
• Tech Tools

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Remarkable image of a ‘pushy’ baby [photo]

I think this is one determined human being who is going to push its way through life!

Click on the source link to see the full size.

Photo link: http://connect.tangle.com/uphoto?PID=359480

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(10) Spectacular photographs [photos]

WOW!  More spectacular photographs by artist Gordon McBryde

(all rights reserved; see link below) …

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Gordon McBryde

(20) Unique abstract desktop wallpaper [photos]

Wow!  Look at the desktop wallpapers that you’ll find at this site…

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Library waives $52,000 fine

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The largest library fine I ever received was for $42 for late fees because I misplaced some video tapes during a move–oh, the shame.  Then I found out about this gentleman…

An Illinois handball coach returned a book that was over 145 years overdue!

“The leather-bound volume was taken from the shelves of the Washington and Lee University library in Lexington, Virginia on 11 June 1864 by a Union soldier when General David Hunter and his army of West Virginia raided the area. Passed down by the soldier, CS Gates, through generations of his family, it eventually came into the possession of Mike Dau, of Lake Forest, Illinois, from one of Gates’s descendents.”

Read the whole story here

Do you experience pain while wearing high heels? [photo]

This picture may help answer that question–ouch!

Xray of someone wearing a high heel shoe

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(13) Celebrity inventors

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Check out these patent-holding celebrity inventors:

1. Abraham Lincoln invented a convoluted device that involved putting a set of bellows on the bottom of a boat.
2. Christie Brinkley received a patent for an educational toy she designed in 1991 that seems to mostly be useful for helping kids learn the alphabet.
3. Eddie Van Halen invented a support that could flip out of the back of his axe’s body to raise and stabilize the fretboard so he could tap out searing songs like “Eruption.”
4. Gary Burghoff invented a device he calls “Chum Magic,” a floating apparatus that fishermen can fill with chum to lure fish to their boats.
5. Hedy Lamarr received a patent for a “secret communication system” that could use carrier waves of different frequencies to remotely control devices like zeppelins and torpedoes.
6. Jamie Lee Curtis designed and patented a disposable diaper that included a waterproof pocket that held baby wipes.
7. Lawrence Welk received a design patent for a new type of ashtray that looked like an accordion.
8. Marlon Brando received a patent for a “drumhead tensioning device and method,” one of several patents he held for drum devices.
9. Michael Jackson patented this “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion” in 1993.
10. Penn Jillette received a patent for a “hydro-therapeutic stimulator”–a spa with jets strategically located to make the experience enjoyable for female bathers. [Hmmm]
11. Prince got the thumbs-up for a design patent for a “portable keyboard instrument.”…a keytar.
12. Steven McQueen filed a design patent for an improved bucket seat.
13. Zeppo Marx received a patent for a cardiac pulse rate monitor that was designed to let people with heart problems know if their pulse was shifting into a danger zone.

Get more details about the patents at the website below.

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Fun interactive site about Egyptian mummies

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Fascinating Egyptian Mummies–Unwrapping history with science

This fun and educational four-stage interactive site is based on an exhibition at the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City.  Visitors discover different facets of ancient Egyptian cultures.  You must complete three games to enter the last one (which I haven’t achieved yet).

1. Mummification Process.  Put the mummification process in the right order.
2. Canopic Jars.  Place the organs into the right canopic jars.
3. The Weighing of the Heart.  Place the jar that contains a heart as light as the sacred feather on the other side of the scale.
4. Sarcophagi Chamber.  Can’t say what this is becuase I havent completed the first three stages.

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Interesting information about #3

“Ancient Egyptians believed that the deceased had to meet a challenge in order to achieve immortality.  After the deceased declared having committed no faults in life, the heart was weighed.  If it balanced with the feather, this meant that the deceased had lived according to moral standards and could move on to the afterlife, a realm of bliss and delight.  But if the weight of the heart was different from that of the feather, this meant that the deceased had lived in sin and that the heart would be eaten by Ammit, the devourer.”

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via 10 Awesome Flash-Animated Interactive Websites

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A unique site dedicated to the RMS Titanic [photos]

I stumbled across this fantastic site relating to the Titanic ocean liner.  In some of the photos, you can roll over the image to get a closer look.  Among the many goodies, in the “Built in Belfast” category you’ll find:

• Marketing Titanic [postcards]
• First/Second/Third class views [rooms--see photos below]
• Titanic at Southhampton [views at Berth 44]
• Titanic Sails [photos]
• The Disaster Unfolds [Charts and Marconigrams--see photo below]

Samples photos

Dining room - 1st class

Dining room -2nd class

Dining room - 3rd class

Marconigram #5

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Hollie Steel breaks down while singing Edelweiss [video]

This kind of thing has happened on many “talent” shows...

I recall seeing ‘Oops, I forgot’ moments on American/Canadian Idol–they didn’t get another chance. What is your reaction to this clip?  What are your thoughts regarding second chances on this particular occasion? Did she get another chance?

Susan Boyle’s final performance and reactions [video]

Susan Boyle brought a tear to Simon’s eye?

See some interesting reactions in the related links below, including comments from Piers Morgan on his blog.  And see a video of the judges reactions.

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(10) Cool places to swim [photos/videos]

What a unique collection of places to swim!  Check these out…

1. Bioluminescent Bay, Puerto Rico
2. Jellyfish Lake, Palau
3. Devil’s Swimming Pool, Zambia (see photo/video below)
4. Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas
5. Zacaton Cenote, Mexico
6. The Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan
7. Chuuk, or Truk lagoon, Japan
8. Yangbajan hot springs, China
9. The Seagaia Ocean Dome, Japan (see photo below)
10. Sistema Sac Actun, Yucatan Peninsula

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Devil's Swimming Pool (Devil's Armchair)

 

Seagaia Ocean Dome

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Q: Have you ever visited these places?

(7) Spectacular 3D murals by trompe l’oeil artist John Pugh [photos]

These 3D murals painted by John Pugh just blow my mind! Visit the website for full view photos and details.  I wish I could afford to have these painted on each wall of my apartment

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(8) Toxic personalities

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On the link below, you’ll find definitions of eight toxic personality types and why to avoid them:

1. Manipulating Mary
2. Narcissist Nancy
3. Debbie Downers
4. Judgmental Jims
5. Dream Killing Keiths
6. Insincere Illissas
7. Disrespectful Dannys
8. Never Enough Nellies

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A “Titanic” gift for my readers

Cover of Titanic

Do you love the movie, Titanic?  Do you wish you owned the “Heart of the Ocean” necklace?  Well, I can’t give the real thing but I can give you this…

If you’d like me to personalize this tag for you, either

1. Post a comment with the desired name and your email address or
2. Email me at 1websurfer@gmail.com with “Heart of the Ocean” in the subject line.  Include your desired name.

It would be my honor to make you one.