Strange and Bizarre News Stories

"Funny, strange, bizarre news stories and pictures from around the world."

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Google Guessing Game

"What is this?
GGG [=short for GoogleGuessingGame] is a simple word guessing game:

To make a strip:
pick a phrase/slogan/claim/saying/movietitle/etc…
pick one image from the first page of results of your google image search for each word , and create your strip!

To guess a strip:
just look at it, think of possible words that could make up the phrase, and then try your luck with google image search! remember, if its not on the first page of the search, you’ve got the wrong word."


Visit: Google Guessing Game

The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

"The Museum's collection ranges from objects suitable for the dime museums of 19th century New York to common items found in closets and attics across the US. We have selected eight choice displays from our archive of several thousands of objects to evoke some of the themes crisscrossing the larger collection.

In addition to these eight objects, visitors to the Keebler House in Austin, Texas, wander through over one hundred displays, including a mounted jackalope head, a phrenology model, Joseph Cornell's paper bird, the Czech and Abject Collections, Coney Island memorabilia, and rivets from the first Ferris Wheel.

A veritable machine for manufacturing awe and wonder, the collection enchants experience with the promise of redeeming the everyday's invisibility through making the common exceptional, and vice versa."

Visit: The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

Virtually "Fly" over the entire US

"Simply enter an address, and TerraFly will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth."

Visit: TerraFly

Bad Puns - Get your muds wordled!

Typical of the puns found on this site...

Cheesy Puns
For some people the only puns they make are about dairy products, because the rest are just too cheesy. When they think of one, they tend to milk it for all it's worth. Usually I don't think they're gouda enough, but we could find a whey to cream off the best ones.
I cheddar to think what they'll come out with next.

Bad Puns - Get your muds wordled!

HoopTV.net

"Welcome To HoopTV.net! We are the premiere, state of the art basketball video recruiting company in the nation. Created by Emmy-Award winning video professionals, we pride ourselves in providing the best tools for players, coaches and fans alike in the evaluation of basketball talent.

From videography to DVD and VHS tape creation, professional video post-production to cutting-edge web streaming, and fantastic recruiting tools like professionally designed player cards, it is our aim to change the world of basketball recruiting."

Visit HoopTV.net

AntennaWeb

"CEA's antenna mapping program, AntennaWeb.org, will help you determine the proper outdoor* antenna to use in order to receive your local television broadcast channels.

Whether the antenna you want is for use with a home satellite system, high-definition television (HDTV) or a traditional analog set, this site, based on geographical maps and signal strengths, will show you what you need to know to buy the right antenna"

AntennaWeb

Ripley's Believe It or Not!®

If you have an interest in the strange, the unusual, the interesting, the odd and the just plain weird, you certainly need to visit Ripley's Believe It or Not!®

S C R I B B L E R

Try your hand at sketching a simple drawing and then watch Scribbler turn it into scribble art.

S C R I B B L E R

J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more

"Until very recently, JKRowling.com was a list of links to my publishers - boring, I think you'll agree. So I thought I'd liven it up a little.

I receive so many thousands and thousands of letters these days that it is impossible to read, let alone answer, them all. A proper website seems like a great way to communicate directly with Harry Potter fans. Everything on here was written by ME, J. K. Rowling. This is where I can tell you the truth about rumours or news stories, where I can share the extra information I haven't put in the books, where I can give you hints and clues about what's going to happen to Harry next, and where I can announce I've finished book six... and no, that's not going to happen very soon." (quote from her website.)

J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more

Click-n-Spell with Elements Game

How many words can you spell using the Periodic Table?
Click-n-Spell Periodic Table of Elements

TVEyes - always watching...

TVEyes makes radio and TV searchable by keyword. Just as you would use an Internet search engine to research a topic, TVEyes offers keyword search capability for both radio and TV broadcasts. With a growing network of monitored stations both in the US and internationally, TVEyes is the first company to introduce language-independent, real-time audio and video monitoring."

TVEyes - Your Search Engine For Radio & TV

Text analysis, wordcount

Text analysis, wordcount : "Textalyser is an online text analysis tool that provides detailed statistics of your text, which is perfect for translators (quoting) or for webmasters in need of ranking information. You can enter any text to analyze or type in a website address and quickly find out how many words or the average number of syllables per word, sentence length and readability score."

Little Fluffy Industries: Free Online Games Daily

The mission of this site is to "cross-actualize, intra-promote and ultra-contextualize the labor redivision process." Fluffy contains links to more than 200 small games, most designed with Macromedia's Flash software.

Little Fluffy Industries: Free Online Games Daily

Sensory Impact - The Culture of Objects

Sensory Impact: This site is eye candy for creative pros. Take a look at: sensoryimpact.com

Binney & Smith, Inc.

In 1864 Joseph Binney founds Peekskill Chemical Works in upstate New York, producing charcoal and lamp black. In 1885 Joseph Binney retires; his son Edwin and nephew, C. Harold Smith, form a partnership and call their company Binney & Smith. Early products include red oxide pigment used in barn paint and carbon black for car tires.

Out of this union comes a product the all children and adults use at least once in their life.

Learn more about the history of Binney & Smith.

