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'Smells like Teen Spirit' on Cellos
Glass Beach of California
10 Actors Who Turned Down James Bond Role
Tattoo Jam Festival in England
Boost Your WiFi Signal With A Beer Can
Animation Made with 350000 Post It Notes
Jersey Shore Official Aging Timeline
Celebrity Best Friends

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT

Croatian cello duo Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser, who've we previously seen doing Smooth Criminal and Welcome to the Jungle, perform Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit during an interview on SiriusXM Pops.

Glass Beach of California

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.

In the early 20th century, Fort Bragg residents threw their household garbage over the cliffs above what is now Glass Beach. They discarded glass, appliances, and even cars. The land was owned at that time by the Union Lumber Company, and locals referred to it as "The Dumps." Sometimes fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile.

In 1967, the North Coast Water Quality Board and city leaders closed the area. Various cleanup programs were undertaken through the years to correct the damage. Over the next several decades the pounding waves cleansed the beach, wearing down the discarded glass into the small, smooth, colored trinkets that cover the beach today.

In 2002, the California State Park system purchased the 38-acre (150,000 m2) Glass Beach property, and after cleanup it was incorporated into MacKerricher State Park. (Wikipedia)

10 Actors Who Turned Down James Bond Role

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT

Most of us would take the opportunity to be James Bond in a heartbeat but not these men. For these actors the name's…well…not Bond.

Cary Grant - 1961
Reason For Decline: Cary felt he was too old at 58 to play the role.

Richard Burton - 1959, 1961, 1968
Reason For Decline: Wanted more than the producers were willing to pay.

Burt Reynolds - 1968
Reason For Decline: Burt felt as if Bond should be British.

Adam West - 1970
Reason For Decline: Like Burt Reynolds, Adam thought that Bond should be British.

Clint Eastwood - 1971
Reason For Decline: Also thought Bond should be British. We clearly need an American spy that lives up to Bond.

Liam Neeson - 1994
Reason For Decline: At the time, Liam wasn't interested in starring in action movies.

Colin Farrell - 2004
Reason For Decline: Colin didn't think audiences would want him to be James Bond.

Hugh Jackman - 2005
Reason For Decline: A busy schedule as well as Hugh's fear of being typecast.

Ewan McGregor - 2005
Reason For Decline: Ewan also had a fear of being typecast after taking on the iconic role.

Gerard Butler - 2009
Reason For Decline: Gerard thought that becoming Bond would ruin his career.

Source: wikipedia

Tattoo Jam Festival in England

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:57 AM PDT

UK's biggest Tattoo convention "Tattoo Jam Festival" held at Doncaster Racecourse, 5th – 7th August 2011. Lots and Lots of people gathered to attend this.

Source: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Boost Your WiFi Signal With A Beer Can

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:44 AM PDT

WikiHow has the complete instructions, but basically what you do is cut the bottom off a beer can, slice down the middle of the side, then cut between the top and the sides almost all the way but leaving an inch so the side is still connected to the top. Then you pry open the sides of the can into a radar shape. Stick the antennae through the hole and point the wings so they open out into the room and boom, more wifi signal.

Animation Made with 350000 Post It Notes

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:21 PM PDT

Using 350,000 Post It Notes in front of the Galeria Melissa in São Paulo, Brazil the art piece Melissa Power of Love is an arduously impressive art installation filmed step by step over a period of 5 months by 25 animators.

The piece includes over 30,000 random messages left by the visitors to the Galeria Melissa in appreciation of the museum. I have never seen such a large scale version of Post It Notes turned pixel animation!

Jersey Shore Official Aging Timeline

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 09:47 PM PDT

Jersey Shore: Season 4 in Italy starts tonight, but we wanted to take a look at how this ALL got started. So thanks to our friends at Buzzfeed we got our hands on the definitive Jersey Shore Aging Timeline. Where did it all start? When did it all go wrong their rise to fame begin?

Check out Snooks, J-Woww & The Situation through the years.

Snooki

As A Baby

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Early Childhood

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Learning How To Eat

Grade School Years

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High School

High School Graduation

Learning How To Read

Now

And Beyond..

The Situation

As A Baby

Childhood

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Karate Years

Karate Champion At Age 10

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Bears Years

High School

Graduation

Early Adulthood

Back To Adolescence

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Now

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And Beyond..

JWoww

Childhood

Teenage Years

Still In High School

Early Adulthood

Season 1

2010

Now

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And Beyond..

Celebrity Best Friends

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 09:27 PM PDT

BFFs, Best buds, Friends to the end, whatever you call them, it's important to have someone in your life who has your back. Go ahead and sing about your bestie. In honor of Best Friends Day, here's a look at some famous friendships of present and past.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon