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sâmbătă, 26 februarie 2011

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The Year 2000 As Imagined In 1910
25 Hilarious Anti-Abortion Billboards
Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 18
Funny Gender Reversal
Mario Bros: 45 Causes Of Death
Wave Rock at Hyden, Australia

The Year 2000 As Imagined In 1910

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 04:47 PM PST

The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. They are credited to Villemard.

Back in 1910, Villemard started predicting the future on paper. With each brush stroke, an elegant picture of the future came to life. It is amazing how accurate these paintings are. Sure, we don't have personal wings or flying machines (individual ones that is) just yet, and the cars are a bit different as well. However, the overall look of 2000 pretty much made perfect sense.

The accuracy of these images is not in the way they are drawn but in the toys, gadgets and gizmos that are depicted therein. I wish someone today would do the same thing and predict the future in a hundred years from now. That would give our children a chance to see how lame we were, and how off we were in predicting their future. I can't stop looking at these masterpieces. They are just… oddly beautiful in so many ways.

25 Hilarious Anti-Abortion Billboards

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:58 PM PST

When the anti-abortion television commercials were broadcast first in the spring of 1992, one editorial writer warned that a new era for national political advertising had begun. Since that time, pro-life candidates for federal elective offices have broadcast political commercials that contain pictures of abortion or late-term aborted fetuses.

While many people may think that the controversy surrounding abortion has been only a recent moral issue, abortion has always been a hot topic among even ancient societies. Abortion can be traced to as far back as the ancient Romans and Greeks who were actually great proponents of it; some of the most famous philosophers of the day actually wrote about it positively.

Here is a selection of interesting, sometimes ridiculous billboards and signs.

Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 18

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:42 PM PST

Funny Gender Reversal

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:14 PM PST

If the aliens finally decide to hit the gender reversal switch on their mothership one of these days, it's going to be a scary scene in Hollywood. Sure Angelina Jolie and Minka Kelly will still find a way to be hot, but the rest of them will be completely screwed.

Funny photoshop photos where stars are glued face male to the female body.

Mario Bros: 45 Causes Of Death

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 05:58 PM PST

Every character from a video game has more then one way to die. Today we'll see Mario's 45 ways to pass away.

Why is it always the good one that have to die?

Wave Rock at Hyden, Australia

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 05:52 PM PST

This interesting natural rock is called Wave Rock and located to the east of the town of Hyden in Western Australia. It got its name from the fact that it is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The rock formation is composed of granite and the total outcrop covers several hectares. The rock is about 15 meters high and approximately 110 meters long.