Abbott & Costello Web Site

"The families of Bud and Lou want to welcome you to the official Abbott & Costello Home Page. It is their goal to help bring you the latest news and information (including new product and video releases; special events; televised specials and marathons; anything and everything pertaining to the boys). With a new legion of fans around the world, Bud and Lou have finally seen a resurgence. It's with great pride that ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INTERNET!"

Abbott & Costello Web Site

Free Online Petition Hosting

"PetitionOnline.com provides free online hosting of public petitions for responsible public advocacy.

They give you the ancient methods of grassroots democracy, combined with the latest digital networked communications, running live and free 24 hours a day.

Participate!  Spread the word!  Start your own free petition today!"

Crazy Fads

"Welcome to CrazyFads.com!

From 1920 to 1990 we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop-culture.

Want to know which fads your parents experienced? What about the ones you experienced yourself? Maybe you will start a new fad yourself after reading some of the following crazy fads"

Crazyfads.com - Crazy Fads

Time travel for beginners

"Is time travel possible?

In one of the wildest developments in serious science for decades, researchers from California to Moscow have recently been investigating the possibility of time travel. They are not, as yet, building TARDIS lookalikes in their laboratories; but they have realised that according to the equations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (the best theory of time and space we have), there is nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel. It may be extremely difficult to put into practice; but it is not impossible."

Read more: Time travel for beginners.

How To Boil Eggs

"Hard-cooked eggs (eggs cooked in the shell in water) should never be boiled - simmer them in water. If boiled or cooked too long, the protein toughens or becomes rubbery and a greenish or purplish ring forms around the yolk.

To correctly cook the eggs, place them in a single layer in a pan with enough cold water to cover them completely. Bring the water to a boil, remove from heat, cover tightly with a lid, and allow to remain in the water approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Then place under running, cold water to cool quickly. This way of cooking is also known as 'coddling.' It does not toughen the whites as boiling does."

Boiling Eggs - soft-cooked, medium-cooked, hard-cooked

Chinese symbols

There are more than 80,000 Chinese symbols (Chinese characters), but most of these symbols are seldom used today. The collection of Chinese symbols, in gif or jpg format, include: tattoo symbols, zodiac symbols, animal symbols, alphabet symbols, horoscope birth chart and proverbs."

Chinese symbols

Modern Mummification for Pets & Animals

Modern Mummification is available for your beloved animal or pet!

Modern Mummification for Pets & Animals

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

Learn how computer stuff, auto stuff, electronics stuff, science stuff, home stuff, entertainment stuff, health stuff, money stuff, travel stuff, and people stuff works. Lots of interesting information.

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

AntennaWeb

AntennaWeb: "CEA's antenna mapping program, AntennaWeb.org, will help you determine the proper outdoor antenna to use in order to receive your local television broadcast channels.

Whether the antenna you want is for use with a home satellite system, high-definition television (HDTV) or a traditional analog set, this site, based on geographical maps and signal strengths, will show you what you need to know to buy the right antenna."

Live in Texas - How to Put Your Property in Films

"At the Texas Film Commission, we’re often asked how people can let filmmakers know about their home or other real estate, for possible use as a film location. This information serves as a guideline on how you might have your property considered for use in a movie, TV program, music video, TV commercial or catalog." Learn more on how to put Your Property in Films."

White noise cd, tape, white noise music

White noise, also called white sound, is not a "noise." White noise is actually a sound frequency or a signal that one hears as a gentle hiss, similar to the sound of wind rustling through trees, a waterfall, radio static or the ocean surf. To use a simple analogy, the color white contains the whole spectrum of colors of light. Similarly, white noise is created by using the entire spectrum of frequencies the human ear can hear.

Need to block out your neighbor's garage band practice then visit this site: Pure White Noise.

Telepathy Experiments

"The Email Telepathy Experiment

Some people say they know who is about to email them just before they receive an email from that person, or else that they think about someone they haven't thought of for a while, who then emails. Many people have had similar experiences with telephone calls. We want to find out if this is just a matter of coincidence, or whether telepathy is involved."

This and many more other experiments are available at: Rupert Sheldrake Online>

Turning the Pages

"Discover the British Library's award-winning system Turning the Pages. Turning the Pages allows visitors to virtually 'turn' the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and interactive animation. They can zoom in on the high- quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and significance of each page. There are other features specific to the individual manuscripts. In a Leonardo da Vinci notebook, for example, a button turns the text round so visitors can read his famous 'mirror' handwriting.

Turn the pages of some of the world's oldest and most beautiful books at the British Library site Turning the Pages."

Mr. Picassohead

If you love Picasso you're going to love Mr. Picassohead.

How To Make Metamucil Flubber

This recipe makes a non-sticky sort of 'rubber' or gelatinous slime. A knife or cookie cutters may be used to cut the flubber into interesting shapes.

Learn How To Make Metamucil Flubber.

Pun Pun Pun

Like puns? Then you'll find this site very punny!

"Seems every time we turn around there's another Harry Potter novel or movie. This woman doesn't let any grass grow under her feet. She's really churning out the books, movies and merchandise. I guess it's true what they say,

'Rowling's tomes gather no moss.'

GARY HALLOCK"

View: Today's Pun.