Archive for November, 2007

The Power of 11

Posted November 29th @ 8:06 pm by The Internet Journalist

Picture credit: Martinlu

This was in an email I received today. Usually those “send to X number of people in X minutes” emails are pretty annoying and a waste of time, but enjoying Maths myself, I really found this email rather interesting.
Yeah, the maths could be a bit dodgy, but it makes some interesting and [...]

Make a Christmas Tree From Books

Posted November 28th @ 11:14 am by The Internet Journalist

This is a pretty neat idea. If you don’t have a Christmas tree, or you want something different, nothing is stopping you from creating something unique like this tree made from a selection of books on a shelf.

Expect libraries to be rolling these out soon!

This awesome image was spotted at the IJM design website, [...]

The Most Effective Speed Bump

Posted November 27th @ 4:36 pm by The Internet Journalist

Haha, extremely funny.

[Via Gizmodo: The World's Most Effective Speed Bump]
The special effects are pretty good too. Pity it’s in German.
Feels good to have something funny up here again.

The Qi Zhong Stadium

Posted November 27th @ 11:15 am by The Internet Journalist

This is one amazing piece of creativity and engineering. The Qi Zhong stadium, which was constructed in Shanghai, Venezuela, can look rather ordinary and un-special (Is that even a word?). But once it’s roof begins to open, you will marvel at it.
The roof opens much like a iris on a camera (The black thing that [...]

The World’s Smallest Teapot

Posted November 23rd @ 3:43 pm by The Internet Journalist

One or two sugars?
This little masterpiece has the minute mass of 1.4 grams. It’s fully functional, and was created on November 15, by it’s 73-year-old creator and master potter, Wu Ruishen.
Found it at Asian Pop With YeinJee Via Neatorama

Picture of the Day: Muuuuuuuuuu!

Posted November 22nd @ 7:34 pm by The Internet Journalist

Photo Credit: ewanr

I’m guessing it’s one of the best photos I’ve ever seen of a cow! Really great photo!

15 Awesome Word Illusions

Posted November 22nd @ 1:38 pm by The Internet Journalist

I’m an absolute maniac when it comes to illusions, there are quite a couple lying around in my archives of this blog. I found these at a blog called Marcfolio.net , and the author is also a optical illusion fan.
Here are a couple of the illusions which I like best, but be sure to check [...]

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