Wednesday, May 2, 2007

316 - with Links!

Heil Shrimp

1. Heil Shrimp
The classic Sea Monkey was created by Harold von Braunhut, a comic book-novelty inventor in the 1950s who also developed X-Ray Spex and The Invisible Goldfish (if you think that is a bowl of water with nothing else in it, you're right.) Von Braunhut also invented a crazy spring loaded weapon. He also was a member of, and major funder of, the Aryan Nation.

Samaritan

2. Samaritan
Canoers desperately racing to save the life of a woman they saw jump off a bride were fined $85 dollars by the police for failing to wear life jackets. The suicide attempt was successful.

Evil Twins

3. Evil Twins
Cracked Magazine examines the phenomenon of similarly themed movies and tells you which one is better, even is they both suck.

Acrobots

4. Acrobots
Physics emulators are pretty cool even though playing with them gets boring pretty fast.

Instant Ice

5. Instant Ice
Super-cooled liquid, or weird chemicals, or hoax?

............................................................


No comments: