Dollar Bill Origami
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Here’s some really neat origami figures made from dollar bills. My favorite one is the cat.
Link: http://www.financialhack.com/…
(via digg)
Archive for the 'Cool Stuff' Category
Flash Flood
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
This video shows a flash flood coming down a creek bed in Australia. Wow.
Alien PT Cruiser
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
This modified PT Cruiser is one of the neatest cars I’ve seen. I want one!
Link: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/…
(via Neatorama)
Surrealistic Art by Rob Gonsalves
Monday, March 19th, 2007
This link has some neat, surrealistic drawings by artist Rob Gonsalves. You can purchase hideously expensive prints of his work here.
Link: http://www.adventix.net/…
(via digg)
Delete-Key Eraser
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Here at Chad’s News we don’t write with pencils anymore, but if we did, this would be the eraser we’d use. It’s a good gift for the computer geek.
Link: http://store.artlebedev.com/…
(via Neatorama)
Where Do The Losing SuperBowl T-shirts Go?
Monday, February 5th, 2007
In order to sell the winning team’s shirts, hats, etc. right after the SuperBowl ends, it’s necessary to print a full run for both teams (so yes, that does double the price). Ever wonder what happens to the stuff for the losing team? Short answer: rural Africa.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/…
(via digg)
Radioactive People Set Off Terrorism Alarms
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Some people who’ve had radioactive medical treatments will subsequently set off homeland security detectors that screen for dirty bombs.
Link: http://today.reuters.com/…
(via digg)
Disappearing Lake Peigneur
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Back in 1980, an entire Louisiana lake drained into an underground salt mine, sucking in the surrounding landscape, 11 barges, and saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico. The freshwater lake, with a maximum depth of 10 feet, was transformed into a very deep (1300 foot) saltwater lake. Nine of the barges resurfaced after the lake stopped draining. The video has some good footage, and more information is available at Wikipedia.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/…
(via Neatorama)
The Day You Were Born
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Here’s a neat little site that gives information about the date you were born (or any other date, for that matter).
Link: http://www.kakophone.com/…
(via Nothing To Do With Arbroath)
Computers Do Exactly What You Tell Them
Friday, January 26th, 2007A grocery chain in Rochester, NY allows you to email a birthday cake greeting, which will then be printed on the cake by a (presumably) automated system. One cake had a message in both English and Italian, and this apparently messed up the system, causing several lines of computer code to be printed on the cake. I’m not sure why an Italian message would cause this mistake, but that seems to be the general consensus of why it happened. Check out the linked article for a picture of the cake.
Competing For A Name Change
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Greg Marshall and Adrienne Foley were getting married, but they couldn’t agree whose name should be changed. So they resolved it via a game of miniature golf—the loser would take the winner’s last name.
US Navy Developing Railguns
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Previously the fodder of first-person-shooter video games, railguns are becoming a reality. The US Navy is actively developing railguns with an expected range of 200-250 miles, more than ten times that of current 5-inch guns. They expect to use the railgun in place of the (much more expensive) Tomahawk missile. This is not just a vague concept—they’ve already developed and tested a prototype at 1/8th power. We can expect to see them deployed in about 13 years.
Link: http://fredericksburg.com/…
(via Engadget)
