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vineri, 11 februarie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Kamikaze
Cosplayers Placed Into Video Games
Icebergs That Will Take Your Breathe Away
Ana Ivanovi vs. Maria Sharapova
Human Zoos or Negro Villages
A Weight Loss Story with a Twist
Who's Who in the Mexican Drug Wars
Phantom of the Floppera
Boarding a Train in Burma
Girls Catching Things In Their Mouths

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 02:55 PM PST

Some footage of the kamikaze soldiers in WWII.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 02:30 PM PST

What happens when cosplayers are dropped into their favorite video games? A hilarious combination that's so funny, you won't be able to stop yourself from letting out a huge belly laugh. These creative pictures take fun to a whole new level.

Icebergs That Will Take Your Breathe Away

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 02:15 PM PST

These are some incredible icebergs. They are super colorful, beautiful, and above all else, huge. IT is amazing how Mother Nature makes such beautiful objects. Just don't tell the people who were on the Titanic that.

Ana Ivanovi vs. Maria Sharapova

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 01:35 PM PST

When it comes to tennis courts, these two players are always champions as they battle out for the win. But when it comes to the beauty competition, it's hard to decide who the champion among the two is. We could look at their pictures the whole day and we still wouldn't be able to reach a verdict. That's how beautiful and hot these two tennis beauties are. How about you? What's your verdict?

Human Zoos or Negro Villages

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 01:17 PM PST

Human zoos (also called "ethnological expositions" or "Negro Villages") were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of humans, usually in a "natural" or "primitive" state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilisation and non-European peoples. Ethnographic zoos were often predicated on unilinealism, scientific racism, and a version of Social Darwinism. A number of them placed indigenous people (particularly Africans) in a continuum somewhere between the great apes and humans of European descent. (Source: Wikipedia)

Such zoos could be found in New York, London, Warsaw, Barcelona, Hamburg and other cities around the world with up to 300,000 visitors attending each display.

A Negro Village was the main attraction at the 1889 Parisian World's Fair. About 28 million people visited it.

Human zoos were so popular in Germany that even German-Prussian statesman of the late 19th century Bismarck attended one of them.

These five Indians from Kawesqar tribe were kidnapped from Chile in 1881 to be exhibited in one of the European human zoos. They all died within a year.

Africans were often exhibited next to monkeys to show that they were closer to animals than to humans.

PS: These are Japanese prostitutes in the end of the 19th century.

A Weight Loss Story with a Twist

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 01:11 PM PST

This guy underwent an amazing transformation. He starts out as a nearly suicidal and fat. After a year his transformation is complete. He lost 170 pounds and changed in another respect as well.

Who's Who in the Mexican Drug Wars

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

The ongoing drug trade in Mexico has been one of the nation's chief concerns for some time now. But the level of gruesome violence has escalated to near catastrophic proportions since President Felipe Calderon took office in December, 2006, creating virtual ghost towns as people have sought refuge in safer states. This violence has primarily been perpetrated by seven drug cartels, all of which are vying for territory and power.

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Source: good.is

Phantom of the Floppera

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 07:34 PM PST

People have made floppy drives sing before, but this is my personal take on it.

Features two 3 1/2″ drives and two 5 1/4″ drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an additional small circuit and some minor firmware changes. This initial version can respond to all 128 MIDI notes, and pitch bends +/- 2 semitones.

What a cool reuse of vintage computer tech.